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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Hildebeest Posted Names of Hidden Intelligence Officials On Her Email
[Breitbart] Hillary Clinton posted and shared the names of concealed U.S. intelligence officials on her unprotected email system.
There are no words strong enough.
Federal records reveal that Clinton swapped these highly classified names on an email account that was vulnerable to attack and was breached repeatedly by Russia-linked hacker attempts.
No words.
These new revelations -- reminiscent of the Valerie Plame scandal during George W. Bush's tenure -- could give FBI investigators the evidence they need to make a case that Clinton violated the Espionage Act by mishandling national defense information through "gross negligence."

Numerous names cited in Clinton's emails have been redacted in State Department email releases with the classification code "B3 CIA PERS/ORG," a highly specialized classification that means the information, if released, would violate the Central Intelligence Act of 1949.

The State Department produced a document to Judicial Watch in April 2014 that identifies different types of "(b)(3)" redactions, including "CIA PERS/ORG," which it defines as information "Specifically exempted from disclosure by statute ... Central Intelligence Act of 1949."

"That's what it suggests," Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton told Breitbart News, referring to the indication that Clinton disclosed the names of CIA-protected intelligence sources, based on the B3 redactions.

The CIA justifies "(b)(3)" redactions with this description: "(b)(3) Applies to the Director's statutory obligations to protect from disclosure intelligence sources and methods, as well as the organization, functions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed by the Agency, in accord with the National Security Act of 1947 and the CIA Act of 1949, respectively."

The State Department declined to comment. "Per the colleague who handles this issue, we are not speaking to the content of emails," State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson told Breitbart News.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Federal records reveal that Clinton swapped these highly classified names on an email account that was vulnerable to attack and was breached repeatedly by Russia-linked hacker attempts.

Nothing transmitted by the Beest over SIPRNET or JWICS? No Klingon inmarsat eh? For the sake of argument, let's just suppose for a moment, the Beest and her people were.... intentionally provided incorrect data.

"Names" was it? How interesting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2016 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  did any of the people meet up with an unfortunate accident? Or shot themselves in the back of the head... twice?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/04/2016 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  But, but, but...Albright said nobody would die from the email.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/04/2016 13:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Albright: 'Nobody is going to die' from Clinton emails
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/04/2016 13:24 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ she means Pagliano. It's a veiled threat ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 06/04/2016 14:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Send Hildebeast to jail like Scooter Libby in the Valerie Shame case.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 06/04/2016 15:33 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Noble Savage Chases, Tackles White Trump Supporter After San Jose Rally
[Gateway Pundit] A poster on Twitter who identifies as a Black Muslim man claims to have been the person seen on news video chasing and tackling a young white male Trump supporter following a Trump rally in San Jose Thursday. Using the Twitter handle "Houdini @sizzle_seyf", the man posted the news video and retweeted congratulations on his chasing and tackling the Trump supporter.
Before this is over, there will be gunfire.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2016 02:28 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  too bad these kids have no self defense training, a little bit can go a long way
Posted by: 746 || 06/04/2016 11:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Funny, there were no scenes like this when Trump came to San Diego. SDPD was ready and waiting with a plan to prevent this kind of thing. Seems there was a different attitude on the part of San Jose's mayor.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/04/2016 13:34 Comments || Top||

#3  But it's OK because we now have these people revealing themselves for who they really are and what they really want. They don't want peace, freedom of speech and democracy. They want violence and the dictatorship of the proletariat. There will be a clear choice for voters in November.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/04/2016 13:37 Comments || Top||

#4  They don't want peace, freedom of speech and democracy. They want violence and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

That includes San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who is a Democrat and a Hillary Clinton supporter.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/04/2016 13:41 Comments || Top||

#5  What happens when one of "the noble savages" runs into somebody who responds in kind? I assume, there is a special DOJ task force ready to go.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2016 14:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Whoever responds by defending himself will find himself being prosecuted for civil rights violations of the non-citizen attacker, of course.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/04/2016 15:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Anaheim police and the Orange County Sheriff's Department was also ready with an attitude of "not here." I'm proud of them and the political will that backed them up.
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 06/04/2016 16:02 Comments || Top||

#8  The socialists have declared war and has initiated violence against the right in America.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 06/04/2016 19:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Make no mistake - for Democrat controlled gulags ( cities) this is the playbook. Note the different tone the next day in Redding, a city that's ready to secede from CA. However, for those close enough to urban venues, the necessity to respond to the proto fascists will require some soul searching.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/04/2016 19:43 Comments || Top||


RI Official: Flying Old Glory from Trucks Makes Firefighters Look Like ISIS
[INSIDER.FOXNEWS] A local official reportedly told firefighters in Rhode Island that they should not fly the American flag from their trucks.

Fred Gralinski of the Central Coventry Fire District bizarrely compared it to ISIS flying its black flag while riding around in Iraq or Syria.

"They look like a bunch of yahoos," Gralinski said at a board meeting. "Like in the paper, like ISIS in Syria going to take over a city. I don’t think they need that big flag on the back of the truck. That’s not America to me. Those are a bunch of terrorists. So, I’m going to ask you to take the flag off that truck."

