[NY Post] Yet another surprise revelation suggests strongly that the FBI's probe of Hillary Clinton's e-mail mess was anything but a by-the-book investigation.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said he learned only Friday that the Justice Department gave immunity deals to Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other aides. That brings to five the number of Clintonistas who got a pass in exchange for testimony and/or information.
But what makes it especially significant in Mills' case is that she was allowed to sit in on Clinton's FBI interview, asserting attorney-client privilege on Hillary's behalf. This, even though Mills was herself a witness, even a potential subject of, the investigation.
Indeed, she was a key player in the process that deleted tens of thousands of Clinton e-mails -- many later found to be classified -- before the FBI could subpoena them.
Mills' lawyers say her immunity deal was limited to the contents of her laptop, and was given because of ongoing debate over after-the-fact classification.
Prosecutors normally strike such deals only when they can't get the information any other way. But if Mills refused to turn over the computer without any immunity, why couldn't the FBI just subpoena the laptop?
After all, as Chaffetz notes, "immunity deals should not be a requirement for cooperation with the FBI." Yet in the Clinton case, he noted, "the FBI was handing out immunity deals like candy. No wonder they couldn't prosecute anyone."
Frankly, it's amazing that Hillary didn't get a deal herself. Then again, it's become clear that she didn't need one.
President Obama publicly declared months ago, at the start of the FBI investigation, that Clinton had done nothing wrong. As we said at the time: The fix was in.
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Prosecutors normally strike such deals only when they can't get the information any other way.
I thought it was usually because both parties acknowledged the witness was engaged in criminal activities for which they would otherwise certainly be successfully prosecuted. As I recall the immunity contract is also for specific acts which are explicitly detailed in the document.
"This is what I did. Now I'll tell you what she did."
Matt Vanderboegh has shuttered his father's blog, Sipsey Street Irregulars. He has not publicly said why, although one of his friends, War on Guns writer David Codrea apparently is privy to the wherefores. But, like Matt, he won't talk about it publicly.
Two deaths in the family, first Mike Vanderboegh and now his blog, taken over by Mike's son Matt.
I suspect a lot of it has to do with the fallout from this post, but I can't be sure it wasn't something else completely.
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly steady. Prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
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.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
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Whiskey Mike, I do not have any experience with AirForce, but reading about it got me as giddy as when I was a boy and we got the Christmas Sears catalog.
Daisy Avanti series is nice - competition barrel and sights. I have seen the manufacturer's sights removed and other optics mounted on a dovetail. Also, some models accommodate a five round clip (right word?).
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When I was looking for a grown up Red Rider, I saw basically three different genres - break barrel, under lever, and pre charge pneumatic (whose acronym I think ate my post).
I eliminated break barrel right off. I am sure they are fine, but I had issues with using my barrel as a lever.
The PC I found interesting - faster rate of fire, better eyes on target, selection of calibers. I eventually passed on account of a lack of immediate way to charge the cylinder and when you are out of pressure, you are out, but mostly because I remember the lack of consistent projectile velocity from my paintballing days. Perhaps that is not an issue, or as much as with a paintball gun. Don't know, would like to know.
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I totally agree re: ROF. It it the intrinsic ROF and the sub-sonic-ness (new word?) Of 1050 fps and 230 plus grains that I find exciting. New / old stuff.
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I can't say with any authoity. Nothing wrong with break barrel etc but not .45 cal at 1050 fps. Pre charged capsules, grav feed... ROF, wow.
WHOLE NEW VISTAS OPEN. NOT FIREARMS?
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Jeez, AUTHORITY. hangs head.
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I tried to an intrinsically 'quiet' Mk48.Mod 2 for interested parties, but the platform was wrong. THIS has much more promise. Belt fed? No reason why it would not work. CC would be posivitey affected.
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Gah. Positively. Going to sleep now.
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Know a guy who was talking about hunting with something like that Big Bore. Said he loves it. Said the rifle itself is a bit heavy, but offset by the lesser weight of ammo carried. Also, the comparative lack of sound is a plus.
The Daisy Avanti series is fairly popular out here, though only chambered in .177 the choice of pellet can offset the less mass; local club uses the 853 under lever and has a dovetail optic slide. Nice and precise. For instructional purposes, it is an easy step from Red Rider and can use a 5 round clip (belt, mag?). All you hear is whisp-crack.
[Free Beacon] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told ABC Action News reporter Sarina Fazan on Wednesday that she didn’t need to take any neuro-cognitive tests.
After Clinton nearly collapsed a couple weeks ago as she was leaving a September 11 memorial in New York City, Clinton’s health has become a greater concern on the campaign trail. It was later revealed on that day that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier, but she didn’t publicly disclose the illness until reporters started mounting pressure on the campaign to make a statement.
Fazan reinforced this concern in a portion of this interview, 2:59 to 4:20 in the video above, when she talked to Clinton about her health. She told Clinton that she knew that Clinton had released her records from her doctor saying that she was fit to be president; however, Fazan said that other doctors were concerned because Clinton and her Republican opponent Donald Trump are in an age group susceptible to dementia and Alzheimer’s.
