[Wash Times] A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by relatives of two Americans killed during the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Mrs. Clinton neither enabled the Benghazi attack by using her now-infamous private email server nor defamed its victims’ parents afterwards, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Friday in Washington, D.C., casting aside claims raised on behalf of parents of slain State Department information officer Sean Smith and late CIA operative Tyrone Woods.
The Smith and Woods families sued Mrs. Clinton last August in D.C. federal court alleging she caused their sons’ deaths by discussing sensitive State Dept. matters over an insecure, nongovernmental email system while secretary of state, supposedly providing terrorists with information used to plot the Sept. 11, 2012 ambush, according to the lawsuit.
Any emails sent by Mrs Clinton were within the scope of her position as secretary of state, the Obama-appointed judge ruled Friday, giving the court sufficient reason to dismiss the wrongful death claim on technical grounds, Politico first reported.
"The Court finds that Secretary Clinton was acting in the scope of her employment when she transmitted the emails that are alleged to give rise to her liability," Judge Jackson’s 29-page opinion reads in part. "The untimely death of plaintiffs’ sons is tragic, and the Court does not mean to minimize the unspeakable loss that plaintiffs have suffered in any way. But when one applies the appropriate legal standards, it is clear that plaintiffs have not alleged sufficient facts to rebut the presumption that Secretary Clinton was acting in her official capacity when she used her private email server."
"Her actions ‐ communicating with other State Department personnel and advisors about the official business of the department ‐ fall squarely within the scope of her duty to run the Department and conduct the foreign affairs of the nation as Secretary of State," Friday’s ruling said.
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The suit was a real stretch to begin with. She was incompetent and a liar, but she didn't kill those men. The consequences of Obama's and her incompetence and stoopid policy did
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And can get away with it. You have an oligarchy not a republic. There is just enough acceptance of ritual and lingering respect of law by the proles to keep the lid on.
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FISA has become just another version of robo-signing of foreclosures. Its a ritual ignoring the underlying reason for asking consent (when they even bother doing that).
h/t Gates of Vienna
Europe still has not realized that the terror which struck its metropolis was a war, and not the mistake of a few disturbed people who misunderstood the Islamic religion.
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It's interesting from a psychological viewpoint. The euros are acting this way because of the long term effects of WW2 trauma passed on from generation to generation. Somewhat like the malaise and wishful thinking before WW2 because of the Great War (WW1).
[Hurriyet Daily News] There is just one good piece of news regarding Turkish foreign policy nowadays, but there are many bad ones that have stained the outlook on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... when evaluated from abroad.
That single good piece of news is that Turkey’s relations with the European Union
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Internal problems are creating the image abroad. Erdogan being a would-be Caliph or Sultan is the problem.
[PJ] In their effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election, the Sore Loser Left has hit upon an Alinskyite strategy of taking down major figures in the new administration one at a time, by smearing them, "raising questions," and spreading gossip. The first victim was the Obama-appointed Lt. General and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Mike Flynn, who served briefly as national security adviser under Trump until felled by the weight of a manufactured "controversy" for which there was, and still is, no evidence.
But don't take it from me -- take it from Eli Lake, one of the best reporters in the business:
Flynn has yet to be charged with a crime. If there is evidence that he betrayed his country, it has yet to be presented. None of the many news stories about Flynn's contacts with Russians and Turks has accused him of being disloyal to his country. And yet a decorated general has already been tried and convicted in the press.
None of this would be happening without some very dirty business from the national security state. It's a two-pronged campaign. First there are the whispers. Anonymous officials describe in detail elements of an ongoing investigation: intercepts of conversations between Russian officials about how they could influence Flynn during the transition; monitored phone calls about how Flynn had lied about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to his colleagues; how Flynn failed to disclose his payment from the Russian propaganda network on his official forms. This prong of the campaign is at least factual, but the facts don't speak for themselves.
The second and more insidious element here is the innuendo. Yates never says Flynn was a spy for Russia. But her public remarks to Congress and the media appear designed to leave that impression. As she told Lizza, Flynn was "compromised by the Russians." This sounds far more sinister than Flynn's explanation when he left his post in February. Back then he said he had forgotten elements of his discussion with the Russian ambassador that covered a wide range of issues.
