Blumenthal; Lying face to face

!stCavRVN11B sent us a link this morning about an under-reported aspect of DICK Blumenthal’s lies about his service. A local newspaper, the New Britain Herald writes about one of Blumenthal’s subordinates in the CT Attorney General’s office, Richard Hine who has worked for Blumenthal for 20 years.

“This has to do with integrity, has to do with qualifications for office and with a very personal conversation back in January or February, 1991,” he said. Surrounded by the mementos of his own life as a Marine, Hine said what Blumenthal did went against the code of being a Marine.

Hine said Blumenthal first lied to him about his service record while attorney general as Hine was making preparations for service during Operation Desert Storm, the first Iraq War.

According to Hine, Blumenthal expressed concern about his family should he be sent to Iraq and made sure he would be available to Hine’s family should they need him.

“He then said that ‘you as a major would have it easier than I did as an enlisted man in Vietnam’,” Hine said, recalling that the conversation that happened in Blumenthal’s office on the seventh floor at 55 Elm St., Hartford. “I knew right there that he was lying.”

“He was lying to me face to face,” he said, adding that he had heard similar remarks of service in Vietnam at least five times, at least half before September 11, 2001, and half after. “He didn’t misstate, he didn’t misspeak — he lied.”

Emphasis is mine. And what does that even mean? How does DICK Blumenthal know how difficult Hines’ tour will be? Who talks like that? I could see Jon Soltz saying something like that, though, so I guess DICK Blumenthal is just like Jon Soltz only taller.

Of course, now that Blumenthal is the defacto nominee of the Democrat Party in Connecticut for Chris Dodd’s Senate seat, the media will leave the little pud alone. I’m kinda hoping that we can get around the New York Time’s sudden silence on this story though.

Category: Media, Phony soldiers