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-Land of the Free
EPA spends millions on military-style weapons
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/11/2015 15:40 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just wait until they try to expand their 200 man para-military force. They may lose in court, but that won't stop them from coming after you with a fully militarized SWAT team.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/11/2015 15:42 Comments || Top||

#2  They may lose in court, but that won't stop them from coming after you with a fully militarized SWAT team.

Especially if you're a "climate change denier"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2015 15:44 Comments || Top||

#3  they should be disbanded. There are plenty of other jackboots available, if they could convince them of their cause/target
Posted by: Frank G || 10/11/2015 15:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Nah, our government is going Medieval with private retinues and retainers. You need a good escape plan when it all goes south.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2015 20:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Gowdy Pens Scathing Letter to Top Benghazi Committee Democrat
First, Gowdy summons his prosecutorial vigor to absolutely demolish the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Democrats have seized upon erstwhile Speaker-in-waiting Kevin McCarthy's ill-advised comments to try to shut down the panel's probe -- a continuation of their ongoing, partisan efforts to dismiss its focus as a "phony scandal" and to portray the investigation as a political witch hunt. Gowdy has been unsparing in his rejection of McCarthy's since-abandoned characterization and unflagging in his defense of the committee's work. In response to Democrat Elijah Cummings' endless attacks and accusations, the South Carolina Republican drops the hammer.

Cummings, Gowdy continues, has been acting on duties "not to the American public, but to your Democrat colleagues and to the administration, including former Secretary Clinton," adding that he's disappointed in the Democrat's "complete lack of interest in gathering any facts."

The letter goes on to ridicule Cummings for objecting to the release of some Clinton emails, noting that both Mrs. Clinton and Cummings himself have stated that all of the messages should be made public: "Only in Washington, DC can both the author of the emails and the ranking member of a committee call for the disclosure of all relevant emails and then complain that all relevant emails were disclosed." To put a finer point on it, Gowdy announces his intention to release another tranche of Hillary's emails pertaining to Benghazi and Libya. Several excerpts call into question the impartiality of the State Department's internal "Accountability Review Board" Benghazi investigation, but the biggest revelations expose the former Secretary of State's correspondence with Sidney Blumenthal.

In a statement accompanying the letter, Gowdy makes some of his strongest accusations to date about the Obama administration's obstruction of the committee's work. "These messages should have been made public when the State Department released Secretary Clinton's other self-selected records on Libya and Benghazi, but there was a clear decision at the time to withhold this information from the American people and the Committee." Gowdy alerts Cummings that the committee "plans on releasing these new emails" next week and plans on questioning Mrs. Clinton about their contents on October 22. Stay tuned.

The entire 13 page letter in pdf format can read here
Posted by: junkiron || 10/11/2015 00:22 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does Cummings read and write ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2015 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  And Iran Contra wasn't about going after Ronnie*?

Boy, they can dish it out, but they can't take it. What makes more noise than a pig caught in a fence? Two pigs.

*(ie an unindicted co-conspirator - what the hell is that? Either you have the evidence to indict or not. The presumption of innocents prevails.)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2015 7:51 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 10/11/2015 18:07 Comments || Top||


Andrew Sullivan: Hillary a ‘Talent-Free Hack'
Fun for a Sunday morning. When you've lost Andy...
Posted by: Steve White || 10/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He is also a talent free hack so he should know
Posted by: lord garth || 10/11/2015 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2  I didn't think it would take too long for someone here to make that comparison :-)
Posted by: Steve White || 10/11/2015 1:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Hmmm..Vince Foster and Ron Brown can't be reached for comment. Andrew might want to be extra careful these days...seems the Clintons do have a talent for some things..
Posted by: Warthog || 10/11/2015 10:11 Comments || Top||

#4  My sentiments exactly, garth.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/11/2015 14:56 Comments || Top||

#5  The day after Swillary loses the nomination: "Swear swear swear swear - I can pick up the phone and have you killed!!!" Bzzp, beep beep beep - this call is being monitored for national security purposes, Mrs. Clinton..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/11/2015 15:19 Comments || Top||

#6  IF I worked for her, I'd call in sick - extended time after she loses or has to bail due to erupting scandal.

Or punch her back
Posted by: Frank G || 10/11/2015 15:35 Comments || Top||


Government
Wikileaks release of TPP deal text stokes 'freedom of expression' fears
Wikileaks has released what it claims is the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the controversial agreement between 12 countries that was signed off on Monday.

TPP was negotiated in secret and details have yet to be published. But critics including Democrat presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, unions and privacy activists have lined up to attack what they have seen of it. Wikileaks' latest disclosures are unlikely to reassure them.

One chapter appears to give the signatory countries (referred to as "parties") greater power to stop embarrassing information going public. The treaty would give signatories the ability to curtail legal proceedings if the theft of information is "detrimental to a party's economic interests, international relations, or national defense or national security" - in other words, presumably, if a trial would cause the information to spread.

A drafter's note says that every participating country's individual laws about whistle-blowing would still apply.

TPP is now facing a rough ride through Congress where President Obama's opponents on the right argue the agreement does not do enough for business while opponents on the left argue it does too much.

Obama has pledged to make the TPP public but only after the legislation has passed.
Sh*t can the treaty and impeach the b*stard.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 10/11/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:



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