Congress to subpoena Clinton Foundation official

A congressional committee’s decision to subpoena a man who worked for the Clinton Foundation — not the State Department — during Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state raises new questions about the role Clinton insiders may have played in the run-up to an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

Sidney Blumenthal, a veteran of the Clinton White House and reported brains behind the famous “vast right-wing conspiracy” deflection, leveraged his connections to powerful Libyan businessmen into an off-the-books advisory role at the State Department while working for Clinton’s family philanthropy, the New York Times reported Monday.