[Daily Caller] The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently heard new information that could blow the lid off of the Hillary Clinton private email server scandal and shed new light on a consulting job Huma Abedin held while working as Clinton's aide at the State Department.
The Daily Caller learned of a three-hour May 1 meeting two State Department whistleblowers held with the general counsel and staffers for the Oversight Committee, which is led by Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz.
According to a copy of notes from that meeting, State Department whistleblower Richard Higbie and another whistleblower told of an inspector-turned-whistleblower with State's office of the inspector general who claims his investigation into Abedin's work with Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm, led to the discovery of Clinton's private email server.
According to the notes, the whistleblower also told Higbie that the investigation was shut down by Harold Geisel, the former acting inspector general for the State Department whose tenure was marked by accusations of political favoritism. Appears Higbie in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) has become something of a conduit or 'go to man' for the Foggy Bottom whistleblowing crowd.
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Just pay Guccifer $100k for the e-mails and be done with this dog & pony show. That, or show real balls and shut off all State Dept. funding until they play ball & cough 'em up.
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Email servers might get wiped clean but it is likely that many of the emails remain somewhere.
Whistle-blowers coming forward? Don't get my hopes up. The Clintons have learned over the years to insulate themselves very well with political firewalls. If that doesn't work, Fort Marcy Park comes to mind.
[Washington Times] Bill Clinton's foundation set up a fundraising arm in Sweden that collected $26 million in donations at the same time that country was lobbying Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department to forgo sanctions that threatened its thriving business with Iran, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.
The Swedish entity, called the William J. Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelse, was never disclosed to or cleared by State Department ethics officials, even though one of its largest sources of donations was a Swedish government-sanctioned lottery.
As the money flowed to the foundation from Sweden, Mrs. Clinton's team in Washington declined to blacklist any Swedish firms despite warnings from career officials at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm that Sweden was growing its economic ties with Iran and potentially undercutting Western efforts to end Tehran's rogue nuclear program, diplomatic cables show.
"Sweden does not support implementing tighter financial sanctions on Iran" and believes "more stringent financial standards could hurt Swedish exports," one such cable from 2009 alerted Mrs. Clinton's office in Washington.
Separately, U.S. intelligence was reporting that Sweden's second-largest employer, telecommunications giant Ericsson AB, was pitching cellphone tracking technology to Iran that could be used by the country's security services, officials told The Times.
By the time Mrs. Clinton left office in 2013, the Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelse had collected millions of dollars inside Sweden for his global charitable efforts and Mr. Clinton personally pocketed a record $750,000 speech fee from Ericsson, one of the firms at the center of the sanctions debate. Classic 'Pay for Play'. I believe it's time for the Attorney General to act.
If you read no other biased and unfair editorial this year, read this one... [WASHINGTONPOST] SOON AFTER the rioting in Baltimore ended in late April, the world’s media turned their gaze elsewhere. Then, as a petulant police force retreated to its station houses, the real carnage began. It's the cops' fault, y'see. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, Baltimore version...
May was the most lethal month in the city in more than 40 years; in per capita terms, it may have been the bloodiest month since recordkeeping began. There were 43 victims of homicide in the city last month, the most since August 1972, when Baltimore’s population, now 600,000, was about 900,000. Any idea why a third of the city's former population now lives in the 'Burbs?
In addition, there were 108 nonfatal shootings in May, nearly triple the number recorded the same month last year. Over the three-day Memorial Day weekend alone, the city recorded 32 shootings and nine homicides. That could be why everybody who could moved away.
As Baltimore’s streets succumb to the wave of carnage, the police have simply withdrawn, by many accounts. Harassed, hooted at and openly hated in the wake of the arrest of Freddie Gray, whose death in custody triggered the rioting in April, uniformed officers seem to have decided not to do their jobs. Since they're harassed, hooted at, and openly hated they're leaving the harassers, hooters, and haters to take care of the non-essentials, like the termination of black lives, which, it would appear, don't matter.
Arrests, already down from 2014 levels before the rioting, have plummeted by more than 50 percent since then. Community leaders in Sandtown — the area where Mr. Gray was arrested — say there is a deliberate effort on the police department’s part to vacate the streets and see how the community likes it. Unfeeling brutes that they are, they're letting the locals have what they say they want. Notice that the community leaders in Sandtown haven't done anything to police their own community. They haven't done anything at all other than complain. That must be because they're "community organizers" as opposed to "community leaders"...
