WHAT NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT BUT WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT
An anonymous journalist comes to the same conclusion Rantburg readers wrote about six months ago...
Hillary will be totally blackmail-able if elected. Here's the logic:
1. It's safe to say that there were things on that server which could cause Hillary tremendous harm politically â which is why she destroyed the evidence that would have been exculpatory if you believed her explanation. In my mind, it's also why she used a private server to begin with.
2. She is lying about what was on that server, potentially to include while under oath in her upcoming congressional testimony.
3. If someone had all the copies of her emails and those of her staff, they could readily blackmail her because of the above. They'd have proof of her wrongdoing and her lying about it.
4. Hillary Clinton, as both a future Presidential candidate and a sitting Sec. of State would have been one of the Top 100 intelligence targets in the world and probably one of the top 10.
5. It's thus certain that the Chinese and Russians would each have had a team focused on accessing her communications.
6. Every security expert I know of has said it's a virtual certainty the Chinese and Russians both gained access to her server and all her emails. From what I know about their capabilities, I'd agree.
There are probably a bunch of folks in China and Russia who are praying (even if they're atheists) for Hillary to be elected. If she wins, they own the President of the United States. I can just imagine in a meeting with Putin, Hillary being told to back off supporting Ukraine or he'll release her emails (as he hands her a folder containing the most damaging ones for her to peruse). Put in that position, would Hillary fall on her sword or sacrifice a country like Ukraine? I don't know, but I wouldn't want to be living in UkraineâŚ
Someone with that kind of vulnerability to blackmail shouldn't be allowed to sweep the floors of the NSA, much less run our country. She needs to be at least put in prison for violating the law and leaving our country vulnerable for the rest of her worthless life. I would prefer her to be tried for treason and shot on CSPAN, but life in prison would work too.
#4
Not to mention the game of black/gray/white propaganda that can be played by Russian/Chinese/hacker community. Who can really vouch for the authenticity or lack there of any email attributed to this fiasco. The act of cover up is as damaging if not more so because it opens that entire avenue of exploitation. There can be no trust.
#7
Shame? The Clintons don't know the meaning of the word.
We could hope that Champ's DoJ would prosecute but only Champ (er, ValJar) knows if it will. Maybe he'd like to clear the way for Biden.
But I'm afraid it's gotten down to Bernie Sanders.
So what if we have a 2016 election that pits avowed socialist Bernie Sanders against capitalist Donald Trump? At least that way the American people would finally have a clear choice.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/14/2015 13:14 Comments ||
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Interesting, though, I sat all the way through last night's ABC World News and there was no mention of any email scandal. They went on at length about a school bus crash in New Jersey though.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/14/2015 13:18 Comments ||
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Douglas Adams: "It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
#15
She was born not suitable to be president. As was jug, as was Billy Jeff, as was Bush W.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
08/14/2015 18:49 Comments ||
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It will get ugly. If there's no opportunity for favors and graft, look for the contribution to the Clinton Global Criminal Conspiracy Initiative's funding to dry up. No more $200K speaking fees. Bill will have to pay for his own underage hookers. Huma will get a new girlfriend...it all goes away
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/14/2015 21:08 Comments ||
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[FREEBEACON] The CEO and Board of Directors of Solazyme, a company the military paid $149 per gallon for "alternative" fuel, have donated more than $300,000 to Democratic candidates and committees, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
Recipients of significant donations included the Obama Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee. Additionally, Solazyme donated between $100,000 and $250,000 to the Bill, Hillary, and Princess Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report found that the Department of Defense (DOD) paid Solazyme $149 per gallon for fuel made of algal oil, costing taxpayers a total of $223,500 in 2009. The group also received a $21 million stimulus grant from Department of Energy in 2009.
"Based in South the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... , Solazyme's mission is to improve our lives and our planet by producing sustainable, high-performance oils and ingredients derived from microalgae," the company states. Solazyme claims that their process serves as a better alternative to limited resources such as petroleum, vegetable oils, and animal fats.
Three members of Solazyme's Board of Directors have donated hundreds of thousands to Dems, which include more than $50,000 in donations that benefited President B.O..
Solazyme's co-founders, Jonathan Wolfson and Harrison Dillon, have together donated more than $7,000 to Democratic candidates and committees.
A member of Solazyme's management team, Peter Licari, donated to both Republicans and Democrats before he was employed by Solazyme. Licari donated $16,000 to Republicans and more than $25,000 to Democrats while he was employed by Complete Healthcare Resources.
Posted by: Fred ||
08/14/2015 00:00 ||
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I remember that story and the flack from it.
Little wonder the fucking Clintons were in on the swindle.
