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Anonymous ID: eb78e9 Dec. 6, 2018, 11:14 p.m. No.4193694   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3774 >>3840 >>4051 >>4253 >>4343

Sidney Blumenthal paid by Clinton Foundation while advising on Libya

Thu 28 May 2015 19.14 BST

 

According to a report by Politico, the former Clinton White House aide was being paid $10,000 a month and was also on payroll of two other pro-Clinton groups

 

Sidney Blumenthal had connections to investors pursuing business opportunities in Libya while sending private intelligence reports to then secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Photograph: David Levene

Sidney Blumenthal, the controversial former Clinton aide who sent private intelligence reports on Libya to then secretary of state Hillary Clinton, was also on the payroll of the Clinton Foundation.

 

Politico reported on Thursday that Blumenthal was being paid $10,000 a month by the Clinton Foundation from 2009 to 2013, after top Obama aides blocked him from a job at the State Department. At the time, Blumenthal was also on the payroll of two pro-Clinton groups, American Bridge and Media Matters. Both organisations are run by Clinton ally David Brock.

 

Questions have been raised about how Blumenthal received the intelligence he used for his reports to Clinton. The former writer for the New Republic and the New Yorker is not a foreign policy expert but had connections to investors pursuing business opportunities in Libya in the aftermath of the collapse of the Gaddafi regime.

 

Clinton defended the emails about Libya she received from Blumenthal last week. In a rare exchange with reporters, the former secretary of state described Blumenthal as “a friend of mine for a long time”.

 

She went on to describe their interactions about Libya by saying: “He sent me unsolicited emails which I passed on in some instances and I say that that’s just part of the give and take.”

 

Blumenthal’s lawyer, James Cole, did not respond to a request for comment.

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CBS paid former employee $5 million over 20 years to keep quiet about sexual assault: report

BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 12/06/18 08:59 PM EST

 

CBS paid more than $5 million in a settlement agreement reached in the 1990s with a woman who claimed former '60 minutes' executive producer Doug Hewitt sexually assaulted her, the New York Times reported Thursday.

 

Lawyers hired by CBS to investigate the workplace culture of '60 Minutes' are set to present a report to the board next week, according to the Times, which obtained a draft.

 

The report, precipitated by the high profile removals of '60 Minutes' producer Jeff Fager and CBS chief executive Les Moonves after sexual misconduct allegations, found the program's separation from the larger company to be one issue.

 

"The physical, administrative and cultural separation between ‘60 Minutes’ and the rest of CBS News permitted misconduct by some ‘60 Minutes’ employees,” the investigation reportedly reads.

 

The alleged abuse by Hewitt carried on over a period of years and derailed the woman's career, the lawyers wrote in the report, according to the Times.

 

CBS had determined that her allegations were credible, and the settlement has exceeded $5 million in total, plus annual payments of $75,000 for the rest of her life, after starting at 450,000.

 

The investigation also includes examples of Fager behaving inappropriately with colleagues, including "some type of sexually inappropriate conduct” toward a CBS employee who alleged in 2009 that he had groped her, according to the Times.

 

“This is the first I am hearing some of these allegations about my personal conduct,” Fager told the Times.

 

“I’m surprised and devastated to hear them from The New York Times since I was not given the opportunity by CBS investigators to respond to their accuracy.”