[Daily Caller] Republican Georgia Rep. Doug Collins released the private testimony of former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, but it’s former Attorney General Loretta Lynch who may feel the sting.
According to Page’s testimony, which was made public on Tuesday, the FBI considered charging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with gross negligence under 18 U.S. Code § 793 for her alleged handling of classified information.
“We had multiple conversations with the Justice Department about bringing a gross negligence charge,” Page told Republican Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe. “And that’s, as I said, the advice that we got from the Department was that they did not think — that it was constitutionally vague and not sustainable.”
Ratcliffe responded, “When you say advice you got from the Department, you’re making it sound like it was the Department that told you: ‘You’re not going to charge gross negligence because we’re the prosecutors and we’re telling you we’re not going to.'”
“That’s correct,” Page answered.
But if Page were telling the truth, and the FBI did recommend possible charges against Clinton, then Lynch may not have been telling the truth when she said that she would “accept their recommendations.”
"The just revealed FBI Agent Lisa Page transcripts make the Obama Justice Department look exactly like it was, a broken and corrupt machine. Hopefully, justice will finally be served. Much more to come!"
Does he mean that Lynch will be prosecuted, or Hillary?
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#5
I'd feel better if Trump didn't tweet, and we saw some action instead.
These days, it feels like a tweet from him is a guarantee that there won't be any action.
Kind of like how his rallies now always seem to precede a fold on his part.
#8
Lynch should be allowed to sell as many underlings out as possible. And then send her to jail anyway, along with the others. Lots of teachable moments for future DOJ employees that way...
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Loretta Lynch is a Democrat, Black, Female, and did I say Democrat? Unless you have some sort of extra-special Kryptonite handy she will walk out of this unharmed ... more the pity that.
#10
Remember: Lynch was being discussed as a SCOTUS fav when the Beast won. Dodged a triple disaster, I think. Slam her into the ground so far, her piano legs won't support her
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[BBC] Theresa May's EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs by an overwhelming majority for a second time, with just 17 days to go to Brexit.
MPs voted down the prime minister's deal by 149 - a smaller margin than when they rejected it in January.
Mrs May said MPs will now get a vote on whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal and, if that fails, on whether Brexit should be delayed.
She said Tory MPs will get a free vote on a no-deal Brexit.
That means they can vote with their conscience rather than following the orders of party managers - an unusual move for a vote on a major policy, with Labour saying it showed she had "given up any pretence of leading the country".
The PM had made a last minute plea to MPs to back her deal after she had secured legal assurances on the Irish backstop from the EU.
But although she managed to convince about 40 Tory MPs to change their mind, it was not nearly enough to overturn the historic 230 vote defeat she suffered in January, throwing her Brexit strategy into fresh disarray.
#2
In the end it seems Moscow was more accepting in letting go of E.Germany, Poland, Hungary, et al than Brussels. Tell me again why we are continuing to spend our fortune and our lives* 'defending' the place?
* training and off duty accidents still take lives.
[The Week] Democrats running for president in 2020 have already endorsed a long list of ambitious, controversial policies: The Green New Deal, Medicare-for-all, free college, the breakup of tech companies, and more. But one proposal belongs in a different category because it would seek to address the gravest injustice in American history. I'm talking about reparations for African-American descendants of slaves.
The idea of compensating Americans whose ancestors were brought to the New World by force and held in bondage for as long as 250 years has been debated numerous times in American history. The most recent case for reparations came in 2014 in the form of a powerful, deeply reported essay in The Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Democratic presidential hopefuls aiming to stand out from the crowd have begun championing the cause. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and former Obama administration official Julian Castro, are already on board. The fact that David Brooks, a moderately conservative New York Times columnist who has taken recent swipes at both the Green New Deal and Medicare-for-all, has now endorsed the policy as well is a sign of just how mainstream it has become.
The moral case for reparations may be strong, but the political and cultural consequences of enacting the policy are likely to be extremely high. Far from serving as a moment of moral reckoning and healing for the country, as its advocates contend, it would inspire a severe backlash that would inflame tensions on both sides of the color line ‐ and set the stage for future calls from other groups for acts of public restitution for past injustices. It's a recipe for greatly intensified civic anger and resentment.
#1
Tennessee Tuxedo is a life-long racist who, had his skin been paler, would have been at home as a Klansman. No one alive today has been held as a slave under the laws of the United States. No one alive today has legally owned slaves under the laws of the United States. No one is around who is owed reparations and no one is around who owes them.
Yeah, Jim Crow laws were shit. Prevailing wage and union-only laws were as well. So what? Until the "Great Society" and "War on Poverty", blacks were improving their lot the same way all Americans do: generation by generation.
FFS, it's not like mainstream America hides the secret to success -- no illegal drugs, wait for marriage, get as educated as you can stand, and work hard. The attitude that you're owed ANYTHING because of what you THINK you ancestors went through is ludicrous -- because the rest of us came from the serfs, peasants, religious outcasts, and unwanted from the rest of the world. Our ancestors came here, dealt with ostracism and bigotry, and made our way into the mainstream.
So buck up, stop feeling sorry for yourselves, get rid of the pot, stop taking on thugs as role models, stay in school, keep your legs together, and join the party.
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brought to the New World by force and held in bondage for as long as 250 years
Damn, bottle that stuff and sell it as the fountain of youth elixer. 250 years? That's gotta be worth a bloody fortune.
#4
Let the donks keep their platform just the way it is. That way we know they'll lose in 2020.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Maybe all this reparations talk is a massive PR effort to promote all the ancestry DNA products out there. I bet you could find massive injustices to your ancestors no matter what color your skin.
#6
What it comes down to is, they want the massive redistribution, but no way are they going to finish up by saying, "OK, that squares it, we will never bring it up again." Only a moron would think otherwise...
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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.
