[Politico] Top GOP lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol are vowing that their investigations of Hillary Clinton will continue even if she wins the White House in November.
Indeed, the FBI wrapped up its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server this summer, but congressional Republicans say they’re just getting started.
House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) wants answers on the deletion of Clinton emails he says may constitute "destruction of evidence" -- and he's willing to use subpoenas to get them. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is working on a bill to pull the security clearance of anyone who broke rules governing confidential information, a jab aimed squarely at Clinton and her top aides.
And there’s percolating interest among congressional Republicans in sniffing out any connections between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department -- a potential new Clinton probe inspired by reports showing foundation donors securing access to Clinton as secretary of state. CNN reported in August that FBI officials wanted to probe the Foundation connection for conflicts of interest but was slapped down by Justice officials.
Republicans have also signaled interest in diving deeper into questions of whether Clinton or her aides perjured themselves on the email matter.
"Hillary Clinton created this problem; I’m trying to untie this big tangled web," Chaffetz (R-Utah) said in an interview this week. "I’d be derelict in my chairmanship if I didn’t pursue this with all the vigor I have."
[Hot Air] An effort to halt construction of an oil pipeline by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe was rejected by a U.S. District Judge Friday. From the NY Times:
The ruling by Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington rejected efforts by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. A lawyer for the tribe says the ruling will be appealed.
Although the $3.7 billion pipeline would not cross the reservation on its 1,170-mile path across four states, it would skirt the reservation’s northern boundary and run through what tribal officials say are ancestral lands. They say the pipeline would disrupt or destroy cultural and burial sites and could contaminate their water if it breaks or leaks as it crosses under a dammed section of the Missouri River.
However, immediately after the tribe lost in court, the Obama administration stepped in and halted construction anyway. From the Atlantic:
Mere minutes after a federal judge declined the Tribe’s request for an injunction to stop construction on the pipeline, the Obama administration made a surprise announcement that it would not permit the pipeline’s construction for the time being.
"Construction of the pipeline on Army Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe will not go forward at this time," said a joint statement from the Department of Justice, the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Army. "We request that the pipeline company voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe."...
While the government’s block is temporary, the pipeline’s future now looks much more uncertain than it did hours ago. Most of the pipeline will be built on private land owned by Energy Transfer Partners, but it still needs Army Corps approval to cross federal waterways. Given the outcry from climate activists, the Obama administration may be more willing to cancel the pipeline’s federal permits, as it did with the Keystone XL pipeline last year.
The effort to halt construction has already attracted the attention of celebrity environmentalists, including Leonardo DiCaprio and most of the Justice League:
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Nearly a dozen Minnesota families are suing their school district for failing to take action after their daughters were exposed to a transgender male student allegedly twerking and engaging in other sexual behavior in the girls’ locker room. A "transgender male student" = a boy who dresses up like a girl.
The lawsuit concerns Minnesota’s Virginia Public Schools, which changed its restroom and locker room policy in response to the B.O. regime order in May compelling public schools nationwide to regulate intimate sex-segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity.
The transgender student, only identified as "Student X" in the complaint, would allegedly dance to lewd music while in the locker room, including by "twerking, grinding, and lifting up his skirt to reveal his underwear" in front of high school girls.
He is also accused of following two female students seeking privacy in a secondary locker room and disrobing in front of them.
Student X also allegedly questioned one female student about her bra size and then asked her to "trade body parts" with him.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Wednesday by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, also names the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice as defendants, citing the B.O. regime’s threat to withhold federal education funding from schools that do not integrate intimate facilities on the basis of gender identity.
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THIS is another reason why we need guns on campus.
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Progressive Values. The New America.
But then, half the people reading this ( or better ) don't go to any Church anyway. You are"above" any belief in God and the Christian values are just relics of the past.
But you lock your doors at night, don't you? It will get worse.
We well become multi-cultural and tolerant and vote for PC.
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don't go to any Church anyway. You are"above" any belief in God and the Christian values are just relics of the past.
Not going to church has nothing to do with any belief in God or Christian values. The major churches have nothing to do with God or Christian values anymore (see the Pope and the CoE).
The bible was written by men and interpreted and translated by men. How much liberty got taken with the word of God in that process?
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Would I have dressed up like a girl to get into the Girl's locker room in my youth?
The option was never considered at the time (and I would never pass as a 16 year old 'junior size 5'), but as a teen with raging hormones that wanted to see 'stuff', sure!
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AlanC,
The Bible is 66 books written over 1500 years, by God, through His chosen Prophets. Each book's focus isvremarkably similar, because the true author is actually one entity. What will sell you if you ever read these books are two things. Descriptions of future events when the book was written and then through study of the history of man realizing what His prophets wrote actually occurred as written in detail.
Most of Gods predictions have all been fulfilled. You have very little time left to find out the final ones.
Read it while there is a little time left.
Signed, A Believer.
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Of course there were several young ladies back then who would have punched my lights out.
Parents around here didn't raise snowflakes in the 50's/60's.
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Pervs before people -- it's fundamental change you can believe in.
