Clinton: ‘Mr. Blumenthal Was Not My Adviser’

“But I have said before and I will repeat again, Sid Blumenthal was not my adviser, official or unofficial, about Libya. He was not involved in any of the meetings, conversations, other efforts to obtain information in order to act on it. On occasion, I did forward what he sent me to make sure it was in the mix so that if it was useful, it could be put to use. And I believe in response to the e-mail you pointed out originally from Ambassador Stevens, he actually said it rang true and it was worth looking in to. So I think it’s important that we separate out the fact that Mr. Blumenthal was not my adviser. He was not an official of the United States government; he was not passing on official information. He, like a number of my friends who would happened me a newspaper article, would button hole me at a reception and say, what about this or what about that. We’re trying to be helpful.' Some of it was, a lot of it wasn’t.”