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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former Intel IG: 'Marginalized, Threatened' for Reporting Concerns About Clinton Emails (Video)
[Tucker Carlson at FOX] An Obama-appointed inspector general said he was marginalized and threatened when he raised alarm about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server.

Charles McCullough, who oversaw the intelligence community, said he contacted then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about the issue.

McCullough said he was later told not to report his concerns to Clapper, and received "personal blowback... to my family [and] my office."

"Emails beyond Top Secret passed through the unsecured server," he said.

McCullough later told Catherine Herridge that he found out he would be one of the first firings of Hillary Clinton's prospective administration.

Herridge said she didn't not receive an immediate response to McCullough's report from Clinton campaign officials.
This article starring:
Charles McCullough
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2017 08:41 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Creating a hostile workplace is one of the least serious of her crimes. She has a string of hostile workplaces trailing behind her and maybe deadly.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#2  So mmaterials at the TS-SCI codeword level were passed through the server, and it is highly likely that the classifications and other header materials were stripped by her close underlings, the very same ones that were given full immunity by the FBI during the laughable "investigation" and cannot be pressured to answer. There cannot be more convincing proof of the utter corruption of this evil woman, or the duplicity of the FBI and Comey, or the certainty that there are two standards of justice in America.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/28/2017 14:12 Comments || Top||

#3  So mmaterials at the TS-SCI codeword level were passed through the server, and it is highly likely that the classifications and other header materials were stripped by her close underlings

Loaded onto a thumb drive and sneakernet'd to an UNCLAS box. I'd bet money on it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2017 15:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Every one of those actions a felony, yet the FBI couldn't figure it out? Really.....?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/28/2017 17:14 Comments || Top||


Daily Depravity Digest
CBS boss told me to sleep with co-workers to get ahead: suit


Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green Slept With And Then Sued Allegedly Drug-Addicted Staffer


Rep. Grijalva’s secret deal with former staffer exposes second ‘hush fund’ on Capitol Hill


Pelosi now says she believes one of Conyers accusers


Harvey and Bob Weinstein Sued by Actress Under Sex Trafficking Law


Watchdog Group Asks for Names Tied to $17 Million in Congressional Settlement Funds for Harassment
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess WHO got cropped out of a photo in the Detroit News scoop on Rep. John Conyers
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/28/2017 13:24 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/28/2017 13:28 Comments || Top||

#3  The names in the $17 mil hush-up slush fund ought to be revealed to taxpayers. Moreover, possible criminality may be being covered up.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2017 17:32 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch Brothers
[NYTIMES] There was a copy of Time in the doctor's office when I was there last week. I used to read it long, long ago. I found it barely recognizable. I think the only reason people pick it up now is that it's so light on actual news content it floats into your hand.
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Merideth owns Family Circle, Better Homes and Gardens and AllRecipes. It's got to be an improvement. Print media isn't doing that well these days; maybe Time will improve now.
Fred, I can recommend HGTV at the doctor's office although its not like one has a choice--that's what's always on.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Almost anything is an improvement over the current Time. In its current state, it is birdcage liner. The staff at Time are so inbred and myopic they can never and will never see it. A complete top to bottom clean-out is needed at Time.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/28/2017 13:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Leading Democrat Suddenly Announces Retirement
[JammieWearingFools] Considering this guy is only 63 and the shelf life of corrupt Democrats is well into their 80s (hello John Conyers!), there must be something really bad coming for this clown.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., a longtime advocate for comprehensive immigration reform and critic of the Trump administration, is retiring from Congress, Fox News confirms.

Gutierrez held an event in Chicago on Monday alongside Mayor Rahm Emanuel and is slated to hold a news conference in Chicago on Tuesday morning.

The 63-year-old congressman has served his Chicago district since 1993 and is a senior member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. A Puerto Rican, he has been a lead proponent in recent weeks of providing federal aid to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico. He also has been arrested this year outside Trump Tower in New York protesting the president’s strict immigration enforcement policy.

But Gutierrez also was among the harshest critics of former President Barack Obama, whom he called the "deporter in chief" for ordering immigration agencies to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants. He strongly disagreed with Obama’s ‐ and his then-chief of staff Emanuel’s decision ‐ to use the early years of his presidency to push for health-care reform instead of an immigration overhaul.

Before the Thanksgiving recess, Gutierrez told The Washington Post that he was planning to file the roughly 800 signatures he needed to collect in order to run for re-election.

If it’s not a sexual assault, it’s likely something more along Democrat lines, like embezzlement. Let’s face it, he’s in a safe seat and just recently said he was planning to file for re-election.

