[Wash Examiner] Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff, received an immunity deal from the Justice Department during the year-long FBI investigation of Clinton's server.
Two other State Department staffers, John Bentel and Heather Samuelson, were also given immunity agreements, bringing the total number of witnesses who were protected by deals to five.
Bryan Pagliano, Clinton's former IT aide, and Paul Combetta, an employee at the firm hired to manage her server after she left the State Department, received such protection through deals that were reported previously.
The immunity agreements given to Mills and Samuelson covered the evidence recovered from their computers, a Democratic staffer told the Washington Examiner. The deals did not extend to their testimony before Congress or to the information they told the FBI, the staffer said.
Pagliano was held in contempt of Congress Thursday for his failure to comply with a subpoena for testimony and documents. Combetta appeared before the House Oversight Committee last week, but invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer questions.
The FBI has said Clinton and her staff exhibited "extreme carelessness" by sharing classified information on an unsecured server that was kept in Clinton's basement.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said the immunity deals were "beyond explanation."
"I've lost confidence in this investigation and I question the genuine effort in which it was carried out," Chaffetz said in a statement. "Immunity deals should not be a requirement for cooperating with the FBI."
The Utah Republican said the FBI was "handing out immunity agreements like candy."
Ordinarily the grant of immunity is a trap for the person receiving the grant: now that the 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination no longer applies, you HAVE to testify -- if you refuse you're held in contempt, and if you lie you're charged with perjury.
But that assumes that someone FORCES you to testify.
Ordinarily that would be the DoJ which would put you on the witness stand. But what if there is no trial, no grand jury and no witness stand? You're home scot-free.
So the granting of immunity is only half the story. The other half is the refusal of the DoJ and FBI to compel their testimony.
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The FBI and Comey set their reputation down to the Obama/Clinton level
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Nothing is going to happen until there is a new POTUS not named Clinton. Maybe something would happen after a good house cleaning. Jeebus, I wish these people would get off the stage. Harry Truman got in his car and drove to Missouri. Guess that doesn't happen these days.
[WAPO] Some of those who have come onto the streets of Charlotte over the past two days say they want justice for what they say is the wrongful police killing of a black man in the city this week. Others say they want more respect -- from the police, from politicians, from everyone. Some say they just want to be heard, whatever that may mean to them. The reasons are varied -- but there is simply no sign that all of these protesters, who are overwhelmingly black, have come because they hate white people.
That's exactly what Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) said in an interview with BBC News on Thursday evening, when asked what the protesters' grievances are. "The grievance in their mind is the animus, the anger," he said. "They hate white people, because white people are successful and they're not."
Without being prompted, Pittenger quickly pivoted to a discussion about welfare and race. "I mean, yes, it is. It is a welfare state. We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, we have put people in bondage so that they can't be all they're capable of being.
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The left wing of both parties won't face the truth that black racism exists as well as the fact that Muslim hatred exists too. Both groups get a pass for some suicidal reason.
[WND] Responding to a federal court’s ruling that she defaulted in a wrongful-death claim against her by missing a filing deadline, Hillary Clinton is claiming she didn’t know she had been served with a lawsuit until it was too late.
The complaint was brought by the parents of two of the Americans killed by Islamic terrorists in Benghazi.
WND reported earlier this month that the federal court declared Clinton in default. The ruling, however, did not immediately establish liability, and she has responded to the court that there are several reasons she should be given a pass for missing the deadline.
WND reported in August the claims were brought by the parents of two of the Americans killed by Islamic terrorists in Benghazi.
The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by lawyer Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch USA on behalf of Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods. The parents cite the FBI’s determination that Clinton handled classified information with "extremely careless" by using a nonsecure, private email server.
Smith and Woods were killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, jihadist attack on the American compound in Benghazi. While Clinton and other Obama administration officials were publicly blaming the deaths on a response to an obscure YouTube video, internal communications show they knew immediately that it was a terrorist attack.