#3
She is here to use her office to continue to run her business. Look at the foundation donors and then track her travels as secretary of state. No diplomacy was really involved other than arms sales and other trinkets.
That is all she is,A shallow international crony capitalist in mao pants.
#5
It was not meraly a scam but endnagering soldiers lives. Military vehicles require high performance not sh.y political correctness. If you ue inferior fuel (and gren fuel is inferior it will translate into body bags.
#6
Talking of fuel: if by the end of the war Soviet pilots were kicking German pilots' a..es it was not only because they had better planes than in or because they were better trained than tin 1941, it was also because high octane fuel (about 90% of it provided by the Allies according to Marshal Zhukov) gave them the extra mph who made the difference between victory or being shot down.
Now the US military is voluntarily using inferior fuel. This amounts to treason.
#8
The actual problem is not the fuel or the cost, but that the DoD was required to buy it. As I recall, at the time of the Request for Purchase, the fuel didn't even physically exist, but DoD was legally required to buy it anyway. (Read about it at the time.)
Posted by: ed in texas ||
08/14/2015 7:34 Comments ||
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The pigs crowd the trough of the crony capitalists Beltway feed. Starve the beast.
#10
One more reason that I always feel like I'm living under a criminal conspiracy when the Donks are in power. The Clintons and Obamas might hate each other but not so much that they don't share in the boodle that is bilked.
#11
This is a situation also exacerbated by linguistic problems.
Calling what Clinton and Obama are doing "crony capitalism", while technically correct, allows the emphasis to be placed on capitalism, corporatism is the same, correct but misleading.
Graft, theft, corruption need to be called what they are.
If you want to label it systemically the closest match would be fascism....think Benito rather than Adolph.
One federal judge has now ordered former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her top aides to preserve all of records from their time in the administration, while another judge is trying to get to the bottom of how the government is deciding what classified information was included in those messages.
A flurry of court filings over the last week have only heightened the political perils to Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, and the practical problems President Obama’s team faces as it tries to grapple with the mess Mrs. Clinton’s unique email arrangement left behind.
Responding to a judge’s order, the State Department instructed Mrs. Clinton and aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills to save all “federal documents, electronic or otherwise, in her possession or control,” and to assure the government that none of them will be deleted.
Oops! Too late!
Those instructions were sent Aug. 10 — a day before Mrs. Clinton announced through her campaign that she would turn the server she used for email during her time as secretary over to federal investigators, who were already looking into whether classified information was being stored in an insecure manner on the server or a flash drive held by her personal lawyer.
Lawyers for both Ms. Abedin and Ms. Mills responded with assurances, but David E. Kendall, Mrs. Clinton’s lawyer, had not responded to the State Department by a Wednesday deadline.
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, PEASANT!!"
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan also prodded the State Department to make sure it’s working with the FBI to see if any of Mrs. Clinton’s emails can still be obtained from the server.
“Further, in light of the State Department’s August 12, 2015 status report, the August 14, 2015 report shall indicate the extent to which the State Department is working with other government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice, to search Mrs. Clinton’s private email server for information relevant to this lawsuit,” the judge said in an order Thursday afternoon.
The communications came as part of open-records cases filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm that has been trying to get a peek at Mrs. Clintons’s communications for years, but was unknowingly foiled by her email situation, in which she illegally issued herself her own illegal account on a illegal server she kept illegally at her home in New York, rather than using the State Department’s usual system.
Prodded by the Benghazi review panel, the State Department belatedly admitted Mrs. Clinton had illegally never allowed her records to be part of the usual record-keeping system, and so they were illegally never checked when Congress or others were trying to peruse her communications.
Nearly two years after she left office, Mrs. Clinton returned the records to the department,
...all on paper, not electronically...
which has now spent eight months trying to process them, and has released several thousand pages out of 55,000 total pages.
Those 55,000 pages, comprising about 30,000 emails, were the ones Mrs. Clinton deemed to be government business and returned to the department. She said there were about 32,000 other messages that were entirely personal, which she didn’t turn over. She said she has since illegally expunged all of the messages from the server, so it’s not clear what records are able to be retrieved by the FBI and State Department.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said they are asking the courts to insist that the State Department play a more active role in seeing whether Mrs. Clinton made the right calls in deciding which records she deemed government business and which she deemed private.
“It’s not clear they’ve turned over all of Mrs. Clinton’s records,” he said.
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/14/2015 00:00 ||
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Why did it take two years for a judge to tell them to follow the law? I mean, we all know why somebody had to remind them about the law.
Posted by: Bobby ||
08/14/2015 7:23 Comments ||
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There's a parable about horses and barn doors that seems to apply here.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
08/14/2015 7:36 Comments ||
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There are at least 6 investigations of Hillary and State that are ongoing regarding Bengahzi and Server/email-gate. Maybe we should call all this HildabeestGate. Death by a 1000 cuts.
