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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Senator Grassley continues to peel the Abedin onion.
[Hot Air] The continued release of e-mails from Hillary Clinton's secret e-mail server may land her closest aide in legal trouble sooner than her boss. Senate Judiciary chair Chuck Grassley had already begun probing the unusual arrangement that allowed Huma Abedin to work for both the State Department and Teneo simultaneously, as well as Abedin's claims of never having taken a vacation or sick day while at State. Abedin has responded by publicly rebuking Grassley for "damaging her reputation," a claim that provoked plenty of derision related to her spouse and his own damaging antics.

The rebuke hasn't daunted Grassley, who has new questions about Abedin's conduct at State. New e-mails produced through a FOIA demand by Citizens United appear to show that Abedin used the Clinton email server for Teneo business, raising even more questions about conflicts of interest and the abuse of public trust -- including whether Abedin was doing political work for Clinton on State Department time:

Related: Special Counsel Needed in Clinton Email Case.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2015 02:46 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When we find out that Huma was actively working for the Iranian government, the whole house of cards will fall apart.

The only hope the administration has is that the FBI will slow play the investigation long enough for them to get out of office and out of town before we find out how thoroughly the Iranians have infiltrated our Executive branch.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 08/29/2015 13:17 Comments || Top||

#2  #1 When we find out that Huma was actively working for the Iranian government, the whole house of cards will fall apart.

If espionage is discovered, it may be a bit more complicated, cut-outs, family members, etc. Her mother is key MB figure here in the States.

The White House UNCLAS network was reportedly hacked nearly two years ago. If the Beest's unauthorized server system and if her friends at 'Platte River Network' are how the hacker's gained access, and nobody in the White House said anything for two years..... all bets are off.

Adjusting my hat.

If Brennan and the Klingon's were cognizant of, or exploiting an active espionage campaign..... yet another very, very sticky wicket.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2015 13:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Mrs Weiner is a real piece of work. And a very nice albatross to hang around Hillary's turkey neck.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/29/2015 13:48 Comments || Top||

#4  IMA awaiting Fred's approval for the use of this foto on all Abedin related articles. I think it's only appropriate, but the boss has the last word.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2015 13:56 Comments || Top||

#5  That is a face filled with hate. Ugly, too.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/29/2015 16:14 Comments || Top||

#6  You should be afraid OP. Very afraid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2015 16:23 Comments || Top||

#7  #3 Mrs Weiner is a real piece of work. And a very nice albatross to hang around Hillary's turkey neck.

Wouldn't be the first time a weiner caused problems for Hillary!
Posted by: charger || 08/29/2015 17:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Patriotism Lawyering up is the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson Me
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/29/2015 21:07 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Democrats protest Confederate flag
[CHRONICLE.NORTHCOASTNOW] The Lorain County Democratic Party shut down its booth at the Lorain County Fair on Thursday to protest the Fair Board’s decision to allow the sale and display of the Confederate flag at the fairgrounds. The move came a day after county Commissioner Matt Lundy, a Democrat, called on the Fair Board to ban the Confederate flag, which he called a symbol of hatred and division.
Ummm...Doesn't making a big deal out of something that's been casually displayed for the past hundred and fifty years sow hatred and division?
That's precisely the point...
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But chopping up babies and selling the parts for profit is A-Ok. In fact it's something to be celebrated....

Sick. Liberalism is a mental desease..
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/29/2015 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  How about protesting illegal immigration and it's ultimate costs and toll to the American culture and our way of life ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2015 2:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey, if all it takes is a flag that used to be theirs to shut down their booths, can we apply that to other Democratic places?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/29/2015 7:38 Comments || Top||

#4  The rainbow flag is an anti-christian hate flag. Is this also offensive to the Lorain County Democratic Party?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 08/29/2015 7:58 Comments || Top||

#5  ....Okay - Lorain County is where I grew up (Lorain its own self, to be precise) and this particular brand of schizophrenia surprises me not. Northern Ohio votes liberal every doggone time they can, but socially it's sufficiently conservative that most 'Burgers would feel pretty much at home. The result is you have governmental twinkies like this running around, whereas the people who vote for them are perfectly happy looking at the Stars and Bars.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/29/2015 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  schizophrenia - works well in Ohio. IIRC provided the most manpower in the Civil War, but also had the most Copperheads in the Union.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/29/2015 9:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh, the irony of the slave party tearing up it's own flag!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/29/2015 11:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Attention, entitlement junky --
Expunge every racist-ass honky!
Their names on your places,
Their memes and their faces --
Let's start with your mascot, the donkey!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 08/29/2015 15:03 Comments || Top||

#9  How do they feel about the current Iranian flag?
Posted by: charger || 08/29/2015 17:23 Comments || Top||

