[PJ Media] Hidden deep within CNN's story about the latest batch of Clinton emails involving the Clinton Foundation -- covered by PJ Media here -- is a previously unreported nugget of information:
The Clinton Foundation was not part of the recent investigation into her private server; it was separate. The FBI went to Justice Department earlier this year asking for it to open a case into the foundation, but the public integrity unit declined. The Justice Department had looked into whether it should open a case on the foundation a year prior and found it didn't have sufficient evidence to do so.
During his June 7 appearance before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, FBI Director James Comey refused to comment on whether the FBI probe into the Clinton Foundation was still open:
Asked by Chairman Jason Chaffetz if he had "looked at the Clinton Foundation," Comey answered, "I'm not going to comment on the existence or non-existence of any other investigations."
Asked if the Clinton Foundation was tied into the email investigation, Comey simply said, "I’m not going to answer that."
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the former chairman of the Oversight Committee, said back in May that he believed the FBI wouldn't finish the public corruption track of the investigation until after the election:
[C]oordinating her activities and President Clinton's activities and Chelsea's activities in the Clinton Foundation, they're probably going to have to leave that until after the election.
The emails, released by Judicial Watch on Tuesday, expose how the Clinton Foundation improperly influenced the State Department during Clinton's tenure as secretary of State. The Clinton campaign attempted to downplay the revelations in an email to CNN:
"Neither of these emails involve the secretary or relate to the Foundation's work," said an emailed statement from Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin. "They are communications between her aides and the President's personal aide, and indeed the recommendation was for one of the Secretary's former staffers who was not employed by the Foundation."
Schwerin may be referring to the email exchange involving Clinton Foundation official Doug Band and his attempt to get a job for an unnamed associate:
In the email Band tells Hillary Clinton’s former aides at the State Department Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin that it is "important to take care of [Redacted]. Band is reassured by Abedin that "Personnel has been sending him options." Band was co-founder of Teneo Strategy with Bill Clinton and a top official of the Clinton Foundation, including its Clinton Global Initiative.
Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court in June seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between Clinton’s four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings. Via the Daily Caller:
U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, a President Obama-appointed judge, had previously ordered the State Department to release the requested documents by July 21. But Department of Justice lawyers informed Contreras Wednesday night that "the [State] department discovered errors in the manner in which the searches had been conducted in order to capture documents potentially responsive to plaintiff’s request." The motion was filed by Justice Department attorney Joseph Borson on behalf of the State Department.
Judge Contreras ruled to "grant in part and deny in part" the defendant’s motion for an extension of time to complete the document production.
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Maybe they are just too busy to look into the Clinton Foundation? Or are too many of them (DOJ and Feebs) on the payroll of the Clinton Foundation? Or are they (DOJ) off trying to take over local police departments across the country for Obean's administration because of some ginned-up racist charges (sarc)?
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Went to see Dinesh D'Souza's "Hillary's America" yesterday. He did a good job of drawing a parallel between criminal gangs and the Clintons. He basically said they and the Democratic Party is out to steal America via gangster methods and a huge "con" job.. He also traced the history of the Democratic Party and its racist KKK roots as well as its Tammany Hall Democratic machine politics rampany in Democratically controlled big cities across the country. Worth a see and certainly describes the rumination of large cities that are Democratically controlled. It is no wonder Obama had him put in jail for the things the Donks do every day. Will the DOJ investigate the Clinton Foundation. I am doubtful so long as the Democrats are in charge and the Pubs have rolled over and shown docility.
#7
The depth, breadth and brazenness of the corruption and illegality of this administration is breathtaking. But more tragic is the level to which the rank and file civil service tolerates it and increasingly participates in it. The attitude of the bureaucracy at federal and even state level has become that of masters, not servants, the their actual view of the public has become one of aristocratic dominance, not public servant.
[RADARONLINE] Look for my YouTube spot where I blubber and holler "Leave Malia alone!" No worries, look at all the slack the poodle press cut the Bush daughters...
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Something she probably found on Air Force One. We've bigger fish to fry.
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Its amazing the kids survive being kids of a president. It has to destroy the childhood. Hope she enjoyed herself and I wish people would leave the kids alone. They have it bad enough.
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If my parents were Barack and Michelle I am pretty sure I would stay stoned all the time. I would have to, for the sake of my soul.
I rolled my eyes as a parent; really? Dressed damn near naked, twerking, smoking, -Letting Yourself Get Filmed Smoking!- I get the 18 party revolt, but that there is trash poor decision making.
Oh well, probably qualifies her to head a diversity department at a major university.
#11
The best may be yet to come. Kids traditionally rebel against their parent's values. If Malia becomes the opposite of everything Dad & Mum stand for, she may turn out to be a fine, upstanding American.
The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a lakefront camp in North Hero.
