[Wash Times] In the unfolding political and legal drama surrounding Hillary Clinton and her private server, one name has been conspicuously missing.
Bill Clinton.
There has been scant mention of the former president's possible role and potential exposure in the server/classified material controversy, which now represents an existential threat to Mrs. Clinton's presidential ambitions. But perhaps his role may be more central that we've been led to believe.
Rather than simply focusing on Mrs. Clinton's actions as secretary of state, the FBI investigation may be proceeding along two tracks: his and hers. So far, two areas of focus have been mentioned.
One is the possible abuse of highly sensitive information by Mrs. Clinton through her use of a private, unsecured server. The other involves possible violations of public corruption law: whether she and Mr. Clinton used her position as secretary of state to further the interests of the Clinton Foundation. When these two apparently separate tracks are looked at conjointly, two major questions arise concerning Mr. Clinton.
First, did Mr. Clinton, in fact, own, pay for and house on his property the server used by Mrs. Clinton while she was secretary of state? And second, did he touch, read, see and/or use any of the classified documents that appeared on that server, and if so, did he have the appropriate clearances and approval?
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This whole situation can be summed up in two words: Dumpster Fire.
I was one of those bitter types that was furious that B & H seemed to get away with it.
Seeing them finally get something vaguely resembling justice at last leaves me feeling hollow. Death by a thousand leaks in public, and the spectacle of B being the first former president to be brought up on charges... I don't know how I feel.
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whether she and Mr. Clinton used her position as secretary of state to further the interests of the Clinton Foundation.
Similar to her communications security violations, somehow I believe we've transitioned from a question to a statement of fact, but I suppose that would be the work of a jury to decide.
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Nguard, Funny, I feel good about it. For the sake of the republic I'd like some justice to show nobody is to big to jail and send a message to anyone thinking of following in their footsteps.
I do feel sick that I think they'll skate somehow.
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With every regurgitated pseudo news report, the media is further distancing the likelihood of any jury. There will be no unexposed juror pool from which to select.
[PJ Media] Google Fiber and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have partnered to bring "ultra-high speed" 1 gigabit Internet to public housing units in many cities -- a connection speed much faster than the average household in the United States.
West Bluff Townhomes in Kansas City, Mo., has become the first public housing development with a 1 gigabit or 1,000 mbps Internet connection through the ConnectHome Initiative. Google Fiber said the speed has been provided free of charge and at no cost to HUD.
According to the most recent State of the Internet report, the average U.S. Internet connection speed was 11.9 mbps.
Verizon Fios currently offers up to 500 mbps for a high monthly fee of $269.99 per month for residential Internet. Comcast offers a 2,000 mbps package for $299.99 per month. A Google Fiber 1,000 mbps speed costs $70 per month for those living in an area where the service is available. The service is currently limited with plans to expand to more states in the future.
HUD Secretary Julian Castro, who is on the list of likely Democratic vice presidential candidates and has been actively campaigning for Hillary Clinton, said the connection in the public housing units would be about 100 times faster than average connections in the U.S.
"In the coming months, we'll bring this high-speed broadband to 1,300 public housing families in the Kansas City metro area," he said.
HUD also announced that the gigabit speeds would eventually be available at HUD assisted and affordable housing in all fiber cities, including Atlanta, Durham, N.C., San Antonio and Nashville.
Castro said the high-speed connection would ultimately reach 200,000 children in 28 communities.
Dennis Kish, CEO of Google Fiber, said the public housing residents would not be charged any fees for the speed and would not have to sign a contract.
"The gigabit speeds are being offered to all of the residents who are in the public housing that we are connecting. We feel as though there is a rising tide that we can help create in our country by really reaching out to residents who do not have an opportunity to connect to the web and help reach that digital divide," he said.
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This article merely appeals to popular envy of those in "public housing" and completely ignores the fact that Google Fiber (where it is available) vastly outclasses its paid alternatives. That is the real scandal.
I once sent an ISO of a DVD (4GB in size) to a cousin in South Korea. It took me 24 hours to upload it. It took him 18 minutes to download it. He has just the usual South Korea broadband at his place.
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Dreamers. More money in drugs. Welfare. The projects. They want to keep them down on the farm. Now with little or no police protection, I guess they have to buy protection. Try to break away the bros will keep you in line. What, you think you are better than us?.
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Dennis Kish, CEO of Google Fiber, said the public housing residents would not be charged any fees for the speed and would not have to sign a contract.
Of course not! Go with the gov't 5 year provider 'bundle' contract. Individual subscribers can always cancel or forget to forward payment. No brain'r here. Next......
[POLITICO] The National Archives is fighting a lawsuit trying to force disclosure of several draft indictments of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William Jennings Bryan ... prepared by a Whitewater prosecutor in the 1990s.
In a brief filed late Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers and the Archives argue that disclosure of the draft indictments would lead to an unwarranted invasion of Clinton's privacy and violate a court rule protecting grand jury secrecy.
