[Spectator] James Comey presides over an FBI in revolt over his leadership, a former U.S. attorney tells The American Spectator, and pursues "paranoid, delusional, and vindictive" measures to prevent negative information leaking out to the public. Well, what do you expect from a man that is deeply in bed with the Clintons?
"I know that inside the FBI there is a revolt," Joseph diGenova tells The American Spectator. "There is a revolt against the director. The people inside the bureau believe the director is a dirty cop. They believe that he threw the [Hillary Clinton email] case. They do not know what he was promised in return. But the people inside the bureau who were involved in the case and who knew about the case are talking to former FBI people expressing their disgust at the conduct of the director."
The loss of faith in the bureau chief stems in part from a dishonest rendering of the decision not to indict Mrs. Clinton as unanimous rather than unilateral and in part from the bureau's decision to destroy evidence in the case and grant blanket immunity to Clinton underlings for no possible prosecutorial purpose.
"There is a consensus among the employees that the director has lost all credibility and that he cannot lead the bureau," diGenova explains. "They are comparing him to L. Patrick Gray, the disgraced former FBI director who threw Watergate papers into the Potomac River. The resistance to the director has made the agency incapable of action. It has been described to me as a depression within the agency unlike anything that anyone has ever seen within the bureau. The director's public explanation for the unorthodox investigation are viewed by people in the bureau as sophomoric and embarrassing."
Comey maintained in July that he came to the decision to recommend not indicting Clinton for the inclusion of classified material in 110 emails stored on a private server based on an "entirely apolitical and professional" investigation despite conceding that others in a similar spot would face "consequences" and that "evidence of potential violations" existed. He insisted then, "No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear."
But agents trained to sniff out malfeasance smell something rotten here. They ain't the only ones
"When the director said that it was a unanimous decision not to recommend prosecution, that was a lie," diGenova points out. "In fact, the people involved in the case were outraged at his decision, which he made by himself. When people realized that he was lying publicly about their role and when they knew he had approved of the destruction of laptops that were subject to congressional subpoena, that flipped the switch." Why else were the investigators forced to sign a NDA? The powers that be knew they would be betrayed.
Critics of the FBI and the broader handling of the case by the Justice Department remain skeptical over investigators' ostensible belief in Clinton's claim that she "lost" 13 Blackberry devices and did not understand that documents marked "C" meant confidential. Decisions to grant Clinton aide Cheryl Mills attorney-client privilege in a case involving her, to destroy her laptop and with it any evidence desired by Congress, and to limit the investigation's search to documents from before January 31, 2015 to obstruct any possible obstruction of justice case against Mills also similarly baffled. Direct evidence of Clinton hiding public business on a private server (and thereby making it easier for enemy governments to see what the American government could not) and "bleaching" her hard drive after the story became public presented the FBI clear evidence of wrongdoing. But authorities sought to protect rather than prosecute the malefactors.
"The director's public explanation for the unorthodox investigation are viewed by people in the bureau as sophomoric and embarrassing," diGenova notes. "The people in the bureau anticipate that there will be subpoenas for their testimony. Comey in a telephone conference with special agents in charge around the country, within the last few days, warned that if they received a phone inquiry about the investigation, or any inquiry about the investigation, they were ordered to report the call and the caller to the director's office."
DiGenova describes such control tactics as something out of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Yet, it's Hoover's successor, L. Patrick Gray, who offers the clearest parallel to Comey. As diGenova puts it, "There is a Deep Throat."
Agents involved in the case now fear congressional subpoenas thanks to Comey's head-scratching handling of the case. DiGenova met this week with figures requesting attorneys for FBI officials. The former independent counsel and U.S. attorney affirms his willingness to serve in that capacity and to represent potential whistleblowers.
"These people are trained to be loyal, honest, and forthright," diGenova points out. "What [Comey] did was force them to corrupt their oath of office. They have had enough." I'll know they have had enough when they arrest their superiors, members of the DOJ and Hillary. Otherwise they are just wanking into the wind.
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Comey said the decision was unanimous? He meant among himself, the Director of the FBI, and himself, all three agreed in the decision, and they were the only three that count. And he agrees with them.
