[VOX] Attorney General Eric Holder has approved a request from his prosecutors to file corruption charges against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), CNN's Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz reported Friday. We tried to warn you Bob. All those nice things you said about Bibi... look out my friend.
The planned charges will relate to Menendez's relationship with a major donor, wealthy Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen. Menendez frequently traveled with Melgen, raised money from him -- and advocated for his business interests to federal officials.
Among other things, Menendez twice flew on Melgen's private jet to Melgen's Dominican Republic mansion in 2010, on Melgen's dime, and didn't appropriately disclose the trips. He later paid Melgen back $58,500 for the trips in 2013.
4 When federal officials found that Melgen's clinic had overcharged the government by $8.9 million, Menendez stepped in in Melgen's defense. On one occasion, he met with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the matter. On another, he met with officials from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Menendez's office has denied that there was any wrongdoing, saying that the senator and Melgen were merely longtime friends, that his discussions with federal officials were about "policy issues," and that his initial failure to reimburse Melgen for the flights was just "an oversight." Ah ha! Melgen was a donor to the Beest and the odious Wasserman Schultz. This could get interesting.
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Christie Kreme will appoint a dem if Menendez resigns, I'm sure.
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Have the state charge him, plea bargain, then get a pardon from the governor. Can do it over night. Double jeopardy kills the fed case. Usually, state-fed play nice nice and don't things like that, but in today's Holder poisoned atmosphere, anything is game.
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BTW that gambit was pretty much played in NM to undercut the fed case developing against Donks in the Pay-to-Play corruption in NM. Remember it's Ok when they do it.
[Breitbart] Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham, sat on the board of a self-described mining company that in 2012 received one of only two "gold exploitation permits" from the Haitian government--the first issued in over 50 years.
The tiny North Carolina company, VCS Mining, also included on its board Bill Clinton's co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), former Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.
The Rodham gold mine revelation is just one of dozens featured in a forthcoming bombshell investigative book by three-time New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer, according to a Thursday statement from publishing giant Harper-Collins. The publisher says the book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, is the culmination of an exhaustive one-year deep dive investigation into the nexus between the Clintons' $100+ million personal wealth, the Clinton Foundation, and the decisions Hillary made as Secretary of State that benefited foreign donors, governments, and companies.
[Hot Air.com] We already knew it was bad. Not until you read this will you understand how bad. In fact, I debated with myself whether to even include the word "potential" in the headline. The reason it's there is because cybersecurity experts can't say for an absolute fact that foreign governments infiltrated her server. All they can say is that it's a virtual certainty given how high a priority she is for enemy hackers and how clumsy her defenses were. It's like a business owner knowing that his store is being cased and choosing to leave the vault unlocked anyway.
You need to read it all to appreciate the extent of the failure. The threshold problem with using private e-mail is that your own cybersecurity is only as good as the company you're using. If hackers know a way into a commercial server -- and Hillary's e-mail apparently used three different servers -- then they have a way into your account potentially. That's not a major problem for average people but it's huge when the target is someone being watched by the most sophisticated cyber outfits in the world. Instead of conducting State Department business behind one very well fortified door, i.e. the federal government's, Hillary placed it behind three less fortified ones. The only reason to do that is if she was more worried about the American public knowing what she was doing than, say, China knowing.
But even that doesn't fully explain the security lapse. If you're going to hide behind three less fortified doors, you should at least want to make sure those doors are as fortified as possible. Hillary didn't:
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The only reason to do that is if she was more worried about the American public knowing what she was doing than, say, China knowing.
So you can just imagine some Chinaman asking President Hildebeast how badly she wants to keep certain information that he happens to posses out of American newspapers. High powered, filthy rich, crooked people like Ms. Rodham think they can wave that magic wand of technology and get anything they want with it. They're like Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice...just like the Champ with his healthcare.gov website that still doesn't work in spite of all the money he's thrown at it.
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The part of this article that is most disturbing to me:
"You're almost certainly vulnerable to Chinese government style spearphishing attacks—which government departments have enough trouble stopping—but the task is near impossible for an IT naive self-hosted setup.
Keep in mind that Clinton's emails was a prime target for some of the globe's most sophisticated state-sponsored cyberwarriors—the Chinese, the Israelis, the Iranians. The existence of Clinton's private account was revealed by the hacker Guccifer, an unemployed Romanian taxi driver who managed to gain access to former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal's AOL account with relative ease."
If a unemployed Romanian taxi driver can break into Hillary's account, imagine what China and Russia's best hackers can do.
Al
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From a security manager's standpoint, one must assume everything she sent or received over an open system, has been compromised by a foreign intelligence service. I don't even know where you would begin a damage assessment effort. All of this is just beyond.... the beyond.
