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The laws also empower the FBI and prosecutors to seek punishment for gross negligence in the handling of secrets generated by spy agencies like the NSA. Proving that in a court, however, requires evidence that Clinton had a “guilty state of mind,” according to George W. Bush’s last Attorney General, Michael Mukasey....
Yes, but the law assumes that the target of an investigation has at least some vestige of a "moral compass" that would enable that person to feel the emotion of guilt, or remorse. The Hildebeast lacks any capacity to feel remorse or guilt - her malignant hubris is so extreme that she feels that she is above national security laws, criminal laws - and any other kind of law.
The thought of this wretched excuse for human being becoming POTUS just chills me to the bone. It would be as if the Wicked Witch of The West and her evil flying monkeys had become the real rulers of the Land Of Oz.
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Covering up for their candidate, with an attempt to be 'fair and balanced' -
"No one has suggested that Clinton or any of her aides or employees at the State Department intended to harm the interests of the United States in their handling of the classified material."
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What timing in politix is not "bad?"
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This must have been a real shock to the 17 people who still read Time!
[COLUMBIAMISSOURIAN] The former director of a domestic violence shelter in south-central Missouri has admitted stealing about $30,000 from the shelter.
The office of the U.S. Attorney for Western Missouri says in a release that 64-year-old Mary Young pleaded guilty to credit card fraud in connection with the embezzlement scheme at the Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE) shelter in Leb.
The prosecutor's office says Young was the executive director of COPE from August 2008 through June 2014. The fraud wasn't discovered until after she resigned.
As part of the guilty plea, Young admitted that she used shelter credit cards to make unauthorized personal purchases for things like gas, meals and clothes.
The release says Young's fraudulent purchases totaled more than $30,800. She entered the plea last week.
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Put a lien on her social security payments until it is all paid back.
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Oh, I think a morals conviction and something about 'violating public trust' packaged with embezzlement...
[THEAMERICANMIRROR] The NAACP's mission of political correctness and equality careened off the rails this week when a local president complimented a TV news hounds breasts during an interview.
Don Harris, the president of the Maricopa County Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had just finished an event at Tempe Union High School District to discuss an incident at the school in which several girls wore black t-shirts bearing the letters "N-I-*-*-E-R" on them.
The outrage was instantaneous.
"The six students in question pulled ranks to spell out NI**ER on their own, smiling gleefully to pose for an Instagram picture. Their punishment was 5-days suspension," a petition demanding their expulsion reads, EAGnews reports.
"This hurtful use of a racial slur is a complete disregard for the dignity of the black community in Arizona and across the nation and the punishment does not fit the total ignorance and cruelty of the crime."
Harris was on hand to accept apologizes and demand action.
But after the meeting, while participants were speaking with the media, he was caught on camera saying Channel 12 news hound Monique Griego had "nice tits."
"I can't believe that someone in his position would not understand how inappropriate that comment was at the time that he made it," says Ray Stern, a news hound for the Phoenix New Times, who was talking to Griego at the time.
"Here's the leader of the NAACP talking about the N-word and then making this comment, that was more inappropriate than I could even believe," he tells ABC 15.
The news station reports Harris doesn't believe Griego heard him at the time and says he feels like he let down the NAACP. He calls his comment "ugly" and says it just slipped out "guy to guy."
After the reaction, Harris now says he feels "down in the dumps."
The New Times contacted Harris after that incident and reports the NAACP leader said, "I apologize if anyone was offended. I could have said nothing . . . I'm really f*cking sorry."
He argued that the meeting was over when he complimented the news hound's rack and then really blew a gasket (edited for a family audience):
"I'm going to slash my wrists," he spews. "Better yet, I'm going to throw myself out of a f*cking window, except I'm on the first floor . . . I'm one of the best g*dd*mned people in the state."
People criticized him when he first took over the NAACP chief post from the Reverend Oscar Tillman, who retired in 2014 after 22 years in the position, he says, because "I was the wrong flavor.
"They've seen me now, they've seen what I've done. I've given up my law practice. I'm down here six, seven days a week. That's what my commitment is. I support NOW, the women's organization -- g*dd*mn! -- are you sh*tting me? Are you going to write this up?"
Griego didn't comment on the situation but Harris insists he wants to apologize face-to-face. (Of course he does.)
Last June, when white NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal was exposed for pretending to be black, Harris appeared on CNN and claimed "credibility" is one of the most important assets the organization has.
