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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Time Magazine: Clinton's Email Troubles Come With Bad Political Timing
Little here we didn't already know, but interesting article for Time Magazine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2016 04:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The good news for Clinton is that the bar for any legal damage from that investigation is high.

Yes, the bar is much, much lower with imprisonment and hefty fines assured for the little people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2016 4:27 Comments || Top||

#2  The laws also empower the FBI and prosecutors to seek punishment for gross negligence in the handling of secrets generated by spy agencies like the NSA. Proving that in a court, however, requires evidence that Clinton had a “guilty state of mind,” according to George W. Bush’s last Attorney General, Michael Mukasey....

Yes, but the law assumes that the target of an investigation has at least some vestige of a "moral compass" that would enable that person to feel the emotion of guilt, or remorse. The Hildebeast lacks any capacity to feel remorse or guilt - her malignant hubris is so extreme that she feels that she is above national security laws, criminal laws - and any other kind of law.

The thought of this wretched excuse for human being becoming POTUS just chills me to the bone. It would be as if the Wicked Witch of The West and her evil flying monkeys had become the real rulers of the Land Of Oz.

Quick, someone drop a house on Hillary........
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 02/01/2016 4:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Imagine the story if it was Sen. Ted Cruz that had violated the espionage act instead of the Hilldabeast.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/01/2016 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  She's been lying and obstructing the investigation for months. Any 'bad political timing' is entirely her fault.

But that won't stop the media from claiming it's all political and we should 'move on'...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/01/2016 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  You say bad political timing, I say felony jail time. Tuh-may-to, ta-mah-to.

Any thoughts on this from Gen. Petraeus?
Posted by: SteveS || 02/01/2016 12:37 Comments || Top||

#6  So there is good political timing to deliver the gate keys to Hannibal?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2016 12:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Covering up for their candidate, with an attempt to be 'fair and balanced' -

"No one has suggested that Clinton or any of her aides or employees at the State Department intended to harm the interests of the United States in their handling of the classified material."
Posted by: Bobby || 02/01/2016 13:09 Comments || Top||

#8  What timing in politix is not "bad?"
Posted by: Fred || 02/01/2016 16:27 Comments || Top||

#9  This must have been a real shock to the 17 people who still read Time!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/01/2016 18:22 Comments || Top||

#10  "17 people who still read Time"

You're very optimistic, NMBS.
Posted by: Barbara || 02/01/2016 19:26 Comments || Top||

#11  There has got to be at least 17 people waiting in a doctor's office somewhere.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/01/2016 19:29 Comments || Top||

#12  +++, Sven. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 02/01/2016 19:32 Comments || Top||

#13  18 - I'm getting my teeth cleaned next week...
Posted by: Raj || 02/01/2016 20:23 Comments || Top||

#14  BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Put Spies’ Lives at Risk
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 02/01/2016 21:58 Comments || Top||


Former director admits stealing from Missouri shelter
[COLUMBIAMISSOURIAN] The former director of a domestic violence shelter in south-central Missouri has admitted stealing about $30,000 from the shelter.

The office of the U.S. Attorney for Western Missouri says in a release that 64-year-old Mary Young pleaded guilty to credit card fraud in connection with the embezzlement scheme at the Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE) shelter in Leb.

The prosecutor's office says Young was the executive director of COPE from August 2008 through June 2014. The fraud wasn't discovered until after she resigned.

As part of the guilty plea, Young admitted that she used shelter credit cards to make unauthorized personal purchases for things like gas, meals and clothes.

The release says Young's fraudulent purchases totaled more than $30,800. She entered the plea last week.
Posted by: Fred || 02/01/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Put a lien on her social security payments until it is all paid back.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/01/2016 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, I think a morals conviction and something about 'violating public trust' packaged with embezzlement...
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2016 11:02 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
NAACP leader uses F-word to apologize for using T-word after N-word meeting
[THEAMERICANMIRROR] The NAACP's mission of political correctness and equality careened off the rails this week when a local president complimented a TV news hounds breasts during an interview.

Don Harris, the president of the Maricopa County Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had just finished an event at Tempe Union High School District to discuss an incident at the school in which several girls wore black t-shirts bearing the letters "N-I-*-*-E-R" on them.

The outrage was instantaneous.