The other shoe waiting to drop must be a doozy.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/28/2017 13:20 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Top Clinton Donor Quits Party, Won’t Fundraise For DNC
The times, they are a-changing.
[StoneColdTruth] Wealthy trial attorney John Morgan officially announced that he won’t run for Governor in Florida, is becoming an independent, and will withhold his millions from the Democratic National Committee.
Two Atlanta Morgan team members awaiting an ambulance call.
Now, he is refusing to give money to the Democratic National Committee, and called out the corruption occurring within the organization. When asked by Politico about the DNC, Morgan referenced former DNC Chair Donna Brazile’s book, where Brazile documents massive corruption at the DNC.

“F— no,” he said when asked if he would help national organizations. “That’s like pissing money down a rat hole. Read Donna [Brazile’s] book”
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Dems have a problem. Most of the young Democrats haven't learned English yet.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 11/28/2017 2:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe Morgan has been reading Rantburg.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I am told Morgan is a highly successful personal injury lawyer with a practice in Orlando, what is sometimes called a fast-running ambulance chaser. Others call them rainmakers. Even Dem plaintiff attorneys can't tolerate the corruption anymore in the DNC after the last election. Just an aside, I've known quite a few attorneys who get tired or burned out with the legal business and later become sky-pilots (ministers) in a church.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2017 12:01 Comments || Top||


‘Write In’ Against Conservative Roy Moore Attended Liberal Dem Doug Jones Fundraiser
[BREITBART] "Never-Trump" Alabama Senate "write-in" candidate Lee Busby attended a fundraiser for liberal Democrat candidate Doug Jones.

Busby, a retired Marine colonel and former aide to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, announced on Monday that he will launch a last-minute write-in campaign against Republican nominee Alabama Judge Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones.

Busby admitted that he attended a fundraiser for Doug Jones and even voted for Ohio governor and infamous public eater John Kasich
...political has-been current Republican governor of Ohio...
in 2016 Republican presidential primary.

Lee Busby argued that the allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore created an opening for an establishment, centrist candidate to launch a third-party run for the December 12 Alabama Senate race.

Busby said, "I think you can flip this thing. If this were a military operation, the left flank and the right flank are heavily guarded. I think that gives you an opportunity to run straight up the middle."
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  voted for Ohio governor

So he votes in Ohio and runs in Alabama?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2017 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Grom: Maybe in the Alabama primary for POTUS?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2017 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Voting for Busby sounds like a good way to get Jones elected.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/28/2017 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder if Busby's running was an attempt to split the Moore vote. It would most likely put the Dem in office. NeverTrumpers pushing this?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder if Busby's running was an attempt to split the Moore vote.

Does a bear sh*ts in the woods?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2017 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  No doubt about it, grom.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/28/2017 17:37 Comments || Top||


Warren: Trump Will Not Silence Me by Using a ‘Racial Slur’ Like ‘Pocahontas’
[FREEBEACON] Sen. Elizabeth Fauxchahontas Warren
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that...
(D., Mass.) told MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Monday that President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
will not silence her by using a "racial slur" like "Pocahontas."

Trump hosted an event at the White House to honor Navajo code talkers, where he referenced Pocahontas, a nickname he has used in the past to refer to Warren.

Velshi played a clip of Trump's comments and then asked if she would like to respond.

"I just want to thank you because you are very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here," Trump said. "Although, we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago; they call her Pocahontas."

"This was supposed to be an event to honor heroes," Warren said in response. "People who put it all on the line for our country, and people who, because of their incredible work, saved the lives of countless Americans and our allies."
Given that the honourable senator is not actually of Indian descent, despite her claims...
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Her response is telling.

Dem Warren is embarrassed to be called "Pocahontas". Because she lied about her heritage and wants the lie buried.

If she were of American Indian heritage, she would be honored to be called "Pocahontas". a Princess of the most high Chief of a regional Virginia tribes. Who then married a white man and changed her religion and took the name Rebecca, Biblical Mother of two Nations.

At the time of Rebecca's death as only 20 to 21 years old, she was known around the world after a trip to England.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 11/28/2017 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  They would have called it a racial slur, no matter what he said. They have entirely too much invested in the idea that Republicans and conservatives in general, and President Trump in particular, are rayciss to pay any attention to what anyone on that side of the aisle actually says, does, and thinks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/28/2017 4:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Lighten up Pocahontas.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2017 8:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Excellent trolling, DJT. She can't raise too much of a ruckus without bringing her fake Indian heritage for AA up
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2017 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  The tripwire of scorn. There really is no known cure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2017 9:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Trump Will Not Silence Me by Using a ‘Racial Slur’
OK Lizzy, I'll bite...what will it take?
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/28/2017 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  It would have been better if Trump had called by her real nickname Fauxcahontas.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/28/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||


#9  President Donald Trump will not silence her by using a "racial slur" like "Pocahontas."

