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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Klein: Comey And ‘A Lot Of Other FBI Agents’ Will Resign If Hillary Is Not Indicted
[DAILYCALLER] Clinton author Ed Klein says that if Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ...
is not indicted, FBI Director James Comey and "a lot of other FBI agents" would resign as well in protest.

In an interview with Fox Business Network’s "Varney & Co" on Friday, Klein said, "I think Comey realizes that he’s got to wrap this [investigation] up well before the conventions otherwise he’s going to disenfranchise millions and millions of people. So I think this is going to be wrapped up in around six more weeks."
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Posted by: Fred || 04/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's currently playing heavily to black constituents for a reason, and it has little if anything to do with the theater of democratic nomination. If she is removed from the ballet, the disenfranchisement will cause a kak storm of epic proportion within some voter precincts.

Just another reason I believe she will not be formally charged or removed from the presidential running.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/03/2016 2:19 Comments || Top||

#2  "Absolutely, I think he would resign and I think a lot of other FBI agents would go along with him."

I could see Comey going but "other FBI agents" ?? How many GS-14/15s with 3 kids, a mortgage, a mini van, and a yellow lab are gonna walk away from a 20 plus year career w/the Bu??

I like what Ed is saying but don't agree that you'll see mass resignations.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 04/03/2016 11:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I think a lot of protest, group statements, administrative flaps, but actual resignations from a LE career with great salary and pension and post career prospects, nope?
Jack Salami, what do you think?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/03/2016 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Federal employees never quit, and they sure as shit don't fade away without a fat pension.
Posted by: regular joe || 04/03/2016 15:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder. Given how vindictive Hillary is. And given that she believes that Obama stole the presidency from her in 2008. Would Obama really want her to be POTUS?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/03/2016 15:24 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/03/2016 17:12 Comments || Top||

#7  If such were to happen the whole of the FBI should have a Blue Flu.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 04/03/2016 17:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Guys and gals near the end of their careers (vested in FERS) and working on the Hildebeast case, would resign.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 04/03/2016 17:23 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Elizabeth Warren Wants The SEC To Help Her Ban Free Speech
[THEFEDERALIST] Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to prohibit organizations from "saying whatever they want about Washington policy debates," according to a letter she sent to the agency on Thursday.

Warren sent a letter to SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White calling for an investigation into alleged discrepancies between statements insurance executives made to their investors and complaints these same individuals made about the impact new government regulations would have on their businesses, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The new regulations stem from a Department of Labor rule change that will make it tougher for investment firms that handle retirement funds to operate.

In the letter, Warren alleges that she’s concerned discrepancies in their statements will harm investors. She even called out the individuals and their companies by name and asked for a "prompt and thorough" investigation into their statements, but stopped short of declaring that they violated federal laws.
Posted by: Fred || 04/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sadly she's not harassing the South East Conference
Posted by: lord garth || 04/03/2016 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Whom the Gods wish to destroy...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/03/2016 1:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Stalking corporate executives is not a moral obligation Elizabeth... it is a sickness.
Posted by: junkiron || 04/03/2016 3:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing about unions saying whatever they want about Washington policy debates.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/03/2016 9:30 Comments || Top||

#5  I remember a time when having Ted Kennedy & John Kerry as my state's Senators was a good thing.
Posted by: Raj || 04/03/2016 12:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Raj, I'll give you a "better" thing, but not a "good" thing.

Been here 40 yrs and I've never thought any Demonrat a good thing.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/03/2016 12:24 Comments || Top||

#7  she is nothing but a clump of cells.
Posted by: newc || 04/03/2016 12:28 Comments || Top||

#8  This injects her into the news cycle. If that keeps up one may assume that the battlefield is being prepared for some kind of action.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/03/2016 12:45 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: junkiron || 04/03/2016 13:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Junkiron, that is WAY too funny! Thanks for brightening up my day!
Posted by: Tom || 04/03/2016 14:16 Comments || Top||

#11  Ditto Tom.

3 cheers junkiron.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/03/2016 15:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Hizzah for junkiron!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/03/2016 19:26 Comments || Top||


In Voicemail, Bank Says It No Longer Lends to Firearms Dealers
[DAILYSIGNAL]
This looks like a profitable investment opportunity for someone with a lot of cash looking for a better return.
Posted by: Fred || 04/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am sure that if a bakery must pay for not baking a cake for the violation of a perceived right. I am equally sure that these firearms dealers could sue these banks for turning them down in violation of the Second amendment rights.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/03/2016 7:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Airandee, the difference is that the right to bear arms is explicitly listed in the bill of rights. The right to marry whomever you want was established by court order, so it takes precedence.
Posted by: Rambler in Viginia || 04/03/2016 7:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
California mayor bans Trump from campaigning in her city
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump may want to avoid West Hollywood when he campaigns in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, ahead of the state's potentially decisive June 7 primary.

Lindsey Horvath, the mayor of West Hollywood, Calif., which is located in the heart of Los Angeles County and home to a sizable population of gay men, clutched her pearls penned a letter to Trump this week explaining that he is unwelcome in her city.

"With the primary making its way to California, as West Hollywood's Mayor, I want to make very clear that your campaign of violence and intimidation is not welcome in our City," she wrote in the letter.
Fortunately for you, Madame Mayor, the First Amendment allows Mr. Trump (and the other pack of fools running for the office) to campaign where they wish. All you're going to do is convince more people to vote for the man...
"From mocking people living with disabilities to classifying entire ethnicities as violent criminals to persecuting specific religious communities, Trump has pursued headlines in this election season with reckless abandon," Horvath later explained in an op-ed for the Advocate.
Posted by: Fred || 04/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump, enemy of the New Class?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/03/2016 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  There's not likely a lot of R voters in West Hollywood. Perhaps they have too much money to take assaults on free speech seriously. May be time to relieve them of their money and Fed funding.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/03/2016 8:33 Comments || Top||

#3  First Amendment? Who needs a stinking First Amendment in the Peoples' Republic. The mask is off.


"With the primary making its way to California, as West Hollywood's Mayor, I want to make very clear that your campaign of violence and intimidation is not welcome in our City,


You don't know what real violence is, but you will at this current pace of Leftist oppression of others that will indeed trigger something very nasty.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/03/2016 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Have they declared martial law in West Hollywood?
Posted by: regular joe || 04/03/2016 15:12 Comments || Top||

#5  How will she stop him?

With sparkles and cupcakes?
Posted by: charger || 04/03/2016 15:48 Comments || Top||

#6  As much as I don't like Trump, you can choke on a dick over this you stupid tyrannical bitch.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/03/2016 19:15 Comments || Top||


White House goes nuclear on Donald Trump
[CNN] Back in the early chapters of Donald Trump's headline-gobbling campaign, the White House looked upon the spectacle as little more than a diversionary amusement.

Officials tried to stay above the fray, frequently declining to comment with a wry smile, insisting they weren't going to respond to every statement made on the campaign trail.

But as Trump's rhetoric turned to banning Muslims and insulting women, things began to change, leading to a series of statements in which the President of the United States flatly said the Republican front-runner was unqualified to be commander in chief.

By the end of last summer -- as Trump was saying that African-Americans were worse off under President Barack Obama
That’s just how white folks will do you....
-- the President himself began dipping a toe in.

"America is great right now," he said in September. "America is winning right now."

Posted by: Fred || 04/03/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "A man is known by his enemies."?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/03/2016 1:12 Comments || Top||



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