Hacktivist exposes Benghazi emails between Clinton and journalist

Hacktivist “Guccifer” allegedly cracked the AOL account of Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist who formerly worked as an assistant to then-President Bill Clinton. The intruder leaked to RT emails containing “incredibly sensitive memos” between Blumenthal and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about last year’s terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

The most recent memo is dated Feb. 16, and includes intelligence that comes “from extremely sensitive sources and should be handled with care.”

The oldest is dated September 12, 2012 —hours after four Americans were killed in the consulate building, including U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens.

“According to the Blumenthal memos . . . even the US secretary of state was being fed disinformation directly after the attack. In the email dated Sept. 12, Sec. Clinton is told that the anti-Islamic film was likely the catalyst for the assault,” rather than an al Qaeda-linked coordinated attack that intelligence officials later revealed.

Two network addresses “linked to Gufficer have been traced back to the Russian Federation TSG reports, though hackers regularly engage in forms of subterfuge to conceal their actual location via proxies, IP spoofing and onion routing systems such as TOR.”

Guccifer also took credit for breaching the AOL accounts of members of President George W. Bush’s family.