Sanders’ new crib has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island — facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.
Last Tuesday, the day of the closing, a relaxed-looking Bernie Sanders posed for a photo at Hero’s Welcome General Store on Route 2. The store, a bit south of his new abode, serves a sandwich called “Feel the Bun” in the senator’s honor. The $6.99 deli delight consists of a “HUGE” homemade roll, sliced turkey, fresh apple chutney, hot pepper relish, lettuce, tomato and provolone cheese.
“It’s not fair that the Billionaire Class controls 99 percent of the bread,” the menu description reads. “Here’s a sandwich for the rest of us … to keep us nourished until everything cool is free!”
Sanders ordered the sandwich during his visit last week. Hero’s Welcome owner, Robert Camp, told Seven Days the store once offered a Sanders sandwich that poked fun at the senator, but later pulled it. The new version captures the essence of his rise to national prominence, Camp said.
The popular general store has a line of chairs out front — one side labeled “Republicans,” the other “Democrats.” In the middle, until recently, sat a lone “Sandernistas” chair, Camp said. That chair will be back — as long as the new neighbor doesn’t mind, Camp joked.
“He’s just been great,” said Camp. “This is going to be his home, so we won’t encourage autographs.”
The small Grand Isle County town has been abuzz for the last several days with the news. O’Meara Sanders said: “The entire family is very excited about it.”
he Sanders also own a row house on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and a house in Burlington’s New North End.
Island locals are happy to see a man of Sanders’ stature choose the town, which had fewer than 1,000 residents as of the 2010 U.S. Census.
“We couldn’t ask for a nicer person to move in — that’s my opinion,” said Eileen Mitchell, a member of the town selectboard. The place isn’t just for senators, she added: “We welcome anyone else that moves into town.”
Camp, who’s run Hero’s Welcome for 23 years, predicted Sanders would fit right into island life.
“He’ll be a welcome neighbor, everybody up here loves him,” Camp said. “We’re all ornery and so is he!”
#6
Comrade, the Ministry of Housing has determined that you own more living space than a single family could possibly require. Therefore we have assigned this space to three families that are currently without housing. We expect you to welcome them with open arms in the spirit of fraternal socialism.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/11/2016 12:22 Comments ||
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Everyone is equal. Some are just more equal than others.
#9
I guess we now know the value of his campaign contact list.
*ring ring*
Hello this is Hillary Clinton for president
*crap I hate robo calls
No really, this is Mrs. Clinton
*bull. I hear the screeching of the recording and only Sanders has my contact info...oh, hey crooked Hillary.
[Gateway Pundit] Barack Obama has a long list of violent threats against his opponents. Of course, the liberal media has ignored this.
** Obama: "They Bring a Knife...We Bring a Gun"
** Obama to His Followers: "Get in Their Faces!"
** Obama on ACORN Mobs: "I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!"
** Obama to His Mercenary Army: "Hit Back Twice As Hard"
** Obama on the private sector: "We talk to these folks... so I know whose ass to kick."
** Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean "hand to hand combat"
** Obama to lib supporters: "It’s time to Fight for it."
** Obama to Latino supporters: "Punish your enemies."
** Obama to supporters: "I’m itching for a fight."
Obama to UAW mob: "Fight for me!"
Obama likes to condemn others for "violent speech" but has a history of violent threats against hi opponents.
On Tuesday Donald Trump made obscure comments about Second Amendment voters rejecting Hillary Clinton. This is no secret for anyone who has followed politics in the last 20 years. The media strongly condemned Donald Trump for his violent speech. But when Obama said much worse, the liberal media totally ignored it.
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Memory hole indeed. Exactly like 1984. The MSM's latest full court press on Trump's Second Amendment remarks certainly has the look and feel of Orwell's Ministry of Truth. I would feel great relief if someone could prove to me that it is mere paranoia.
But there is CBSABCNBCCNN all on the same message. I didn't watch FOX but I suspect they were in on it too. If all of these organizations were truly independent they would all be doing their own thing and at least a few of them might choose to lead with something else at least once in a while. But they are all doing the same thing. Last night even Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition lead with Trump and the Second Amendment. They all included Hillary's conclusion that it "proves his temperament makes him unfit" to be president. That's the message, Trump is some kind of a mad man who wants to assassinate his political opponents and get us into a nuclear holocaust.
Could we all calm down a bit?
Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition, what does that have to do with Hollywood?
All of them on the same page and reading from it totally in sync. And when they slip in the ratings you might think they'd try something different to attract the viewers they are losing but they don't. I'll give TMZ credit. They showed Jon Voight who said it's all being blown out of proportion.
