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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI Now Investigating Hillary's State Department For Corruption
[Daily Caller] he FBI is investigating whether Hillary Clinton's State Department improperly directed contracts to Clinton Foundation donors, in possible violation of public corruption laws, Fox News is reporting.

Three sources confirmed the previously-unknown investigation angle to Fox reporters Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne.

"The agents are investigating the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department contracts and whether regular processes were followed," one law enforcement source told Fox.

Examples abound of Clinton's State Department opening doors for Clinton Foundation donors, as well as to the then-secretary of state's friends and political allies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 02:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is so exciting. I can't wait to see the movie. Maybe with a car chase at the end. A convertible flying into a canyon, the protagonists fading in a slow-mo dive, the final explosion never seen, but inevitable.
Posted by: Bunyip || 02/12/2016 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  If the former Secretary of State should be elected to the White House, the majority-Republican Congress will continue these investigations throughout her tenure, even if the FBI is ordered to desist.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/12/2016 10:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Even though the FBI is under the executive branch and technically reports to the AG, the president has very little actual control of the FBI.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/12/2016 11:10 Comments || Top||

#4  This is how it will unravel for the Beast. I suspect the FBI has significant resources dedicated to this investigation. The wheels of justice turn slow but when it comes to public corruption - the wheels grind to a find dust. Still have to get by the numerous DOJ gatekeepers though.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 02/12/2016 13:27 Comments || Top||

#5  That's why leaks were invented.
Posted by: gorb || 02/12/2016 13:49 Comments || Top||


Beest Now Tied To At Least Four Investigations By Federal Agencies
[Daily Caller] The State Department's inspector general last year subpoenaed the Clinton Foundation for documents related to work that required approval from the Hillary Clinton State Department, making it now at least four investigations involving the Democratic presidential candidate being conducted by federal agencies.

According to The Washington Post, the State Department inspector general's subpoena, which was filed in the fall, also sought records related to longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin's concurrent employment in 2012 with the State Department, the Clinton Foundation, and Teneo Holdings, a Clinton-connected consulting firm.

Clinton's critics have asserted that the overlap between the State Department, her family's foundation, and Teneo during her tenure created potential conflicts of interest. The book "Clinton Cash," which was released last year, laid out numerous examples of the Clinton Foundation's wealthy donors gaining special access to Clinton's State Department. Other examples have emerged from the release of Clinton's State Department emails.

The newly revealed IG probe is in addition to the FBI's investigation of Clinton's private email server. That probe began last summer after the Intelligence Community's inspector general discovered "top secret" emails among Clinton's records. It also comes on top of the State Department's investigation of Clinton's emails. And as Fox News reported last month, the FBI also opened an investigation last year into whether the State Department provided special access and agency contracts to Clinton Foundation donors.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 02:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Could we have a look at the DoS 'no bid' Benghazi security contracting arrangements please ?

Reuters: Blue Mountain Chief Executive Officer Nigel Thomas, a former British special forces member, did not respond to emails or phone calls.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 3:02 Comments || Top||


Former Obama Defense Intel Chief Says Hillary Should '€˜Step Down'
[Daily Caller] President Barack Obama's former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) believes Hillary Clinton should drop out of the presidential race to clear the way for the probe of her private email server by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (Ret.) said he thought the former Secretary of State should leave the Democratic presidential race: "I think Hillary Clinton, for the good of the country, should step down and let this FBI investigation play out."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 02:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey General, if you don't mind, I'm throwing your hat in the ring for the soon to be vacated office of Director of Central Intelligence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 6:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Besoeker, considering the Clinton body count http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.php#axzz3zxTtc9Ky he might not be around long enough to fill the position.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/12/2016 8:15 Comments || Top||


'Top Secret' Intel Handled by At Least a Dozen of Hillary's Top Aides
[LI] At least a dozen email accounts handled the "top secret" intelligence that was found on Hillary Clinton's server and recently deemed too damaging for national security to release, a U.S. government official close to the review told Fox News.
The security violations were common knowledge and wide spread. Shocking absolutely SHOCKING !
The official said the accounts include not only Clinton's but those of top aides -- including Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan and Philippe Reines -- as well as State Department Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy and others.
"Others" meaning members of the Obama regime, the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, NORKS ?
A second source not authorized to speak on the record said the number of accounts involved could be as high as 30 and reflects how the intelligence was broadly shared, replied to, and copied to individuals using the unsecured server.

