Barghouti is serving five life sentences plus 40 years in jail for his role in killings Israeli civilians, including allegedly planning multiple deadly suicide attacks. He is a confessed founder of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the terrorist organization associated with Abbas’s Fatah party.
Released E-Mails Contain Accusations Of Right-Wing Conspiracy
“H: Yes, there is a vast right wing conspiracy. Sid”
So reads an Aug. 23, 2010, e-mail sent to Hillary Clinton’s private email address from her confidant, Sidney Blumenthal.
The Hillary adviser and former aide to President Bill Clinton forwarded an extensive New Yorker article on the Koch brothers titled “Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.”
“A must read piece that looks at the Koch brothers’ control and funding of the tea party and right wing,” Blumenthal wrote.
“Ah, a little lite vacation reading!” Clinton replied.
The e-mails were among the 7,000 released by the State Department Monday night. The latest release included about 150 that have been censored because they contain information now designated as classified.
In 1998, Clinton famously claimed a “vast right wing conspiracy” was behind the surfacing of her husband’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky as well as other controversies plaguing his administration.
In another e-mail reviewed by this reporter, Blumenthal blasted President Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, as “out of his lane” for commenting on foreign policy.
“Axelrod has enough to do fixing the domestic messes he’s made,” Blumenthal scathingly wrote.
The Clinton loyalist had taken issue with statements Axelrod made during a Sunday, March 14, 2010, interview in which he criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to build 1,600 homes in eastern Jerusalem as an “affront” to the so-called peace process.
Axlerod further claimed the Jewish construction, which was announced at about the same time Vice President Joe Biden was set to visit Israel, was “very destructive.”