"Despite the role that Mrs. Clinton occupied as the First Lady during President Clinton's administration, Mrs. Clinton maintains a strong privacy interest in not having information about her from the files of the Independent Counsel disclosed," wrote Martha Wagner Murphy, chief of the Archives "special access" branch that stores records of former independent counsels. "As an uncharged person, Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William Jennings Bryan ... retains a significant interest in her personal privacy despite any status as a public figure."
The conservative group Judicial Watch, which filed suit for the records in October under the Freedom of Information Act, is arguing that Clinton's ongoing bid for the presidency reinforces the public interest in records about her alleged misconduct.
Grand jury records aren't supposed to be released. Period.
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Guess a little trip to the Hope AR library is in order.
[MEDIAITE] Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean Former Dem governor of Vermont or Rhode Island or one of those dinky states. Howard lost his bid to be president by shrieking and screaming and acting like a loon. Then they made him chairman of the Dem national campaign committee, where he continued doing the same things only nobody paid any attention.... tried to claim on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday that Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ... had never received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from colleges, only to be shot down by the show's executive producer later in the segment.
Host Mika Brzezinski first brought up Clinton's speaking fees, asking whether they'd be a problem when it came to relating to college students. "These kids... will be strapped with $90,000 in debt or $120,000 in debt and she's making $225,000 in one hour," she pointed out.
But Dean took umbrage at that suggestion. "She's not getting $225,000 for speeches in front of colleges," he insisted.
"Yes, she is!" co-host Joe Scarborough said.
"No, she's not," Dean said obstinately. "Which colleges?"
"Howard, it's a matter of record!" Scarborough said. "Alex, Google it and we'll give him the answer in 10 seconds."
A few minutes later, Morning Joe executive producer and beer-shotgunning expert Alex Korman cut in to read off what he had found: "UNLV in October of 2014, she got $225,000. Then a month later, UCLA, she got $300,000."
To his credit, Dean admitted he was wrong. "I stand corrected," he said. "I will humbly eat crow, Joe. Do you have a serving of crow?"
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But Dean took umbrage at that suggestion. "She's not getting $225,000 for speeches in front of colleges," he insisted.
So, does that mean Dean now understands what this means?
It's pretty bad when even MSLSD can't defend one of their own.
[MEDIAITE] Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz apologized for his campaign's statements made on the day of the Iowa caucus strongly implying that Ben Carson ... a neurosurgeon who is under the delusion that being brilliant qualifies him to be president.... was dropping out of the race.
Carson strongly condemned the tactic Tuesday morning, calling it a "dirty trick," and Cruz front man Rick Taylor got an earful from MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski for it. In response, the Cruz campaign issued a public apology to CNN.
Last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated the grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story. That's fair game.
What the team should have done is send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out.
That was a mistake from our end, and for that I apologize to Dr. Carson.
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Not calling the Carson team or Carson personally to verify the facts is inexcusable. A caucus wide, blanket notification points to a rather obvious systematic attempt to harvest default voters.
I never liked the 'duel-citizen' thing either, and my dislike did not begin with Trump making it an issue.
Perhaps someone else is better suited for the job.
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#2 Besoeker: I LIKE that concept of a "duel-citizen". Question my citizenship/whatever and I'll challenge you to a duel. I think the world would be a better place with that idea in use.
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Personally I think caucus voters should assume any last minute news the day of the caucus is bull$hit and except for the big election nobody should drop out on voting day anyway, that's just screwing with your loyalists.
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I also would like to see a timeline showing the vote counts before the rumors and after. Carson's numbers were higher than expectations at the end of the night and it seems that if this had a big effect on Carson's numbers they are unlikely to have all gone to Cruz.
I think Trump is just trying to crap on everyone so that his loss (after proclaiming victory in Iowa for months) doesn't seem so bad. Trump, crush 'em in New Hampshire, don't run around whining. Its' sad.
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At this point, what could the beast's soul actually be worth? I mean how much bargaining power would Hitler have had when in the bunker?
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Good post Pappy.
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Maybe she's getting a little help in getting lucky?:
"That’s a memorable choice of words, considering that, on a spring day in 1995, according to an account published by Bob Woodward, the Washington investigative journalist of Watergate fame, Clinton ‘communed’ with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House solarium. Jean Houston, an author with something of the New Age about her, was visiting the First Lady at the White House, and proposed, Woodward writes, that Clinton "search further and dig deeper for her connections to Mrs. Roosevelt." Clinton closed her eyes, and spoke to Roosevelt—and then she spoke as if she were Roosevelt herself. Houston later told the New York Times that this was more “brainstorming” session than séance, but all the same, a conjuring: “an imaginative exercise to force her ideas, to think about how Eleanor would have responded to a particular problem.” At the dedication for the Four Freedoms Park, in 2012, President Bill Clinton joked about this incident. He said, “As all of you famously learned when I served as president, my wife, now the secretary of state, was known to commune with Eleanor on a regular basis. So she called me last night on her way home from Peru to remind me to say that: That Eleanor had talked to her and reminded her that I should say that.""
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