This whole sad, sorry, sordid episode will go down in history as journalistic malfeasance of the highest order. But the media -- relying almost entirely on anonymous sources whom they only allege and assert actually exist -- has tasted blood. In short order, they also went after Monica Crowley, then Sebastian Gorka, then Steve Bannon -- full disclosure: all three are friends of mine -- and now Jared Kushner, with the ultimate goal of taking down the president himself.
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This article and the one below are key to understanding what's been going on. They started the campaign against Jared Kushner while President Trump was abroad.
[Breitbart] The accusation that President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with the Russians, and that he is trying to cover it up, looks increasingly like a classic Russian disinformation campaign -- one designed to bring down the only president since the Cold War who has actually been willing to confront Russia in any meaningful way.
It is an article of faith on the left that Russia wanted Trump to win the election because Vladimir Putin anticipated a more pliant approach, signaled by Trump’s explicit desire to negotiate a better relationship. But the Russians may just as well have preferred Hillary Clinton, who had given Russia everything it wanted while serving as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State -- from the ill-fated "reset," to a surrender of U.S. missile defenses in Eastern Europe, to the sale of 20% of America’s uranium reserves to a Russian company closely tied to the Russian state.
It is more plausible to suggest that Russia simply wants to disrupt American politics if it can get away with doing so, and would do the same regardless of which candidate won the election. Even if -- for argument’s sake -- Putin once preferred Trump, that would not preclude him from trying to undermine President Trump now, if possible.
And in the "Democrat-media" complex, Putin has found a particularly potent weapon, aimed directly at the president. One could not imagine a better way to create havoc for an adversary -- and the left is playing into the enemy’s hands, eagerly and mindlessly, forgetting its own slavish enthusiasm for Russia for nearly a century.
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This is what I've been saying for months. Too bad it is in Breitbart, which means it won't be taken seriously by the people that really need to see it.
"The cable networks seem to me to be folding into a posture of, ’Oh, we want to try to get some of those people on the right, so maybe we better be more, quote, evenhanded.’ " When I mention MSNBC’s hiring of conservatives including George Will, and the New York Times’ new climate-change-skeptic opinion columnist, Bret Stephens, her brow furrows. "Why ... would ... you ... do ... that?" she says. "Sixty-six million people voted for me, plus, you know, the crazy third-party people. So there’s a lot of people who would actually appreciate stronger arguments on behalf of the most existential challenges facing our country and the world, climate change being one of them!"
Will and Stephens are anti-Trumpers. That's why they were hired. But they dissent to some degree from the left's positions. So, according to Hillary, they shouldn't be allowed a voice. No one except the radical left should.
This is the totalitarian mindset of the left. This is why so many voted against her. They weren't just voting against Hillary. They were voting for freedom.
h/t Instapundit
I know it’s theoretically wrong for a Republican candidate to smack around an annoying liberal journalist, but that still doesn’t mean that I care. Our ability to care is a finite resource, and, in the vast scheme of things, millions of us have chosen to devote exactly none of it toward caring enough to engage in fussy self-flagellation because of what happened to Slappy La Brokenshades.
Sorry, not sorry.
And that’s not a good thing, not by any measure, but it is a real thing. Liberals have chosen to coarsen our culture. Their validation and encouragement of raw hate, their flouting of laws (Hi leakers! Hi Hillary!) and their utter refusal to accept democratic outcomes they disapprove of have consequences. What is itself so surprising is how liberals and their media rentboyz are so surprised to find that we normals are beginning to feel about them the way they feel about us ‐ and that we’re starting to act on it. If you hate us, guess what?
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Some are finally starting to realize we are at war and have been for over a half century. Just like so many other conflicts, we may not have wanted war, but war was brought to us.
"Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here." - Captain John Parker
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I've never hated leftists because they are not in their right mind (see what I did there), but since some are going over the edge in violence, I will accommodate them.
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Not only do we have firearms, but access to back hoes, alligator filled swamps, empty fields, and really hot furnaces. IIRC the saying is "shoot, shovel, and shut up." as applies to federally protected varmints.
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[Wash Times] A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by relatives of two Americans killed during the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.
[Hurriyet Daily News] There is just one good piece of news regarding Turkish foreign policy nowadays, but there are many bad ones that have stained the outlook on 