The State Department recently confirmed that the messages in question include the most sensitive kind of intelligence. On Jan. 29, Fox News first reported that some emails on Clinton's server were too damaging to release in any form. The State Department subsequently announced that 22 "top secret" emails were being withheld in full; these were the messages being handled by more than a dozen accounts.
As predicted here months ago, the 'Too Big to Fail' train is arriving precisely on schedule.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 02:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If the content cannot be declassified and provided to the committee or the public, please provide the 'Date Time Group' (DTG) of the Special Access Program (SAP) related emails.

No can do ?

I thought not.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  At least a dozen email accounts handled the "top secret" intelligence that was found on Hillary Clinton's server and recently deemed too damaging for national security to release, a U.S. government official close to the review

I suspect that our enemies/friendmies have looked at all these emails already so the damage is already done. So let the American people in on these critical emails so they can judge the damage done. It may come to that in the courts at some point.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/12/2016 18:21 Comments || Top||


Clinton Foundation received subpoena from State Department investigators
[WASHINGTONPOST] Investigators with the State Department issued a subpoena to the Bill, Hillary and Princess Chelsea Clinton Foundation last fall seeking documents about the charity's projects that may have required approval from the federal government during Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edward Stettinius, Jr. ...
's term as secretary of state, according to people familiar with the subpoena and written correspondence about it.

The subpoena also asked for records related to Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide who for six months in 2012 was employed simultaneously by the State Department, the foundation, Clinton's personal office, and a private consulting firm with ties to the Clintons.

The full scope and status of the inquiry, conducted by the State Department's inspector general, were not clear from the material correspondence reviewed by The Washington Post.
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As a uhemm professional courtesy Obama will encourage his AG to rope-a-dope on the emails containing sensitive material. However, it's questionable if he's willing to let Bill the Grifter taint his "legacy".
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/12/2016 14:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Somewhere, Richard Nixon is smiling.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/12/2016 23:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump: If Cruz Keeps Cheating, I'll Sue Him for Being Canadian
And while you're at it, could you please take care of Justin Bieber, too?
Despite polls showing him well ahead of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the South Carolina primary coming up in eight days, Donald Trump seems determined to keep pounding away at his rival, threatening on Friday afternoon to take him to court.

If Cruz doesn't "clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads" Trump wrote on Twitter, his primary means of communication outside rallies, "I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen."

Trump, who publicly pursued his futile obsession with proving that President Obama was not actually born in the United States, has in recent months turned a similar focus on Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.

The general consensus is that because Cruz was a citizen at birth due to his mother's citizenship, that he meets the requirement that any U.S. president be a "natural born" citizen. However, there has never been a legal decision making that determination, and a small but very real segment of the legal community believes that it remains a debatable question.

Cruz, who beat Trump in the Iowa caucuses but came in a distant third to the billionaire in New Hampshire, has been taking more and more incoming fire from the former reality television star. After retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson complained that on caucus night in Iowa Cruz supporters incorrectly informed Carson voters that their candidate was leaving the race, Trump took Carson's side.

The fight was a twofer for Trump: He got to call Cruz a cheater in public -- over and over again -- and he also began to claim that he would have won the race if Cruz vote total hadn't been padded with deluded Carson voters. It's far from clear that either of those claims is true.

Trump's "birther" attacks on Cruz seemed to have calmed down in recent weeks, but Friday's flare-up could have several causes. First, Trump really wants to win, and sees Cruz as his most dangerous rival at the moment. Second, Trump appears to believe Cruz is conducting some sort of dirty tricks campaign against him in South Carolina -- not an unlikely scenario in the Palmetto State.

On Thursday afternoon, Trump began a stream of tweets complaining about Cruz, which continued into Friday:

"We are getting reports from many voters that the Cruz people are back to doing very sleazy and dishonest 'pushpolls' on me. We are watching!" [A push poll is a campaign tool that uses a contrived poll with loaded questions to indirectly attack another candidate.]
"Cruz caught cold in lie after denial of push polls like lies w/ @RealBenCarson. How can he preach Christian values?"
"Lying Cruz put out a statement, 'Trump & Rubio are w/Obama on gay marriage.' Cruz is the worst liar, crazy or very dishonest. Perhaps all 3?"
"How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?"