The wrongful death claim also alleges defamation and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
"Having used a secret private email server that we now know was used to communicate with Ambassador Christopher Stevens with confidential and classified government information, and which we also now know was likely hacked by hostile adversaries such as Iran, Russia, China and North Korea aligning with terrorist groups, it is clear that Hillary Clinton allegedly negligently and recklessly gave up the classified location of the plaintiffs’ sons, resulting in a deadly terrorist attack that took their lives. It is no coincidence that covert State Department/CIA operations were being run out of Benghazi," Klayman said.
"To add insult to deadly injury, Hillary Clinton told the plaintiffs that their sons were killed as the result of a video mocking the Islamic prophet Mohammed when she knew that they were murdered by Muslim terrorists. When the families exposed her lies, she called them liars to protect her reputation and to further her own presidential ambitions. She thus defamed the parents of fallen heroes Tyrone Woods and Sean Smith, as well committed other wrongful acts, as alleged in the complaint.
[NY Post] It's not quite the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, but Bill and Hillary Clinton are expanding their Westchester spread by buying the house next door, The Post has learned.
The Clintons shelled out $1.16 million for the three-bedroom, 3,631 square-foot, ranch-style home set on 1.51 leafy acres on Old House Lane in Chappaqua. Westchester County land records and tax records from the town of New Castle -- where Chappaqua is located -- list William and Hillary Clinton as owners of the property.
A source said the home could be used as a weekend retreat for their daughter Chelsea, her hubby Marc Mezvinsky and their children, Charlotte and Aidan. More likely a compound for 'Odd Job' (Diazepam auto-ejector man) and the medical, urgent care giver team. By the way, where has Odd Job been hiding lately ?
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Warm Springs, GA is south of Atlanta coming down I-85 from the north. It is also where FDR recharged himself with his energizer bunny. Warm Springs. Bill Clinton has often been said to be from Hot Springs, Arkansas. I'm sensing a trend here, Hot Springs (the flames of youth) to Warm Springs (the embers of the aged). FDR's energizer bunny was Lucy Mercer Lucy.
[Conservative Read] General Michael Flynn warns that Hillary Clinton is unfit to be President and Commander and Chief of the United States.
Military Officials warn Clinton is unfit to be President.
Democrat presidential candidate shouts at and scorns supporters...
"Having said all this, ’Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?’ you might ask?" Clinton says, clearly frustrated. "Well, the choice for working families has never been clearer. I need your help to get Donald Trump’s record out to everybody. Nobody should be fooled."
"If you do know somebody who might be voting for Trump, stage an intervention," an irritated Clinton states. "Try to talk some sense into them. Lay out the facts. The facts are on our side, about what I’ve done versus what he’s done. Remember, friends don’t let friends vote for Trump."
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" 'Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?' you might ask?" Clinton says, clearly frustrated.
Uh, because you're a talentless hack, an evil person, and your record suggests that a dozen or more people have lost their lives for being associated with you? And that doesn't even include the rapes you help deflect.
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That "50 points" video is disturbing, indeed. On top of being a diehard Communist, thoroughly corrupt and a congenital liar, the woman is clearly crazier'n a shithouse rat.
God help us all if she wins the election.
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I said it before and I'll say it again with the following caveat: She is crazier than a shit house rat and more dangerous. She has the mentality of a mass/serial murderer.
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Crazier than a shit house rat is not original on my part--it was borrowed. Dave D. has also heard that expression. It is pithy and expresses things well.
[Rasmussen] With the first presidential debate coming on Monday, Donald Trump has moved to a five-point lead over Hillary Clinton, his biggest advantage since mid-July.
The latest Rasmussen Reports weekly White House Watch telephone and online survey finds Trump with 44% support among Likely U.S. Voters to Clinton’s 39%. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson earns eight percent (8%) of the vote, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein holds steady at two percent (2%). Three percent (3%) like some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are still undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Last week, the Republican nominee edged ahead of his Democratic rival 42% to 40% after trailing her by four points the week before. Trump’s total this week ties his highest ever level of support from two months ago.