"This is a race-based organization -- the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. And being a race-based organization, when you have a leader in any capacity, you've got to have credibility.
"Once you lose that credibility, the efficacy of your leadership fails," Harris said.
There are now calls for Harris's resignation and at least one minister seeking his ouster blames not Harris's sexism, but his "white privilege."
"Don can be a bit of a character, but I think he's also a well-to-do, older, white male and he exhibited some of the signs of what we've called 'white privilege,' Rev. Jarrett Maupin says, according to KTAR. "He should know better than anyone, as the NAACP, to do what he did."
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"This hurtful use of a racial slur is a complete disregard for the dignity of the black community in Arizona and across the nation and the punishment does not fit the total ignorance and cruelty of the crime."
Wait a d@mn minute here, I thought that gal in the Trayvon Martin case testified that ni99er was a term of endearment. Is there some kind of double-standard here?
And by the way, I googled Monique's t!ts, and they are nice enough that I had to google them several times.
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Some impudent students got shirty
To spell the unspeakably dirty;
Their "NIGHER" attire
Drew fools to the fire
(For sirens are naught if not flirty).
[NYPOST] The State Department is lying when it says it didn't know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ... was improperly using personal e-mails and a private server to conduct official business -- because it never set up an agency e-mail address for her in the first place, the department's former top watchdog says.
"This was all planned in advance" to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency's inspector general from 2005 to 2008.
The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov e-mail address like previous secretaries.
"That's a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private e-mail server until later," Krongard said in an exclusive interview. "How else was she supposed to do business without e-mail?"
He also points to the unusual absence of a permanent inspector general during Clinton's entire 2009-2013 term at the department. He said the 5¹/₂-year vacancy was unprecedented.
"This is a major gap. In fact, it's without precedent," he said. "It's the longest period any department has gone without an IG."
Inspectors general serve an essential and unique role in the federal government by independently investigating agency waste, fraud and abuse. Their oversight also covers violations of communications security procedures.
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"He also points to the unusual absence of a permanent inspector general during Clinton's entire 2009-2013 term at the department. He said the 5¹/₂-year vacancy was unprecedented.
"This is a major gap. In fact, it's without precedent," he said. "It's the longest period any department has gone without an IG."
Hmm. Almost as if they didn't WANT anyone there who could look over their shoulders.
Mike
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The purpose of the IG is to identify and eliminate trouble makers. Whistle blowers just fair so well.~
Hilldabeast should have known that and appointed one of her minions to the job.
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Clinton said something quite revealing yesterday.
You know, you can’t get information off the classified system in the State Department to put on an unclassified system, no matter what that system is. We were very specific about that. And when you receive information, of course, there has to be some markings, some indication that someone down the chain thought that this was classified and that was not the case.
She intentionally ommitted one key word in her statement - "legally". Mr. Sullivan and Ms. Mills and Abidien if you haven't already you may want to retain legal counsel. You also may want to ask Ms. McDougal about her views on refusing immunity.
"Still, the comments appear to indicate that State Department officials went out of their way to accommodate Clinton’s unusual bespoke email setup, which involved the exclusive use of a private email account housed on a personal server. Critics of Clinton’s arrangement have tried to force the State Department to clarify whether her private email account and server were expressly permitted by department officials."
Donald Trump leads the GOP field in a new survey of federal government employees, but one-fourth of those polled said they would think about leaving their jobs if he is elected president.
If the real estate mogul wins, 14 percent of respondents said they would consider leaving the federal service in the poll released Friday by the Government Business Council, the research arm of Government Executive Media Group. An additional 11 percent answered "maybe."
Be still my heart. Any chance we can make it 100%?
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Federal Reserve Bank of New York officials secretly conducted real-time exercises during the 2011 and 2013 debt-limit crisis that demonstrated the federal government could function during a temporary shutdown by prioritizing spending, even as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew publicly claimed many times that such efforts were "unworkable," according to a new report by the House Financial Services Committee obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
The staff report, to be released Tuesday, charges that Lew and other Obama administration officials deliberately misled Congress and the public during the federal budget and debt limit showdowns in both years. The committee will convene a public hearing on the report Feb. 2. Of course he did. Can't let a manufactured crisis go to waste.
The report also states that the Obama administration crafted actual contingency plans to pay for Social Security and veterans benefits, as well as principal and interest on the national debt if the government was temporarily unable to borrow more money. The Committee concludes that over the last two years the Treasury Department has "obstructed" congressional efforts to get to the bottom of the administration's real-time policy during the two showdowns.