On Fox News, one officer, his face and voice obscured, explained the cops’ “reasoning.” “After the protests, it seems like the citizens would appreciate a lack of police presence, and that’s exactly what they’re getting,” he said. He went on to blame the city’s leadership for not having officers’ backs and prosecutors for indicting the six police officers in whose custody Mr. Gray was fatally injured. You don't get lynched for staying in the station house eating donuts. You do get lynched for apprehending known and unknown violent felons and occasionally having to thump them. Which option produces optimal results?
If the police are determined to degrade their already poisonous relations with the city’s mainly African American communities, they have hit upon an effective strategy. Peevishness seems to have supplanted all sense of duty. It's the cops' fault, obviously. It couldn't be the fault of the city's more feral inhabitants.
Even Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts has acknowledged his officers have felt confused and unsupported following the charges filed against the six officers. That's because six cops have been indicted for jugging a known felon who managed to kill himself in the paddy wagon. The charges are flimsy and they're going to be thrown out. If not, they'll have to disband the Baltimore City police department and start a new one from scratch. Maybe they can find the recruits for the new one in Sandtown. Defending themselves against the flimsy charges in court is going to impoverish the six officers (and their branch of the FOP) and they're not going to be able to resume their careers. The thugs win either way.
Implicitly acknowledging the slowdown underway, he said he has asked officers to maintain a “visible and consistent presence” in the city’s neighborhoods. Which means riding around in their patrol cars and concentrating on traffic violations.
At the same time, there is no sign that city or state officials are devising any sort of strategy to lift Baltimore from its spiraling sense of despair. The state officials have no responsibility to devise such strategy. Baltimore city is not the entire state. The city government would be the one to concern itself. And by Gum, they're on the job. Saturday's Baltimore Sun carried an announcement that property taxes were to be raised (again), which will contribute yet again to a flood of departures from the city. There was an opinion piece in the same paper pushing the idea of settling po' blacks among the rich folks in Guilford and Roland Park. If they're living among the rich folks, y'see, they'll conduct themselves like rich folks and thereby get rich.
Gov. Larry Hogan (R), having spent a week in Baltimore following the riots, has had little to say about the city since then beyond his insistence on the restoration of public order. There's not an awful lot you can do in a city without public order, but the Post has to blame Hogan for something because he's a Publican.
Hogan administration officials say that Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., an African American and a Democrat from Baltimore who is an aide to the governor, will offer recommendations to promote jobs and opportunity in the city. So far there is no indication of how and when that may happen. Mitchell is another political dynast, grandson of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., and grandnephew of the late U.S. Congressman Parren Mitchell. His father's older brother, Clarence M. Mitchell, III was a Maryland State Senator, and his father's younger brother, Michael B. Mitchell, Sr. was a Baltimore City Councilman and later Maryland State Senator. At the age of 3, Mitchell took part in his first political campaign, handing out flyers for the State Senate bid of his uncle, Clarence M. Mitchell, III. At twelve, while attending Baltimore's Boys' Latin School of Maryland, he organized a "Kids-for-Carter" campaign to support then Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter in his bid for the presidency. As an undergraduate at Emory University, he volunteered at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. As you can see, he's got all sorts of qualifications to alleviate poverty in a city whose institutions have collapsed under years of mismanagement by his relatives.
Baltimore must not be allowed to spiral into further despair and violence. Why not?
Just as the city deserves responsible, proactive policing, it deserves strategic, forward-thinking governance from city and state leaders. Failing that, Baltimore’s failure will become their own. That would be Mayor Rawlings-Blake, an Oberlin College graduate. She was born in Baltimore and grew up in the city's Ashburton neighborhood, where the creamiest de la creme of Baltimore blacks live untroubled by shootouts and heavy drug use. She is the daughter of Nina Rawlings, M.D. (pediatrician), and Howard "Pete" Rawlings, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates. State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby is married to Nick Mosby, a Baltimore city councilman. It's all very incestuous and a few generations from now everyone in government will probably have hemophilia and that sort of thing.
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I see Baltimore heading the way of Detroit where living is cheap and life is cheaper.
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Send them crates of mirrors. They can ponder the meaning of that gesture
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I listened to an almost hour-long radio interview that Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke did with a local host wherein they discussed a wide variety of topics. The host (Vicki McKenna) and Sheriff Clarke are friends, so the discussion is fairly relaxed and actually had some depth. Vicki's voice can be a little harsh to listen to at times, but Sheriff Clarke's views are the reason I listened to this.
The topics started with the ongoing issue of homeless folks gathering and sleeping at the Madison City/County Building and went on into the huge surge of violence in Baltimore and other cities. Sheriff Clarke discussed items 'as a cop' and not a politician.
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Clarke is an impressive fellow
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Sheriff Clark did a long interview with Glenn Beck yesterday. Very impressive fellow and well spoken. He will be joining Glenn's team of people doing a Podcast every Saturday beginning this weekend.
