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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Huma Abedin's Emails Provide Further Evidence Of Clinton Pay For Play Scandal
[Daily Caller] Former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin used her personal email account to transmit classified documents and coordinate favors for Clinton donors, according to emails obtained by Judicial Watch Wednesday.

Judicial Watch obtained the documents as part of a lawsuit filed after the State Department failed to respond to a March 2015 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The newly-obtained documents include 91 Clinton email exchanges that were not turned over to the State Department, contradicting Clinton’s claim that, "as far as she knew," she had turned over all of her government emails.

The emails reveal multiple instances in which Abedin used her personal account to send and receive classified documents as well as arrange personal favors for Clinton donors and political allies on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s behalf.

"Pay to play, classified information mishandling, influence peddling, cover ups--these new emails show why the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s conduct must be resumed," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2017 01:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm still waiting to see a perp walk.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2017 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm still waiting to see a perp walk.

But you did hear that the Don is unhappy with Sessions?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/03/2017 8:41 Comments || Top||

#3  More, again? This is getting ridiculous.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/03/2017 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Saturation is a strategy I think. We will(have?) become inured to the fact of Demo deal making by local foreign influences.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/03/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Prepare an indictment, show it to Hillary, Baraq, Pelosi, Schumer and other Donkeycrat leaders. Then tell them that this Russian thing, along with Mueller, will either go away or else Hillary goes to jail.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/03/2017 11:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Tell Mueller to show us his cards in 30 days (or less) or he and his platoon of Clintonites are fired.
Posted by: Jumbo Turkeyneck8847 || 08/03/2017 13:48 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
CNN: Trump team decries leaks, but without them, we wouldn't know about the lies
Posted by: 746 || 08/03/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I love the leaks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/03/2017 2:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Why is Attorney General Jeff Sessions promising a crackdown on leaks out of the government?

I'd like to see a crackdown on the criminality of the previous admins. How about a few prosecutions?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2017 8:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
McMaster, On ‘Warpath,' Purges Key Trump Allies From White House NSC
[Free Beacon] An ongoing staffing purge being conducted by White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has thrown the West Wing into chaos, according to more than half a dozen Trump administration insiders who told the Washington Free Beacon that McMaster has been targeting long-time Trump loyalists who were clashing with career government staffers and holdovers from the Obama administration.

The purge is part of a larger drama unfolding inside the administration, between veteran Trump staffers committed to the president's campaign vision of "draining the swamp"’ in Washington and entrenched bureaucracies seeking to maintain control over policy decision-making, according to these sources, who said that many of these actions against his supporters are being conducted without Trump's knowledge.

The Trump staffers fired by McMaster had repeatedly clashed with career government staffers and holdovers from the Obama administration on issues as diverse as military strategies for Syria and Afghanistan, whether to tear up Obama's landmark Iran deal, the controversial détente with Cuba, the U.S. role in confronting Islamic radicalism, and the Paris Climate Accord, according to these sources.

More purges are said to be on the way, according to multiple insiders who described a list of at least four other senior NSC officials McMaster intends to target. Other sources confirmed the likelihood of more purges, but disputed some details on that list.

"McMaster basically has this list and over the next two weeks he's going to phase out" more senior officials loyal to Trump, said one administration insider intimately familiar with the upheaval occurring at the White House National Security Council. "They're taking out people who were chosen to best implement the president's policy that he articulated during the campaign."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2017 16:29 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Swampy McMaster face -
8 UP
Posted by: newc || 08/03/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Who's pulling McMaster's strings?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2017 17:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Plots within plots or more disinformation?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/03/2017 17:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Plots within plots or more disinformation?

Brier patch
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/03/2017 17:31 Comments || Top||

#5  What's it like to be a government parasite?
Posted by: 3dc || 08/03/2017 20:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Pro-Israel/anti Iran/Hamas/MB officials are being purged. Anti-Israel/pro Iran/Hamas/MB officials are being promoted.

Since Russia is an ally of the Iran/MB/Qatar axis why shouldn't McMaster's activities be classified as objectively pro Russian?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/03/2017 23:20 Comments || Top||


H.R. McMaster Promised Susan Rice She Could Keep Security Clearance in Secret Letter
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s National Security adviser H.R. McMaster allowed former President Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice to maintain her security clearance to access classified information -- despite reservations Trump had about her motives.

McMaster sent an official letter to Rice informing her that she would maintain unfettered access to classified information, according to a report from Circa’s Sara Carter.

The president was not aware of his actions, according to two senior White House officials and an intelligence official.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2017 16:20 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Dear Susan".... Isn't that special ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2017 16:25 Comments || Top||

#2  McMaster needs to get the chop. Chop chop.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 08/03/2017 16:33 Comments || Top||

#3  There is nothing Susan Rice has done that's worth defending.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2017 17:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Is this unusual?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/03/2017 17:32 Comments || Top||

#5  If not, it should be. She's no longer employed there and has proven her lack of honesty
Posted by: Frank G || 08/03/2017 17:59 Comments || Top||

#6  He needs to go along with that idiot Deputy FBI director.
Posted by: newc || 08/03/2017 19:07 Comments || Top||


Half of Detroit's 8 mayoral candidates are felons
Half of the eight mayoral hopefuls on Detroit's primary ballot next week have been convicted of felony crimes involving drugs, assault or weapons, a Detroit News analysis shows.

