Hillary Clinton Associate Sidney Blumenthal Says He Didn't Write Benghazi Memos

Democrats say the Republicans are expanding their investigation in order to focus on a presidential candidate.

Sidney Blumenthal (C), a longtime advisor to former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, arrives to be deposed by the House Select Committee on Benghazi with former Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole (L) in the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol June 16, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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By Ben Brody

June 16, 2015 at 2:59 PM UTC

Updated on

June 17, 2015 at 10:33 AM UTC

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Hillary Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal wrote none of the intelligence memos he sent to the former secretary of state, Blumenthal testified Tuesday during a deposition before the House's Select Committee on Benghazi.

Over nearly nine hours, Blumenthal answered every question put to him, describing how he e-mailed to Clinton memos from "a respected former high-ranking CIA official" on the situation in Libya, he said during a brief statement after the closed-door deposition. Those memos apparently included the earliest evidence that the Benghazi attack of September 11, 2012, which killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, was an act of terrorism.