[Breitbart] The Obama Administration is already infamous for slow-walking information requests, causing investigations to drag out for years, and then complaining loudly about how long the investigations are taking! But they’ve really outdone themselves this time.
The Justice Department has filed a motion in court, on behalf of the State Department, seeking to keep a vast trove of correspondence between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aides, and the notorious Clinton Foundation, hidden from voters’ eyes for 27 months... in other words, until October 2018, about halfway through President Hillary Clinton’s prospective first term.
The story laid out by the Daily Caller grows more outrageous with each paragraph. For starters, we learn that four senior Clinton aides -- Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin -- were sending a lot of correspondence to the Clinton Foundation. The original tally of six thousand emails turned out to be low -- very, very low. The State Department said the total has swelled to 34,116 potentially responsive documents. Skipping down to the Phoenix Sky Harbor International airport Presidential thank you session.
It's probably a total coincidence that Bill Clinton just caused a stir by holding a mysterious private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, creating "optics" that made even some liberals queasy.
Lynch insists all they talked about was "grandchildren, golf, and their respective travels."
I've often had -- by which I mean never had -- conversations with grandchildren, golf and travel with the spouse of a person under investigation by the FBI, on a private jet, sitting on the tarmac where it's hard to bug. Sure. Happens to all of us...
We can take her word that they didn't talk about DOJ lawyers helping to shield Clinton Foundation documents from the public for 27 months, or with the depositions Clinton aides are currently giving about Hillary Clinton's email server in another FOIA suit, right?
Also on Thursday, the White House published a fact sheet called "New Steps Toward Ensuring Openness and Transparency in Government." No, really, they did.
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This is like voting for a "Pig in a Poke" if the voters don't have access to the Clinton emails and shenanigans. There are still some who think Hillary is a sweet little old grandmother who is full of sweetness, goodness, and light.
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how can 4 'civil servants' generate 36,000 emails to Clinton Foundation Donors unless donor service was a core function
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Iduno....Gen. John Allen sent quite a few emails to Jill Kelly, something in the neighborhood of 20k to 30k wasn't it? Birthday greetings, CENTCOM functions, weather..... grand kids (primarily).
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Seems to me this will backfire big time if the Democrats lose the white house. I guess Obama could give an Executive Pardon as a parting gift, but would he?
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At the rate justice and law enforcement is eroding in America, XXX and snuff films + like will soon become "mainstream" - by extension, it will be agz the law to put anyone in jail for murder or otherwise engaging in extremism.
[Daily Caller] When Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately Monday in her jet in Phoenix, Arizona, some speculate he may have been pleading for his wife who is under investigation by the FBI and the Department of Justice. But the former president may also have been pleading for himself, according to a former federal prosecutor.
While political observers are focused on former Secretary of State and all-but-certain Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, her husband also has been a principal player behind the scenes at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova told the Daily Caller News Foundation the former President "is at least a witness in two criminal investigations, probably a subject in two criminal investigations. He is a person of interest officially to the Department of Justice," he said flatly.
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Naw, they got together just to talk about about golf and the grandkids (sarc).
This was not happenstance. Slick Willie still travels with a Secret Service detail. It would seem that Loretta Lynch probably travels with some kind of security detail. The point is that this was a pre-arranged meeting most likely to find out what the FBI has on the Clinton Foundation and on Hillary and whether charges are coming. Probably getting the Presidential pardons skids greased.
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When it comes to survival Bill would dump Hillary in a heartbeat. Bill knows that the DOJustice knows that the Clinton charity was bogus, and that he could be charged any day now. If he has to ruin his wife's chances -- and if the FBI remains an honorable institution it's a sure thing -- to save his own tail, so be it.
Nothing here you didn't know, but a nice accounting of it all in one place for those 'discussions' you'll have when your crazy progressive uncle starts in on you at the holiday Fourth barbecue...
The famous 'Fort Marcy Park stare'. I love it.
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They've got this money laundering operation down to a fine art while Schumer and Reid say "Move On--nothing to see here."
