Mr. Blumenthal has raised $8,639,009 for his campaign, Carter
$361,934. In addition, Mr. Blumenthal
will rack up nearly all Connecticut’s media endorsements. Favorable press has
been piling up in his corner since he began his public service career forty
years ago.
Once asked whether he thought history would be kind to him,
Winston Churchill answered he thought it would – “because I intend to write the
history.” And he did. For the most part, Mr. Blumenthal has been permitted to
write his own history in the form of media releases printed almost verbatim during
those months when he is not campaigning for office, the greater part of the
political year. And since he owns the multi-million dollar US Congressional
seat he sits upon, he needn’t extend to his campaign challengers the courtesy
of multiple debates. Connecticut has seen but one debate this campaign year between
Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Carter. The unscripted moment is Mr. Blumenthal’s worst
enemy.
Campaign contributors and editorial boards operate on the
same assumptions: Why “invest,” either polemically or with one’s wallet, in a
candidate who likely will not win an election? One wants a return on one’s
campaign contribution and one’s polemical support. Prudence is always the
better part of valor. This appears to be the operative principle of
Connecticut’s media and its wealthy campaign donors. The days when the media
thought it was a part of its mission to “level the playing field” – an
expression often used by Mr. Blumenthal when, as Attorney General, he chased
down mid-level businesses in the state with a hatchet in his fist – is part of journalism’s
glorious, vanished past. Our current muckrakers think it is impolite to disturb
the peace of its incumbent politicians.
And that is why Blumenthal has not been asked impertinent
questions concerning the plight of Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton.
Like what? Well, there are no fewer than five separate FBI
investigations swirling around Mrs. Clinton heels, piranhas waiting for their
bite.
Perhaps the most important, from a prosecutor's point of
view, is the Clinton Foundation investigation, which is much more expansive
than at first realized. People involved have been interviewed multiple times,
and the investigation centers on a “pay to play” operation that would make Al
Capone blush. “Two separate sources with intimate knowledge of the FBI
investigations” have told Bret Baier of Fox News that an “indictment is likely… barring some obstruction in some way" from
the Justice Department. Obstructions from the partisan Justice Department are
inevitable. But here is some uplifting news: Concerning “the immunity deal that Cheryl
Mills and Heather Samuelson, two top aides to Hillary Clinton, got from the
Justice Department in which it was believed that the laptops they had, after a
narrow review for classified materials, were going to be destroyed, " Mr. Baier disclosed, "we have
been told that those have not been destroyed -- they are at the FBI field
office here on Washington and are being exploited.”
Other separate investigations involve data recovered from Anthony
Weiner’s criminal investigation. Apparently, nothing in the Beltway permanently
disappears, even when you BleachBit it. The Weiner cache contains new data
exchanges between Mrs. Clinton and her top aide, Huma Abedin, who transferred files
to her home account so that she might be able to print them out for her boss. The
FBI investigation cake is topped with a Gibraltar sized cherry. According to a
Real Clear Politics report on Baier’s disclosures, “FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton's server has
been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that
information had been taken from it.”
There are dozens of unscripted moments in all this newsworthy
data. And, since Blumenthal is running away with his pants on fire from further
debates with Carter, it might be helpful if one investigative reporter in
Connecticut – just one! -- could be found to mold the usual Clinton mess into a
few hard questions and toss them in Blumenthal’s direction; though, of course,
the questions may as easily be put to any of the incumbent Democrats within
Connecticut’s hegemonic US Congressional Delegation.
Question: When Clinton is elected President, do you feel her Presidency will be put in jeopardy by a) any of the five continuing FBI investigations,
and/or b) data acquired by foreign
governments from Mrs. Clinton’s original sin – her failure to secure
confidential information by acceding to legally required data safety protocols? Is it not possible that a President Clinton may bow to pressure brought to bear by foreign governments who have accesses to incriminating data?
Such questions might inconvenience the members of the all
Democratic US Congressional delegation, every one of whom passionately supports
Clinton’s criminal enterprise – and she and her husband have been VERY
enterprising – but hey, what’s a media for?
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