[Daily Caller] A federal grand jury provided FBI agents with subpoenas to inspect Hillary Clinton’s BlackBerry devices last year, court papers provided to Judicial Watch show.
According to the watchdog group, FBI counterintelligence official E.W. Priestap filed a sworn declaration stating that the FBI "obtained Grand Jury subpoenas related to the Blackberry e-mail accounts."
The subpoenas "produced no responsive materials, as the requested data was outside the retention time utilized by those providers," stated Priestap, who supervised the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s potential mishandling of classified information as secretary of state.
Clinton used a private email server hooked up to her personal BlackBerries to send and receive business emails. Thousands of the messages contained classified information.
Priestap’s declaration is the first official acknowledgement that a grand jury was used in the Clinton email investigation. But the declaration raises new questions because of various reports stating that a grand jury never was convened as part of the probe.
It is unclear what other actions the grand jury took in the email investigation.
FBI Director James Comey ultimately announced on July 5 that he would not be recommending charges against Clinton for mishandling classified information.
Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch’s president, questions why the information about the grand jury is just now being disclosed to his group, which has filed numerous lawsuits against the State Department and other agencies for records about Clinton’s emails.
"The FBI convened a grand jury to investigate Hillary Clinton in 2016. Why is this information being released only now?" Fitton asked in a statement. "And it is disturbing that the State Department, Justice Department and FBI are still trying to protect Hillary Clinton. President Trump needs to clean house at all these agencies."
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"And it is disturbing that the State Department, Justice Department and FBI are still trying to protect Hillary Clinton. President Trump needs to clean house at all these agencies."
Yes, 'disturbing' but hardly surprising. A considerable amount of shading goings on by the Clinton's, but never any follow-up or official charges. And there's that familiar name again....'Comey.'
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State and Justice Departments have an overwhelming infrastructure of folks intent on protecting the progressives that it may take some time, if ever.
Fire them all. Endure the sh*tstorm and start anew.
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Didn't somebody do that with some federal employees too important to fire?
[thinks] Air traffic controls fired by Reagan!
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George Soros defines seedy, though of the most expensive kind.
[Breitbart] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered a stinging speech in the European Parliament Wednesday, asserting Hungary’s right to self-governance and defending its actions regarding immigration and against American financial speculator George Soros.
"I know that the power, size and weight of Hungary is much smaller than that of the financial speculator, George Soros, who is now attacking Hungary," Orbán said.
"Despite ruining the lives of millions of European with his financial speculations, being penalized in Hungary for speculations, and who is an openly admitted enemy of the euro, he is so highly praised that he is received by the EU’s top leaders," he said.
The Prime Minister’s address built upon comments he made in an Easter interview with Magyar Idők, in which he stated the motives behind Hungary’s diffidence toward George Soros.
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Sad they fail to see that Soros is engaged in creative capital destruction that will bring forth a new synthetic social order plus big hedge fund profits in the inevitable dialectial transition
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Apparently The World is unable or unwilling to identify, control or eradicate general threats to the progress of peace and prosperity. Soros, Clintons, Kochs, Kony and Kim, as examples.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, unlike the globe-trotting bloodsucking plutocrat 'philanthropist' Soros, actually plans on living in the places his policies effect.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Howard Dean Former Dem governor of Vermont or Rhode Island or one of those dinky states. Howard lost his bid to be president by shrieking and screaming and acting like a loon. Then they made him chairman of the Dem national campaign committee, where he continued doing the same things only nobody paid any attention.... thinks "hate speech" is not protected by the First Amendment. A New York University professor was given space in the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... to deride the idea of "a blanket permission to say anything anybody thinks" and to defend protestors who, using violence, shut down a speech that was to be delivered recently by Charles Murray, the social scientist. A political science professor at Middlebury, the college where Murray was barracked, jostled, and threatened, apologized to the perpetrators for inviting Murray.
Justification of modern, left-wing fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... and spineless capitulation in the face of it is becoming more common. The illiberal tide is rising. This isn't just a thing among wacky rich kids at colleges that aren't worth the fees they charge. No, a growing minority on the left argues against the principle of free speech and against the idea of open debate. They use bad law and bad philosophy for their arguments.
They would, without a doubt, gravely regret the consequences if they got their way, for the results would be pernicious.
Ann Coulter, the right-wing provocateur, was invited to speak at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley, recently, which infuriated campus holy warriors. Some of them protested and threatened massive disruption, at which the university caved in and canceled Coulter's speech. The censors -- they are thought police, the same ilk as book burners -- had won. They deployed the threat of violence to silence a voice that disagreed with them.
Former Vermont Governor and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean thought this was just fine. Citing a tasteless Ann Coulter joke about Timothy McVeigh blowing up the New York Times building, Dean wrote on Twitter "Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment."
Dean is an ass. He is flatly wrong, as every scholar of the First Amendment could show. Hate speech, crazy speech, idiotic speech, communist speech, fascist speech, racist speech, sexist speech -- they're all protected by the Constitution. Incitement to violence, speech actually urging people to attack others, is a rare exception to the freedom of speech. But joking that you wished someone were dead doesn't count as incitement.
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[CNN] The U.S. Justice Department's investigation of Fox News has widened to include a second law enforcement agency.
Financial crimes experts from the United States Postal Inspection Service are now involved, according to four sources connected to the investigation.
Mail fraud and wire fraud cases are part of the USPIS purview.
Investigators from both the USPIS and the Justice Department have been conducting interviews in recent weeks -- including with some former Fox staffers -- to obtain more information about the network's managers and business practices, the sources said.