The Constitution stipulates that only Congress can determine how much money the federal government can borrow. Presidents thus cannot unilaterally spend beyond congressional debt ceiling limits set. The committee ‐ chaired by Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas ‐ charged that during both confrontations, the Obama administration held the country's creditworthiness "hostage" by claiming default was the only possibility if the debit ceiling was not raised. Since when have the laws for the little people stopped the lightbringer?
"These internal documents show the Obama Administration took the nation's creditworthiness and economy hostage in a cynical attempt to create a crisis so the president could get what he wanted during negotiations over the debt ceiling," Hensarling said in a statement to be released with the report Tuesday. That's a nice credit rating. Would be a shame if something happened to it.
The report also revealed that the Treasury Department did not publicly divulge its plans to prioritize payments "for the express purpose of creating market uncertainty in an effort to pressure Congress to acquiesce in the administration's âno negotiation' posture on the debt ceiling."
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, the financial services panel's oversight subcommittee chairman, said the administration "manufactured a crisis to put politics ahead of economic stability."
The massive, 322-page report chronicles frank, behind-the-scenes discussions among Federal Reserve Board and Federal Bank of New York officials as Congress debated whether to keep existing debt limits or allow Treasury to borrow more money. The House committee and the Treasury Department have been fighting a bitter, two-year battle over Federal Reserve documents.
The report states that "Treasury apparently directed the New York Fed not to answer valid congressional oversight inquiries because Treasury knew the answers would expose the dishonesty of the administration's public statements." Dishonesty is the hallmark of this administration and now most of the government. The reckoning is coming motherfuckers. And you will not like it.
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There not the idiots. The idiots are the ones who elected (most of) them.
I recall some folks, at the time, pointing out the parallel to your personal finances - when your credit card is maxed out, your head doesn't explode, you spend less.
Too bad no one in the idiot press cared to point that out to the idiot voters.
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The inner circle never wants the truth from the outside world, they are quite happy to lie to each other to defend their fantasy land, it's very remunerative that way.
[COLUMBIAMISSOURIAN] 2. Hunting feral hogs will be banned on all land owned, leased or managed by the state Department of Conservation. The Department of Conservation found that hunting was counterproductive to eradicating the destructive hog population. Texas and many other western states have pretty much open season on feral hogs. They cause a half billion dollars a year in damage, just in Texas. They pollute waterways with e.coli and will root up acres of cultivated land at a time. One sow can litter up to twice a year, with anywhere from a half dozen to a dozen little piggies who'll be ready to breed themselves at between eight months and a year. Probably because I'm politically incorrect and getting dumber the further I progress into my dotage, I can't grasp how not killing as many of them as you can is "counterproductive." The same people would likely say the same thing about zombies.
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Counterproductive? Show me. ;-)
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Department of Conservation
Can we guess who inhabits said bureaucracy? /rhet question
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"Exotic species, including the feral hog, may
be hunted throughout the year. Aerial gunning
is allowed with a permit from the TPWD.
There is no closed season and no bag limit.
It is legal to use suppressors (silencers) on
firearms to hunt feral hogs. Feral hogs may be
hunted at night with the use of a spotlight or
night vision."
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I dated a woman who killed a wild boar with a bowie knife. There is more money to be made at the state and federal level by banning the hunting and only allowing it by licenses, fees, and permits. The hell with the natural ecosystems, theres gold in them thar hogs!
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Bacon, too.
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Cliven Bundy and supporters from Bunkerville, NV. are taking possession of the Oregon refuge center today via formal notification to Harney County Sheriff Ward, Governor Kate Brown and President Barack Obama dated February 1, 2016.
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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.
[THEAMERICANMIRROR] The NAACP's mission of political correctness and equality careened off the rails this week when a local president complimented a TV 
"This hurtful use of a racial slur is a complete disregard for the dignity of the black community in Arizona and across the nation and the punishment does not fit the total ignorance and cruelty of the crime."
After the reaction, Harris now says he feels "down in the dumps."
"This is a race-based organization -- the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. And being a race-based organization, when you have a leader in any capacity, you've got to have credibility.
Hillary Clinton
Federal Reserve Bank of New York officials secretly conducted real-time exercises during the 2011 and 2013 debt-limit crisis that demonstrated the federal government could function during a temporary shutdown by prioritizing spending, even as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew publicly claimed many times that such efforts were "unworkable," according to a new report by the House Financial Services Committee obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