"The six students in question pulled ranks to spell out NI**ER on their own, smiling gleefully to pose for an Instagram picture. Their punishment was 5-days suspension," a petition demanding their expulsion reads, EAGnews reports.

"This hurtful use of a racial slur is a complete disregard for the dignity of the black community in Arizona and across the nation and the punishment does not fit the total ignorance and cruelty of the crime."

Harris was on hand to accept apologizes and demand action.

But after the meeting, while participants were speaking with the media, he was caught on camera saying Channel 12 news hound Monique Griego had "nice tits."

"I can't believe that someone in his position would not understand how inappropriate that comment was at the time that he made it," says Ray Stern, a news hound for the Phoenix New Times, who was talking to Griego at the time.

"Here's the leader of the NAACP talking about the N-word and then making this comment, that was more inappropriate than I could even believe," he tells ABC 15.

The news station reports Harris doesn't believe Griego heard him at the time and says he feels like he let down the NAACP. He calls his comment "ugly" and says it just slipped out "guy to guy."

After the reaction, Harris now says he feels "down in the dumps."

The New Times contacted Harris after that incident and reports the NAACP leader said, "I apologize if anyone was offended. I could have said nothing . . . I'm really f*cking sorry."

He argued that the meeting was over when he complimented the news hound's rack and then really blew a gasket (edited for a family audience):

"I'm going to slash my wrists," he spews. "Better yet, I'm going to throw myself out of a f*cking window, except I'm on the first floor . . . I'm one of the best g*dd*mned people in the state."

People criticized him when he first took over the NAACP chief post from the Reverend Oscar Tillman, who retired in 2014 after 22 years in the position, he says, because "I was the wrong flavor.

"They've seen me now, they've seen what I've done. I've given up my law practice. I'm down here six, seven days a week. That's what my commitment is. I support NOW, the women's organization -- g*dd*mn! -- are you sh*tting me? Are you going to write this up?"

Griego didn't comment on the situation but Harris insists he wants to apologize face-to-face. (Of course he does.)

Last June, when white NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal was exposed for pretending to be black, Harris appeared on CNN and claimed "credibility" is one of the most important assets the organization has.

"This is a race-based organization -- the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. And being a race-based organization, when you have a leader in any capacity, you've got to have credibility.

"Once you lose that credibility, the efficacy of your leadership fails," Harris said.

There are now calls for Harris's resignation and at least one minister seeking his ouster blames not Harris's sexism, but his "white privilege."

"Don can be a bit of a character, but I think he's also a well-to-do, older, white male and he exhibited some of the signs of what we've called 'white privilege,' Rev. Jarrett Maupin says, according to KTAR. "He should know better than anyone, as the NAACP, to do what he did."
Posted by: Fred || 02/01/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "This hurtful use of a racial slur is a complete disregard for the dignity of the black community in Arizona and across the nation and the punishment does not fit the total ignorance and cruelty of the crime."

Wait a d@mn minute here, I thought that gal in the Trayvon Martin case testified that ni99er was a term of endearment. Is there some kind of double-standard here?

And by the way, I googled Monique's t!ts, and they are nice enough that I had to google them several times.
Posted by: gorb || 02/01/2016 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Well she does seem to have a nice set of bumpers. (but they are not shown st the link)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/01/2016 1:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Some impudent students got shirty
To spell the unspeakably dirty;
Their "NIGHER" attire
Drew fools to the fire
(For sirens are naught if not flirty).
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/01/2016 6:35 Comments || Top||

#4  So Harris is a 77 yr old white lawyer.
What made him want to be head of a NAACP chapter?
(I am curious)
Posted by: 3dc || 02/01/2016 8:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'This was all planned': Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying
[NYPOST] The State Department is lying when it says it didn't know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ...
was improperly using personal e-mails and a private server to conduct official business -- because it never set up an agency e-mail address for her in the first place, the department's former top watchdog says.

"This was all planned in advance" to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency's inspector general from 2005 to 2008.

The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov e-mail address like previous secretaries.

"That's a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private e-mail server until later," Krongard said in an exclusive interview. "How else was she supposed to do business without e-mail?"

He also points to the unusual absence of a permanent inspector general during Clinton's entire 2009-2013 term at the department. He said the 5¹/₂-year vacancy was unprecedented.