Three were charged with gun crimes and two for assault with intent to commit murder. Some of the offenses date back decades, the earliest to 1977. The most recent was in 2008.

Political consultant Greg Bowens said there are candidates with past hardships in every election cycle. It's not something unique to Detroit or the political arena in general, he said.

"Black marks on your record show you have lived a little and have overcome some challenges," said Bowens, a former press secretary to Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer and NAACP activist. "They (candidates) deserve the opportunity to be heard, but they also deserve to have the kind of scrutiny that comes along with trying to get an important elected position."

Tuesday's Detroit mayoral primary election is the first since the city exited bankruptcy in 2014. The field of eight will be narrowed to two who will face off in the fall.

Under state election law, convicted felons can vote and run for office as long as they are not incarcerated or guilty of certain fraud-related offenses, or crimes involving a breach of the public trust. The Detroit News reviewed the backgrounds of all the mayoral contenders.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/03/2017 11:24 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Um, surprise?
Posted by: Pappy || 08/03/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  The other half were smart enough not to get caught?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/03/2017 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  The other half were smart enough not to get caught?

I'd say that's the case with most politicians.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/03/2017 11:49 Comments || Top||

#4  The others were on the JV Team and didn't have a record yet?
Posted by: magpie || 08/03/2017 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  You know how hard it is for ex-cons to find employment anywhere else?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/03/2017 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Funny how one word is missing from the article - Democrat.
Posted by: Raj || 08/03/2017 12:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Only 4 out of 8.... not bad I'd say.
Posted by: Jumbo Turkeyneck8847 || 08/03/2017 13:43 Comments || Top||


Nancy Pelosi holds aide's hand while navigating sidewalk
[American Mirror] Nancy Pelosi appears to be growing feeble of mind, but now of body, too?

The 77-year-old, three-decade member of Congress was recently approached by a citizen with an ominous message: "Prison time is coming soon. Be ready."

After leaning in to hear the man’s statement, Pelosi didn’t react and instead, turned and walked away.

An aide approached Pelosi and grabbed her hand as she navigated the sidewalk.

The American Mirror has been documented Pelosi’s bizarre behavior regularly.

In mid-July, the House Minority Leader had a bizarre reaction as a reporter was asking her about North Korean aggression: She giggled.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2017 08:53 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Earwig jamming?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/03/2017 10:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Hard to see with tits for eyebrows.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/03/2017 16:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Botox side effects.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/03/2017 16:31 Comments || Top||

#4  A portrait of Pelosi

Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 08/03/2017 18:34 Comments || Top||


Government
Comey Signs Book Deal Worth Over $2 Million
[Free Beacon] He's not the FBI director anymore, but James Comey has something to do now that he's got a new book deal.

Comey inked the deal with Flatiron Books, an imprint under global publisher Macmillan, to write a book about leadership and decision making, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. His experience as FBI director under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump will likely feature in the "high-stakes situations" that Flatiron teased as the book's subject.

"Throughout his career, James Comey has had to face one difficult decision after another as he has served the leaders of our country," Flatiron Publisher and President Bob Miller told the AP a statement. "His book promises to take us inside those extraordinary moments in our history, showing us how these leaders have behaved under pressure."

Flatiron has not disclosed the terms of the deal, but the AP did speak with three sources close to the auction who said it climbed above $2 million. Several publishers were bidding on the rights to publish the book.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2017 01:06 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The new class takes care of its own.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/03/2017 3:48 Comments || Top||

#2  He is a showboat, useless piece of shit charlatan.

Not to mention corrupt as hell. He let the Clintons slide 20 times for actionable crimes.

That a$$hole obama too.

As is that idiot hack Muller who needs 20 democrat lawyers working to find a crime in a non - anything.

Useless to all of Humanity except a political cabal that is democrat.

Congress fires Mueller. That fraud.

I HATE DEMOCRATS.
Posted by: newc || 08/03/2017 5:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Insightful, riveting, revealing. Jim Comey takes the reader deep inside the inner workings of the world's most professional law enforcement organization.
~ Former FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2017 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  "Throughout his career, James Comey has had to face one difficult decision after another as he has served the leaders of our country," Flatiron Publisher and President Bob Miller told the AP a statement. "His book promises to take us inside those extraordinary moments in our history, showing us how these leaders have behaved under pressure."

