It is the job of the top guy to look deeply enough into everything to ensure that he is not misled. If he did not do this, he should be fired for incompetence. Unless he actually was complicit in the cover up, in which case he should be impeached. But either way, clearly he lacks the instincts to properly clean up what he did not previously bestir himself to discover, and needs to be replaced even as the decision of defenestration or imprisonment is made.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] While acknowledging that the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... bungled tea party applications, and that he himself gave wrong information to Congress, agency Commissioner John Koskinen told politicians Wednesday he needs to remain at the IRS in order to clean it up.
At a hearing designed to lay the ground for his possible impeachment, Mr. Koskinen implied he was let down by his subordinates, who allowed hundreds of backup tapes to be destroyed, losing tens of thousands of emails from former senior executive Lois G. Lerner.
It is the loss of those emails, even as they were under a subpoena issued by Congress, that has landed Mr. Koskinen in the hot seat, with conservative Republicans demanding he be ousted from office for his behavior.
Mr. Koskinen in 2014 testified that all of the information was being preserved, but now says that was faulty information and he, too, was misinformed.
"I accept that it is up to you to judge my overall record, but I believe impeachment would be improper," Mr. Koskinen told the House Judiciary Committee. I emphatically agree! Impeachment is a half-measure that clearly lacks finality and closure.
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He does deserve impeachment and prosecution. Unfortunately at the present, "Party is above right and wrong and law and order. You won't find any Donks who want to impeach one of their own who they view as just doing party work.
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For a manager to allow himself to be misled by his subordinates, is a sign of lack of management competence.
When that misdirection causes the manager to swear to a false statement, this represents a failure on his part to perform due diligence in verifying the statements of his subordinates.
In ordinary circumstances the subordinates causing the misinformation are summarily fired.
The absence of any such discipline suggests that the manager condones being made a fool of and an actual felon, in this way.
The fact that the lie sworn to supports the political position of the manager, similarly supports the idea that he condones the lies told to him.
The manager can relieve himself of some of the guilt for his behavior at the beginning by swearing that his false statement is offered to the best of his knowledge and outlining the extent of his knowledge and investigation of the matter, rather than swearing it as a fact.
Does all this create an impeachable offence?
I am not sure.
But I believe it appropriate for the manager to be called back to the committee and asked to name those subordinates who misled him.
If he fails to do so, I would consider the behavior impeachable.
Otherwise it would be appropriate for the committee to explore the motivation of those subordinates who allegedly misled him, by questioning them.
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Some Conservative requests for tax-exempt status are still being held up. The Teaparty endorsed Trump officially today. This guy even looks evil--impeachment is too good for him. I get perverse pleasure out of the thought of him mingling with the prison population.
Yeah that. Do we still have an "opposition party"? Or are they all too busy with working to fund-raise for their re-election to actually WORK for the voters that put them in office?
Those top officers who will not subordinate winning wars to Obama's loony-left ideology are removed. Army General Stanley McChrystal, former top commander in Afghanistan, was fired for publicly disagreeing with Obama's failed strategy. Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was fired for insisting that we acknowledge the obvious connection between Islamic terror and Islam. Four-star Marine Corps General James Mattis, former commander of United States Central Command, was pushed out for being anti-Iran while Obama was pushing his alarming nuclear deal:
An Aug. 10 report by a joint House panel on CentCom intelligence-skewing said Gen. Mattis "was forced to depart abruptly in early 2013."
"The leadership environment within CENTCOM and its Intelligence Directorate deteriorated significantly following the 2013 departure of Marine General James Mattis and his senior intelligence leaders," the report said.
The situation will not improve under President Shrillary:
As a senator in 2007, Mrs. Clinton famously ridiculed the testimony on the Iraq troop surge from Army Gen. David Petraeus.
"You have been made the de facto spokesman for what many of us believe to be a failed policy," Mrs. Clinton said. "Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require a willing suspension of disbelief."
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Hillary has shown to have had an odd relationship with the truth. I don't think she can recognize it even in her own life.
h/t Instapundit
Last week, Bill Clinton was doing a terrible job correcting the media record on his wife’s bout with pneumonia, telling CBS News that Hillary Clinton fainted both frequently and rarely -- a line so confusing CBS ended up editing it out. Someone must be blamed for failure. Hopefully the stigma of Slick's indiscretions will not impact Chelsea's future political career. HRC's excellent contributions must continue.
This week, Bill Clinton is on the damage control beat, speaking to reporters about the relationship between the Clinton Family Foundation and the State Department, attempting to refute claims that Foundation donors received special access to Hillary Clinton and her staff.
