[POLITICO] Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... on Sunday defended 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 Condoleezza Rice ... ’s State Department from accusations it had an improper ties to the Clinton Foundation.
"That's something that, obviously, will continue the be looked at," Panetta said, before waving it off as typical networking. "Staff people trying to make connections in Washington is a pretty prevalent behavior by most people in Washington."
The man is a professional. Don't try this at home...
The criticism comes after emails released last week through a lawsuit by the conservative Judicial Watch appeared to show a Clinton Foundation executive asking for favors from State Department aides. And Clinton's Republican rival, Donald Trump, and his campaign indicated the emails exposed a "pay-to-play" culture in the State Department under Clinton’s watch, but didn't point to specific decisions made in return for money or favors.
"The question is, whether anything was done in return for that kind of donation," Panetta said. "And, as far as I know, nobody's been able to pin down that that actually happened."
Panetta, who was CIA director before he moved to the Pentagon, wrote off the criticism as "politics," but said that Clinton should "acknowledge the mistakes that have been made and to then move on." Of course Panetta defends her. He along with former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morrel are executive members of former Clinton advisor Phil Reines' 'Beacon Global Strategies Group.' This is the Clinton safe house for everyone involved in Benghazi.
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People used to be concerned about the appearance of impropriety being a conflict of interest. Now ya gotta prove it. To the media, who ain't interested..
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Now ya gotta prove it.
Bobby, you not only have to prove wrongdoing but now there is a new standard, you have to prove "intent to do wrongdoing." I suppose if the elites say I didn't really mean to do it, they are off the hook.
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Panetta, who was CIA director before he moved to the Pentagon...
Leon "The Plumber" Panetta is cleaning up messes again. The CIA under Bush was a constant source of embarrassing leaks to the media. Panetta shows up as the representative of the "Soros Mob" (Obama) Family and the "Clinton" Mafia. Then he moves over to the Defense Department to pass on the same message: "Don't rock the boat or you'll never work again in the Beltway!"
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But again we still have those who wish to opine that somehow pulling the lever for Trump is something they can't morally justify, even as the evil that *is* the Clintons will be the beneficiary of such stupidity.
[Bus Insider] A well-respected author, who has been called the "premier futurist in the national security environment" by The Wall Street Journal, thinks that we won't have to wait too much longer for an "October Surprise" that could have major implications for the presidential election.
"I don't think we're going to have to wait until October," Dr. Peter Singer, a strategist at the think tank New America and the author of "Ghost Fleet," told Business Insider. "There's clearly more to come."
Singer spoke with Business Insider about the ongoing leaks from the massive hack into the Democratic National Committee by two different Russia-linked hacker groups. A hacker calling himself "Guccifer 2.0" initially posted an opposition research file on Donald Trump before moving on to embarrassing emails within the DNC and personal-contact information for House Democrats.
Many in the Democratic Party are fearing the release of documents that could be much worse.
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The dems know what might be out there, but they can't get ahead of the story without admitting that whatever is leaked is legit.
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The New America Foundation's Board of Directors consists of 23 members. It is chaired by Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc, who succeeded founding chairman James Fallows in 2008. Other members include:
David G. Bradley, owner of the Atlantic Media Company
David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times
Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University
Boykin Curry, former board member is what is now Public Prep Network
Mohamed A. El-Erian, chief economic advisor of Allianz
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly
Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Helene D. Gayle, president and CEO of CARE USA
William W. Gerrity, managing partner of Gerrity Group
Ted Halstead, think-tank executive and author
Zachary Karabell, president of River Twice Research
Jeffery Leonard, president and CEO of the Global Environment Fund
Kati Marton, author and journalist
Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor at Bard College
Lenny T. Mendonca, former director/senior partner of McKinsey & Company.
Steven Rattner, chairman of Willett Advisors LLC
Reihan Salam, executive editor of National Review
Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America
Jonathan Soros, CEO of JS Capital Management
Ashley Swearengin, mayor of Fresno, California
Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates
"The Clinton campaign has removed a pledge from its website stating that all survivors of sexual assault "have the right to be believed."
