Armed with confidential memos to Hillary Clinton that were stolen from the e-mail account of a former White House aide, a hacker has distributed some of the documents to a wide array of congressional aides, political figures, and journalists worldwide.

In a series of weekend e-mail blasts, the hacker known as “Guccifer” disseminated four recent memos to Clinton from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of the former Secretary of State.

The 64-year-old Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, had his AOL e-mail account hacked last week by “Guccifer,” who has conducted similar illegal assaults against a growing list of public figures, including Colin Powell, relatives and friends of the Bush family, and a top United Nations official.

The hacker’s e-mails went to hundreds of recipients, though the distribution lists were dotted with addresses for aides to Senate and House members who are no longer in office. But many of the addresses to which the Blumenthal memos were sent are good (though it is unclear whether karl@rove.com is a solid address for the Republican mastermind).

Most of the e-mail recipients were sent four separate memos that were e-mailed to Clinton by Blumenthal during the past five months. Each memo dealt with assorted developments in Libya, including the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. One memo marked “Confidential” was sent to Clinton on September 12.

As TSG reported last week, after Blumenthal’s e-mail account was compromised, the hacker searched it for e-mails sent to Clinton, and further sorted the mail to segregate any attachment--like Word files--that were included in Blumenthal’s correspondence to Clinton. Many of these pilfered documents were memos to Clinton on foreign policy and intelligence matters.

While “Guccifer” appears to have downloaded many of these attachments, the hacker opted not to send the actual Word files to those on the e-mail blast list (likely as a security measure since the downloaded files could contain metadata that could lead to the hacker, who is the target of a mushrooming federal criminal investigation).

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What did they say???

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The 64-year-old Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, had his AOL e-mail account hacked last week

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Let me get this straight. One of the nastiest and corrupt people in the Clinton circle, Blumenthal, has a rinky dink AOL account that he conducts high level and confidential business with? This guy is a throwback to the 90's in more ways than one and is a monumental dope.

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The 64-year-old Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, had his AOL e-mail account hacked last week

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Let me get this straight. One of the nastiest and corrupt people in the Clinton circle, Blumenthal, has a rinky dink AOL account that he conducts high level and confidential business with? This guy is a throwback to the 90's in more ways than one and is a monumental dope.

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Do you think he is still smacking the old lady against the wall? Would it not be a security breach for the hill to be discussing this outside of government. But what the hell no one will hold hearing and call this worm into a hearing.

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Would it not be a security breach for the hill to be discussing this outside of government.

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The 64-year-old Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, had his AOL e-mail account hacked last week

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Let me get this straight. One of the nastiest and corrupt people in the Clinton circle, Blumenthal, has a rinky dink AOL account that he conducts high level and confidential business with? This guy is a throwback to the 90's in more ways than one and is a monumental dope.

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Who the bleep still uses AOL?

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The 64-year-old Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, had his AOL e-mail account hacked last week

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Let me get this straight. One of the nastiest and corrupt people in the Clinton circle, Blumenthal, has a rinky dink AOL account that he conducts high level and confidential business with? This guy is a throwback to the 90's in more ways than one and is a monumental dope.

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Who the bleep still uses AOL?

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About a month ago the George H.W. Bush family's email accounts were exposed. GW, Jeb, and Dorothy. When they contacted Dorothy by phone she said, "Why would someone do this?" She was using an AOL account, too.

These people do not understand the age that we are living in. Nothing is private.

I call BS on part of the story. Metadata can easily be stripped and even fake data substituted. Anon does it all the time.