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Home Front: Politix
Romanian hacker who claims he breached Clinton server says he spoke with FBI at length
"Just a security review"
The Romanian hacker who says he easily breached Hillary Clinton's personal email server also claimed, in a series of interviews with Fox News, that he spoke with the FBI at length on the plane when extradited from Romania to Virginia last month.

"They came after me, a guy from the FBI, from the State Department," 44-year-old Marcel Lehel Lazar, who goes by the moniker "Guccifer," told Fox News during a jailhouse phone interview. He said the conversation was "80 minutes ... recorded," and he took his own notes.

A government source confirmed that the hacker had a lot to say on the plane but provided no other details. Lazar was flown to the U.S. to face separate cyber-crime charges.

In addition to the apparent conversation with the FBI on the plane, Fox News has learned a meeting was expected as early as this week at the Alexandria, Va., detention center where he's being held involving Guccifer, the FBI, the U.S. attorney and the defendant's court-appointed lawyer.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2016 11:28 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Safe to assume he got immunity for spilling his guts?
Posted by: Raj || 05/07/2016 13:27 Comments || Top||

#2  If he gets released, he'd better stay out of Ft. Marcy Park.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/07/2016 15:29 Comments || Top||

#3  And don't try the sushi...
Posted by: Steve White || 05/07/2016 15:57 Comments || Top||

#4  yooo nooo, Ima outa shape
Posted by: Shipman || 05/07/2016 16:00 Comments || Top||

#5  No point in any of that now, the FBI already has the information.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2016 17:28 Comments || Top||


Jeb Bush: I will not vote for Donald Trump
BLUF: [LI] "In November, I will not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, but I will support principled conservatives at the state and federal levels, just as I have done my entire life. For Republicans, there is no greater priority than ensuring we keep control of both chambers of Congress. I look forward to working hard for great conservatives in the Senate and House in the coming months."
Music to the Clinton's ears.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2016 05:32 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The day after Jeb dropped out of the race I commented that he could now focus on getting Hillary elected. A Rantburger called my comment 'idiotic'. I request a written retraction on the critique of my comment.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/07/2016 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  There is an increasing level of noise on the internets regarding a third party candidate. That too, is music to the Clinton ear.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2016 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  ...During the early primaries, if I was asked whether or not I supported JEB!, my answer was that I felt he was an honest, sincere man - but I would be damned if I was going to vote for a dynasty. Now, it's clear that the honest/sincere part was a complete lie as well - whether or not you agree with Trump, this can't be seen as anything more than a petulant hissy fit on JEB!'s part.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/07/2016 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  ....honest, sincere man

Yes, please strike 'honest, sincere men' from my assessments of Ryan and Romney as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Beltway Party is a true tag of these people. Although Inner Party probably is just as appropriate.

Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2016 8:43 Comments || Top||

#6  If Trump succeeds in doing NOTHING else, he has disclosed the beltway party elite for whom and what they are.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2016 8:47 Comments || Top||

#7  I am sure Trump is devastated to hear this.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/07/2016 8:59 Comments || Top||

#8  I wasn't going to vote for Jeb? either.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 05/07/2016 9:01 Comments || Top||

#9  It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you.



Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2016 9:38 Comments || Top||

#10  where's the "sour grapes" graphic?
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2016 11:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Jeb takes his toys and goes home. The same thing they made Trump promise not to do if he lost. Anyone wonder why nobody like politicians these days?
Posted by: jpal || 05/07/2016 11:51 Comments || Top||

#12  What about "men", Besoeker?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2016 11:52 Comments || Top||

#13  Who needs Jeb when you got Cheney?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/07/2016 11:56 Comments || Top||

#14  I doubt if I'm alone in saying that I would have never voted for Jeb either. I'd just as soon cast a protest vote for a third party candidate and thereby let Hillary win than vote for Jeb. So there.

Principled conservative my ass. Jeb's only principles are to server the special interests both foreign and domestic who sponsored his candidacy.

The primaries are over, Jeb. You lost. You are now irrelevant and that's a good thing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/07/2016 12:02 Comments || Top||

#15  The beltway party won't give up. It is an existential thing.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/07/2016 13:01 Comments || Top||

#16  Procopius2k - just for you!