[GP] Top American psychiatrist and author Dr. Keith Ablow told FOX Business Network he would advise Hillary Clinton to skip the debate on Monday. She could get hurt badly.
"Dr. Ablow: How do I think she should prepare? I think she should say I'm going to hold three press conferences, I'm not doing the debates. Because it's like the third rail. I don't know that debating Donald Trump is something you can plan for great success with. It's like getting in the ring with Muhammad Ali. Because you got the rodeo clown and the skilled boxer in one person. In a way if I would have been advising Hillary Clinton I would say listen, say that he's a reality TV host that's been beyond the pale and simply don't debate... I think she could get hurt and hurt badly."
"I think she could get hurt because Donald Trump says things that are true. He says things that are unfettered, the naked truth."
I've never thought she could stand the rigors of a debate. We'll soon find out.
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The only thing I feel fairly certain about regarding this debate is that one of the candidates is going to do a face-plant that will significantly affect the outcome of the election.
Problem is, I don't know which one...
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She's not going to drop out. She wants the presidency so badly, she would do anything to get it ("Yes anything!). She expects it, it was promised to her, she thinks she is entitled to it and by damn she'd better get it. Besides, she's got her eyes on some of the boodle in the WH that she didn't steal the first time.
#8
1- What has NBC told the moderator, Lester Holt, to do if Hills coughs/faints/goes cross-eyed? What are the cameras going to do?
2- If Holt sticks his beak in, and he will, is the Donald better off going after Holt ("Lester, we all know what your game is...") or staying focused on HRC?
3- Just how doped up will HRC be? Uppers, downers, anti-seizure?
4- Is the Donald going to pay the slightest bit of attention to the debate "rules", and what happens if he doesn't?
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Look for all sorts of 'techincal difficulties' during the debates. If Trump was smart he would have his own video crew to capture what happens during those 'technical difficulties'.
It is always recommended to have your own video crew when being interviewed by the media because they will creatively edit it.
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I've always thought her campaign would come apart after she tried to debate. She isn't good at it and with the trouble she is halving trying to keep the battleground states is nothing compared to what it will be if she self destructs on live TV.
Pretty much all Trump has to do is not come off as bat-shit crazy and look presidential for 90 minutes.
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Matt, you forgot laughers and screamers. A slim but non-zero she goes HST and sees blood in the carpet and demands Lester Hold take off his Lizard suit.
[NYT - 14 Oct 2014] The soldiers at the blast crater sensed something was wrong. It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.
Two technicians assigned to dispose of munitions stepped into the hole. Lake water seeped in. One of them, Specialist Andrew T. Goldman, noticed a pungent odor, something, he said, he had never smelled before.
He lifted a shell. Oily paste oozed from a crack. "That doesn’t look like pond water," said his team leader, Staff Sgt. Eric J. Duling.
The specialist swabbed the shell with chemical detection paper. It turned red -- indicating sulfur mustard, the chemical warfare agent designed to burn a victim’s airway, skin and eyes.
All three men recall an awkward pause. Then Sergeant Duling gave an order: "Get the hell out."
Five years after President George W. Bush sent troops into Iraq, these soldiers had entered an expansive but largely secret chapter of America's long and bitter involvement in Iraq. Dated article? Yes, but the recent WMD rocketing by ISIS of U.S. troops necessitates a re-look at the all too familiar WMD false narrative. The graphic depicts the destruction of Iraqi WMD by UNSCOM inspectors and technicians.
We discussed it here at Rantburg the day after the New York Times article was published, including links to several reports about Iraqi WMDs over the years. I recall more articles as well as reports from Rantburgers over the years, but will leave that archive search to others. Suffice it to say, the reason people believe there were no WMDs is because the mainstream media and the anti-Bush Democrats loudly shouted down all claims to the contrary the start of the Iraq invasion until the NYT report came out.
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CNN's report on that day had a different take on the facts than the report we had at Rantburg, which followed the line laid down by the CIA: "However, a CIA official refused to call the discovery the "smoking gun" that would validate the Bush administration's claims that Iraq had an active program to develop a nuclear weapon."
From the CNN article:
Obeidi also said he was not the only scientist ordered to hide that type of equipment.
"I think there may be more than three other copies. And I think it is quite important to look at this list so they will not fall into the hands of the wrong people," he said.
And
David Kay, who led three U.N. arms inspection missions in Iraq in 1991-92 and now heads the CIA's search for unconventional weapons, started work two days ago in Baghdad. CNN spoke to him about the case over a secure teleconferencing line.
"It begins to tell us how huge our job is," Kay said. "Remember, his material was buried in a barrel behind his house in a rose garden.
"There's no way that that would have been discovered by normal international inspections. I couldn't have done it. My successors couldn't have done it."
Kay said he had mixed emotions when he saw the centrifuge components: "It was a realization that I hadn't gotten all the parts [of Iraq's nuclear program]. So there was a moment of regret, but there was also an exhilaration that now maybe we have a chance to take this to the very bottom."