"This is a major gap. In fact, it's without precedent," he said. "It's the longest period any department has gone without an IG."

Inspectors general serve an essential and unique role in the federal government by independently investigating agency waste, fraud and abuse. Their oversight also covers violations of communications security procedures.
Posted by: Fred || 02/01/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "He also points to the unusual absence of a permanent inspector general during Clinton's entire 2009-2013 term at the department. He said the 5¹/₂-year vacancy was unprecedented.

"This is a major gap. In fact, it's without precedent," he said. "It's the longest period any department has gone without an IG."


Hmm. Almost as if they didn't WANT anyone there who could look over their shoulders.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 02/01/2016 5:23 Comments || Top||

#2  The purpose of the IG is to identify and eliminate trouble makers. Whistle blowers just fair so well.~

Hilldabeast should have known that and appointed one of her minions to the job.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/01/2016 6:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Clinton said something quite revealing yesterday.

You know, you can’t get information off the classified system in the State Department to put on an unclassified system, no matter what that system is. We were very specific about that. And when you receive information, of course, there has to be some markings, some indication that someone down the chain thought that this was classified and that was not the case.

She intentionally ommitted one key word in her statement - "legally". Mr. Sullivan and Ms. Mills and Abidien if you haven't already you may want to retain legal counsel. You also may want to ask Ms. McDougal about her views on refusing immunity.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/01/2016 13:22 Comments || Top||

#4  State Department tried to make ‘stand-alone’ network for Clinton

"Still, the comments appear to indicate that State Department officials went out of their way to accommodate Clinton’s unusual bespoke email setup, which involved the exclusive use of a private email account housed on a personal server. Critics of Clinton’s arrangement have tried to force the State Department to clarify whether her private email account and server were expressly permitted by department officials."




Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 02/01/2016 15:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Seems I recall from a few months back, there being a one-off Burg commenter from the Foggy Bottom Home for Questionable Ethics.

Perhaps Ms "You're all Republican Meanies" would care to comment again?
Posted by: Pappy || 02/01/2016 15:50 Comments || Top||

#6  My, how times have changed: The Plame affair
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 02/01/2016 16:05 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump victory could cause federal employees to quit -- poll
No link - from proprietary newsletter.

Donald Trump leads the GOP field in a new survey of federal government employees, but one-fourth of those polled said they would think about leaving their jobs if he is elected president.

If the real estate mogul wins, 14 percent of respondents said they would consider leaving the federal service in the poll released Friday by the Government Business Council, the research arm of Government Executive Media Group. An additional 11 percent answered "maybe."

Be still my heart. Any chance we can make it 100%?
Posted by: Barbara || 02/01/2016 14:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Promises, promises, promises. Don't tease us.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/01/2016 16:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Just like the celebrities that are gonna leave the country.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/01/2016 17:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Cool. They self-select themselves out!

Kinda makes me wonder what kind of "idealism" motivates them.
Posted by: gorb || 02/01/2016 17:16 Comments || Top||

#4  And get another job where?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 02/01/2016 18:55 Comments || Top||

#5  We can only hope.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/01/2016 19:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Problem is, the ones who would leave are likely capable of getting a job elsewhere.
That leaves...
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/01/2016 19:20 Comments || Top||

#7  We should be so lucky.
Posted by: Nguard || 02/01/2016 19:48 Comments || Top||

#8  We can't miss you guys if you won't go away!
Posted by: Raj || 02/01/2016 20:21 Comments || Top||


Secret Fed Docs Show Obama Misled Congress, Public During Debt Limit Crises
Federal Reserve Bank of New York officials secretly conducted real-time exercises during the 2011 and 2013 debt-limit crisis that demonstrated the federal government could function during a temporary shutdown by prioritizing spending, even as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew publicly claimed many times that such efforts were "unworkable," according to a new report by the House Financial Services Committee obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The staff report, to be released Tuesday, charges that Lew and other Obama administration officials deliberately misled Congress and the public during the federal budget and debt limit showdowns in both years. The committee will convene a public hearing on the report Feb. 2.
Of course he did. Can't let a manufactured crisis go to waste.
The report also states that the Obama administration crafted actual contingency plans to pay for Social Security and veterans benefits, as well as principal and interest on the national debt if the government was temporarily unable to borrow more money. The Committee concludes that over the last two years the Treasury Department has "obstructed" congressional efforts to get to the bottom of the administration's real-time policy during the two showdowns.

