[Political Insider] Julian Assange and Wikileaks are about to drop the biggest bomb yet on Hillary Clinton. Assange is confirming that he has details that shows Clinton knew the US was sending military arms from Libya to Syria in 2011, a full year before the terrorist attack in Benghazi.
This means Hillary Clinton was heavily involved in the arming of jihadists, including ISIS.
However, in sworn testimony before Congress, Clinton lied and claimed she didn't have this information. This hearing took place in 2013: Interesting I suppose, but I'm not sure what difference if any it will make. They clearly own the legal system.
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We all already know that the MSM is in the tank for HC so, to quote her royale highnass, what difference, at this point, does it really make?
The bar for her has been set so high-- or low, depending on your POV-- that it would probably take video of her referring to BLM as a bunch of "stupid n****rs" for her presidential ambitions to experience a real setback; and even then she would probably still win.
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So there was a "Fast and Furious" operation going on in Libya and Syria? That possibility appeared on Rantburg right after Benghazi. After the email disaster and hall pass given by the DOJ and Comey, I'm not optimistic. The most that might come of it is a perjury charge down the line sometime in 2018 or never. What are they going to do; impeach her after she gets elected? Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind that. There is the Clinton Foundation and the election rigging in the primaries. The email thing might come back in the DOS. I think the DOJ is completely compromised and has little to do with justice. The perception here in flyover land is that Washington currently is as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
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The perception here in flyover land is that Washington currently is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Posted by JohnQC Yeah, I remember that is all the D's talked about in Afghanistan and Iraq...counter-corruption, counter-corruption...Iraqis and Afghanis don't trust their government...kind of ironic isn't it. The vaunted FBI was sent over to investigate corruption, failed, got scared and returned home...only to discover they aren't really good at investigating corruption in our government at home either.
He wasn't supposed to find out and he stuck his nose in it and so he became "inconvenient" to the administration. The Benghazi attack was just too convenient to have not been orchestrated by someone who didn't want their little gig with arms to Syria upset...me thinks someone high on an org chart at State
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This was common knowledge just after the Ambassador was killed. It was reported for a few days on Fox that Stevens was running guns to Syria and one or more rebel groups was displeased. IIRC, Stevens was withholding weapons from the same group that attacked the Benghazi post. He ran the guns from Benghazi.
Since it was previously was reported on the news, I imagine that Clinton will skate by again.
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not sure if this is true, but, to this day it is not clear why the US kept the Benghazi consulate open after other nations had closed theirs and also to this day it is not clear why the Ambassador was in Benghazi
the reason the consulate security was minimal is presumed to be because increasing security would make the locals suspect that the CIA operation there was actually a CIA operation but there is no explanation of why a contingency security augment was never developed (or whether it was developed and not initiated)
we will not find out answers to these
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Grom,
Yeah, you are right simple incompetence and intellectual arrogance does more harm than malice...
I wish I could remember which of his books Heinlein said that.
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I think The 'Burg had 2Fast2Furious gun running from the get go, question was who?
My default has been Syria/Iran/Russia axis, in that order, as at the time there was the Big Pitch to arm McCain's Heroes to topple Assad and hoist another Mo Bro into power as well as put pressure on Israel.
I think that they new about the International Day of Rage and Death to America! Bake Sale, and figured something(s) may happen, so the main press push would be the video. Once they pushed that rock, it rolls till it stops.
So when it became apparent to people who don't get their news from a dog's ass that this was a hit, and the administration starting throwing more chaff, I started thinking this was no I Hate Americans hit.
I mean, we are on the ol' campaign trail here. Kind of awkward to waddle about Vegas Baby! lookin' the part if, theoretically, Syria hired some local hard boyz to snatch the Ambassador et al to trace the rocket walking across the Team Not Assad exchange routes - and retaliating against Assad would spark open conflict with Russia and Iran so what do you do? Can't do that, Russia is busy straw purchasing uranium for Iran, why old bean that is bad for business.