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You expect my crazy progressive relatives to sit still while I try to explain these things? They'll shout me down like they always do. Hillary could murder their children and they'd still vote for her.
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It's a mental disorder. I think every family has some relatives like yours.
China on Thursday suggested the U.S. defense secretary brush up on his history after urging Beijing not to build a "Great Wall of self-isolation", saying the Great Wall was build to keep out invaders not as a hindrance to contact.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter made the remarks at a security dialogue in Singapore this month..."Those who have studied Chinese history all know that it [the Great Wall] was defensive," [Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman ] Wu told a regular monthly news briefing. "It was to keep out the cruel oppression of invaders." Current US political leaders seem to have a blind spot regarding protection against invasion.
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Congress passed the Secure Fence Act in 2006 "to keep out invaders not as a hindrance to contact" also. In 2015 Trump said he will build a wall also and all the DINOs and RINOs went ballistic. Go figure.
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Perhap the Chinese don't understand that telephones and radios and planes and ships readily cross any wall no matter how large. There is no fear we'd suddenly forget what was on the other side of the wall.
And besides, Trump said we'd put large glorious doors in the wall.
I like the great wall as a metaphor because it's a nice looking tourist landmark rather than miles of hideous chain-link fence through the desert scrub. If you're gonna build it, build it with style.
Having said that, if we hammer companies that hire illegals we'll find the illegals self-deport and a wall won't be needed.
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..why just hammer companies, how about the American Chamber of Commerce that does their bidding. Free stuff, Free stuff, Free stuff! in this case labor. No, no, they don't want to repeal the 13th Amendment because that would mean they would have to provide for housing, food and clothing, not farm it off on the taxpayers under the guise of welfare.
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So the trump wall will be glorious. It will have look outs and a casino where on he Mexican side they can hire maids, doormen, and hookers. On the us side tourists will come. Glorious. Just glorious
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The destruction of Zheng He's fleet and of 15th-century China's blue water navy was more likely part of a Middle Kingdom cost-cutting effort. High level imperial eunuchs had better things to spend public money on. China could have had a thriving colony mining gold on the west coast of North America [which they now call the "beautiful kingdom/nation"] years before Columbus got lost on his search for China. I wonder how China of that era would have dealt with their native American cousins.
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I wonder how it would have been had he pressed on beyond the Cape and met up with the Europeans? Why bother with Columbus, they'd have the market at their ports already. No Age of Exploration, no New World to colonize. Then you couldn't blame all those white devils for your failures and living in the 15th century.
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Iff China can get 1/2 of the PACIFIC = WESTPAC, the new "Great Wall" will stem from the Okinawa Archipelago to Guam-CNMI to Belau, vee every ex-IJA-now-PLA air field + lagoon there-in.
Apra + former AAFB, Yap, Tinian, Ulithi, + prob Chuuk/Truk.
[Daily Caller] The federal government issued a new rule Thursday increasing the cost energy producers must pay to extract coal, oil, and gas leased on public land, in a move bound to roil energy markets and raise fears the Obama administration has struck another blow against the coal industry.
The Department of the Interior changed the rules governing royalty rates that oil and coal companies must pay to the federal government to extract gas and coal from public lands. The regulation essentially uses the gross proceeds from a sell, not a percentage, to determine the royalty rates energy producers must pay to use public lands to extract oil and coal. There will be modest reductions taken into account, based on transportation and processing costs.
Up until now, royalty rates did not take into account the supposedly high costs associated with climate change, environmentalist group Friends of the Earth wrote in a press statement announcing the rule change.
The new rule essentially seeks to wring money out of energy providers who use public lands to extract oil and coal, as well as natural gas. Energy analysts also fear a royalty tax would stunt oil and coal production.
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Bright Pebbles: you're the reason the socialists are winning: Everytime they come up with yet another wet dream to push us further out of business someone like you comes along to tell us it's capitalism.
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As of 2011, we got more than 40% of our power from coal-fired power plants. We are not building new nuclear power plants. What happens when the heat goes off and lights go off in a cold winter? I suppose people will be burning whatever is available. We sure have got some morons setting policy.
