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In 2011 and 2012, Hillary Rodham Clinton received at least 25 such memos about Libya from Sidney Blumenthal, a friend and confidant who at the time was employed by the Clinton Foundation.
Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, took Mr. Blumenthal's advice seriously, forwarding his memos to senior diplomatic officials in Libya and Washington and at times asking them to respond. Mrs. Clinton continued to pass around his memos even after other senior diplomats concluded that Mr. Blumenthal's assessments were often unreliable.