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Speaking as an IT guy and into Cyber-Security, there is no question that she's been hacked especially since whom ever set it up apparently used the default certs. Custom unique certs could have been purchased for a couple hundred $ that would have been much more secure.
Since the equipment in in her basement as it were, I'd bet my salary that the original disks have several drill holes in them and now sleep with the fishes in some nearby lake.
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Instead of conducting State Department business behind one very well fortified door, i.e. the federal government's, Hillary placed it behind three less fortified ones. The only reason to do that is if she was more worried about the American public knowing what she was doing than, say, China knowing.
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The flip side of this is, now that the emails have theoretically been secured, nothing you find in them could be taken as evidence, because, after all, anybody could have hacked and spoofed the accounts.
Plausible deniability.
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Nothing to worry about. I'm sure Hillary used that imfamous ROT13 encryption I've heard so much about.
[Breitbart] Talk radio host and author of "The Liberty Amendments," Mark Levin declared that Hillary Clinton's emails are "a Champ scandal" on Thursday.
"This is an Champ's scandal," Levin said of the firestorm over Clinton's use of a private e-mail. Levin cited former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's use of an email under the the pseudonym "Richard Windsor" and former Deputy EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe's use of private email during his time at the EPA, and Justice Department stonewalling of public records requests.
Levin continued, "This is a Champ scandal, Hillary, yes, no question. But it is a Champ administration scandal, it is happening in department after department and agency after agency, and the entire purpose is to prevent us, the American people, from finding out what's going on in our own government.
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Add it to the list of many, many scandals from our current gangster regime. Al Capone would have been proud. So far no one has seen fit to "bell the cat", i.e. impeach the first half and half Prez. PC is going to be the end of this country. PC trumps common sense instead of common sense trumping PC.
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Grunter ~ My first question as well. One must assume there had to a number of high-level gov't people with knowledge of her non-State Dept. account, to include POTUS and everyone in the National Security inner circle.
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You can be sure that Hilda and her people have sent the State Dept. what they want to. Those that are "difficult or otherwise compromising" will be culled out and never see the light of day. These in turn will be turned over to Trey Gowdy and Judicial Watch.
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It is odd how the totalitarians seem so intent on documenting everything (even if they have to hide the fact).
The mob deals with verbal communications only which is inefficient but much harder to crack. I suspect the next Democratic Administration will have learned that lesson.
[Daily Mail] Hillary Clinton is trying to head off a growing dispute about her use of private email while serving as US secretary of state, insisting she has nothing to hide. On Wednesday, three days after the news broke, Clinton broke her silence on the issue to ask the State Department to release a trove of mails dealing with her official duties.
The presumed front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination has come under attack for keeping official correspondence on a private email server in one of her homes.
Her camp insists this was not a breach of federal regulations, but it has led to suspicions that she was seeking to prevent the mails from being made public. It is also not clear whether the server and the classified diplomatic correspondence it held was properly secured against cyberattack by hackers or foreign intelligence agencies.
"I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them," Clinton tweeted.
It's not the email on the official State Department server that is the issue. It's the email on the server in the basement in her home that is the issue...
The mails in question had already been handed over to the government to form an official record after Clinton had left office, and it is not clear whether they represent a complete set.
But -- with Republican lawmakers planning to issue a subpoena to recover the records -- the State Department said officials had been assured they have all relevant material.
"Her team has said that this is the extent of the records that she has," deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf harfed up told reporters.
Speaking in Riyadh, Clinton's successor Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed the department "has had access to a wide array of Secretary Clinton's record, including emails."
Nothing will come of this. The Clinton's are above the rule of law. The record keeping rule has been broken and will likely not be repaired. Unless she and a number of 'knowledgeable others' are held accountable, we have moved another step closer to totalitarianism.
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Her camp insists this was not a breach of federal regulations, but it has led to suspicions that she was seeking to prevent the mails from being made public.
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"oh, thooooose emails. I suppose we can turn them over too, In due time. Once Cheryl Mills has sanitized vetted them"
We'll have to ask the Russians or Chinese for the unredacted and unreleased copies
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Hard to believe that of everything Snowden found there was nothing showing emails to Hillary going to a non-gov account, and if so how nobody noticed before.
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Hard to believe that of everything Snowden found there was nothing showing emails to Hillary going to a non-gov account, and if so how nobody noticed before.
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Hacked, unlikely, more likely she hacked Snowden. Hillary! is so badass she has been using e-mail since before the computer. Al Gore may have invented the internet, the day after an evening conversation with Hillary!.
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