Actually, in his own mind, Comey believed he was being fair. He stated correctly that the FBI investigation found that Mrs. Clinton had committed more than one felony.
That was a plus for Republicans.
He then decided that it would be unfair for Mrs. Clinton to suffer any punishment for her behavior because she was running for president and that might be a disaster for Democrats. Thus he went beyond his FBI role to give his personal opinion that she be let off, as a compensating benefit for Democrats.
I wonder if this means that by the Comey rule, any felon can claim immunity from prosecution by declaring his/her self to be a Democrat candidate for President; perhaps even candidate for membership in the Senate or House.
The notion that when fairness favors one side, it is OK to be unfair to balance that fact, is the death warrant for justice.
To find that a murderer is guilty should similarly be balanced by letting him off. That is, after all, the logic of the Close Guantanamo movement.
[Wash Times] Hillary Clinton admitted under oath this week that she doesn’t recall asking anyone for permission to use a secret server and email account during her time in the State Department, contradicting previous public pronouncements that she had received approval.
Mrs. Clinton said she didn’t recall seeing a 2011 warning about increased hacking attempts on senior department officials’ private accounts and that she didn’t actually write another warning that was sent under her name.
"Secretary Clinton states that she does not recall being advised, cautioned, or warned during her tenure as Secretary of State about hacking or attempted hacking of her clintonemail.com e-mail account or the server that hosted her clintonemail.com account," she said in sworn testimony dated Monday and filed in federal court Thursday.
A judge had ordered Mrs. Clinton to provide testimony as he decides whether the State Department fully complied with the Freedom of Information Act, which gives the public a right to see its public officials’ records -- including emails that contain government business.
Mrs. Clinton for years foiled that law by using her secret account, which was tied to a server she kept at her home in New York, and which effectively shielded her emails from any sort of open records oversight. She returned some 30,000 messages in December 2014, nearly two years after she left government, and the FBI said it recovered thousands more that she failed to turn over.
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I could not have imagined any Information Management officer (IMO) or Special Security Officer (SSO) granting permission for such a system.
But wait, there's more! No permission for system(s) means any gov't business (classifed or otherwise) conduted over 'homebrew' servers was conducted in violation of the law.
Not that any of this means anything, but please make a note - HRC has finally told the truth about something.
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Besoeker: Referring to your last line: HRC has finally told the truth about something. She probably did not mean to tell the truth judging from her past behavior.
[Daily Mail] A NASA director sent a potentially illegal email to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton adviser Cheryl Mills complaining their campaign asked him for donations too frequently.
Wikileaks published an email sent from the official government account of John F. Hall, NASA's director of the Export Control and Interagency Liaison Division, that may have violated the Hatch Act, which states that federal officials must not "engage in political activity while on duty or in the workplace," or "political activity in an official capacity at any time."
"People during normal working hours aren't supposed to do this," Richard Painter, a professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota who testified before Congress on the reform of the Hatch Act, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "That's a no-no unless they're confirmed by the Senate. This could be parallel to some of the violations of the Bush White House during the 2006 campaign. The Bush White House got in some trouble for this sort of thing."
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Our campaign contributions from your NASA team are lagging John. We thought you were our man, and now this letter? How are we ever going to get to Mars ?
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A NASA director sent a potentially illegal email to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton adviser Cheryl Mills complaining their campaign asked him for donations too frequently.
This same method has been used in other settings. For example, I know a guy (life-long Republican) who had to join a union to get a job despite never belonging to a union before (always a part of management)--he was surprised to learn that some of his dues goes to supporting candidates whom he does not support and would not vote for. Another example. I know another guy who worked on Wall Street at a high level. He was tapped for donations by various NY Democrats running for office. He was made to understand that raises, promotions, bonuses were contingent upon his "donations" shakedown payments. He too is a Republican.
"May have broken the law." I assure you, these people are not concerned about breaking the law. They are not even concerned about getting caught anymore as everything is wired on the inside (DOJ, FBI, etc.) Other people must realize this too--thus Trump's popularity.
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I think we can establish that it will be easier to assemble of list of non-corrupt senior officials and associates of the federal government than a list of corrupt senior officials.
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@#2: Your first example would be myself. I mislead my Union on my political views to keep them at bay, and I do not post their "Proud Union Home" political signs on my deplorable central-Illinois property.