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Thor Thineter9100,
You may have hit upon why thousands of the ancient dreaded Syrians are being imported into this country as quickly as possible. Maybe it is being allowed by the Divine One.
"the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!'
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Was the miscreant simply imitating the moves of others in the locker room? And does the school tolerate girl on girl twerking? I'm sure the latter is too close to approved LGBT/White House indoctrination to be questioned.
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Sounds familiar...
"...And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
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We already have the reeducation camps - we call them public schools. The next set of camps will be something entirely different - as many on the Left have suggested
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Ironic photo of the campaign...CNN has picture of Clinton with her "stronger together" slogan on her podium...above that photo is the banner "Basket of Deplorables."
#5
Stunning. She hit it out of the park with one word. Per the Free Dictionary.
ir·re·deem·a·ble (ĭr′ĭ-dē′mə-bəl) adj.
1. That cannot be bought back or paid off. "Will never accept government assistance for their vote."
2. Not convertible into coin. "Will never donate to the Clinton Foundation."
3. Impossible to redeem or reform: "An irredeemable evil. Must be punished."
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hmm grom - I had #5s definitions more in mmind FWIW
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Oh, this is rich. Now Clinton regrets saying "half" of the Trump supporters are deplorable, but promises to call out the "bigotry" in the Trump campaign.
big·ot·ry ˈbiɡətrē/ Intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.
We thank Ms. Clinton for her stunning demonstration of bigotry via her display of intolerance toward a quarter of America (who clearly hold different opinions from "her oneself') - calling them deplorable and irredeemable. She is a tired, hacking, arrogant disaster.
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What the hell is a 'basket of deplorables' anyway? Is it some girl thing, like a hamper where you throw your stained underwear and torn panty-hose?
[Daily Caller] Media Matters founder David Brock wrote a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates Friday, demanding the "non-partisan" organization remove Fox News' Chris Wallace as moderator of the third and final presidential debate.
Brock, one of Hillary Clinton's highest-profile supporters, wrote to Co-Chairmen Frank Fahrenkopf and Michael McCurry that it is inappropriate for "Roger Ailes, who resigned from Fox News in July, [to] simultaneously [provide] advice to Donald Trump while serving as a paid adviser to Fox News chief Rupert Murdoch, debate moderator Chris Wallace's boss."
Brock also expressed his concern over "Chris Wallace’s explicit pronouncement that he doesn’t intend to press the candidates to be truthful during the debate he moderates."
"I am disappointed that an organization that prides itself on being non-partisan would make such a selection," he continued. "I would respectfully ask that you reconsider your selection of Chris Wallace -- or any current Fox News employee -- as a presidential debate moderator until Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch cut ties with Roger Ailes."
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Also, add radio noise to confuse the earbud wearer.
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I'd like to know the pharmaceutical cocktail she gets before the debate, if there is a debate. If she seizes, has an extended coughing spell, or needs a 30-minute break, this thing may be over.
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Trump oughta four or five dry ones and see if he can jump start her.
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"I would respectfully ask that you reconsider your selection of Chris Wallace -- or any current Fox News employee -- as a presidential debate moderator until Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch cut ties with Roger Ailes."
[FREEBEACON] Iran may have received an additional $33.6 billion in secret cash and gold payments facilitated by the B.O. regime between 2014 and 2016, according to testimony provided before Congress by an expert on last summer’s nuclear agreement with Iran.
Between January 2014 and July 2015, when the B.O. regime was hammering out the final details of the nuclear accord, Iran was paid $700 million every month from funds that had previously been frozen by U.S. sanctions.
A total of $11.9 billion was ultimately paid to Iran, but the details surrounding these payments remain shrouded in mystery, according to Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
In total, "Iran may have received as much as $33.6 billion in cash or in gold and other precious metals," Dubowitz disclosed.
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Ye, but they were promised 50. That's why they buzzing USN ships in the gulf - to remind US CinC.
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Has everything to do with supporting terrorism. Does executive privilege expire when a president leaves office? Congress should ask Obama a few questions to start with.
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[DAILYCALLER] Federal agencies spend millions of tax dollars opposing Americans’ successful lawsuits seeking public records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but can’t say exactly how much, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
Department of Justice (DOJ) officials responsible for tracking agencies’ FOIA compliance don’t know how much agencies spent fighting 112 cases from 2009 to 2014 in which the plaintiff "substantially" prevailed, according to GAO. Of the 57 lawsuits agencies could track, agencies spent $1.8 million.
But that’s just a drop in the bucket compared to the $144 million agencies estimated they spent fighting 3,350 FOIA lawsuits from 2009 to 2014, according to GAO.
Current DOJ policy doesn’t require department officials to track spending by agencies on specific lawsuits, or whether the plaintiff or agency prevailed, leaving gaps in federal records about FOIA lawsuits, according to GAO.
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Just how long before this is repealed I wonder?
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Well, laws only work if people follow them. No amount of 'legality' will deliver results unless you back it up by 'force and blood'. Who has the last civil servant jailed or heavily fined for obstruction?
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[FREEBEACON] Iran may have received an additional $33.6 billion in secret cash and gold payments facilitated by the 
