After an event in Iowa on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton responded to a report from the New York Times that an old aide to President Bill Clinton and family friend, Sidney Blumenthal, may have inappropriately advised Clinton when she served as Secretary of State.
The Times report, which draws from a congressional investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attack, found that Blumenthal had been sending briefings to Clinton on Libya while consulting for clients who had business interests in the North African country.
Answering a question from the press, Clinton chuckled. “I have many, many old friends,” she said. “I’m going to keep talking to my old friends no matter who they are.”
The Blumenthal question was one of two the Democratic presidential candidate answered, and it marked the first time in several weeks Clinton has made herself available to the press. Earlier at the event, Fox News reporter Ed Henry asked Clinton if she would be taking questions from the media.