PUEBLO, Colo. -- Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton, has axed its final two weeks of television ad reservations leading up to Election Day in Colorado, reflecting Democratic confidence that the party's nominee will win the traditional battleground, a Democrat familiar with the move confirmed to POLITICO.
The maneuver, finalized on Tuesday evening, came just before Clinton landed in the state for the first time in weeks, but as public polls show Donald Trump trailing.
Clinton's lead in the RealClearPolitics average of Colorado polls was more than 7 points as of Wednesday afternoon, when she was heading to a rally here. The super PAC had previously suspended its ads in Colorado over the summer in an earlier show of confidence, but the latest move is a confirmation of its comfort with the state. The Clinton Super Pacs seem to all return to (Bagman) David Brock. So who owns David Brock? Why, there's your Super Hillary Supporter, George Soros, right there (Via Media Matters for America.). Now, study George Soros, and you'll have the vision of our future.
[TammyBruce] As reported by Breitbart and other Conservative news outlets, the LA Times is in possession of a 2003 video of Obama at the farewell party of radical Palestinian, Jew-hating Rashid Khalidi, and reportedly features vicious anti-Israel rhetoric. The LA Times, however, will not release the video.
But they sure are eager to get their paws hands on a rumored video of Donald Trump that might embarrass him.
Via Breitbart. The Los Angeles Times is in a state of high dudgeon over rumored video tapes from The Apprentice that might embarrass Republican nominee Donald Trump, but which cannot be released.
Since 2008, the Times has refused to release the video of then-State Sen. Barack Obama attending a retirement party for radical Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi in 2003, which featured anti-Israel rhetoric. Now, however, the Times is devoting considerable attention to Trump videos that may not exist.
Yet no amount of persuasion or pressure -- not appeals to journalistic ethics, not the promise of a $100,000 reward -- could move the Times, for more than eight years, to release a video that revealed Obama's deep ties to anti-Israel activism, and that could have revealed whether he shared the anti-Israel hostility of those whose friendship and favor he cultivated in Chicago. The L.A. Times Suppresses Obama’s Khalidi Bash Tape
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A neighbor invited me to drink a beer with him. He is a WWII era vet. He said: You just don't know what to believe anymore."
Trump said "corporate media no longer involved in journalism."
Current journalism from the MSM is propaganda, manipulation and PSYOPS.
A recent email dropped from WikiLeaks from Ivey to Podesta verify this notion. Ivey states: Wikileaks (Podesta emails, #3599, Ivey to Podesta)
“And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging.
The MSM is going down the shitter because they are no longer credible. MSM, please continue your circular fire squad as we are better off without you. You serve no useful purpose.
Talking points show Clinton called Morsi's election "milestone" for Egyptian democracy
"We stand behind Egypt’s transition to democracy," the heavily-redacted Clinton talking points state, adding that the only way to maintain a strong Egypt is "through a successful transition to democracy."
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The CIA asked the Muslim Brotherhood leaders to open a back channel to al Qaeda “to secure the safe exit of U.S. troops” from Afghanistan.
Additionally, another news outlet, Al-Marshad al Amni, reported that Maj. Gen. Abd-al-Hamid Khayrat, former deputy chief for Egyptian State Security Investigations said the CIA in January 2013 “asked for the help of the MB in Egypt to facilitate… the withdrawal from Afghanistan.” The Muslim Brotherhood agreed to become a “bridge” between the U.S. government and al Qaeda, Khayrat said.
The reports triggered widespread conspiracy theories in post-Morsi Egypt that the CIA was collaborating with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to destabilize Egypt.
I'll go with both theories. Shall we call it
'carrot and stick.'
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[Spectator] James Comey presides over an FBI in revolt over his leadership, a former U.S. attorney tells The American Spectator, and pursues "paranoid, delusional, and vindictive" measures to prevent negative information leaking out to the public.
PUEBLO, Colo. -- 
[TammyBruce] As reported by Breitbart and other Conservative news outlets, the LA Times is in possession of a 2003 video of Obama at the farewell party of radical Palestinian, Jew-hating Rashid Khalidi, and reportedly features vicious anti-Israel rhetoric. The LA Times, however, will not release the video.