I wish Trump wouldn't give them so much ammunition but it isn't really all that much, is it? The problem is that they all get together to make such a big deal of it and they hammer the public with it constantly. They saturate the airwaves, the newspapers, the cable and the internet with it. They're like a pathetic pack of hounds going after an old, cold trail while the fox goes off in an entirely different direction and gets away from them. And for anybody who notices they have lost all of their credibility. You can't believe a single word from any of them.
What force is it that can compel all of these supposedly independent outlets to sing the same song in the same key at the same time? The Democrat Party? The Republican Party? The Beltway Party? The Inner Party? Soros? Obama? Jarrett? The military/industrial complex? The Trilateral Commission? The Freemasons?
I don't know but it is truly chilling.
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#3 They only get away with it because we let them. I haven't watched any liberal channel for anything other than sporting events for more than a decade.
Well, I did watch CNN for a little bit when that Malaysian plane went down, but other than that they've gotten zero ratings in my house.
#5
When there are hit pieces on weather and golf channels, you see how deep the crabgrass is rooted.
As for the ammunition - Trump could renounce all physical possessions and go live in a temple in Tibet, and they would dog pile that Trump mocks poor people and outsourced monks.
[Chicago Tribune] Newly released State Department emails shed additional light on the relationships Hillary Clinton and her top aides maintained with her family's foundation during the years she served as secretary of state.
The emails, obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch as part of a public-records lawsuit, included one in which a longtime aide to Bill Clinton sought a State Department meeting on behalf of a major foundation donor.
The aide, Doug Band, who played a role in expanding the foundation's reach, wrote to Hillary Clinton's State Department staff requesting a meeting for a wealthy Nigerian businessman of Lebanese descent who has given the Clinton Foundation $1 million to $5 million in donations, according to disclosure reports.
"We need Gilbert Chagoury to speak to the substance person re Lebanon," Band wrote in the email addressed to Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, two of Clinton's closest aides at State. "As you know he's a key guy there and to us and is loved in Lebanon. Very imp."
Abedin responded with the name of the recent U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, who was serving as acting assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She added: "I'll talk to Jeff."
As it turned out, Feltman said he never connected with the billionaire. "Gilbert Chagoury never contacted me," he said in response to a question Wednesday from The Washington Post. "I have never met nor spoken to him. No one ever told me he was seeking me out."
The exchange sparked an immediate response from Clinton's critics, who say that the Chagoury email and with other State Department correspondence released over the past year as part of various inquiries and lawsuits suggest a pattern in which donors to Clinton causes seem to have received special access to Clinton's State Department.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pointed Wednesday to the document release, saying the emails reveal Clinton's "pay to play" approach to governance.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the documents explain why Clinton and her aides have been reluctant to release official communications.
"They show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law," he said.
Officials from the Clinton campaign and the foundation portray the email communications as innocuous, in some cases even helpful to U.S. foreign policy goals.
#1
Meanwhile, others in the MSM have no questions because they are completely in the tank for Hildabeest and want to play "pile-on" with Trump. They should be ashamed of themselves for masquerading as news types. Glad that Trump is insisting on ground rules for the upcoming debates such as no more Candy Crowley types. Please add Don Lemon to the list of verboten kangaroo courts interrogators/waterboarders. Also Wolf Blitzer, Charley Rose, and others of this ilk. In the past, Romney and McCain got raped by these MSM types.
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The first line in the story cites that a conservative group acquired the emails. See how the liberal press operates? It marginalized the source. My question to the Chicago Tribune- how come your vast staff didn't dig to find this material? Oh, that's right, they are busy sifting through Sarah Palin's trash up in Alaska.
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Some potential point makers for Trump:
1. I will accept ZERO salary.
2. I will take NO $8m Hawaii or South African Vaca's
3. My mother-in-law will NOT be living in the WH.
4. I seldom golf.
5. Rappers, NFL or NBA players will never see the inside of my WH.
6. I will accept NO retirement pension.
7. I do NOT celebrate EID.
8. The WH will be heated with WV & PA coal.
7. I will likely serve only one term.
8. Loretta Lynch will be fired on day #1.
9. Jim Comey will be demoted to field agent.
10. NRA memberships will be tax deductible.
11. If some punk foreign nation makes a threat, takes a hostage, or attacks the U.S., I will say nothing, but there will be hell to pay within 24 hours and it will involve the USAF.
12. I will take Putin White Tail hunting in Southern Illinois first day of opening season.
If you want me to come to work for you, great. If you'd rather have someone else, no problem. I'm not doing it for the money. You decide. Have a nice day.
#4
They prefer access and spoon fed talking points to doing actual "Joutnalism"
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If even a lib rag sees it then why isn't Trump all over this? He's nattering on about Obama founding ISIS. Apparently he is more about picking fights with other people than he is stopping Hillary. This is a great opportunity to bring her down, and he is wasting his fire on Obama.
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