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Unfortunately for Clarke, the murder rate in Milwaukee has skyrocketed.
That statistic would be for the City of Milwaukee only, run by Police Chief Ed Flynn (former police chief in Springfield, MA who quit there in the middle of a 5-year contract for the Milwaukee job) a staunch apologist for the Dem/Socialist run city government and who seems to throw his officers under the bus when the political winds dictate.
Sheriff David takes care of the rest of Milwaukee county where they don't seem to have the same issues.
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[BREITBART] Monday while President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... was answering questions at a town hall with YSEALI Fellows, an exchange program for community leaders from ASEAN, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, he said his administration has restored the Untied States as the "the most respected country on earth."
Obama said, "People don't remember, but when I came into office, the Untied States in world opinion ranked below China and just barley above Russia, and today once again, the Untied States is the most respected country on earth. Part of that I think is because of the work we did to reengage the world and say we want to work with you as partners with mutual interests and mutual respect. It was on that basis we were able to end two wars while still focusing on the very real threat of terrorism and try to work with our partners in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's the reason why we are moving in the direction to normalize relations with Cuba and the nuclear deal that we are trying to negotiate with Iran."
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As everything this guy says, the exact opposite is absolutely true.
Frequent speaking engagements are used to demonize your opponents - to be harpy, to accuse them exactly of doing what your tactics are.
Always defensive and petty and defensive.
Why is it true? because barak said its true. And why should we do what he says? because barak said so.
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Survey says 78% of Americans want Congresscritters to pee in cups - I wonder what a poll of the Executive would show. Stuff like this sure suggests some drug abuse.
[BREITBART] President B.O. explained to a group of young Asian leaders today that it was important not to betray one's principles while being a leader.
He pointed out that one of his core principles is to "treat everyone fairly" regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or religion.
"One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion," Obama said. "That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate."
Obama admitted that it was important to stay true to one's principles, allowing people to sense their "integrity."
"Unfortunately, too many politicians, they're just climbing the ladder but they don't know why, and when they get there then they're not very effective leaders," he explained. Is that a teaching point, or a confession ?
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"our people"
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"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."
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Proverbs 6:16-19 King James Version (KJV) 16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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The real question is who is stupid enough to buy CA bonds? Probably the same people who buy Greek bonds. And the bond dealers who are pushing this crap should be treated like bankers caught moving drug money.
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So true P2K...Glad I left that upholstered cesspool and moved to a place that actually has some semblance of what America is (was) and Oh...by the way...water
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They will now be covered but coverage does not equal care. Where are the extra healthcare providers coming from? With an estimated 1/2 million (probably more) new people to be seen by a doctor where is the Doctor? Bugwits.
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Deacon, existing doctors will have time freed up by death counselors handling the cases not worth doctors' time.
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Doctor's? We don't need no stinkin' doctors! Get ready for a rash of PAs ...your CA medicare care will be handled by:
1. A PA not a doctor (maybe OK if just GP stuff)
2. Telemedicine - face the camera and point to where it hurts
3. A robot - Greetings human ...describe your issue (after you plug in your insurance card) or if undocumented Democrat - Se habla Espanol
Paging Dr. Steve - "You have 10,000 patients waiting and 14 feet of forms to fill out.."
[Rooters] U.S. President Barack Obama said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's terms for diplomacy that might lead to a Palestinian state meant Israel had lost international credibility as a potential peacemaker.
Obama also suggested that continued U.S. diplomatic defense for Israel at the United Nations over the Palestine dispute may be reviewed, while reaffirming U.S. support for Israeli security in a conflict-riven Middle East.
In an interview with Israeli television aired on Tuesday, he offered a bleak outlook for decades of negotiations on Palestinian statehood bearing any fruit during the 18 months he has left in office.
"I don't see the likelihood of a framework agreement," Obama said in an interview with Uvda, a current-affairs program produced by Israel's top-rated Channel Two and Keshet television. "The question is how do we create some building blocks of trust and progress."
While Obama has acknowledged the geographical and ideological divisions among Palestinians that have bedeviled peace efforts, in the interview -- taped in the White House on Friday -- he focused on Netanyahu's policies.
On the eve of his March 17 election to a fourth term, Netanyahu said there would be no Palestinian state if he remained premier. He argued that any withdrawals from occupied territory by Israel would embolden hardline Islamist guerrillas arrayed on its borders.
Netanyahu has since sought to row back from those remarks but his peace overtures have met with scepticism from the Palestinians as well as Western diplomats.