CNN had this story last week but made a decision to withhold it at the request of the U.S. government, which cited safety and national security concerns.
And
Experts said the documents and pieces Obeidi gave the United States were the critical information and parts to restart a nuclear weapons program, and would have saved Saddam's regime several years and as much as hundreds of millions of dollars for research.
David Albright, who was a U.N. nuclear weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s, said inspectors "understood that Iraq probably hid centrifuge documents, may have had components, and so it is very important that those items be found."
"What it is that Obeidi was ordered to keep was all the information and some centrifuge components, so that if he was given the order, he could restart the centrifuge program," said Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.
"In a sense, the program was in hibernation. He was the key to the restart of this centrifuge program, and he never got the order. So in that sense it doesn't show at all that Iraq had a nuclear program. And Obeidi told me that he never worked on a nuclear program after 1991."
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This is a photo of one of the reactor buildings at Osirak following Operation Opera in June of 1981. Saddam never gave up on his quest for WMD. In fact, the administration buildings at Osirak were used for WMD research long after the reactor was destroyed. Iraqi officials believed Osirak would be an ideal research site since the reactor had already been obliterated by Israel. Aerial photo imagery betrayed their ruse.
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Thanks for that Rant-link and memory jogger TW.
I blame movie maker Nakoula Basseley, polio vaccine project manager Dr. Shakil Afridi, along with physician, virologist and biological weapons expert David Hatfill.
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TW's memory is sadly spongelike. TW has therefore developed a reflex to googling anything that sounds vaguely familiar, followed by a stroll through the Rantburg archives.
You are very welcome, Besoeker dear.
Mr. Tennessee, your service was clearly performed on other battlefields. Thank you for stepping forward and doing what you did there; I hope your lot were permitted to finish winning. But if all you knew about Iraq was what you read and heard from the mainstream media, it's no wonder you came to believe nothing was found.
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#4 Tennessee note well - Declassified report on the recovery of chemical munitions. Procopius2kand TW
Thanks for the link - am familiar with it - one of our guys was on the assessment team that contributed to that report.
Three points:
1 - The Iraq Resolution stated that we were mad at Iraq over their pursuit of a "significant" Chem/Bio and Nuclear programs, as well as Iraq harboring AQ. No "significant" CBRN program existed. There were remnants of pre-91 munitions no doubt and you refer to these in your articles. Certainly not enough to go to WAR over. In fact, our "threat" of use of military force assisted the IAEA efforts. Saddam was weak and mitigated.
2 - The Iraq Resolution also stated that we were mad because Iraq harbored in AQ. AQ WAS NOT in Iraq in 2003 - Saddam and OBL were at odds and OBL was plotting against Saddam's regime. Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad - Zarqawi - was in the AO and only gained support only after the invasion...pledged to OBL/AQ...and this planted the seeds for ISIS.
3 - In 1991, we did not remove Saddam and destroy the Republican Guard in order to avoid occupation and the consequences we face today. We were told if we break it, we own it...on the last night of the ground war...we in the convoys pointed north understood this. We would rather a weakened Saddam control his own people and counter Iran than us stay and put up with that mess. Daddy Bush was wiser than his son.
If we did need to employ force, so be it, a raid to go in and break things would have been sufficient. Not invasion, "regime change" and occupation. This is my point.
So, by whose bidding and influence did we go to war? The KSA (AQs Daddy - see declas 9/11 report), Israel, pontificators like Cheney and VDH? All of the above? Probably.
Actions have consequences. Iraq broke our Army, Iraq and Bush and Obama's failures gave us ISIS.
We HAVE to finish ISIS. An honest assessment leads a reasonable individual to the conclusion that things are worse today than prior to the invasion in 2003.
Bottom line - We conservatives have to conduct hard, honest AARs of our policy. We have to talk this and argue it in order to make the right decisions in the future and prevent poor decisions from re-occurring.
[Daily Caller] FBI Director James Comey should resign, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova, after giving immunity deals to Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff Cheryl Mills and four other aides in the investigation over the former Secretary of State’s use of a private email server for government business.
Matthew Whittaker, another former federal attorney, told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Congress should know why the Clinton aides were "treated differently than any other investigation has ever been done."
Mills got the immunity deal after refusing to let investigators examiner her computer, according to the Associated Press, which first reported on Friday the multiple agreements shielding key figures in the Clinton emails scandal from prosecution.
"This now gets to the point of a serious question as to the director’s fitness for office," DiGenova told TheDCNF. He said a grand jury should have been convened and they should have issued a subpoena for Mills’ computer.
Comey and the DoJ knew precisely what they were doing. By granting immunity to Clinton aides, they insulated HRC from harmful evidence and testimony. Essentially what you have here are advanced presidential pardons nullifying the judicial process.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NY Post] Yet another surprise revelation suggests strongly that the FBI's probe of Hillary Clinton's e-mail mess was anything but a by-the-book investigation.
[Free Beacon] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told ABC Action News reporter Sarina Fazan on Wednesday that she didn’t need to take any neuro-cognitive tests.