Posted by: 3dc || 05/07/2016 13:17 Comments || Top||

#17  Considering only a couple people and big money supported him.... I doubt anyone will miss his stupid ass.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2016 15:10 Comments || Top||

#18  Instapundit's comment: MAN NOBODY VOTED FOR ANNOUNCES WHO HE WON’T VOTE FOR
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2016 15:21 Comments || Top||

#19  Lotta bed-wetting from the usual anti JEB! Parties. You have emerged victorious from the shit-pit with Mr. Bouffant who is yes,yes,yes, here it comes babies a RINO!

LOL I got my rino speks on.
JEB! Was worser than Hitlery!

Talk to yawl later after After the reign of the "Führerin" (at least she's not a RINO,) is over.

Posted by: Shipman || 05/07/2016 16:20 Comments || Top||

#20  "Please clap."
Posted by: regular joe || 05/07/2016 21:08 Comments || Top||

#21  Instapundit's comment: MAN NOBODY VOTED FOR ANNOUNCES WHO HE WON’T VOTE FOR

ooo, that's a zinger
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2016 21:15 Comments || Top||


A Trump proposal for national debt would send rates soaring
Slouching towards Venezuela
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ In the event that the U.S. economy crashed, Donald Trump has floated a recovery plan based on his own experience with corporate bankruptcy: Pay America's creditors less than full value on the U.S. Treasurys they hold.

Experts see it as a reckless idea that would send interest rates soaring, derail economic growth and undermine confidence in the world's most trusted financial asset.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee suggested in a phone interview Thursday with CNBC that he would stimulate growth through borrowing. If trouble arose, he added, he could get investors to accept reduced payments for their Treasury holdings.

Trump later clarified that comment to say he would offer to buy the bonds back at a discount from investors in hopes of refinancing them at lower rates.

"I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal," Trump told CNBC.

Such a move, never before attempted by the U.S. government, would likely spook investors whose trust in Treasury notes keeps global financial markets operating.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 05/07/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The deficit has doubled under Obama on the Dem side and under the Republican Chair of the House Budget Committee .............. Paul Ryan

Who is the Republican Speaker of the House who says he is not ready to support the Republican Nominee? ................ Paul Ryan

Who was a major Republican who said he will skip the Republican Convention this year because he cannot support the current Republican nominee? Mitt Romney. And who is close to Mitt Romney? ............. Paul Ryan

Who lost his own state in the 2012 election as candidate as Vice President? ............... Paul Ryan

Who is willing to try anything now to stay in power even if it means undermining Trump somehow, someway? ............ The Establishment and Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
Posted by: Ho Chi Crinens5363 || 05/07/2016 1:22 Comments || Top||

#2  The economy has been on the verge of collapsing since about 2007. There has been no real economic growth. Only the Fed's money printing and suppression of interest rates has been keeping it going. Maybe the easiest way out of a crash would be an Arc Light strike of B52s dropping Benjamins over US soil.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/07/2016 3:31 Comments || Top||

#3  How about something innovative. Lets say, recalling all gold and silver and issuing an entirely new currency, something called Obamabacks ?

...derail economic growth and undermine confidence

That train has already left the station.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2016 4:49 Comments || Top||

#4  The reason that we are in such trouble is BECAUSE the interest rates have been held artificially low.

If Bush or Obama had raised them to even half of the real cost of borrowing money, there would have been 18 months of pain followed by at least a partial authentic recovery.

But that would entail incumbent politicians and bureaucracy chiefs falling on their swords and losing their precious six-figure jobs, so it never happened.

Forty years of easy borrowing so that the entrenched in the public sector have never had to tell the truth about the WWII peace dividend running out and come up with honest solutions and plans for America going forward have come home to roost.
Posted by: no mo uro || 05/07/2016 5:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Rising interest rates could also signal a return of investor dollars to banks, which sadly, are now owned by the government.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2016 5:10 Comments || Top||

#6  How do you say "screwed" in Mandarin?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2016 6:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Such a move, never before attempted by the U.S. government, would likely spook investors whose trust in Treasury notes keeps global financial markets operating.

We are bankrupt. The only thing keeping the game going is lying to ourselves. When we go tango uniform like other countries, they'll all go down economically with us. What would they prefer, to be paid at a discount or stiffed like the GM/Chrysler stockholders? The 'world financial markets' are just as guilty in keeping this ponsi scheme running as anyone else. They should have avoided buying Treasury notes a long time ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2016 8:30 Comments || Top||

#8  If somehow we could make printed money less....appealing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2016 8:40 Comments || Top||

#9  BTW, because of all that, expect the amount of (illegal) foreign money flowing into the Hillary campaign to eclipse the first Obama run. Got to keep the game going.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2016 9:30 Comments || Top||



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