More at link. Too much work to repack everything here, including image of the email.
Has the State Department released a smoking gun in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal? In a thread from June 2011, Hillary exchanges e-mails with Jake Sullivan, then her deputy chief of staff and now her campaign foreign-policy adviser, in which she impatiently waits for a set of talking points. When Sullivan tells her that the source is having trouble with the secure fax, Hillary then orders Sullivan to have the data stripped of its markings and sent through a non-secure channel.
That should be game, set, and match, yes?
"If they can't, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure." That's an order to violate the laws handling classified material. There is no other way to read that demand. Regardless of whether or not Sullivan complied, this demolishes Hillary's claim to be ignorant of marking issues, as well as strongly suggests that the other thousand-plus instances where this did occur likely came under her direction.
Did those talking points get illegally transmitted on Hillary's order? If so, then Sullivan may find himself in legal trouble, too. Paragraph (g) makes it clear that "each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy."
This explains why more than a thousand pieces of classified information have found their way into Hillary's unauthorized and unsecured e-mail system -- and why the markings have been stripped from them. Hillary herself apparently ordered the Code Red, so to speak.
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If they don't prosecute her they'll never be able to prosecute anyone else. Precedent
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Can't tell if there was just problems sending the fax of if the data was indeed "clasified". If it's the latter one might assume offers of immunity have already been dispatched.
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The technicality is material that is non-State origin. The SoS is the classification authority for State material. So technically she could declassify the material, but doing so means it all becomes declassified for anyone accessing the same documents. If it remained classified for anyone else, then yes, a violation did occur.
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The originator derives his/her authority from higher up by position. If a superior deems the need or desire to declassify something a subordinate originated, that's his/her call. It's by the office not the individual per se. Thus when you have personnel turn over in offices, the occupier of the position may be different but is empowered by the office held to act upon the previous determination.
[THEHILL] Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump could "feel the Bern" on Thursday night.
Trump, who is making an appearance in Vermont, the home state of Democratic presidential candidate 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... , could have some empty seats in the house, thanks to the senator's supporters. They have taken to Facebook to urge other Sanders backers to sell out the venue in Burlington on Thursday night by reserving tickets and not showing up.
"No, I have not converted to a racist bigot," one Sanders supporter wrote. "I am just assuring that there are going to be two empty seats."
The supporter then directed hundreds of other Facebook users to an Eventbrite URL to reserve tickets.
"Please share and spread the word so Trump gets the message that here in Vermont, we only #feel the bern."
Burlington police officials have raised concerns of overcrowding at the rally because Trump's campaign has offered up 20,000 free tickets to the event, according to The Burlington Free Press. But officials say the theater where the event will be held has a 1,400-person capacity.
Trump took to Twitter to alert supporters that they should get there early since admittance is first come, first served.
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Trump'scampaign has offered up 20,000 free tickets to the event, according to The Burlington Free Press. But officials say the theater where the event will be held has a 1,400-person capacity.
heh heh.
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Didn't work. Trump crushed it, with overflow crowds, and the commies were too busy packing fudge to turn out.
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Trump wants a 45% tax on Chinese imports. I'm sure Sanders would agree. I think they probably line up on a lot of policies that neither would readily admit to.
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The Chinese were permitted to intentionally undervalue their currency for a decade to keep the trade going. In other words, they exported unemployment to the US besides the trinkets. They were allowed to get away with it by the Beltway party who's patrons profited by it while we were and are taxed to provide the social services to the unemployed here.
You're going to hear a lot about Smoot–Hawley Tariff and its (alleged) contribution to the Great Depression no doubt soon. However, if you use the metrics of the 30s to contemporary stats and not the cooked numbers and cover up used to describe today's economy, we're pretty much in a depression now without the SM Tariffs in place. So, you got to ask yourself if it was or wasn't the factor its going to be the bogyman it's going to be portrayed as.
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] On Thursday, CNN will host a town hall with President B.O. as part of his "final-year push to make gun control part of his legacy." In addition to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says Obama will "take questions from the audience."
Uh-oh. Get out your best pruning shears and trowels. In an age of micromanaged partisan stagecraft and left-wing media enablers, there is no such thing as a spontaneous question.