The Constitution stipulates that only Congress can determine how much money the federal government can borrow. Presidents thus cannot unilaterally spend beyond congressional debt ceiling limits set. The committee ‐ chaired by Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas ‐ charged that during both confrontations, the Obama administration held the country's creditworthiness "hostage" by claiming default was the only possibility if the debit ceiling was not raised.
Since when have the laws for the little people stopped the lightbringer?
"These internal documents show the Obama Administration took the nation's creditworthiness and economy hostage in a cynical attempt to create a crisis so the president could get what he wanted during negotiations over the debt ceiling," Hensarling said in a statement to be released with the report Tuesday.
That's a nice credit rating. Would be a shame if something happened to it.
The report also revealed that the Treasury Department did not publicly divulge its plans to prioritize payments "for the express purpose of creating market uncertainty in an effort to pressure Congress to acquiesce in the administration's ‘no negotiation' posture on the debt ceiling."

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, the financial services panel's oversight subcommittee chairman, said the administration "manufactured a crisis to put politics ahead of economic stability."

The massive, 322-page report chronicles frank, behind-the-scenes discussions among Federal Reserve Board and Federal Bank of New York officials as Congress debated whether to keep existing debt limits or allow Treasury to borrow more money. The House committee and the Treasury Department have been fighting a bitter, two-year battle over Federal Reserve documents.

The report states that "Treasury apparently directed the New York Fed not to answer valid congressional oversight inquiries because Treasury knew the answers would expose the dishonesty of the administration's public statements."
Dishonesty is the hallmark of this administration and now most of the government. The reckoning is coming motherfuckers. And you will not like it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/01/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Congress while the public is watching: "I am shocked. SHOCKED!"

Two days later after Miley Cyrus manages to grab the headlines again: "OK, back to backroom deals and business as usual."
Posted by: gorb || 02/01/2016 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump is right on one point; our congressional leaders are idiots.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/01/2016 1:23 Comments || Top||

#3  our congressional leaders are idiots

Compare their bank accounts with yours before you call them idiots.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/01/2016 3:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Champs misleading may have been prenatal, but most certainly involved an identity change.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2016 4:30 Comments || Top||

#5  There not the idiots. The idiots are the ones who elected (most of) them.

I recall some folks, at the time, pointing out the parallel to your personal finances - when your credit card is maxed out, your head doesn't explode, you spend less.

Too bad no one in the idiot press cared to point that out to the idiot voters.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/01/2016 8:36 Comments || Top||

#6  This Congress *wanted* to be lied to.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/01/2016 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  This Congress *wanted* to be lied to.
Posted by Iblis


Indeed it does, and not just on matter related to the budget. Benghazi quickly comes to mind.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2016 11:14 Comments || Top||

#8  The inner circle never wants the truth from the outside world, they are quite happy to lie to each other to defend their fantasy land, it's very remunerative that way.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/01/2016 11:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Congress adjourned itself in 2007.

Masque of Red Death.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2016 12:45 Comments || Top||

#10  DRUDGEREPORT says US Debt is now US$19.0Trilyuhn and still climbing.

At last check, US Debt-to-GDP = 103.9% + also still climbing up.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/01/2016 23:50 Comments || Top||


Missouri Feral Hog Hunting Ban
[COLUMBIAMISSOURIAN] 2. Hunting feral hogs will be banned on all land owned, leased or managed by the state Department of Conservation. The Department of Conservation found that hunting was counterproductive to eradicating the destructive hog population.
Texas and many other western states have pretty much open season on feral hogs. They cause a half billion dollars a year in damage, just in Texas. They pollute waterways with e.coli and will root up acres of cultivated land at a time. One sow can litter up to twice a year, with anywhere from a half dozen to a dozen little piggies who'll be ready to breed themselves at between eight months and a year. Probably because I'm politically incorrect and getting dumber the further I progress into my dotage, I can't grasp how not killing as many of them as you can is "counterproductive." The same people would likely say the same thing about zombies.
Posted by: Fred || 02/01/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Counterproductive? Show me. ;-)
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/01/2016 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Department of Conservation

Can we guess who inhabits said bureaucracy? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/01/2016 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Besides, they are very tastey
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/01/2016 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  "Exotic species, including the feral hog, may
be hunted throughout the year. Aerial gunning
is allowed with a permit from the TPWD.
There is no closed season and no bag limit.
It is legal to use suppressors (silencers) on
firearms to hunt feral hogs. Feral hogs may be
hunted at night with the use of a spotlight or
night vision."
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2016 10:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Might I suggest hunting the feral bureaucrats instead?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/01/2016 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Hunting them seems to be helping to actually solve the problem.

