“As yet, we’ve reached no conclusions.”

 - Attorney General Richard Blumenthal

October 29, 2006

Keep that quote in your heart, for it may finally show everyone the true nature of Attorney General Dick Blumenthal. 

All thanks for this revelation goes to Connecticut Bob, a.k.a . Bob Adams of Milford, a tireless lefty blogger, who noticed how  Blumenthal  either lied or conveniently misremembered who was responsible for the crashing of Sen. Joe Lieberman’s website during the 2006 campaign.

Connecticut Bob had caught Dick Blumenthal at local fundraiser on October 29, 2006 and was asking him about the status of the investigation as to who was complicit in the Joe 2006 site crash, which Lieberman people pinned on his Richie Rich opponent, Ned Lamont.

Here is where the time-line comes into play. The FBI found on October 25, 2006 that the fault in the crash lay with the Lieberman campaign. The FBI notified Blumenthal and others in the investigation.

Four days later, Connecticut Bob, with video camera in tow, found Blumenthal at a local fundraiser in Stratford and asked him for any update on the investigation. Blumenthal, all too eager to preen in front of the lens, stated twice that there had been no conclusions reached in the investigation.

The quality of the interview is not particularly flattering to the media conscious Attorney-General-for-Life, but it does raise some interesting thoughts.

First, Blumenthal is a notorious micro-manager, reader and consumer of all data and reports that come into and out of his office. If the FBI had notified his office, Blumenthal would have known about it and if he didn’t, someone would be out of a job.

Second, if Blumenthal see the FBI memo or made aware of it, why didn’t he release his findings?

Third, did he inform Sen. Lieberman about it or discuss it with Joe’s staff? Obviously, he didn’t share it with Ned Lamont, someone he supported after the August primary.

Here is why,  Blumenthal always like to have it both ways in court and in the court of public opinion.

In court, Blumenthal sues first, issues a press release and leaves the details to the history books.

Often his cases go nowhere or end up on a docket to nowhere. And when there is bad news, Dick Blumenthal suddenly gets camera shy, especially when he didn’t want to annoy a U.S. Senate seat that he hopes to inherit some day.

As for politics, Blumenthal will go anywhere, anytime to be seen with the winner, witnessed his vamping with Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez Election Night, even though Perez is under federal investigation for alleged kickbacks and favors offered by contractors.

Blumenthal should let the people know why he didn’t release his findings when he knew them and let the chips fall where they may. In the end, Dick Blumenthal showed his true colors, another politician trying to play the corners for his own ends.

Click here for the August 8 press statement from Blumenthal on his pledge to get to the bottom of the website crash. Oh, the power of information.

 Thanks, Bob.