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French Special Forces Kill Top Al-Qaida Militant in Mali
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Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton caught in lie: Benghazi committee contradicts claim of no subpoena
The House Select Committee on Benghazi released Wednesday the March 4 subpoena for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, refuting her claim in a national TV interview that she was never subpoenaed.

The subpoena was issued directly to Mrs. Clinton after lawmakers became aware that she exclusively used personal email and an email server kept in her home for official business as America's top diplomat, which removed her correspondence form the custody of the State Department and shielded it form being accessed by congressional investigators or public requests under the Freedom of Information Act, according to the committee.

"The committee has issued several subpoenas, but I have not sought to make them public," said Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the committee. "I would not make this one public now, but after Secretary Clinton falsely claimed the committee did not subpoena her, I have no choice in order to correct the inaccuracy."

In an interview Tuesday with CNN, Mrs. Clinton insisted that she had not been subpoenaed for the email when she deleted more than 30,000 email she deemed personal and then wiped clean the server to prevent the email from being restored.

Mrs. Clinton turned over to the State Department about 55,000 pages of emails that she hand-picked to be reviewed and potentially released by agency.

"I've never had a subpoena," Mrs. Clinton said in the interview, which was her first national TV interview since entering the presidential race three months ago.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/08/2015 15:25 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Like the press will call her out on this....
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/08/2015 15:49 Comments || Top||

#2  "I've never had a subpoena."

Nope, Huma got it.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 07/08/2015 16:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Caught in a lie again?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/08/2015 20:38 Comments || Top||


Hillary Clinton on Her 'Last Rodeo'
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Posted by: Fred || 07/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can we agree to ban this picture?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/08/2015 2:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, please!!
Posted by: Steven || 07/08/2015 3:15 Comments || Top||

#3  wait til the "Assless Chaps" pic comes out
Posted by: Frank G || 07/08/2015 7:12 Comments || Top||

#4  It's because she's obviously destined to become Queen Hillary, and leave the throne to Chelsea.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/08/2015 7:23 Comments || Top||

#5  She's only inevitable if the GOP establishment pushes a candidate on the platform of pro-illegal, pro-crony capitalism, pro-Obamacare (we'll just make some tweeks and changes), and stupid trade policies (we get nothing but trinkets and they get all the business).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2015 8:37 Comments || Top||

#6  I think her last rodeo was long ago--she just keeps getting on her high horse. Last roundup?--hope and change to believe in.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/08/2015 14:03 Comments || Top||

#7  She's the Bob Dole candidate. She's waited her turn and should the party choice because of that.

I hope it works out as well for her as it did for Dole.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/08/2015 14:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Wehell, iff my childhood dreams/visions, 1960's-1970's Guam Taotamonas , + of course Madonna Vids prove true, + usually do, DITTO AS PER JEB BUSH ALA 2020 CAMPAIGN YEAR.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/08/2015 20:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Obama cites Kirkuk and Kobani as examples of success against ISIS
[RUDAW.NET] In a speech at the Pentagon on Monday US President Barack Obama
Ready to Rule from Day One...
said that progress has been made in the fight against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS), with coalition Arclight airstrikes and local forces on the ground.

"Altogether, ISIL has lost over a quarter of the populated areas it had seized in Iraq," said Obama. "ISIL's strategic weaknesses are real."

Obama said that local groups on the ground have proven effective in pushing back ISIS in many areas, mentioning Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
Dam, Tikrit, and Kobani as examples.

"In the past year we've seen when we have effective partners on the ground, ISIL can be pushed back," Obama said.

Obama vowed that all elements of American power would be involved in fighting the krazed killer organization.

The US President said that ISIS is posing a threat to all countries in the region and therefore all nations need to do more in order to defeat the group militarily and ideologically.

"This is not simply a military effort," he said. "Ideologies are not defeated by guns. They're defeated with better ideas."

He added: "In order for us to defeat terrorist groups like ISIL and al-Qaeda, we must discredit their ideology. This broader challenge of countering violent extremism,"

Obama who said that the US is not in war with Islam, said that efforts should be made to stem the flow of imported muscle into Iraq and Syria.

"Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas. We will never be at war with Islam," he said.

Obama said that the US has stepped up its fight against ISIS' online recruitment efforts and he encouraged countries with large Moslem populations to increase economic opportunities for young people to prevent them from joining radical groups.