Gralinski later said through a front man that he chose his words poorly and apologized.

A firefighters union president said members are deeply disturbed by the request, saying some are former military. He said that in private, firefighters have been asked not to fly the flag.

A district front man says that a new policy requires firefighters to get approval before placing patriotic decals on trucks.

He added that the district is reviewing flag-flying protocol with the military.
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Gralinski later said through a front man that he chose his words poorly and apologized.
"

In other words, somebody pointed out to him in a way that mattered what an idiot he was.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/04/2016 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Blossom Sluque7192 || 06/04/2016 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3  There was MUCH more to this than anyone ever remembers. The mos beautiful rendition may be surmised in American Iliad.
Posted by: newc || 06/04/2016 1:54 Comments || Top||

#4  How about the Gadsen Flag then?
Posted by: newc || 06/04/2016 1:58 Comments || Top||

#5  "They look like a bunch of yahoos Okey Dokies,"

There, fixed it for you.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2016 2:21 Comments || Top||

#6  There's probably a suitable role for him in assessing county waste management vehicles.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2016 8:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Remember, this is Rhode Island, where the residents IQ's are proportional to the size of the state.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/04/2016 8:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Heh. Central Coventry Fire District's web page is blowed up. He should resign now and not lose his job at Bridgestone
Posted by: Frank G || 06/04/2016 9:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Yep I'm a firefighter in RI we are disgusted Old Gliry loud and proud on my rig.
Posted by: Rightwing || 06/04/2016 15:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Glory Glory Glory
Posted by: Rightwing || 06/04/2016 15:03 Comments || Top||

#11  Fine, let's take off the Unionist Invasion Flag and put the Confederate one there instead.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/04/2016 15:17 Comments || Top||


San Jose Brown Shirts attack Trump supporters with punches, eggs
[FOXNEWS] Protesters attacked Donald Trump supporters on the sidelines of a San Jose rally Thursday night, in a raucous scene where a dozen or more people were punched and at least one woman was pelted with an egg.

Protesters also reportedly grabbed Trump hats from supporters and set the hats on fire on the ground.

Police eventually moved into the crowd to break it up and make arrests. At least four people were taken into custody, though police didn't release total arrest figures Thursday night. One officer was assaulted, police Sgt. Enrique Garcia said.

Mixed accounts emerged overnight over to what extent the Trump supporters were taunting the protesters. KTVU reported that the woman who got hit with an egg was "making gestures back at" the protesters. But the same report said the crowd of demonstrators had surrounded and trapped her at the time, and video of the incident appeared to support that account.

Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edmund Randolph ...
campaign chairman John Podesta took to Twitter to condemn violence against "supporters of any candidate."

There were no immediate reports of injuries and no major property damage, police said.

Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is what happens when you have no borders.
Posted by: Blossom Sluque7192 || 06/04/2016 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Crooked Shillary and Bernie the Socialist need to condemn this violence immediately

They need to say at all their rallies that violence will not be tolerated

Trump does, why don't they?
Posted by: anon1 || 06/04/2016 3:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The fact that they had eggs tells me that this was planned and organized. SEIU and La Raza.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/04/2016 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Crooked Shillary and Bernie the Socialist need to condemn this violence immediately

They should but they won't. They're trying to blame it on Trump. That's their strategy. As tempting as it is to respond with even more violence, my advice to Trump supporters is to keep cool. This could all be turned into a huge advantage in November with the right kind of TV advertisements showing Democrats behaving like Nazis while attempting to paint Trump as a Nazi. Trump has called for nothing more than law and order and well he should because muslims, illegal aliens and socialists want violence and chaos.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/04/2016 13:51 Comments || Top||

#5  right on that is the exact right advice. Trumplings need to keep following the rules, stay calm and if necessary cop a beating without retaliating

because the only place it counts is the ballot box.
Posted by: anon1 || 06/04/2016 13:59 Comments || Top||

#6  And videotape everything you can.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/04/2016 15:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Alinsky rules 10&11 seems to be in play by Soros, SEIU and BLM. Drawing an angry reaction or over response will feed the narrative that the right, not the left, is the source of violence, when the exact opposite is the truth. Pay attention to how the left has played this game for decades, and how the useful idiots of the Social Justice and Race Industry get played.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/04/2016 17:18 Comments || Top||

#8  the only place it counts is the ballot box
In many places the boxes are already full of ballots waiting to be counted
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/04/2016 17:55 Comments || Top||

#9  It aint gonna stop on election day folks. If Trump wins theviolence continues. If the Dems win violent repression will be credited and deployed.