And he’s doing a bang-up job. Such a good job, you’d almost think he was working for Republicans. Why not? After all, who knows better than Bill just how crazy Hillary is?
[DAILYCALLER] The Dallas Morning News is paying a steep price for endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Hamilton Fish ... , in the form of canceled subscriptions and loud protests.
Would You Cancel A Newspaper Subscription If Its Editorial Board Endorsed Hillary Clinton?
Yes 97%
No 3%
The endorsement broke a 75-year streak in the paper’s history of endorsing Republicans, and generated a lot of reader pushback in the form of angry comments and vows to unsubscribe from the paper. Although Dallas is relatively liberal, the state hasn’t gone Democrat in a presidential election in 40 years.
"Certainly we’ve paid a price for our presidential recommendation," Dallas Morning News editor Mike Wilson said in an email to Poynter. Wilson acknowledged some of that price came in dropped subscriptions, although he declined to reveal to Poynter exactly how many.
"But then, we write our editorials based on principle, and sometimes principle comes at a cost," Wilson continued in the email. "I’ve had a lot of conversations with readers lately, and I respect their views and their right to disagree with us. The most important thing to us is that they vote, even if it’s not for our favorite candidate, because democracy doesn’t work if people don’t vote."
The editorial acknowledges what the paper calls Clinton’s "warts," but said her Republican opponent Donald Trump is an unacceptable choice for president.
"Trump’s values are hostile to conservatism," the editorial board wrote. "He plays on fear -- exploiting base instincts of xenophobia, racism and misogyny -- to bring out the worst in all of us, rather than the best."
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The Dallas Morning News Is Paying Dearly For Endorsing Hillary Clinton
But it is nothing compared to the price the American people will pay if she is elected.
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San Diego Union Tribune was sold to the Chicago Tribune TRONC syndicate - same thing. Endorsed Hildabeest. F THEM
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"Trump’s values are hostile to conservatism," the editorial board wrote. "He plays on fear -- exploiting base instincts of xenophobia, racism and misogyny -- to bring out the worst in all of us, rather than the best."
Written by someone who lives in a gated community or rich suburb, making a 6 figure salary. The rest of the population has to live in the real world, with real threats. It's never your children on the front lines.
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Readers probably say, this newspaper is crap, why waste my money on drek? (I'm nearly there with my newspaper too). Same way with the NFL, viewership has suffered due to the flag protests by Kaepernick and other NFL players. You as an NFL player have a right to protest but don't expect others to feel warm and fuzzy about your protest; they will get you where it hurts--your money.
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A non-endorsement of any candidate would not have that big of an impact in Texas where Trump will win anyway.
Not endorsing Trump is one thing, and perhaps a principled case can be made. But endorsing Clinton who is definitely "an unacceptable choice for president"? That is completely unprincipled. This jackass editor shows why the press has lost all respect of any principled and rational person.
Actually, it was to begin with. Check some of the names of papers back in the early 19C. They were clearly self identified as party organs. It was only when they started getting a paying revenue stream from advertizing which replaced the party subsidizes that they decided to put the mask of 'propriety' to keep the game going.
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The way I understand it the 'non-bias' part of journalism was originally specific to free-lance services that had to make things neutral to sell stories to all papers. The papers themselves never felt constrained. Well they still don't but the journalists themselves still play that card as if they've ever been strictly neutral.
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8 Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
That's true. And any of you who live in locales where the current "R"'s say that they can't support Trump should be shown the door the moment your voters have the opportunity. They are *bad* people who aren't standing up for anything other than graft.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been a vocal backer of President Obama's (ultimately successful) plan to import a minimum of 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the fiscal year, at one point accusing Republicans of "slamming the door on mothers and children." But with just days remaining in the 2016 Fiscal Year, Pelosi's own district has yet to resettle a single Syrian refugee.
After the November 2015 Paris attacks, Republicans introduced a bill that would have mandated stricter scrutiny for refugees coming from Syria. Pelosi spoke out against the bill, accusing Republicans of "slamming the door on mothers and children," arguing instead for stricter gun control measures.
"It is outrageous that we would be slamming the door on mothers and children while we still allow people on the terrorist watch list to walk in the door of a gun store and buy a gun," Pelosi said at the time. (RELATED: Virginia's Syrian Refugees Resettled In Poor Communities Hours Away From Wealthy DC Suburbs)
She went on to say, "As it is a proud American tradition, we can both ensure the security of our country and welcome desperate women and children and seniors facing ISIS's brutality."
