Mitchell: ‘Factually Not True’ Clinton Relied on Blumenthal for Intelligence

MITCHELL: “But Congressmen, how long before the final report? Is it going to be in the middle of 2016? Is it going to be after the election?”
POMPEO: “That’s a great question, Andrea. Maybe Mr. Schiff can answer that for you. We’ll complete our task as soon as—“
MITCHELL: “So let me just follow up here—“
SCHIFF: “The reason I don’t answer that question, Andrea, is that we don’t know what we’re looking for. We can’t put an end date on it, because we don’t know what this committee’s supposed to look for, apart from damning Hillary Clinton, it has no reason for existing.”
MITCHELL: “But let’s just say, if the reason for existence is to find out did Hillary Clinton make a grievous error in not following up security complaints, how could she tell the various investigating committees that that was below her, that it never reached her level? That could be a legitimate reason. But why then do you call Sid Blumenthal and Huma Abedin and all of these other personal aides and non-aides, why have you focused so much on emails and not on the central question of why was the security failure at that consulate?”
POMPEO: “Well, we have focused on the central failure. We have focused on the security issues. And we will continue, you’ll see lots of questions about that on Thursday. But let me speak to Mr. Blumenthal. Because directly to the security issue, we see now that former Secretary Clinton relied on Mr. Blumenthal for most of her intelligence. That if she wants to rely—“
MITCHELL: “That is factually not true.”
POMPEO: “No it is absolutely true.”
MITCHELL: “Relied on Mr. Blumenthal for most of her intelligence?”
POMPEO: “Ms. Mitchell, take a look at the email trails and you will see—“
MITCHELL: “That’s just— I cover the State Department. That is just factually not correct.”