If you and your wife or daughter go to a Trump rally and are physically assaulref you ain't a man if you knock the sob straight through the gates of hell.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 06/04/2016 20:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Correction

You aint a man if you do not knock the sob straight through the gates of hell. The inaction and unrealistic pacifism causes sufficient blood boiling disgust that makes legibile communications difficult.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 06/04/2016 20:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The 'Hildebeest University' Scandal No One In The Media Is Talking About
BLUF: [Gateway Pundit] In April 2015, Bill Clinton was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company. The reason for Clinton's immediate departure: Clinton Cash revealed, and Bloomberg confirmed, that Laureate funneled Bill Clinton $16.46 million over five years while Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. pumped at least $55 million to a group run by Laureate's founder and chairman, Douglas Becker, a man with strong ties to the Clinton Global Initiative. Laureate has donated between $1 million and $5 million (donations are reported in ranges, not exact amounts) to the Clinton Foundation. Progressive billionaire George Soros is also a Laureate financial backer.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2016 03:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Much more lucrative than Arkansas cattle futures. Hat tip to the crooks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2016 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  America, Land of Opportunity (Olmert went to jail for 1/2 million NIS < $150,000)!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2016 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  US$16.46Milyuhn + still no new hospital for disaster-hit Haiti.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/04/2016 12:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Three cheers for the bountiful lady
And restavek mountebanc matey!
Rapscallion and hellion
Close in on three billion,
But no hope at all down in Haiti.

Not strictly true, but what the heck...
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/04/2016 14:21 Comments || Top||


Poll: Clinton opens up double-digit lead over Trump nationwide
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Democratic presidential contender 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 Timothy Pickering ...
has opened up a double-digit lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, regaining ground after the New York billionaire briefly tied her last month, according to a Rooters/Ipsos poll released on Friday.

The shift in support comes as Clinton steps up her attacks on the real estate mogul's policy positions, and as Trump fends off criticisms of his eponymous university and the pace at which he doled out money that he raised for U.S. veterans.

Some 46 percent of likely voters said they supported Clinton, while 35 percent said they supported Trump, and another 19 percent said they would not support either, according to the survey of 1,421 people conducted between May 30 and June 3.

Trump had briefly tied Clinton in support among likely U.S. voters in mid-May, raising expectations for a tight race between the two likely contenders in November's presidential election.

Trump has all but sealed the Republican nod after a string of big wins in state nominating contests forced his party rivals to drop out, while Clinton is still fending off a long-shot bid for the Democratic spot on the ballot by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
of Vermont.

Clinton is hoping to seal the nomination next week, when a slew of big states including New Jersey and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, will hold primaries, allowing her to consolidate her party's support ahead of a general election matchup against Trump.
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, yes! Totally believable! I'm just glad I didn't have any coffee in my mouth when I started reading this POS.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/04/2016 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  IPSOS is as believable as televised wrestling.
Posted by: Gleresh Darling of the Sith8673 || 06/04/2016 8:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Reuters, New York Saturday, 4 June 2016

Source: Unreliable
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2016 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  No link to the poll in the article? No breakouts?

Hmm...
Posted by: charger || 06/04/2016 12:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Link to Reuters poll. Can be filtered by party affiliation and other criteria.

It appears that:

47% of the respondents were Dems.

11% were independents.

32% were GOP.

Make of that what you will.

Posted by: charger || 06/04/2016 14:37 Comments || Top||


Government
Michelle Obama: 'I wake up in a house built by slaves.'
Michelle Obama praised the diverse graduates of the city's oldest public institution of higher learning and took a mild swipe at Donald Trump as she delivered the last commencement address of her tenure as U.S. first lady on Friday.

"I really want you all to know that there is a reason why, of all of the colleges and universities in this country, I chose this particular school in this particular city for this special moment," Obama told the graduates of the City College of New York.


Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2016 02:10 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please have the courage to act on your convictions. It's likely to be iced and slippery in January. You and 'free rent' granny should leave immediately !
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2016 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Not much longer.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2016 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Could only have been built by the ultimate sacrifice of a bunch of white males. When they didn't think it was that important, they let 'undocumented aliens' burn it down.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/04/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  And it even is racist in its name!
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/04/2016 11:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Worst Mrs. President Ever.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/04/2016 12:37 Comments || Top||

#6  And they wonder why race relations are worse now than they were 50 years ago.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/04/2016 13:28 Comments || Top||

#7  OK, pack up the girls and Presidunce and get out.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 06/04/2016 15:35 Comments || Top||

#8  and yer free-loading bitchy-faced Mom
Posted by: Frank G || 06/04/2016 15:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Another Obama oration:
Michelle tells a reprobate nation
To focus on slavery
And notice her bravery
Enduring a White House staycation.
Posted by: Harry the Great3149 || 06/04/2016 19:24 Comments || Top||

#10  "Two emperors, a pope, and a lama
Walked into a house. Such a trauma!
The staff and the madams
Were ruptured," laughed Adams.
"Too small for the head of Obama."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/04/2016 19:28 Comments || Top||

#11  "I cried," sighed a sad Dalai Lama,
"But just couldn't lie to Obama:
'Your karma is buggered...
This cannot be sugared...
You're gonna come back as your mama.'"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/04/2016 19:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Like booze to Ulysses S. Grant
Was illness to Oscar Levant:
He tried and he tried
Until finally he died...
"I'm sorry, he sighed, "but I can't."

Mmmkay. Ima stop now.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/04/2016 19:33 Comments || Top||



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