No Bureaucrat or Politician wants that! It must be made illegal to save their phoney-baloney jobs.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/01/2016 12:13 Comments || Top||

#7  They pollute waterways with e.coli

That's a delicate way of putting it.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/01/2016 12:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Yep. Down here in Texas it's whatever you have carrying. 308, 223, 7.62 x39, or your .45.
Posted by: texhooey || 02/01/2016 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9 
Hog Doggin
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/01/2016 13:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Their claim is
"Because the Department of Conservation has learned how to trap feral hogs in groups, it is no longer asking for hunters to help."

Quick googling gave this link
http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G9457 , which references TAMU research that I don't have time to review.
Posted by: james || 02/01/2016 13:46 Comments || Top||

#11  "Because the Department of Conservation has learned how to trap feral hogs in groups, it is no longer asking for hunters to help."

Why does the Great Emu War come to mind?

Cost to the taxpayers of MO? Income from selling licenses and having someone actually pay to remove them for you?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/01/2016 14:30 Comments || Top||

#12  What do the do with the trapped Feral hogs?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/01/2016 16:58 Comments || Top||

#13  #12 What do the do with the trapped Feral hogs?

They then send them to a no-kill shelter run by PETA, whence they can adopted out to loving homes.
Posted by: JHH || 02/01/2016 17:56 Comments || Top||

#14  Air drop them near Afghan poppy fields?

I know, I know. Likely dropped off at the Oklahoma border.

"What are those, bullet proof vests for dogs?"
"Nope. Hogs."
"Oh. OH. oohhh."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2016 18:00 Comments || Top||

#15  I dated a woman who killed a wild boar with a bowie knife. There is more money to be made at the state and federal level by banning the hunting and only allowing it by licenses, fees, and permits. The hell with the natural ecosystems, theres gold in them thar hogs!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/01/2016 18:45 Comments || Top||

#16  Bacon, too.
Posted by: Fred || 02/01/2016 19:00 Comments || Top||

#17  Wild Boar sausages and stuffing is amazing.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/01/2016 19:57 Comments || Top||

#18  "They pollute waterways with e.coli."

Well, Chipotle might be hiring.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 02/01/2016 20:20 Comments || Top||

#19  Cliven Bundy and supporters from Bunkerville, NV. are taking possession of the Oregon refuge center today via formal notification to Harney County Sheriff Ward, Governor Kate Brown and President Barack Obama dated February 1, 2016.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 02/01/2016 22:40 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2016-02-01
  50 Feared Killed in Boko Haram Attack in Nigeria
Sun 2016-01-31
  At least 60 killed in terror attack at Shi'ite holy site in Syria
Sat 2016-01-30
  Shibir men held for plotting religious unrest
Fri 2016-01-29
  Man Arrested in Disneyland Paris Hotel with 2 Handguns
Thu 2016-01-28
  Melbourne teen accused of plotting to pack kangaroo with bomb
Wed 2016-01-27
  FBI arrests Milwaukee man accused of planning mass shooting at Masonic temple
Tue 2016-01-26
  Suicide bomb attack kills 28, wounds dozens in Cameroon
Mon 2016-01-25
  Drone strike kills IS-Khorasan commander, five others in Nangarhar
Sun 2016-01-24
  2 Houthi leaders killed in special op
Sat 2016-01-23
  Somali Security Forces End Siege At Beachfront Restaurant; At Least 20 Dead
Fri 2016-01-22
  Al Qaeda's Emir of Sana'a Banged in Yemen
Thu 2016-01-21
  7 killed, 25 wounded in blast near Russian embassy in Kabul
Wed 2016-01-20
  Terror attack at Pak's Bacha Khan University
Tue 2016-01-19
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