Obama said Netanyahu's position "has so many caveats, so many conditions that it is not realistic to think that those conditions would be met at any time in the near future.
"So the danger is that Israel as a whole loses credibility. Already, the international community does not believe that Israel is serious about a two-state solution."
The last round of U.S.-sponsored talks stalled more than a year ago, with Palestinians blaming Israeli settlement-building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, among the territories where they seek an independent state.
Obama said now was the time for a re-evaluation of "how we approach defending Israel on the international stage around the Palestinian issue".
He cited pro-Palestinian resolutions at the United Nations that Washington has long blocked in the name of encouraging direct diplomacy between the sides. Asked whether such U.S. vetoes would continue, Obama sounded circumspect.
"Well, here's the challenge. If in fact there is no prospect of an actual peace process, if nobody believes there is a peace process, then it becomes more difficult to argue with those who are concerned about settlement construction, those who are concerned about the current situation," he said.
"It is more difficult for me to say to them, 'Be patient, wait, because we have a process here.'"
Israelis and Palestinians both, Obama said, should work with the United States to "move off what appears right now to be a hopeless situation and move it back toward a hopeful situation". He did not offer more concrete solutions.
Netanyahu's office did not immediately comment on the Obama interview. Speaking at an Israeli missile defense drill earlier on Tuesday, Netanyahu stressed the need for self-sufficiency: "When it comes to Israel's security, I rely, first of all, on ourselves." Nothing sez 'credibility problem' like a bloviating Obama.
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Hey Obungle, it is not Israel that is causing the trouble in the mideast. Look around at the trail of destruction and see what you come up with--your a Harvard genius--figure it out.
[Right Stuff] A new CNN poll out today is showing that Hillary is taking a beating as all her unfavorable numbers are plummeting, including those who say they trust her:
If there is any truth to it at all - and I doubt there is much - it's because some people are going to O'Malley, Warren, and Sanders. None of those candidates will get enough primary votes to defeat her. And nobody who voted for Obama in 2012 will vote for a conservative or even a Republican, ever, for any reason.
I've said it here before, you cannot scandal Hillary into losing. The Repubs must counter her and Dem machine politics with a platform which appeals to the people who sat out Romney and McCain, and an individual who can get them to vote in sufficient numbers to overwhelm the people on welfare and in public employment who would swim a lake of molten lava to vote for a Dem who will preserve their magic paychecks.
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I was reading a little obscure northwest Ohio online newspaper yesterday. I was reading the comments regarding Hillary and virtually all of the 15-20 comments slammed her. The polls and peoples comments don't jibe. I've been seeing that in other online publications also. Those who support her are basically "one issue" voters; that is they want the 1st woman POTUS. Most of them can't point to any of her accomplishments except that she hung in there with Slick while he was philandering.
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In the general election she will have a lot more support for a lot more reasons, JohnQC. Primarily in the role of "most likely to defend government paychecks".
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Yes, offer America again another I'm-just-like-them Beltway Party RINO and she'll win. That's what was offered up in the last two votings and see what it got.
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no mo uro has it pegged - the most the Republicans can hope for is reduced Dem turnout, which won't help them if Rep turnout is low because of an 'unacceptable' nominee.
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I too, fear nmu may be right. With a few brave exceptions, the Beest has quite a following among upright primates who converse with snakes.
Those who accept the 'free stuff' [Mitt's 49%] have an entirely different view of wrong doing and criminality. Therein lies at least one of the challenges.
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They will vote for any Democrat even if said Democrat set fire to bus loads of schoolchildren, as long as the Democrat promises to keep the checks coming.
There is no crime, no moral outrage, no amount of evil that a Democrat could do that would get a publicly funded person to vote for a conservative or a Republican. They vote for a living and would allow the government to incarcerate and kill to keep the gravy train going. The same people who would weaponize federal agencies and tax apparatus to stifle opposition would kill to do so also.
Sadly, I fear we are facing our Weimar moment as a nation. Buy survival food and load ammo.
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I agree with no mo uro. A lot of the Democrats I know will go to the polls and vote for Hillary even though they can't stand her. The Reason? "I'm a Democrat and I HAVE to vote Democrat".
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The Repubs must counter her and Dem machine politics with a platform which appeals to the people who sat out Romney and McCain...
You'd think at some point the Trunks would get wise but the money is against it.
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Just like Obama, the press will carry her across the line, no matter how low they have to sink, how many omissions they need, and how many lies they spread.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] SOON AFTER the rioting in Baltimore ended in late April, the world’s media turned their gaze elsewhere. Then, as a petulant police force retreated to its station houses, the real carnage began.
[BREITBART] Monday while President 
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