He doesn't want you to shut up, Lizzie, he wants you to keep talking. Boy, these people are fucking stupid.
Posted by: Raj || 11/28/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#10  Navajo Code Talker: No, I Wasn’t Offended By Trump Calling Warren ‘Pocahontas’

Posted by: Woodrow || 11/28/2017 13:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Now if he'd called her "squarehead"...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2017 13:47 Comments || Top||

#12  "Fauxcahontas" is the best usage. Warren is a member of the Wannabe tribe.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/28/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#13  Elizabeth Warren Ancestor Rounded Up Cherokees For Trail of Tears

"For over a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Warren has described herself as a Native American. When recently asked to provide evidence of her ancestry, she pointed to an unsubstantiated claim on an 1894 Oklahoma Territory marriage license application by her great-great grand uncle William J. Crawford that his mother, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandmother, was a Cherokee.

After researching her story, it is obvious that her “family lore” is just fiction.

As I pointed out in my article here on Sunday, no evidence supports this claim. O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had no Cherokee heritage, was listed as “white” in the Census of 1860, and was most likely half Swedish and half English, Scottish, or German, or some combination thereof. (Note, the actual 1894 marriage license makes no claim of Cherokee ancestry.)

But the most stunning discovery about the life of O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford is that her husband, Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandfather, was apparently a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern United States and herded them into government-built stockades in what was then called Ross’s Landing (now Chattanooga), Tennessee–the point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837.

This new information about Ms. Warren’s true heritage came as a direct result of a lead provided to me by William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection, who in turn had received the information from one of his readers. Jacobson, who has questioned Warren’s explanation for her law faculty listing, calls this discovery “the ultimate and cruelest irony” of the Warren Cherokee saga.
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Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/28/2017 18:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Amnesty Champion Rep. Luis Gutierrez Not Running For Re-election
The execrable pendejo calls it quits.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2017 12:48 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  crap. I was sure I'd posted to pg 6. Mods?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2017 13:03 Comments || Top||

#2  thx!
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2017 14:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone must have some really good dirt on him.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/28/2017 15:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Did he grab somebody's butt?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/28/2017 16:17 Comments || Top||

#5  It's Chicago so I'm sure he grabbed something, Abu
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/28/2017 16:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Gutierez was nearly as obnoxious as Carlos Danger in public forums.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2017 17:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, that's the fashionable thing these days but then money is one of those classics that never go out of style.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/28/2017 17:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe El Supreamo of PR looks more lucrative to him at this time.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 11/28/2017 18:57 Comments || Top||


Government
Mick Mulvaney Goes To Work at CFPB -- Leandra English Goes To Meeting With Senator Warren and Schumer
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE]
For those like me, who quickly lose track of the alphabet salad in Washington, DC, that’s the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Ms English filed suit in federal court to be acting director of the thing rather than the man President Trump appointed.
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Leandra Costanza
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2017 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Separation of Powers thingy (but when has that stopped the aristocracy judiciary from expanding theirs?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/28/2017 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Another article (link down the memory hole, sorry) referred to this as an example of the "Sisyphean" task Trump faces in draining the swamp. WADR, I believe the correct description is "Augean".
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/28/2017 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Interesting read ...
Posted by: Adriane || 11/28/2017 11:00 Comments || Top||

#5  I believe the correct description is "Augean".

Hercules succeeded in cleaning the Augean stables, Mercutio, wheeas Sisyphus will never succeed in pushing that boulder to the top of the hill. I seriously hope cleaning out the DC swamp is merely an Augean task.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/28/2017 21:57 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2017-11-28
  After ISIS mass beheading, Taliban militants execute own leader in Nangarhar
Mon 2017-11-27
  Islamist protesters clash with Pakistan police for second day
Sun 2017-11-26
  US airstrike wipe-out ISIS hideout in Nangarhar, leaving 13 dead
Sat 2017-11-25
  Mnangagwa, the ‘Crocodile,’ sworn in as Zimbabwe president
Fri 2017-11-24
  More than 54 85 235 dead in Sinai Bombing, shooting attack
Thu 2017-11-23
  Rouhani declares end of IS
Wed 2017-11-22
  Former Saudi military man gets 23 years for recruiting Daesh fighters, traveling to Syria
Tue 2017-11-21
  Huge amounts of Islamic State’s weapons seized, southwest of Mosul
Mon 2017-11-20
  Arrested Ansar al-Islam militant confesses to killing blogger Avijit Roy
Sun 2017-11-19
  Police Confirm Multiple Suicide Bombings in Borno, As Death Toll Rises
Sat 2017-11-18
  Iraq Forces Retake Last IS-Held Town in Country
Fri 2017-11-17
  Iraqi troops destroy ISIS HQ in Diyala
Thu 2017-11-16
  Zimbabwe’s Military, in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of Mugabe
Wed 2017-11-15
  Mall of America Stabber Identified as Mahad Abdiaziz Abdirahaman
Tue 2017-11-14
  Pakistani militants among 4 killed in US drone strike in Nangarhar


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