{"id":5410,"date":"2010-06-10T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/06\/10\/follow-up-on-fake-vietnam-vet-richard\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:08","slug":"follow-up-on-fake-vietnam-vet-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5410","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up on Fake Vietnam Vet Richard Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19435,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/05\\\/sgt-dick-blumenthal-usmcr-wannabe.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:19436,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newbritainherald.com\\\/articles\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/08\\\/news\\\/doc4c0ec6f8827c9976810313.txt&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.newbritainherald.com\\\/articles\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/08\\\/news\\\/doc4c0ec6f8827c9976810313.txt&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>As a follow-up to a <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/sgt-dick-blumenthal-usmcr-wannabe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> I wrote on Connecticut Atty General and Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate Richard Blumenthal, we now have a member of his staff saying that he lied to the staff member, a former Marine himself, &#8220;face to face&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newbritainherald.com\/articles\/2010\/06\/08\/news\/doc4c0ec6f8827c9976810313.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Hine<\/a>, State Asst Atty General for Connecticut, has worked for Blumenthal for the last 20 years in the Attorney General&#8217;s Office. He says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>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.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hine, Blumenthal expressed concern about his family should he be sent to Iraq and made sure he would be available to Hine\u2019s family should they need him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe then said that \u2018you as a major would have it easier than I did as an enlisted man in Vietnam\u2019,\u201d Hine said, recalling that the conversation that happened in Blumenthal\u2019s office on the seventh floor at 55 Elm St., Hartford. \u201cI knew right there that he was lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although shocked, Hine said he did not say anything at the time because he was indebted to Blumenthal for his kindness toward his family.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHine served for 13 years as a Judge Advocate in the Marines and was honorably discharged.<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>he felt he had to come forward after Blumenthal\u2019s recent actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has to do with integrity, has to do with qualifications for office and with a very personal conversation back in January or February, 1991,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by the mementos of his own life as a Marine, Hine said what Blumenthal did went against the code of being a Marine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Marine, you don\u2019t lie,\u201d he said. \u201cHe has forgotten whatever he learned at Parris Island.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to a blog post I wrote on Connecticut Atty General and Democrat nominee for the U.S.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,711],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-richard-blumenthal","tag-stolen-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5518,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}