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5 reasons Comey should have recommended Clinton's indictment
[The Hill] When FBI Director James Comey announced that he would not recommend prosecution of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for violation of the Espionage Act (Title 18, United States Code, Section 793), he made a decision based upon political considerations, not based upon principles of criminal law or justice.

There are five key points to be made in analyzing the director's very flawed recommendation:
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 08:41 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


White House Coordinated on Clinton Email Issues, New Documents Show
[WSJ] WASHINGTON--Newly disclosed emails show top Obama administration officials were in close contact with Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign in early 2015 about the potential fallout from revelations that the former secretary of state used a private email server.

Their discussion included a request from the White House communications director to her counterpart at the State Department to see if it was possible to arrange for Secretary of State John Kerry to avoid questions during media appearances about Mrs. Clinton's email arrangement.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 02:59 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course the WH 'coordinated.' Unless he limited their contact to face-to-face or secure SATCOM, Obama would have had to have communicated with HRC over her homebrew server. She did not use a '.gov' system, either NIPR or SIPR (non-secure or secure). The coordination extends to the odious Comey and Lynch and the faux FBI investigation as well.

Surely we cannot have the first half-black POTUS involved in a felony conspiracy, possible espionage and treason just before he leaves office, now can we ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 3:06 Comments || Top||

#2  The regime has never been held accountable for its many criminal activities. These rats have had a free run for 8 years and they feel that they can get away with anything they do.

Because of that, the election will be the biggest mess you have every seen.
Posted by: Jumbo Thomoth2355 || 10/07/2016 6:30 Comments || Top||

#3  These rats have had a free run for 8 years and they feel that they can get away with anything they do.

I wish it were only '8 years.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 6:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Will the Pubs promise to clean up this mess and prosecute BHO, HRC, and WJC and those criminals around them who are destroying the country? If so, I will promise to vote for them and support them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2016 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Well the pubs have been doing such a bang-up job opposing them in congress... oh wait...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/07/2016 8:35 Comments || Top||

#6  In a NH townhall meeting, Trump was asked by a member of the audience if he would clean up the corrupt bureaucracy/executive branch if elected. He said the whole thing was very disappointing and disgusting but did not really answer the question.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2016 8:42 Comments || Top||

#7  One Trump campaign phrase that I have been awaiting, but unfortunately have not heard:

'I will work with the Congress of the United States to....'

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 8:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Heads of State have immunity, executive privilege, and can pardon one another. Not to mention the Supremes. She cannot be president but the damage is so extensive it will be difficult to undo!
Posted by: One Eyed Speaking for Boskone7919 || 10/07/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#9  We can hope that Trump cleans out the career leftists in DOS and the limp wristed desk jockets at DoD. I would hope he puts about half of DoJ in the docket. I would also hope he puts all of the political apparatiks at Klingon Central on the curb with their cardboard box.

It will take a wholesale purge of the executive branch for Trump to avoid a widespread and continuous barrage of leaks and innuendos from these people.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 10/07/2016 12:34 Comments || Top||

#10  I fear it may be too late SPOD.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 13:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Pretty much the only hope is an uprising to take DC and burn it to the ground with all of these people in it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/07/2016 16:00 Comments || Top||

#12  It really is THAT BAD.

You silly Romans... always wanting to collapse and stuff.
Posted by: newc || 10/07/2016 22:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'You cannot lead people you loathe': Mike Pence twists the knife in Clinton campaign
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Mike Pence attended a rally in Grantville, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday

  • GOP Vice Presidential candidate was an hour late but met well by crowds

  • Pence was named the victor of Tuesday night's debate over Tim Kaine

  • He failed to stand by Trump on a number of issues but was well received

  • Whispers he may now be the favourite for top of ticket are circulating
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not to sound the 'deplorable' misogynist, but if eight years of the indolent golfer has not convinced us of our progressive errors, then there is little that can be done. The gender confused leftest and abortion apologists will have won the day and I reckon the republic is finished.

Gaius Germanicus must be watching in awe.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  She has never had any intention of leading. Her intentions are Tyranny.
Posted by: Lionel Stalin3979 || 10/07/2016 2:27 Comments || Top||

#3  I personally do not want to be lead. I want to be left alone. By that, I mean, don't redistribute my property and don't tell me how to live. Fairly simple...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/07/2016 2:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke was on Fox last evening for a short segment on crime. I caught him referring to HRC as "Mrs. Bill Clinton" not once, but twice.

Own it you sickly old hag !
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 3:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Pence nailed it. She loathes the deplorables, the military, the Secret Service, the people in fly-over land, and America. She is full of vitriol and bitterness.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm about half-way thru retired Secret Service Agent Gary J. Byrne's Crisis in Character.
Very revealing glimpse of these people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 8:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Interesting to see all the folks who supported Trump because he is an 'outsider' getting excited about the career establishment politician who is saving Trump's bacon.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/07/2016 10:55 Comments || Top||

#8  #5 JQC - the perfect successor to our current CinC!
Posted by: Bobby || 10/07/2016 11:10 Comments || Top||

#9  I find it interesting that Deadspin (AKA the New Gawker) can be counted on for what seems to be their nearly one hundred columns slamming Trump, and I believe I saw one that actually supported Hillary. I suppose they're not too hot to openly support arguably the most corrupt US politician in history, are they?
Posted by: Raj || 10/07/2016 12:35 Comments || Top||

#10  'You cannot lead people you loathe'

Well, 'lead' is not quite how Lenin, Stalin, Mao handled the people they loathed. However, they probably used the term anyway to describe their activities.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2016 16:16 Comments || Top||


Former Miss Universe says she's done giving interviews about 'fat-shaming' after life story unravels
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Alicia Machado will not give any more interviews on the way Trump treated her

  • She blasted Trump for 'launching insults and are attempting to revive slanders and false accusations about my life, in order to humiliate, intimidate, and unbalance me.