CNN has a long history of allowing political plants to flourish in its public forums.
At the cable station's Democratic debate in Las Vegas in 2007, moderator Wolf Blitzer introduced several citizen questioners as "ordinary people, undecided voters." But they later turned out to include a former Arkansas Democratic director of political affairs, the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada, and a far left anti-war activist who'd been quoted in newspapers lambasting Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... for his failure to pull out of Iraq.
At a CNN/YouTube GOP debate two weeks later, the everyday, "undecided voters" whose questions were chosen included:
--A member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For 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 Abel P. Upshur ... Steering Committee.
--A young woman named "Journey" who questioned the candidates on abortion and whom CNN failed to properly identify as an outspoken John Edwards ...Former senator from North Carolina, former vice presidential candidate, former Democratic presidential contender. Edwards was noted for his Two Americas stump speech and for his pretty hair. People started to notice which of the two Americas he belonged to when he got a $400 haircut in his private plane. While his wife, Elizabeth, was dying of cancer Breck Boy was porking a hussy named Riehl Hunter, with whom he fathered a child, then paid one of his aides to claim that the baby was his. He is currently trying to explain to the friendliest judge he can find how he happened to use campaign funds to do all that, rather than dipping into his own considerable fortune... supporter.
--A supposed "Log Cabin Republican" who had declared his support for Obama on an Obama '08 campaign blog.
--A supposedly unaffiliated "concerned mother" who was actually a staffer and prominent Pittsburgh union activist for the United Steelworkers -- which had endorsed Edwards for president.
--A supposed "undecided" voter who urged Ron Paul to run as an independent, but who had already publicly declared his support for former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's Democratic presidential bid.
--A staffer for Sen. Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois.... , D-Ill.; a former intern for Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., and a former intern for the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... Once a manipulative gardener, always a manipulative gardener. During the push for Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... , Democrat plants spread like kudzu across town hall propaganda events. At White House "citizen town halls" in 2009, Team Obama hand-picked not-so-random "random" questioners who included:
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As expected, no questions actually answered and many lies repeated. It was basically a letter ture on how right Obama is.
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All the appearance of a public appearance without the risk of uncomfortable questions.
"Madam Secretary, when that 3 AM call came from Benghazi, were you too drunk and asleep to answer?"
"Preznit Obama, is setting fire to a field of straw men considered arson? Is it better or worse than the Oregon ranchers convicted of terrorism?"
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Over $200,000 on body armor spent by the Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration years, versus just $30,000 in the three previous fiscal years.
Watch out Ranchers. They are arming to come get you.
“When agencies like the Bureau of Public Debt and Small Business Administration are spending money on body armor and bulletproof vests, it is an indicator of bloat in those agencies’ budgets and the wasteful incentive to spend every dime before the fiscal year-end,” Mr. Edwards said.
It is more than that. They are getting ready to wage war on the American people Mr. Edwards. Why do you think there is such a push for surveillance and disarmament of the public?
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Question for you ex-military types: The other day a local full time national guard member showed up at a local retail gun shop saying that for reasons he didn't care to discuss they needed to carry sidearms at all times while on duty. He wrote a personal check for a couple dozen identical handguns and left without saying much else. Does this seem a bit off?
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...depends on the community you're in. Given the Jihad attack on the recruiting station, it might be a good idea (side note - my local base is still on Threatcon status Bravo). Given the NG is both state and federal, maybe the state Adjutant General decided to authorize his people to be armed even if DoD is still bureaucratically obstructing a similar policy.
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$200K for body armor? If they're paying DoD rates that's what, 3 kits?
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Question for you ex-military types: The other day a local full time national guard member showed up at a local retail gun shop saying that for reasons he didn't care to discuss they needed to carry sidearms at all times while on duty. He wrote a personal check for a couple dozen identical handguns and left without saying much else. Does this seem a bit off?
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This is classified a 'multiple handgun sale' by the BATF and would have had to have been reported as such [to the BATF/FBI] via e-mail within 24 hours.
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
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[THEHILL] Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump could "feel the Bern" on Thursday night.
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