#10  They love it! Along with every communist flag ever made!
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/29/2015 18:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton revealed to have over a million fake Twitter followers
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK]
  • Hillary Clinton has over one million fake Twitter followers, more than any other presidential hopeful
  • Donald Trump also has more than one million fake followers, but a higher percentage of real followers on the social media platform
  • Almost half of Joe Biden's followers are fake
    Among those running for president, Bernie Sanders has the highest percentage of real followers with 92%
  • Fake followers are a 'mix of inactive Twitter users , completely fake users that are created for the sole purpose of following people, and spam bots'
  • Clinton and Trump still have far more followers than anyone else running for president
Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You sure those just weren't MSM accounts?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/29/2015 9:24 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden's son:Ashley Madison account was created in my name by America's enemies
Someone using the name of Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden had a profile on the Ashley Madison dating website for extramarital affairs, Breitbart News has learned.
Benefit of the doubt applies, since the site's subscribers were largely fake.
Hunter Biden tells Breitbart News that the account is not his, but rather was created by one of America's enemies to discredit him.
And then America's Enemies™ went ahead and hacked the site so that his name got released?
I think we get the picture here. Because Biden was a man of principle and is much more important than all them others on Ashley Madison, he got hacked as punishment for drawing a fee for sitting on a Ukrainian gas company that dealt with natural gas purchased from the Russians so his credit card was used, apparently only for this purpose and none other, such as airline tickets, motel rooms and restaurants and bars, and possibly hookers, I mean masseuses. The only element in his excuse missing is a foto of his nether regions.
He thinks it could have been due to his sitting on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, which outraged supporters of Vladimir Putin's Russian regime.
Didn't know what to do once the lonely cuties started calling his house at all hours?
Robert Hunter Biden, known colloquially as Hunter, is a business executive, a husband, a father, and reportedly one of Joe Biden's closest advisers as the vice president considers launching a presidential campaign. Hunter, who met his wife Kathleen in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, has contacted some of his dad's supporters in advance of a possible Biden candidacy.
Did he ask them for dates?
But he insists that he's not the "Robert Biden" who was a fan of "Anything Goes" relationships with women on the website Ashley Madison, which arranges affairs for married people. Biden confirmed that the email address listed on the account belongs to him. But he thinks his enemies had access to his personal information, possibly through hacking his other online accounts -- and that they fabricated the Ashley Madison account in his name.
"Because that's the sort of thing enemies do."
"I am certain that the account in question is not mine," Biden told Breitbart News.
"Wudn't me."
"This account was clearly set up by someone else without my knowledge and I first learned about the account in question from the media."
"Really. I was flabbergasted."
"In fact, I no longer use the email address linked to this account as I became aware that this email account may have been compromised," Biden said.
"In fact, I never did use it."
"This is unfortunately not the first time that someone has used my name and identity to try to discredit me."
"They were my credit cards, but I never called those 900 numbers."
Hunter Biden made global headlines in 2014 for joining the board of the Ukraine-based gas company Burisma Holdings during the height of the crisis in Ukraine. Biden's father, Vice President Joe Biden, was engaged in an effort at the time to help Ukraine lessen its dependence on fuel from Russia.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 08/29/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Enemies? In Hunter's world that would leave Cuba, Iran, Russia and North Korea off the suspect list. That leaves those evil American Dream Killing Republicans or FOXnews as the top two suspects.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/29/2015 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Not friends?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/29/2015 10:09 Comments || Top||

#3  The Jews?
Posted by: Iblis || 08/29/2015 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  He's a dead guy, leave it alone.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/29/2015 16:04 Comments || Top||

#5  @#4: That would be Beau, a true patriot and something completely different than what I expect from his dad. Hunter is still, er, on the hunt.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/29/2015 19:24 Comments || Top||


Government
When we left the White House, we were flat broke. (video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2015 13:10 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Champ Tries to further divide Soothe Divided Jewish Community on Iran Deal
[NYT] WASHINGTON -- President Obama appealed to a divided and troubled Jewish community on Friday, defending his nuclear accord with Iran as in the security interest of both the United States and Israel, and calling for a more civil debate with a congressional vote just weeks away.

In an Internet broadcast from the White House, Mr. Obama took questions from the largest Jewish umbrella organizations. He pledged that the vitriol surrounding the Iran debate would pass quickly as the United States, Israel and allies in the Middle East move toward confronting Iranian aggression beyond its nuclear ambitions.
Champ wearing a kippah, nearly as over the top as his defense of the Iranian deal.


Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2015 02:55 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Divided community - socialists who claim to be Jewish and the Jewish community. Last time I checked the God of Moses wrote something about - thou shall not covet, thou shall not bear false witness, thou shall not steal.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/29/2015 9:20 Comments || Top||


#3  At this rate, the Dems might only get 60% of the Jewish vote next year.
Posted by: charger || 08/29/2015 14:24 Comments || Top||


Pro-Iran Deal Democrats Took Money from '€˜Iran Lobby'
[Breitbart] Ten Congressional Democrats who support the Iran nuclear deal have taken money from pro-Iranian regime lobbyists with ties to the Iranian government.

FrontPage Magazine's master sleuth Daniel Greenfield reports that the Iranian American Political Action Committee (IAPAC) has contributed to the following Pro-Iran deal Democrat "traitors".
List of names and details follow.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2015 02:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What's the difference between a whore and a slut?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/29/2015 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Senators Whores do it for money.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 08/29/2015 12:58 Comments || Top||



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