  • 'These attacks are cheap lies with bad intentions,' she said in a statement

  • After Hillary Clinton put a spotlight on Machado's strife with Trump, the 39-year-old's dirty laundry spilled out into the public

  • The embarrassing disclosures included a decade-old sex romp on a Spanish reality TV show
Someone please turn down the air conditioner. The poor girl is freezing.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey, you answered when the Clinton campaign called. Fly with the crows and you'll get shot with them. Quit whingeing your 15 minutes was up years ago.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 10/07/2016 2:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Everything she touches turns to sh*t. That's the fault of everything she touches, ya know...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/07/2016 2:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I read this as she has regrets (got clobbered) after jumping in bed with HRC to try to take down Trump?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2016 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  She'll be okay, various videos confirm that she can, umm, take a hit, shall we say.
Posted by: Beau || 10/07/2016 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Brandt can't watch though, or he has to pay a hundred.
Posted by: Bunny Machado || 10/07/2016 14:36 Comments || Top||

#6  She won't have to. Trump doesn't need anyone else to sink himself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumptape-404pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Sorry, but after this there won't be many female voters left.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/07/2016 17:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Sorry, correct link here
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/07/2016 17:37 Comments || Top||

#8  ...cause its better to have an enabler of a someone thought to be a serial rapist in the WH, right? A mouth vs a perp? No one said you'd get perfect.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2016 18:19 Comments || Top||

#9  My wife is far more pro Trump than I am and she is absolutely disgusted.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/07/2016 18:34 Comments || Top||

#10  That's nice.

I should care, because...?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/07/2016 19:21 Comments || Top||

#11  That link might be of interest if I were voting for Trump.

Instead, I'm voting against the person and associated Mandarinate who tried to give Egypt to the Moslem Brotherhood, that has handed over major amounts of US uranium to the Post Soviets... heck, I'm voting _against_ the deindustrialization and disenfranchisement of my country.

I'm tempted to say, if some crude shit he said a while back is getting some clitoris people's panties in a wad, well, tough shit, they shoulda maybe gotten born with dicks, cause I'm tired of bleeding to death.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/07/2016 21:41 Comments || Top||

#12  Maybe a better thing for me to say is: I can't _afford_ to be disgusted, I've already been evicted. Hope That Helps, Have A Nice Day.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/07/2016 21:44 Comments || Top||

#13  Rob Crawford
You don't have to care, but if the Republicans can't convince Trump to step down, nominate a decent candidate (why not Pence?) and use the last month for a vigorous campaign, they are handing the presidency to Hillary.
Maybe you should care?
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/07/2016 21:55 Comments || Top||

#14  Why? If it was a democracy I might care. It's an oligarchy and you got to pick the oligarch to protect your interest over others (as the other side has been doing for a couple of decades). He's a junk yard dog, but you have to decide if you want him or nothing at this point. There is no stepping down.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2016 23:03 Comments || Top||

#15  BTW, there's an American colloquialism - When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds follow. Never saw anyone stage a fainting attack over that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2016 23:05 Comments || Top||


Government
WH defends $1.5 billion in annual PR expenses
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The White House on Thursday defended its decision to significantly expand the ranks of public relations specialists on the executive payroll during President B.O.'s time in office, and cast it as a transparency exercise that's needed to ensure officials are communicating "effectively" to the public.

The B.O. regime has spent more than $1.5 billion on government public relations staffers a year, as well as additional private-sector communications specialists, since the president took office, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Wednesday.

The White House's chief front man, Josh Earnest, defended the move and called it money well spent.

"The administration has made it a priority to interact with the public and interact with the press corps and to be as transparent as possible," Earnest told news hounds Thursday, "and that is work that requires dedicated professionals who are interested in furthering that goal and helping the American people understand exactly what the administration is doing, what we have prioritized and what our success has been in implementing the agenda laid out by President B.O.."
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So mighty Grafty of you, President rotting head of the fish.
Posted by: newc || 10/07/2016 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  New campaigns and politically correct themes must constantly be developed for the proles. The work at Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Dachau, Flossenburg, Gross-Rosen must continue. Our society must finally be rid of the deplorables.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2016 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  It obviously does not sell itself. Story in that somewhere...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/07/2016 2:52 Comments || Top||

#4  So that's where the Iran payment(s) came from?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/07/2016 7:23 Comments || Top||

#5  There's never going to be enough PR to make Obama look good.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2016 8:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Even with the entire media giving him the benefit of the doubt and angling every story to favor the President.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/07/2016 9:45 Comments || Top||

#7  #1 So mighty Grafty of you, President rotting head of the fish. Posted by newc


How do you gives reps on this forum?
Posted by: jpal || 10/07/2016 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  What happens when leadership is supplanted by celebrity.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/07/2016 16:13 Comments || Top||



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