What a load of self-serving crap--all to sell a book. An extraordinary moment would for Comey to have resigned in protest of serving in a criminal organization. He would not have taken all that Clinton money in the first place. He would not have abetted a criminal organization in a cover up.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2017 8:45 Comments || Top||

#5  A legal payout bribe and out in the open. This is how the demoncrats do it. "Write" a book at the end and collect your silver.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/03/2017 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  I can't wait to not read it.
Posted by: Raj || 08/03/2017 14:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Comey inked the deal ... to write a book about leadership and decision making,

The snark just writes itself.

Suggested titles:
Leadership and Decision Making for Dummies
The Player
Posted by: SteveS || 08/03/2017 18:17 Comments || Top||


Sen. Claire McCaskill Open to a $32 Trillion ‘Medicare for All' Single-Payer Health Care Scheme
[Breitbart] Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) revealed at a recent Missouri town hall that she could support a single-payer health care system.

A recent Urban Institute study suggests that a single-payer health care system could cost $32 trillion over the next ten years.

McCaskill admitted that she would remain open to a single-payer health care system if Democrats were able to keep costs down through comparison shopping.

McCaskill confessed:
And if we can get those health care costs down through this comparison shopping. And if we can figure out a way to make sure that comparison-shopping doesn’t go away with a single-payer system, that we don’t lose the value of competition, then I think we could consider it. In the meantime, what I think that we should do is put what is a quasi-public option on the exchanges. People between the ages of 55 and 65 are the people that need health insurance the most, and in the Republican bills are going to pay the most.
McCaskill earlier in April proclaimed that she does not support a single-payer healthcare system, although she would allow individuals to buy into Medicaid and Medicare if they only have one option on the Obamacare exchanges. The Missouri Democratic senator explained:
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2017 00:59 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course she's 'open to it.' Medicare for all aka 'Single Payer' was the plan all along.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2017 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Where the $32 trillion are supposed to come from?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/03/2017 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  That $32 trillion is before applying government cost underestimation and other factors - probably more than double that.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/03/2017 1:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Senator who?

Your entire growth rate does not even come close to the actual $12 Trillion it takes to feed a LOG TRAIN,and pieces of shit lawyers like you do not actually know how to actually EARN what the cost of this is.

Because you idiot lawyer commies in the government are always a net loss on any balance sheet.

You suck very bad in all economics as any idiot marxist does. All you do is corrupt education and deliver sloppy seconds.

I HATE YOU. YOU ARE THE DESTRUCTORS OF CIVILIZATION ACROSS THE WORLD.

Your idiot salaries, and the cost of doing business with an idiot collective with the likes of you is just like a US Soviet "democrat" government.

For anything you idiots know nothing, un-hireable, pieces of marxist shit you people are. You do not know how things sholud work, or do work. You are useless o all of civilization.

And yes!
This is Personal.

Here is your GDP GDP (purchasing power parity):
$18.56 trillion (2016 est.)
$18.27 trillion (2015 est.)
$17.81 trillion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars

And you are $216 Trillon in debt to unfunded liabilities you already promised.

Worse yet, you are adding icing to a cake that does not exist.

You, Claire are the House of Cards.
You are the reason we must .....

Primary, Primary, Primary,
Primary, Primary, Primary.

Bring important things home again, and get off of this idiot leviathan full of idiot tyrants with stupid commie mental midget ignorant ideas.

F all of you know nothing politicians and don't let Satan hit you on your way out.

Posted by: newc || 08/03/2017 4:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Meanwhile they [Congress] choose{s} a gold-level Obamacare policy and receive(s) federal subsidies that cover 72 percent of the cost of the premiums.


wiki image.

Medicare costs an aging population with many ailments $505 billion/yr. The oldsters pay for their Medicare and a supplemental policy--they have paid into the Medicare fund their entire lives and they continue to pay for it after 65.

There are the numbers Claire. Go back to your drawing board. If you can't figure this out, you and the rest of your ilk should step down. No way, that healthcare ought to cost $3.2 trillion/year.

Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2017 8:37 Comments || Top||

#6  ...if Democrats were able to keep costs down through comparison shopping.

How'd that work out the last time you tried it?
Posted by: Raj || 08/03/2017 12:15 Comments || Top||

#7  "Comparison shopping" with a single-payer would end up being the single-payer (the gov't) doing the comparison, picking a winner then requiring everyone to use that winner ... right?

In other words, no real choice from the consumer end.
Posted by: ExtremeModerate || 08/03/2017 13:31 Comments || Top||

#8  That $32 trillion is before applying government cost underestimation and other factors - probably more than double that.

Personally, I have the factor at 3 - 3.5 and it feels low sometimes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/03/2017 17:17 Comments || Top||

#9  In a parallel development, Britain's NHS North Yorkshire Trust announced yesterday that persons with a body mass index of over 30, or are smokers, will have an additional year wait for surgical procedures. Because you cost too much.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/03/2017 18:43 Comments || Top||

#10  Medicare for all probably does not include Congresscritters or their minions.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/03/2017 21:16 Comments || Top||



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