Sid The Squid Blumenthal is no small-time minion, though. He ran an off-books private intelligence network for Mrs. Clinton when she was Secretary of State when the President forbade her having Sid The Squid on her staff at State. The McClatchy news people were the ones fingering him as starting the mess.

He might not be her consigliere. He's still a made man in the circles of the Clintons, though.