#4
Too late. The records have long since been destroyed, and the backups destroyed. Hillary will just say "was I not supposed to do that? Gee, I didn't know"
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
08/14/2015 10:14 Comments ||
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If only there were something courts could do to enforce their orders and punish those who defy them...
#1
The four emails, which have not been released through the State FOIA process, did not contain classification markings and/or dissemination controls.
Those who are lawyering-up will seize upon this statement as a defense. If the classification markings were stripped, who would have stripped them? And why? Hillary will probably fall back on" "What difference does it make?" (If they were not marked, how were we responsible?) As the Chinese say, interesting times we live in.
#2
Hillary will continue to delay and then she'll pull out the 'republican witch-hunt' and 'move on' tropes to help her with those who haven't followed events.
If her poll numbers continue to sink she will cut a deal for no prosecution in exchange for her dropping out of the race for health reasons.
#13
In the US if you win the party primary, run and lose, you really don't get another chance. You are a loser. If you lose the primary you can try again because few remember the primaries.
Having said that his chance was 2004. His slogan should have been "Re-Elect Al Gore." Would have been clever but he would have lost anyway.
#14
Does this mean the Donks have given up on the 2016 Presidential election? If Hilda tanks any worse or gets indicted, I predict Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on the ticket--two hard core left-wing radical socialists spending and re-distributing other people's money. Howard Dean has also been making noises lately.
#18
I've been telling Guam locals, whom think Hillary should win the DEM nomination but then also have Sweet Caroline Kennedy as a VPOTUS running mate, that given MSM-Net allegations of Hillary's once-again "weak/floundering" campaign CAROLINE NEEDS TO HAVE A MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY ACCOMPLISHMENT ON HER RESUME TO BACK OR SUPPORT HILLARY.
MORESO SINCE CAROLINE IS BEING LOOKED UPON AS THE HOPE/SALVATION TO REVITALIZE THE KENNEDY CLAN AS A US POLITICAL POWER IN THE NEW CENTURY.
This is where Caroline's ability as US Ambassador to Japan comes in i.e. her role in preventing any MAJOR CHINA-JAPAN WAR, + BY EXTENSION ANY POSSIBLE US-CHINA WAR.
OTOH, mighty heroine Caroline at best can likely only DELAY A CHINA-JAPAN WAR IN NE ASIA, NOT PREVENT ONE IFF CHINA STILL DESIRES TO PROCEED WID ITS "POST-US", OWG CO-SUPERPOWER, FUTURE ASIA + WORLD #1 GEOPOL AGENDA.
* FYI TOPIX, WORLD NEWS [Various] > WAR/STORM CLOUDS BREWING BETWEEN CHINA + JAPAN OVER EAST CHINA SEA.
While the World is closely watching the situation or developments in the SOUTH CHINA SEA between China + US Ally PHILIPPINES [includ VIETNAM], IT IS ALL BUT IGNORING THE STEADILY DETRIORATING, MUCH MORE MILITARILY + GLOBALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION BETWEEN CHINA + JAPAN IN THE EAST CHINA SEA.
D *** NG IT, THIS IS A JOB FOR "SUPER-C" [Caroline Kennedy]!
KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED, AMERIKA, I'VE ALWAYS SAID-N-STILL-DO THAT ANTI-US US = ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKAN, OWG GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA HASN'T EVEN STARTED WID CHINA YET.
"CHINA" is the most existentially dangerous or risque' "litmus test" for US-led Anti-US OWG-NWO.
What Globalist POTUS Obama doesn't finish or accomplish during his term, before Jan 2017, ANY SIMILAR ANTI-US US GLOBALIST POTUS SUCCESSOR(S) WILL DO.
#3
Sort of a natural progression. First under the desk at the Chamber of Commerce, now underwater.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
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#4
Boner has not served the voters well--a Speaker in name only. The Pubs said elect us to the House and everything will be better. Then, they said elect us to the Senate and everything will be much better. Now, the Rinos are saying elect one of us to the Presidency and everything will be just dandy. Next, look for them to say "give us a supermajority and we will really can something done". Meanwhile, the country bleeds under this one-party arrangement.
#6
Sounds like people got fed up with his $80K Gate Fee to introduce legislation. Hopefully people in his district will get rid of him. He didn't even bother to campaign in his district in 2014. Neither did his butbuddy Mike Turner.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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WHAT NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT BUT WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT
One federal judge has now ordered former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her top aides to preserve all of records from their time in the administration, while another judge is trying to get to the bottom of how the government is deciding what classified information was included in those messages.