The assault on Cruz appeared to culminate with the lawsuit threat on Friday afternoon.

There has been at least one attempt so far to challenge Cruz's eligibility for the presidency -- a laughably amateurish lawsuit filed in Houston last month. Whether Trump really thinks he would have a legal case is unclear. The more likely explanation is that he simply sees the birther questions as an effective line of attack against a troubling competitor, and will continue to use it as long as he thinks it is working.
Posted by: gorb || 02/12/2016 16:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump is a loudmouthed whining idiot. As are his followers.
Posted by: Clavimp Snore3460 || 02/12/2016 18:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump once again shows the class, good taste and tact he is famous for.

Do I need the sarcasm tag?
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/12/2016 18:50 Comments || Top||


Cruz Pulls Ad Because It Has a Porn Star
Ted Cruz released two ads attacking his Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Marco Rubio this week--but a revelation about one his ad's actors led that spot to be pulled from the airwaves.

Cruz, who fell to third place in this week's New Hampshire primary after a win in the Iowa caucuses, knocked the New Hampshire winner, Trump, for a "pattern of sleaze" linked to his support for eminent domain. In a one-minute ad titled "Parking Lot," Cruz calls out Trump for booting a woman off of her property in order to make room for a limousine parking lot. In the ad, Trump doesn't deny that he bought the woman's property for his private company. "I offered her a lot of money," he's seen saying in the ad, pointing to his chest as if to say he did so out of the goodness in his heart. Donald Trump has said he still supports eminent domain.

"Trump uses power for personal gain," the ad says. "Imagine what he could do as president."

In another ad released this week, Cruz attacked Rubio as "just a pretty face," in a 30-second South Carolina spot that parodied a self-help group griping over voting for a "Tea Party hero on the campaign" who went to Washington and "played patty cake with Chuck Schumer." The ad was later pulled, however, due to the acting background of one of its actors. It turns out, one of the women his campaign tapped to appear in the video, Amy Lindsay, has been featured in soft-core pornography flicks.
Was she nekkid in this one?
That revelation was first reported by BuzzFeed. After the ad was pulled, Lindsay tweeted that she was "disappointed" in the Cruz campaign.

Amy Lindsay ‎@amylindsayLA

Extremely disappointed the #TedCruz campaign pulled the national television spot I had a role in... @CNN @Foxnews #moretocome #myvotecounts

12:52 AM - 12 Feb 2016
Watch out, Ted. Trump will probably put her in an ad and pick up another 5% in the polls.
Posted by: gorb || 02/12/2016 11:45 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  soft-core pron is objectionable? Have you ever watched C-Span live coverage of the Wh0ring going on in Congress?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2016 12:00 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: gorb || 02/12/2016 12:13 Comments || Top||

#3  How soft core?
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2016 13:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Lets not mention the hard-code-whores in the Republican leadership shall we?

Actually I think they will have to claw their way up a couple of stages to reach the 'whore' level.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/12/2016 14:00 Comments || Top||

#5  How can she be a "star" if I've never even heard of her?
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/12/2016 14:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Haha!
Posted by: gorb || 02/12/2016 14:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Yeah I'll bet she's disappointed. Probably cried her eyes out all the way to the bank.

This is probably better publicity than American Idol.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/12/2016 15:55 Comments || Top||

#8  In the name of public service I offered to review her career in video, but haven't heard back. Hopefully they have a streaming link
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2016 22:04 Comments || Top||

#9  People need to make a living. Sometimes their first choice isn't available. As long as they are working, paying their own way, I Do Not Care! Cruz was dumb to let this go, would have been more 'inclusive'.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/12/2016 22:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Poor Teddy, shocked out of his Guccis,
Has ordered a clean via Crucis:
"Desist from soft-coring!
I do my own whoring,
Eschewing you nude hootchie-cootchies."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/12/2016 23:18 Comments || Top||


Sanders calls Kissinger '€˜destructive,' blasts the Beest for praising him
[Wash Times] Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders said former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was "not my kind of guy," and attacked rival Hillary Clinton for speaking of him highly in a previous debate and in a book review because of his role in the Vietnam War.