"This larger battle for hearts and minds is going to be a generational struggle," Obama said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I guess future historians will call us Civilization of the Shameless.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/08/2015 2:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Were they successes? Sort of, in a 'last man standing' sense. Did he have anything to do with them? Well, he was alive on the planet at the same time, and apparently all things flow from his selfness.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/08/2015 7:30 Comments || Top||

#3  "Ideologies are not defeated by guns" must be the new catchphrase. He says it twice in the six sentences quoted, and approaches the idea once, for a total of 50%. Perhaps this is a non-representative sample, but listening to that speech must have been excruciating.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/08/2015 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  "Ideologies are not defeated by guns" - maybe not by guns alone, but if the opponent ideology is using guns your ideology had better be able to defend itself.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/08/2015 8:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Well the towns being overrun by ISIS is a victory in Obumble's eyes. He WANTS them to win.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/08/2015 9:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes. I'm sure the ISJV will trade it all for gay marriage, free contraception, and feminism.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/08/2015 12:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Remember when the ISJV was about to overrun Kobani, and Team Obama started distancing itself from the impending capture and slaughter of its residents, "Oh, Kobani? Just a little crossroads town, to biggie."

Or, straight from the horse's mouth:
Speaking tonight, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, suggested that preventing the fall of Kobani was not a strategic US objective. “As horrific as it is to watch in real time what is happening in Kobani, you have to step back and understand the strategic objective,” he said.

October 8, 2014, Independent UK
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/08/2015 18:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Ideologies might not be defeated by guns, but it is Nukes 1 Shinto 0.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/08/2015 20:48 Comments || Top||

#9  "We will never be at war wid Islam" > Wehell, To paraph "THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON"S CAPTAIN AMERICA = "RADICAL ISLAM IS AT WAR WID US"!

Speaking of "generational struggle" ...

* TOPIX > [RCP] OBAMA'S LONG-TERM STRATEGY FOR DEFEATING ISIS LEAVES PROBLEMS FOR [new/next]GENERATIONS.

* SAME > [USJCS Chair] DEMPSEY DESCRIBES ISIL STRATEGY, "UNCERTAIN GLOBAL SECURITY".

NUTSHELL, Dempsey says that, thus far, ...
> US-ALLIED Islamist Enemies are getting increasingly STRONGER.
> US ALLIES are increasingly reliant or dependent on US Materiel + Other DIRECT SUPPORT/MILAID for battlefield success + operations - widout it only God knows iff they can defeat the ISIS + Qaeda Boyz, etal. on their own.
> US-SPECIFIC COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES STEADILY DECREASING = MINIMIZED.

* TOPIX > OBAMA'S NEW IRAQ STRATEGY BOILS DOWN TO "DON'T LOSE" - BLOOMBERG VIEW.

Ditto as per agz CHINA in East-South China Seas???

* WORLD NEWS > [Business Insider] US STILL DOESN'T HAVE A STRATEGY THAT HAS CHANCE OF DEFEATING ISIS.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > ASHTON CARTER [admits]: US HAS TRAINED AN "AWFULLY SMALL NUMBER OF ["Moderate"]SYRIAN REBELS", far far below expected target of 5,400.

As per CNN AM, things got a little testy wid John Mccain on the subject while Carter was testifying in committee on the Hill - see below.

* RELATED DAILY STAR > MCCAIN SUGGESTS US "LOSING" AGZ ISIS [Calls Obama Admin's claims of success "DELUSIONAL/SELF-DELUSIONAL"].

* RELATED LUCIANNE > WHILE HOUSE ADMITS NOT ENOUGH SYRIAN REBELS TRAINED.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/08/2015 22:50 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2015-07-08
  French Special Forces Kill Top Al-Qaida Militant in Mali
Tue 2015-07-07
  49 ISIS affiliates killed in Nangarhar drone strikes
Mon 2015-07-06
  Egyptian army kills 63 militants in North Sinai
Sun 2015-07-05
  At least 25 Nusra members dead in mosque blast in Syria's Idlib
Sat 2015-07-04
  Official: Drone kills 4 Qaida Suspects in Yemen
Fri 2015-07-03
  Bangladesh police arrest 'top Qaeda militant'
Thu 2015-07-02
  Al Qaeda Pakistan chief killed in Lahore raid: Punjab home minister
Wed 2015-07-01
  Tunisia says resort gunman was trained in Libya
Tue 2015-06-30
  Mosul resistance group 'kills 23 Saudi fighters'
Mon 2015-06-29
  US air strikes target militants near border in east Afghanistan
Sun 2015-06-28
  Activists: ISIS fighters kill 200 civilians in Kobani
Sat 2015-06-27
  UN chief condemns 'appalling' attacks in France, Tunisia, Kuwait
Fri 2015-06-26
  Man decapitated in ISIS attack in France
Thu 2015-06-25
  Deadly IS car bomb in Kobani
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