“Just a friend who’d send me things from time-to-time.”
Via The Guardian:
One of Hillary Clinton’s closest advisers told her that Barack Obama should use a deadly hurricane to boost his re-election campaign, a proposal that she agreed to pass on to the White House, a new tranche of emails reveals.
Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime friend of the Clintons, sent a memo in 2012 presenting a strategy for turning Hurricane Isaac to the Democrats’ political advantage by contrasting it with President George W Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The missive emerged among 2,900 pages from the former secretary of state’s email account released by the State Department just after 1.30am on Friday.
Critics are likely to seize on the email to once more accuse the Democratic frontrunner’s camp of cold political scheming. Hurricane Isaac reportedly killed 24 people in Haiti, five in the Dominican Republic and five in the US itself, displaced thousands and caused billions of dollars of damage.