Trump (76%) and Clinton (75%) earn comparable support from voters in their own party. Fourteen percent (14%) of Democrats prefer Trump, while 10% of Republicans join former President George H.W. Bush in supporting Clinton. But Trump has a commanding 45% to 27% lead this week among voters not affiliated with either major political party.
Johnson picks up 16% of unaffiliateds, along with five percent (5%) of GOP voters and three percent (3%) of Democrats. Stein is stuck in low single digits among all three groups.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 20-21, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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"...while 10% of Republicans join former President George H.W. Bush in supporting Clinton."
There should be political consequences for such "support". There is absolutely nothing "Republican" that would support voting for Hillary (unless its *cowardice*, or addiction to *graft*).
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10% of Republicans join former President George H.W. Bush in supporting Clinton.
You have to wonder what is going on with the other 10%. So they don't mind voting for a criminal for POTUS and killer. They don't mind having a first husband who got impeached running around the WH dicking around. Is there a relationship or connection between the 10% and the Clintons they want to keep hidden. Makes one suspicious. What makes Hillary Clinton so desirable as a POTUS. Can't think of anything. Anybody else got anything?
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Crusader, those folks haven't been Republican for some time, they just learned to talk the talk to get elected. Now they'll join the Dems and maybe pull the loyal opposition back to some sense of loyalty to the country again.
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It's going to be interesting. Personally, I doubt most people spend more than 90 seconds making up their minds in any election. So when I see polls swinging one way or the other by more than a couple of points, I write them off as describing a phenomenon which does not exist in real life.
That said, this year the election is between the least popular presidential candidate in US history, and the second least popular. So who the hell knows? Maybe the major party numbers really will come in this low, but somehow I doubt it.
BLUF: [Constitution] Behind almost every murder-by-Muslim-immigrant are the State’s central planners:
Policy-makers, immigration authorities, immigration attorneys, local networks of Islamic organizations, media agitating for more Muslim immigration, and an FBI erecting protective barriers around bad actors--civil liberties, they call it. But oh, how easily they violate ours.
Jihad is intricately tied to Islam. We can’t war against Islam. It’s futile. Reformation of Islam is not ours to undertake.
You, Hillary Clinton’s "deplorables," will pay with your sons (and one or two daughters) if the establishment has its way and we "bomb the hell out of them." Look at what bombing Syria looks like. You can’t find ISIS. You can’t tell friend from foe, and you kill kids galore. It’s a bad idea. You can make it constitutional; you can’t make it moral.
So don’t listen to the expert Idiocracy.
The truth is that the threat we face is not from ISIS in the Levant, but from murder-by-Muslim-immigrant at home. And it’s more often than not an invited and legal threat.
[Washington Examiner] The Congressional Black Caucus is demanding that Attorney General Loretta Lynch immediately take action to prevent police killings with a nationwide crackdown on law enforcement.
"The world is watching and we cannot continue to ignore these killings," said Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., presenting the letter to the media Thursday while the entire caucus stood in support outside the Department of Justice.
The Congressional Black Caucus' letter urges Lynch to "aggressively pursue investigations, indictments and prosecutions through the Office of Civil Rights against any and all law enforcement officers who harm or kill innocent unarmed black men, women and children.
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Does anubody notice the irony of having an AG named "Lynch". That aside the bad apples in law enforcement do need to be weeded out and prosecuted if need be. Face it, we've all met or known officers who are assholes and willingly abuse their positions
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Wash Examiner] Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff, received an immunity deal from the Justice Department during the year-long FBI investigation of Clinton's server.
[WND] Responding to a federal court’s ruling that she defaulted in a wrongful-death claim against her by missing a filing deadline, Hillary Clinton is claiming she didn’t know she had been served with a lawsuit until it was too late.
[Conservative Read] General Michael Flynn warns that Hillary Clinton is unfit to be President and Commander and Chief of the United States.
[Rasmussen] With the first presidential debate coming on Monday, Donald Trump has moved to a five-point lead over Hillary Clinton, his biggest advantage since mid-July.