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According to recent trade articles that despite all the admin's anti-coal crap, coal by rail shipments surged the last few weeks. Reason seems to be the hot weather and increased demand for electricity. Utilities are going where fuel is cheaper and natural gas prices have risen so coal wins. And while the existing coal plants are still legal and comply with all the rules, cost is going to drive fuel selection.
Austria's highest court has annulled the result of the presidential election narrowly lost by the candidate of the far-right Freedom Party.
The party had challenged the result, saying that postal votes had been improperly handled.
The Freedom Party candidate, Norbert Hofer, lost the election to the former leader of the Greens, Alexander Van der Bellen, by less than a percentage point.
The election will now be re-run.
Announcing the decision, Gerhard Holzinger, head of the Constitutional Court, said: "The challenge brought by Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache against the 22 May election... has been upheld."
In two weeks of hearings, lawyers for the Freedom Party argued that postal ballots were illegally handled in 94 out of 117 districts. It alleged that thousands of votes were opened earlier than permitted under election rules and some were counted by people unauthorised to do so.
And sometimes counted twice, or three times...
The party also claimed to have evidence that some under-16s and foreigners had been allowed to vote.
How 'bout the cemeteries?
If elected, Mr Hofer will become the first far-right head of state of an EU country. His party has based its election campaigns around concern over immigration and falling living standards for the less well-off.
After Britain voted to leave the EU, Mr Hofer said he favoured holding a similar referendum in Austria if the bloc failed to stop centralisation and carry out reforms "within a year".
Last Sunday, he told the Oesterreich newspaper (in German): "If [the EU] evolves in the wrong direction, then in my opinion the time has come to ask the Austrians if they still want to be part of it."
His opponent, Mr Van der Bellen, is strongly pro-EU and has spoken of his dream for a border-free "United States of Europe".
Which is why his fellow-travelers at the election commission carried him over the line...
Following the court's order to re-run the vote, President Heinz Fischer will be replaced on a temporary basis by three parliamentary officials, including Mr Hofer. The new election is expected to be held in September or October.
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Last Sunday, he told the Oesterreich newspaper (in German):
[PJ] Obama went before the Canadian Parliament while he was up in Ottawa, to speak about tolerance and get praised. It's so great that we have such a wonderful president! Caution: If you click on the video, you will be forced to listen to this senseless drivel.
U.S. intelligence agencies are convinced that Russian hackers who may be operating under orders from Vladimir Putin are preparing to release thousands of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's private server.
Might be the only way we ever see them...
A possible Russian motive for making public all the emails would be to undermine any Justice Department influence in the ongoing FBI investigation of the private email server, an investigation said by FBI sources to have expanded into whether the server was used improperly to boost the fortunes of the Clinton Foundation. Putin is just another male chauvinist pig? I recommend Bill Clinton speak to Loretta Lynch privately about the potential impacts of such a move by Vlad.
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He'd be smarter to wait until after the election. If she wins he can blackmail her. If she looses he can still blackmail her into trying to throw a monkey wrench into anything the new administration wants to do.
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Indeed. You don't publish Kompromat. You use it wisely.
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It's hard not to think that this country is well and truly screwed, no matter how things fall out.
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I'm rather unhappy about the choices in these upcoming elections.
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What gets released will be carefully screened hints at the scope and breadth of what has been taken. To the ignorant and inattentive public they may seem innocent and meaningless. But to the Hildabeest they scream trouble.
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I was wishing he would release them. But they have more value to Russia in blackmail and trade.
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Hard to imagine how you blackmail a shameless whore who has the mainstream media in her foul clutches. But I guess if there is a way Vlad would be the guy to find it.
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Kim Dotcom says it'll be Julian who gives the drunken empress the vapors. However, I feel we'll only get little drips and drabs until the FBI/DOJ make their call. What better way to show their "in-the-tankness" than to release the emails after they've exonerated HRC.
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I'd be surprised if Hillary doesn't have a team creating fake emails that can grab a media cycle before being proved to be fake and thus tainting any actual emails released.
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