So you do nothing except hope everyone dies quickly and quietly, obstruct the rescue, no air support, and have more lies than a golf tournament.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Hamilton Fish ... 's campaign manager on Monday rejected the FBI's findings that Clinton sent and received information that was classified at the time on her private email server while she was secretary of state.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook defended his boss before an MSNBC panel that said Clinton essentially forced State Department employees to send her classified information on her private server because there was no other way to communicate with her.
"She was forcing everybody that wanted to communicate with her to move out of the classified realm, where you send classified information, and then put it on their own servers and send it to her," host Joe Scarborough asked. "Isn't that even worse?"
But Mook rejected that this is what happened, despite the FBI's public findings.
"You'd understand this, that's simply not true," he said. "You just don't send classified information over the unclassified system."
"You would understand this: the FBI director said she did," Scarborough shot back.
In reply, Mook again ignored the FBI's finding that more than 100 email threads contained classified information that was classified at the time they were sent. Instead, he argued that the FBI didn't believe anyone knew it was classified. The Washington Post's Fact Checkers awarded Hillary Clinton four "Pinocchios" Doesn't matter. The MSM will carry her message forward -- witness MSNBC as Besoeker has documented this a.m.
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does anyone even remember that Bill Clinton was Impeached?! for LYING........................... and that Hillary is a Cuckold!?
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Hillary throws Comey under the bus and then backs over him with the bus. Comey would have been better off recommending indictment or just presenting the evidence. The fact that when the FBI met with Hillary they never recorded anything she said should have been a tip off that they were never going to do anything and that the fix was in.
A federal grand jury with the power to subpoena documents and compel testimony is trying to do what state elections regulators could not: Resolve whether the Connecticut Democratic Party and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy broke the law in soliciting contributions from state contractors for his re-election in 2014.
Citing unnamed sources, The Hartford Courant first reported the existence of the criminal investigation Friday and the issuance of subpoenas. Thomas Carson, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, declined to comment, but the state Democratic Party acknowledged the investigation and pledged cooperation.
The Connecticut Democrats agreed in mid-June to pay a record $325,000 over 27 months to resolve a State Elections Enforcement Commission investigation of a complaint filed in 2014 by Romano's predecessor, Jerry Labriola.
Connecticut bars state contractors from donating to state campaigns, while federal law dictates the rules for raising and spending money that is used for get-out-the-vote efforts in federal election years, when state elections are also held. Contractors can give to federal races and to the party's federal account.
Essentially, candidates, campaigns and political parties operate under two sets of contradictory campaign financing rules: one provides public financing to candidates who agree to accept donations of no more than $100 and abide by spending limits that vary by office; the other allows state parties to accept maximum donations of $10,000 a year and spend unlimited amounts supporting their candidates. Malloy benefitted from both systems. The governor and party officials have declined to talk about how they targeted companies who do business with the state for campaign contributions.
Labriola complained that Malloy and the Democratic Party were subverting the voluntary public financing program, which requires participants to abide by limits on spending and accept contributions of no more than $100. The Democrats claimed that not only did federal law permit the use of the federal account to pay for get-out-the-vote efforts that benefitted Malloy, but that the federal law required it.
The Democrats were fighting an investigative subpoena issued by the commission for emails, bank records and other documents, arguing that federal campaign law pre-empts the investigation. At the time of the proposed settlement, a Superior Court judge was poised to rule on the commission's motion to compel the party to abide by the demand for documents.
The dispute began over an obscure mailing late in the 2014 gubernatorial campaign, but it quickly escalated into a legal battle with potentially dire consequences for Malloy, the state party and the authority of the commission. The federal investigation is a major political complication for Malloy at time when he is in the spotlight as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association and a campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton.
A mobile phone game that makes fun of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is now available for free download at Apple’s App Store. It had previously been rejected by the company on several occasions for being “offensive.”
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And the Top Charts can't be reached on the App Store. I refuse to spend five minutes waiting for the App Store. So Apple seems to comply but just makes it hard. Everything else works in a flash.
