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Romanian hacker Guccifer hacked into Clinton-advisor Sidney Blumenthal’s AOL account and leaked to Russia Today four emails with intelligence on Libya. The emails, not much thought of at the time, primarily contained sensitive information regarding the 11 September, 2012 attacks on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya.

The attack on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Benghazi was lead by the rightwing, sparking the House Benghazi Committee and consistent testifying by Clinton over the incident which resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens.

Initial claims that the attacks were spontaneous and inspired by an Islamophobic video were refuted by subsequent investigations that found they were premeditated.

The ensuing scandal involved how much the secretary of state knew and at what time, although much of the committee’s questioning devolved into her political record.

While there is much to criticize about her time as a Senator and her extremely detrimental interventionist policies as secretary, including the airstrikes on Libya that lead to the fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the hearings failed to turn up significantly incriminating evidence.

But according to Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge, when Guccifer’s leaked emails from 2013 are cross-referenced with Clinton emails the State Department released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, there is confirmed evidence “from a trusted Clinton adviser” that “the Saudis funded the Benghazi attack, and not only was this not followed up on, but there is not any record of this e-mail ever existing except for the Russia Today leak”.

Durden claims this email, while arguably the most incriminating, was overlooked merely because it was sent after Clinton left office and John Kerry took over as secretary of state.

But while the claim that Saudi financed the killing of a U.S. diplomat seems conspiratorial, an email alleging this very thing not only exists on Clinton’s server, but she decided it important enough to forward to advisers and others in the State Department.

This revelation, if true, would be a serious blow to Clinton and her credibility, if not grounds for indictment.

Saudi Arabia is the U.S.’s greatest ally in the Middle East, other than Israel, and a major regional strategic partner. Despite widespread human rights abuses as outlined by every international agency, the U.S. provides military support and excessive funds to Saudi Arabia, in part to posture against Shia-Iran.

The Gulf kingdom is also a major donor to Clinton’s campaign super PAC.

While her list of donors is by no means discrete—top donors include Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, four companies that have caused and funded more destruction to both the U.S. economy and through violence in other countries (possible war crimes)—Saudi’s $10 million donation to the Clinton Foundation would likely hinder Clinton’s ability to make tough decisions as secretary of state.

“In the most generous interpretation [of the released emails] where this e-mail is simply a collection of rumors that Blumenthal heard and forwarded unsolicited to Clinton, it would make no sense for it to be missing. It would not be classified if it was a bunch of hot air, and it certainly wouldn’t be deleted by both Blumenthal and Clinton at the risk of committing a felony,” Durden alleges.

“In the least generous interpretation of these facts, Sidney Blumenthal and Hillary Clinton conspired to cover up an ally of the United States funding the assassination of one of our diplomats in Libya”.