On a page dedicated to "Campus sexual assault" on HillaryClinton.com, this passage from the Democratic presidential candidate used to be prominently featured last year: "I want to send a message to every survivor of sexual assault: Don't let anyone silence your voice. You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed, and we're with you."
But by February of this year, those lines had been deleted, according to BuzzFeed News.
The website says the scrubbing came after the election-cycle re-emergence of Juanita Broaddrick, who has accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 when he was lieutenant governor of Arkansas.
Broaddrick has accused Hillary Clinton of enabling her husband -- and of threatening her to keep her allegations against Bill Clinton silent.
"It’s important for everyone to know that Hillary Clinton is not innocent in all of the coverup and the attempted attacks on all of the women that Bill Clinton abused," Broaddrick told Boston radio station WRKO.
Republican Donald Trump has repeated Broaddrick’s rape allegations in a bid to bolster his candidacy, and even released video of Broaddrick and another woman who’s accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment, Kathleen Willey.
In May, Trump released an Instagram ad featuring the two accusers.
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[ABCNEWS.GO] New independent candidate for president Evan McMullin said his entrance into the race won't affect Donald Trump's chances because "it's so likely that Donald Trump will lose" anyway.
A former CIA operative, McMullin is billing himself as a conservative alternative to Trump.
"He’s not a credible candidate," McMullin said of Trump on "This Week."
"It's so likely that Donald Trump will lose...my entrance into the race doesn't affect that," McMullin told ABC's Martha Raddatz.
A new NBC/WSJ/Marist poll released Friday showed that Trump is trailing rival 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 ... by double digits in key battleground states.
McMullin, who threw his hat into the ring on Aug. 8, said he’s more qualified than Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in battling terrorism.
"I’m the only candidate in this race that has any firsthand experience in fighting terror," he said. "Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I think, have proven in different ways that they're unprepared for that challenge."
The conservative candidate said he "absolutely" has a chance of winning, but acknowledged that it would have been better if someone with wide name recognition had entered the race earlier.
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Former CIA operative... and current Clinton operative.
Still, it's nice to see that the staff of National Review will have someone to vote for. Poor dears.
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Your mission Evan, should you choose/decide to accept it, ...
As always, should you or any of your I.M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape/disc will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Evan.
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This guy is so unknown, such a late entry to the race and has so little chance that he is not the least bit newsworthy but count on ABC to give him free publicity anyway.
How many states will even put him on their ballots?
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"I’m the only candidate in this race that has any firsthand experience in fighting terror," he said. They use the word "operative" loosely - this man is a Fobbit - if that. Reading all those mean intel reports probably gave him Fobbit PTSD and delusions of granduer.
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He's not on the majority of ballots. Statistically I think he has 0% chance as anything except a spoiler.
Having said that I'd like to see such a spoiler come in and do the dirty work of attacking Hillary and exposing everything before flaming out in a way that sends his votes to Trump. Run blocker for the actual candidate.
Hundreds of internal documents from groups run by prominent billionaire liberal donor George Soros were leaked online Saturday after hackers infiltrated the groups.
Tusk, tusk. Wotta shame...
The 2,576 files were released by DCLeaks, a website which claims to be "launched by the American hacktivists who respect and appreciate freedom of speech, human rights and government of the people."
The documents are from multiple departments of Soros' organizations. Soros' the Open Society Foundations seems to be the group with the most documents in the leak. Files come from sections representing almost all geographical regions in the world, "the President's Office", and something named SOUK.
There are documents dating from at least 2008 to 2016. In June, the Open Society Foundations also had several documents leaked by DCLeaks. Bloomberg reported that the foundation notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the hacking. "Get right on it!"
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Let the flood gates open.........give the elites an enema.
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something named SOUK
I sure that, with a little research, Daily Caller could find out what it means.
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He could have meant "sucks" since he mentions the President's office. It's not clear which president's office the author was talking about, the Open Society's or POTUS's--probably doesn't make any difference since they are one and the same.
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
"The Clinton campaign has removed a pledge from its website stating that all survivors of sexual assault "have the right to be believed."
Hillary Clinton
Hundreds of internal documents from groups run by prominent billionaire liberal donor George Soros were leaked online Saturday after hackers infiltrated the groups.