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h/t Instapundit
Leaked text messages between one of Marilyn Mosby’s deputies and the lead investigator in the Freddie Gray case raise new concerns about Mosby’s honesty and good faith in deciding to charge six officers with Gray’s death. The leaked messages reportedly suggest that the prosecutors planned to charge the officers regardless of what the evidence showed. The cover of magazines oftentimes reveal their content without having to actually turn a page. This is Baltimore, so the odds of the Democratic prosecutors being punished is about zero...
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Brady violations (prosecutorial misconduct) most likely occurred during this set of trials. Certainly incompetence was the rue of the day as well...
Overcharging to the point that PC does not meet the elements of the criminal charge sought equates false arrest, suppressing exculpatory evidence that indicates their evidence...this is not over...maybe the officers will get justice via civil remedy, because the DoJ certainly won't look for civil rights violations against the DA's office.
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The underlying problem with civil remedy as I understand it is that the taxpayers will be the bearer of any award to the officers. Unless Mosby is disbarred it is merely a messy PR problem for her next political campaign. Oh, as an aside, those taxpayers are outnumbered by those who will vote for her no matter what.
[Hot Air] Sadly, the future is no longer so bright that you’ll have to wear shades. (Unless SMOD makes its long overdue arrival, of course.) As you ponder your choices for the presidency, I would suggest taking a look at this column at the Washington Examiner from our friend Hugh Hewitt. You may recall that Hugh has had his own share of complaints about Donald Trump, while not being part of the remnants of the #NeverTrump movement. But this week he offers a few important reminders as to why he’s still going to vote for The Donald.
The first portion of it will be old hat to most of you on both sides of the Great Donald Debate and it’s the inescapable subject of the Supreme Court. I won’t dwell on that one here today because we’ve been through it before. If your conservative principles are such that you can argue in favor of allowing Hillary Clinton to pick a generations long majority for the nation’s highest court there’s no sense in talking to you anyway. But Hugh then delves into a second subject which gets far less play. All of the news about recent hacks of Democratic data with the promise of more to come should lead us to one conclusion which is yet to be proven, but seems unavoidable. Various foreign agencies are already in possession of a treasure trove of Hillary Clinton’s most closely guarded secrets, leaving her completely compromised on the national stage.
Hillary Clinton is thoroughly compromised by the Russians (or the Chinese, or the Iranians, or all of them). Deny the testimony of expert witnesses like former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell or Rudy Guiliani if you want, or the implications of the distribution of DNC emails via the WikiLeaks front, but just know everything she sent and received on her security-free "private" server is in the hands of the bad guys.
The influence they will have over her and all of her cyberassociates as a result will be complete even if unknown to the folks being worked and watched.
That’s espionage. The Russians are very good at it. They are a GEICO ad of spying: That’s what they do. They use what they steal to advance their national interest, sometimes crudely, sometimes with breathtaking sophistication. The consequences of her complete compromise haven’t sunk in yet, but it is real, not reversible, and dangerous beyond description to the national security of the U.S.
As Hugh notes, there’s more than a little hand wringing among Trump’s detractors over his presumed relationship with Vladimir Putin, but that pales in comparison to the fact that Hillary Clinton may already be Putin’s pawn. It’s not just the revelations about the DNC’s machinations against Bernie Sanders we’re talking about here. That material was embarrassing, but it’s still simply the ugly sausage making which goes on behind the scenes in American politics. Far more concerning are the assurances of Julian Assange that the next tranche will be a treasure trove of documents on the Clinton Foundation. He’s made good on his threats so far, so why would we doubt this particular promise? Given the billions of dollars which have been changing hands between that foundation and questionable figures from Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and God only knows where else, who knows what’s hiding under the covers? And if this is just the material which some hacker picked through and turned over to Wikileaks, you can rest assured that the actual cyberspooks from Russia, China and elsewhere already have their hands on the full package.
Placing the future of the country in the hands of someone who is almost certainly compromised to this degree is the definition of insanity. You may have your doubts about Donald Trump and more than a few questions about what he would do in office or how he might impact the future of conservatism or what have you. But you don’t need to have any doubts about Clinton. That’s a disaster waiting to happen. The choice is yours.
They will have to keep anyone but Hillary out of DC who can expose the biggest Clinton Foundation money laundering/payoff scheme in US political history. This corruption will rival the massive Brazilian government corruption scandal involving Petrobraus billions.
