[National Review] On Thursday, the Justice Department inspector general released a sprawling 568-page report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton emails investigation in 2015-16 by the FBI and DOJ. There’s far too much in the report to detail here in one bite, as it covered (among other things):
1. The decision not to charge Secretary Clinton or anyone else for the mishandling of State Department emails, some containing classified information, by routing them through her now-infamous "homebrew" server (a decision that looks ever more reckless now that we have all focused more intently on the voracious email-hacking appetite of hostile powers such as Russia and China);
2. The also now-notorious tarmac meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, and the impact of Lynch’s refusal to recuse herself from the investigation;
3. The decisions by Jim Comey to make public statements in July and October 2016 in the midst of the election;
4. The ethical conflicts of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe (over his wife’s receipt of campaign donations from Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe), and McCabe’s role in slow-walking the followup investigation of Anthony Weiner’s laptop;
5. The ethical conflicts of Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik and his ties to John Podesta and the Clinton campaign;
6. Jim Comey’s own use of a Gmail account for official FBI business, as well as that of others at the FBI;
7. The affair between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page and their various text messages (some more related to the Russia investigation, which was outside the scope of the IG report) bashing Trump;
8. The ethical tangles of the FBI’s decision to allow Hillary Clinton to be represented at her interview by lawyers who were also key witnesses;
9. Pervasive FBI leaks and the receipt of various financial benefits by FBI agents from the media; and
10. An FBI Twitter document dump on the Clinton Foundation a week before the election.
Nobody comes out of this report looking good, and it is hard to blame voters who come away feeling vindicated in the view that that the entire class of elected officials, civil servants, and the press are a corrupt racket.
[www.politico.eu] Former tennis superstar is war-torn Central African Republic’s attaché for sports and culture to the EU.
Former tennis superstar Boris Becker has claimed his diplomatic role for the Central African Republic protects him against legal claims in a bankruptcy case.
The three-time Wimbledon winner — who was declared bankrupt in 2017 over money owed to a private British bank — told the U.K. High Court his appointment as the war-torn African country’s attaché for sports and culture to the European Union should afford him diplomatic immunity against claims on “further assets,” BBC reported Friday.
“This means he cannot be subject to legal process in the courts of any country for so long as he remains a recognized diplomatic agent,” the former tennis star’s legal team said.
Becker won Wimbledon at the age of 17 in 1985, and again in 1986 and 1989. Following retirement, he worked as a pundit for the BBC and became a diplomat for the Central African Republic, one of the world’s poorest countries, in April.
The German former champion claimed the proceedings against him are “unjustified and unjust” and that he is invoking his diplomatic immunity to “bring this farce to an end” and stop “the gravy train for the suits.”
[The Federalist] To the outsider, New York City is world-famous for attractions like Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, and the Museum of Modern Art. But to a family of locals, perhaps no landmark impacts public discourse more than the city’s illustrious program for gifted and talented students known as the Specialized High Schools.
These are a group of eight highly selective, publicly funded high schools that offer meritorious students in NYC the opportunity to receive an advanced education. To many denizens of NYC, these schools, which include the famous Stuyvesant and Bronx Science High Schools, represent the hopes and dreams of parents desiring that their children have a better life. Just last week, Democratic Mayor Bill De Blasio released a plan to fundamentally upend the way these schools operate, especially as they relate to its most frequented minority group: Asian-Americans.
De Blasio’s plan would eliminate NYC’s Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), and replace it with a requirement that the top seven percent of every middle school in NYC be admitted to a Specialized High School ‐ thus exchanging a fundamentally standardized, meritocratic applications process for one predicated on demographics. This approach would heavily favor minorities in low-performing schools (which trend black and Hispanic) over those in high performing schools (which trend Asian). His plan would also reserve 20 percent of seats for schools in "high-poverty" areas.
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And when the unqualified students cannot operate at the level the specialized schools require. Well that is because of racism of course. We will need to 'tone down' the requirements to better accomodate the students of course.
[Guardian] Paul Manafort, formerly Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, was taken into custody on Friday after a federal judge (Obama appointee Amy Berman Jackson) determined he had violated the terms of his bail as he awaits trial on multiple federal felony charges.
Manafort, 69, thus became the second former Trump aide to go to jail related to charges brought by the special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian election interference and links between Trump aides and Moscow. Manifort has yet to be convicted of ANYTHING !
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The fact they went after him for witness tampering is ironic. The FBI gave Hillary’s witnesses immunity and then invited them to her interviews with the FBI.
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People at Manafort's level all play fast n loose. Works until it doesn't.
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Unbridled power of the state on display. An argument for term limits of Federal judges. Also an example of the vindictiveness of the Swamp. Manafort's greatest sin was being Trump's campaign manager and helping defeat Hillary Clinton.