The existence of the federal investigation was revealed in February. At the time Fox News and its parent company 21st Century Fox said they had not been subpoenaed, but a spokeswoman said, "we have been in communication with the U.S. Attorney's office for months
...that sounds like a late Obama administration effort, for the purpose of harrassment of a long-hated opponent. But really, if they would only wait a year or two, the Murdoch sons are going to do their best to make the thing acceptable to their Manhattan friends unless Papa M. intervenes.
-- we have and will continue to cooperate on all inquiries with any interested authorities."
Contacted about this story, the Justice Department and the USPIS had no comment. 21st Century Fox also declined to comment.
In February the investigation was reported to be focusing on settlements made with women who alleged sexual harassment by former Fox News boss Roger Ailes, and questions about whether Fox had a duty to inform shareholders about the settlement payments.
The investigators have been asking "how the shareholder money was spent; who knew; and who should have known," one of the sources said.
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The left and it's brain trust from the Center for American Progress have successfully begun to neuter the single biggest media voice of the Right, undermining both current Republican control of government, but more strategically, the 2018/2020 elections. Instead of trusting the appeal of their socialist/progressive policies (buying votes) they intend to deafen the peasants and import their majority for another decade, after which the won't need to lie, just rob Peter to pay Pablo.
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In February the investigation was reported to be focusing on settlements made with women who alleged sexual harassment by former Fox News boss Roger Ailes President Bill Clinton.
FIFY.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] An estimated 346 employees in the Department of Veterans Affairs do no actual work for taxpayers. Instead, they spend all of their time doing work on behalf of their union while drawing a federal salary, a practice known as "official time."
That's according to a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. But exactly what those VA workers are doing and why so many are doing it is not clear. The VA doesn't track that, and the GAO report offers no clue.
Rep. Jody Arrington, R-Texas, a member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, thinks the number on 100 percent official time may be much higher. He also notes that the 346 workers don't include those who spend most, not all, of their time doing union work.
"The lack of accountability at the VA when it comes to monitoring official time suggests it might be worse," said Arrington, who has introduced legislation that would require the department to track the use of official time, among other reforms.
Pointing to the waiting list scandals at the department, Arrington said the official time situation is reflective of the "broken culture at the heart of the VA" and adds, "I haven't heard one good, acceptable reason why the practice has continued."
The VA was not eager to discuss the matter with the Washington Examiner. After several days of inquiries, it responded with the following statement: "VA believes that the appropriate use of official time can be beneficial and in the public interest as stated in the Federal Service Labor-Relations Statute, which governs how executive branch agencies treat official time. VA takes the position that labor and management have a shared responsibility to ensure that official time is authorized and used appropriately. VA practices are in compliance with the Federal Service Labor-Relations Statute."
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If we can negotiate NAFA we can certainly rewrite agreements with unions particularly since unions are not sovereign nation and have no equal standing to an elected government of the people.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President Trump said Wednesday that he has "absolutely" considered proposals that would split up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where judges have blocked two of his executive actions.
"Absolutely, I have," Trump said of considering 9th Circuit breakup proposals during a far-ranging interview with the Washington Examiner at the White House. "There are many people that want to break up the 9th Circuit. It's outrageous."
"Everybody immediately runs to the 9th Circuit. And we have a big country. We have lots of other locations. But they immediately run to the 9th Circuit. Because they know that's like, semi-automatic," Trump said.
His comments came one day after U.S. District Judge William Orrick temporarily blocked Trump's efforts to withhold funds from any municipality that refuses to cooperate with immigration enforcement officers. Orrick, based in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... , argued that Trump had overstepped his authority in January when he directed the Justice Department to put immigration-related conditions on grants for so-called sanctuary cities that may not be directly related to law enforcement. The case, if appealed, would go before the 9th Circuit.
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Unless you live out west, you may not catch what is gong on there in that Circuit. It's very all california and no other state.
I want it broken to rep the more "poor" immigration states and Freerangers, farmers, and anything but these asshole agents of eternal taxation and doom.
These States deserve equal Representation - not overules for Idiot political Judges.
These people are really hurting and they have absolutely no legal representation on the higher end of the Fudal System set up by fuckers who never did shit but irritate people for a living.
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Trump should break up this fake Donk lefty progressive court if he can figure out a way to do it. Who is Constitutionally charged with doing such things?
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Just heard AG Sessions talking about it on CBS. He said the greatest danger to the judiciary is if people begin to perceive that judges are advancing an agenda that they personally have instead of enforcing the law.
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None of these arguments from these lobotomized parrots are lawful. Over-riding POTUS on every issue?
Damn them.
This is the very reason the POTUS has Plenary power.
Separate California and Oregon lunatics from the Western states. You should end up with three or even four circuits.
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He said the greatest danger to the judiciary is if people begin to perceive that judges are advancing an agenda that they personally have instead of enforcing the law.
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How can a federal judge make a ruling which impacts the entire country? Its obvious that they shopped around for that judge in Hawaii (who have had *zero* refugees).
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Make it so that these judges can be 'impeached' by their districts. Any judge so impeached automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole. Make it so that no other judge may rule on these matters and any attempt to do so is considered treason and they are considered automatically removed from office.
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[Daily Caller] A federal grand jury provided FBI agents with subpoenas to inspect Hillary Clinton’s BlackBerry devices last year, court papers provided to Judicial Watch show.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] 
[CNN] The U.S. Justice Department's investigation of Fox News has widened to include a second law enforcement agency.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President Trump said Wednesday that he has "absolutely" considered proposals that would split up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where judges have blocked two of his executive actions.