If your husband was a POTUS and you were a US Senator you have the power to get many, many people to arrange favorable legislation for your "Foundation" clients around the world. There are many ways to share some of those millions and millions in creative, clandistine ways to many politicians on both sides of the aisle and bureaucrats and top media elites.
The Clintons have perfected that activity and almost everyone in DC is caught up in their network. Federal Agencies who would investigate and prosecute are compromised now as well. President Obama is President Dilma Rousoff in this whole process. He is clean enough and posseses the ultimate power to keep a lid on this for everyone in DC.
This will be a nasty, totally corrupt election unless this rot IS effectively exposed somehow.
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To them, crapping on Americans and catering to the rest of the world as Globalists is where the millions of $$$ are. Their biggest threat is not crazy ISIS barbarians. The biggest danger trully is honest American citizens that MUST be neutralized by ANY means possible by this rotten political elite.
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You just need ONE person where the electronic votes are tallied
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This isn't something you're supposed to put out there in August. Makes you look weak and whiny. Save it for later when you're down 15 points in the polls, if that is what happens.
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He's just stating the Blinding Flash of the Obvious. The biggest example was Hayes-Tilden.
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Trump is "rigging" the election against himself with his lack of discipline. I do not care for this loud mouth, even though I will vote for him against Hillary.
Trump is running against both the worst D candidate since Jimmy Carter...the anti vote is roughly 50% against her...all he has to do is present himself as a viable alternative...and he just can't keep his foot out of his mouth.
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Trump is "rigging" the election against himself with his lack of discipline. I do not care for this loud mouth, even though I will vote for him against Hillary.
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The disenfranchise Bernie voters who now know their efforts were worthless cause it was indeed rigged from the start, couldn't be the target audience of these comments could they?
The man thinks out of the box.
Besides, you know of any election on the day or after when rigging was evident that the courts have ruled a 'do over'? Nah. Shine the spot light on the cockroaches before hand, cause afterward does nothing for you.
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If Trump didn't have that mouth of his he would have never gotten past the likes of Bush, Rubio, Kasich and Cruz. Now he's gonna turn it on Hillary. I wish him well.
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Probably the first step in motivating his troops to be poll watchers on election day. Perhaps get people to fill in absentee ballots but turn them in in person on Election day so there is a record and so they get counted in the early totals (hopefully, I'm not sure how that works).
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I for one am hoping for a good showing from Gary Johnson and the libertarians. Fiscal conservatism + social liberalism = yes, please. #feelthejohnson. The Republicans are dead to me; I don't recognize them anymore and they disgust me. That being said, I'll vote Trump if GJ is clearly a lost cause cuz I cannot stomach HRC or any liberal in office.
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I think many of the Bernie supporters are so
p!ssed at Hillary and Bernie for selling out that they will go to Gary Johnson or Dr. Jill Stein (Green Party); some might gravitate to Trump.
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Yeah it was Jimmuah.
Now a return to yesteryear, when my Great Uncle Bill took the Carter seed biz down for the count. Why you ask? Because the damn seeds had a 10% germination rate and the badtards knew it. Tea-drinking, hand-wringing, Sunday School going slime balls of epic proportions. Thank dawg for Carl Vinson and his nephew.
The animatronics were ok, but the eyes should have been a semi-gloss.
Whut? that was really her? Why have the prompters up so tall? Looked like my cat if I leave a tin of tuna on the counter.
What was amazing, honestly, was the make-up crew. Their faces had fewer lines than the Wayans brothers in White Chicks. Like spackling a 1/4 mile boardwalk to smooth.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Clinton
[Hot Air] Sadly, the future is no longer so bright that you’ll have to wear shades. (Unless SMOD makes its long overdue arrival, of course.) As you ponder your choices for the presidency, I would suggest taking a look at this column at the Washington Examiner from our friend Hugh Hewitt. You may recall that Hugh has had his own share of complaints about Donald Trump, while not being part of the remnants of the #NeverTrump movement. But this week he offers a few important reminders as to why he’s still going to vote for The Donald.
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