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Going to disagree, John. Manafort was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time, but he was also ripe for the picking. If I'm wrong, the wheels will grind until he's clear.
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[Zero Hedge] Earlier this week while most of the world was transfixed on the World Cup, the Trump/Kim handshake, or a multitude of other sundry events, Julius Malema, aka the Hitler of South Africa, was busy telling white people in his country that he’s not going wage genocide against them. Yet.
In an interview with TRT World News published this week, Malema said, "We have not called for the killing of white people. At least for now. I can’t guarantee the future."
When the reporter mentioned that some people might view these remarks as a call to genocide, Malema responded, "Crybabies. Crybabies," but later warned white South Africans that "the masses are on board" for "an un-led revolution and anarchy".
Malema is a prominent politician in South Africa and at the forefront of his country’s movement to confiscate land from white property owners and redistribute it to the country’s black population. If this fellow comes to power in SA, be afraid. Be very afraid.
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The Malema supporters in the Parliament wear red and are a growing number. They frequently scream down speakers, conduct walkouts, and disrupt the proceedings.
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Zuma's replacement President Cyril Ramaphosa is a hopeful breath of fresh air. His main emphasis thusfar appears to be ANC party repair. Ramaphosa seeks outside (international) investment and emphasis on education of the young people. With Zuma and Malema still lurking about, I hope he survives.
The prevailing attitude is.... "it's now our turn at the mines, agriculture, industry, and tourism."
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#1 The Malema supporters in the Parliament wear red and are a growing number. They frequently scream down speakers, conduct walkouts, and disrupt the proceedings.
[AmericanLibertyReport] One of the great controversies of the Chicago Jesus Obama administration has finally been cleared up. Ben Rhodes, the creative writing major who was placed in charge of creating a media echo chamber among stupid reporters to sucker America into the Iran nuclear deal, is publishing his memoirs this week.
Rhodes finally unravels the mystery of that photograph of Chicago Jesus Obama bowing to King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 2009. To the American people, that photograph sure did make it look like ‐ for the first time in history ‐ an American president was bowing and groveling to a foreign leader like a whiny, sniveling, submissive little coward.
But, Ben Rhodes’ new book clears it up. You see, Rhodes says Chicago Jesus Obama was not bowing in that photograph. Chicago Jesus Obama was simply bending over to examine a case of jewels that the king had just given him.
Wait, what?
Yes, sure enough, the State Department has confirmed that Chicago Jesus Obama and many of the members of his entourage for his Muslim Apology Tour 2009 accepted big sacks full of jewels from the Saudis.
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Well either he whipped out his jewellers loupe for a quick appraisal as all POTUS's carry one with them for just these occasions or he's a whiny, sniveling, submissive little coward.
Your guess is as good as mine. But i'll go with #2
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No to mention that, according the the Profit, Blacks have the head of a donkey and are good for nothing but slavery. Those are the Prophets words, not mine.
[DAWN] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... disputed findings by the Justice Department on Friday that former FBI Director James Comey's handling of the Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... email probe was not politically motivated, declaring that the FBI was biased "at the top level" and "plotting against my election."
The department's inspector general report, while critical of the FBI and Comey personally, did not find evidence that political bias tainted the investigation of Clinton's email practices in the months and days leading up to Trump's election.
But on Friday, after tweeting that he did a "great service" to the nation by firing Comey, Trump marched out to the White House North Lawn to talk with "Fox and Friends" for more than half an hour, claiming the report "totally" exonerated him, then pointed towards the accomplishments he said he had achieved and complained about not getting proper credit.
Then he turned to other news hounds and went over the same list for another 20 minutes.
On the inspector general report that found no political bias in the FBI's final conclusions, he said, "The end result was wrong. There was total bias."
"Comey was the ringleader of this whole, you know, the den of thieves. It was a den of thieves," he said.
Trump's comments followed the IG's 500-page report that said Comey was "insubordinate" in his handling of the Clinton investigation because he broke agency protocol. The report also rebuked FBI officials for exchanging anti-Trump text messages during the 2016 campaign.
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If a duly elected President is removed from office ay leftists for no reason whatsoever, everything in this country will crash. The markets, the currency, the banking system, the rule of law, the econnmy, everything.
The extreme threat to the United States is the attacks and attempts to take out the President of the Unïted States and anyone associated with the President by a domestic army of roque players.
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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[National Review] On Thursday, the Justice Department inspector general released a sprawling 568-page report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton emails investigation in 2015-16 by the FBI and DOJ. There’s far too much in the report to detail here in one bite, as it covered (among other things):
[DAWN] President 
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