Mr. Sanders called Mrs. Clinton's praising words for Mr. Kissinger "rather amazing."

"Because I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country," Mr. Sanders said. "I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Kissinger."

Mr. Sanders blames Mr. Kissinger for creating the instability in Cambodia because of the bombing that happened in 1970 and creating a vacuum for the Khmer Rouge and dictator Pol Pot to flourish.

"So count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger," he said.
Little wonder Sanders enjoys such a following. Kissinger's misdeeds in SE Asia paled in comparison to his adoration of the Communist Chinese and massive wealth accumulation. In that regard, the Clintons, Bernie Madoff, and Henry have a great deal in common. Unfortunately, only one has been successfully convicted.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 10:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Harry Reid: Iowa, New Hampshire Too White To Decide Future Of Country
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] Sen. Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
(D-NV) defended the superdelegate system in the Democratic party nominating process in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell on Thursday. Reid said Iowa and New Hampshire have "no diversity." Reid said he asked himself, "how in the world could we have the future of this country be dependent" on these two states?

"The process was totally unfair before -- eight years ago. Eight years ago, I looked at this and I thought, how in the world could we have the future of this country be dependent on Iowa, which is 93% white, and we have New Hampshire which is 97% white, no diversity, no diversity in Iowa. And have the final decision made as to who is going to be the president of the United States based on those two states, it was wrong," Reid said.

Mitchell asked Reid how the superdelegate system is a fair process if Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
"clobbered" Clinton in New Hampshire with a 22-point landslide yet they both came out with 15 delegates each due to 6 superdelegates giving their support to Clinton.

"Even though [Bernie Sanders] won the election by a big margin in New Hampshire, the delegates came out even. It was not a good system, it's getting better," Reid said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"how in the world could we have the future of this country be dependent" on these two states?

A good question, no matter who asks it. The only time the rest of the US gives any consideration to IA or NH is during the presidential primaries. AFAIC, the first one should be in CA, FL, NY, states like that.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/12/2016 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  IA and NH has precisely the characteristics needed to "set the tone" of the political war. That is that they are small and relatively inconsequential.

If they weren't than the big money and corruptocrats would be all over them like flies on $hit.

They are also places that outsiders can make a mark in and show who is and isn't vulnerable. The game shouldn't be over in the first inning as it would be if one of the huge states went first.

It is the lack of patience in society that keeps trying to end the contest immediately. We want to know NOW who's going to win. Putting the big states first would just push back the start of the campaign another year because no one could afford NOT to be on top of their game from day one.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/12/2016 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  What about Nevada, Harry? How diverse is your home state? What are you doing to get more diversity? Accepting Syrian refuges? Haitian boat people? Honduran farmers? Iraqi Christians?

Wotta maroon.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/12/2016 7:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Nevada is overloaded with Italians and Mormons.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2016 10:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I do have a set of wonders about why it's essential that the most unruly twelve percent of the population be the electoral ideal.
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2016 10:56 Comments || Top||

#6  We have reached the time where whites only get a 2/3rd vote per single vote for everyone else.

Yay racial healing.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/12/2016 12:19 Comments || Top||

#7  There is one race, humans. Anyone claiming to be anything else should be immediately vivisected in a lab to determine what sort of alien they are. Anyone claiming racism will also be vivisected.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/12/2016 12:49 Comments || Top||

#8  I do have a set of wonders about why it's essential that the most unruly twelve percent of the population be the electoral ideal.

Because half of them actually vote?
Posted by: gorb || 02/12/2016 13:12 Comments || Top||

#9  How about "corrupt, liberal Mormons with ties to the Mob are too white to decide the future of this country?"

Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/12/2016 13:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Harry Reid? Too stupid and corrupt to have much to say about anyone or anything.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/12/2016 18:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Speaking of Dirty Harry, #9 Al, that should be "corrupt, liberal 'Mormons' with ties to the Mob"
Posted by: Barbara || 02/12/2016 19:17 Comments || Top||


Hillary Clinton Top Six Campaign Staffers Are All White Men
[BREITBART] As Hillary Clinton’s campaign looks to the black vote in South Carolina to fend off Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)’ momentum, a look at her staff list reveals an exclusively white leadership team mostly comprised of white males. In fact, her top six campaign officials are all white guys.
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing to be seen here. This simply illustrates the commitment of diversity from the partner of the first 'black president.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2  but if you look at who these white men have sold their souls to, its not so white

- Hillary - creature from Hell
- Bill --- recruiter of creatures from Hell
Posted by: lord garth || 02/12/2016 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey,Harry, maybe Hillary and her staff are too white to decide the future of America.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 02/12/2016 10:43 Comments || Top||

#4  That's no problem for the CBC though is it?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/12/2016 12:39 Comments || Top||


Harry Belafonte feels the Bern!
  • [DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders picked up another endorsement today - that of actor, activist and singer Harry Belafonte
  • Belafonte suggested that the Vermont senator could 'turn this ship of state, called America, around
  • The Belafonte endorsement comes before Nevada and South Carolina, where Sanders will have to pick up a solid share of the minority vote
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are you telling us, Harry, that The One hasn't turned this ship of state around from the Bush years?

Or that it hasn't come around far enough yet, and needs to make a couple of more circles?

Or you want to turn it back to the Reagan era?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/12/2016 7:51 Comments || Top||


Clinton receives Congressional Black Caucus endorsement
[WASHINGTONPOST] Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Timothy Pickering ...
and Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
will meet for their second one-on-one debate Thursday night, just hours after Clinton -- who is now banking on minority voters to help her struggling candidacy -- got a key endorsement from leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The debate in Milwaukee will begin at 9 p.m. and will be televised on PBS.

As the candidates prepared for the debate, Clinton got a bit of good news. She was endorsed by the political arm of the Congressional Black Caucus. Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), the caucus chairman, said no candidate "understands the racial divide" as well as Clinton does.
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There simply are no words.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2016 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  probably got the endorsement for under $1M

pin money
Posted by: lord garth || 02/12/2016 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Meanwhile brother Obama is flooding the country with illegals. Appropriate the past supporting the past.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 02/12/2016 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  End Game
Posted by: SR-71 || 02/12/2016 16:52 Comments || Top||


Government
IRS chief: We don't hire tax cheaters anymore
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Internal Revenue Service has adopted policies that prohibit staffers who cheat on their taxes from working there, the agency's head told senators on Wednesday.
As long as this man remains vertical and continues to take nourishment, I shall remain skeptical.
"I have no indication that anyone working for the IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
has not followed the updated procedures," IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the Senate Finance Committee. He added that those who hired tax cheats in the past "were operating under a different set of rules and regulations."

A 2015 report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that 1,580 employees at the agency had willfully failed to pay their taxes, while 18,300 did so unintentionally. Of those who willfully failed, the IG found 61 percent retained their positions.
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We found it cheaper to develop them internally."~
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/12/2016 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  You, the combined moochers defrauding the working people - the real ones, have already failed the smelly scrotum test. You have all been marked by your collective (COLLECTIVE) erosion of the law and destruction of any political trust in THIS United States.

Nothing you may do will ever (EVER) result in trust again.

The Evil will do (EVIL) still, and the Good will do Good still.

But YOU IRS, you need to be disemboweled and strangled by your entrails by both parties. Then thrown by both parties and your expired "department" into the alligator pit and then we will burn the alligators to ensure there is no way you return.

You scumbags.
Posted by: newc || 02/12/2016 0:53 Comments || Top||

#3  They won't hire them, but they won't fire them either.

Koskinen's the biggest POS ever to head that agency.
Posted by: Raj || 02/12/2016 14:13 Comments || Top||

#4  And we never lie.
Posted by: IRS || 02/12/2016 19:50 Comments || Top||


VA Bosses Want To Cut Red Tape That Blocks Firings
h/t Instapundent
The VA has some dedicated doctors and nurses. It also has a great many people who have retired in place. The VA is in desperate need of a house cleaning.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 02/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I use the VA. My doctors are great (except for one jerk). I don't think it is the med staff so much as the remfs. And they are many.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/12/2016 22:21 Comments || Top||



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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 dominated Mexico for six years.
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