It is not yet clear when (or if) Pelosi's district will receive its first Syrian refugee.
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I'd venture to guess that you don't see many around DC either.
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Refugees are never resettled in areas with a high cost of living. And it has nothing to do with keeping the unwashed riff raff out of wealthier areas either. (That's just a bonus...snicker...snicker )
[CHARLOTTEOBSERVER] HIGH POINT Citing three terrorist attacks over the weekend, Donald Trump criticized the nation’s immigration system Tuesday in North Carolina.
Trump spoke to supporters at Mills Athletic Center at High Point University before heading to another rally in Eastern North Carolina’s Kenansville, population 870.
"Since 9/11, hundreds of immigrants colonists and their children have been implicated in terrorist activities in the United States," Trump said in High Point in an oft-repeated accusation that agrees with an analysis by the think tank, New America Foundation.
"My opponent has the most ’open borders’ policy of anyone to ever seek the office of president," the Republican presidential nominee said. "It’s not even close."
Trump repeatedly has claimed that Democratic rival Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Abel P. Upshur ... favors open borders, a claim PolitiFact has ruled false.
Trump said the weekend attacks were a result of the nation’s open immigration system. He said he would institute rigorous screening systems for those trying to become citizens.
"We want to make sure we’re only admitting people into our country who love our country," Trump said.
Saturday’s attacks included a stabbing spree at a Minnesota mall and kabooms in New York and New Jersey.
Blaming Clinton for the rise of ISIS while she was secretary of state, Trump said he would support working with allies to fight Islamic terrorism through military means and cyber and ideological warfare.
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[BREITBART] The Clinton Foundation is planning to drop dozens of employees as it winds down most operations, according to a report by Politico, citing "two former Clinton Foundation officials who remain in communication with staff."
The layoffs come after media investigations, led by Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer, whose 2015 book Clinton Cash alleged a pay-to-play pattern in which the Clintons courted donations from foreigners and businesses with matters pending before the State Department.
The Clintons say they are closing down much of the foundation’s work, and severing many -- though not all -- personal ties to the organization, in anticipation of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ... ’s victory in the November election.
Critics have suggested that the Clinton Foundation could create new conflicts of interest for a Clinton administration, an argument that the Clintons have grudgingly accepted -- though without explaining why the same arguments would not have applied to her term as Secretary of State.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... some of the cuts to the Clinton Foundation are apparently independent of the November election, and simply the result of the broader scandal surrounding the so-called "charity."
Critics accuse the Clinton Foundation of being a tool for the self-enrichment of the Clinton family. Documents filed in 2015 suggest the foundation spent less than 6 percent of its budget on charitable grants in 2014, and "spent far more on overhead expenses like travel ($7.9 million)," the Federalist reports.
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imagine putting it on your Resume that your last job was working for the Clinton Foundation.
You could get a job with the Democratic Party. Try that. Something really" Progressive".
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Time to tighten up in case HRC bites the political dust. It will be a minimum of 8 years before Chelsea will be in a position to restore adequate income.
[TheNewAmerican] A Taste: In what is likely his final address to the United Nations General Assembly,
...one can only hope...
President Barack Obama (shown at UN) offered what he described as the "broad strokes" of a "course correction" necessary to achieve "global integration."
In order to "to carry this progress forward," the president said that he is "convinced that in the long run, giving up some freedom of action ... binding ourselves to international rules over the long term -- enhances our security."
Next, although not mentioning Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by name, Obama warned of the dangers of pursuing an Americanist agenda. Speaking of the need for "global integration," Obama warned that "aggressive nationalism" and "a crude populism" -- a vision promoted by the "far right" -- fails to embrace "our common humanity."
"Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself," the president added, in case it wasn’t crystal clear whose proposals he was attacking.
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Sincerely hope that this POS doesn't get the SecGen post; think of the fun the LSM would have w/ Pres Trump while he works to defund the entire UN. New SecGen needs to be some other third worlder potentate.
That's where we're at. That's why I'm so angry at any alleged "R" that pretends they're too "principled" to vote for Trump. The bastards that say that deserve the worst--they no longer believe in this country, and instead are nothing other than *grifters*.
[WeaselZippers] At his first polygraph test to enter the CIA, the future director had a secret.
John Brennan on Thursday recalled being asked a standard question for a top security clearance at his early CIA lie detector test: Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the US?
"I froze," Brennan said during a panel discussion about diversity in the intelligence community at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual conference. "This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate,"
Brennan was responding to a question about barriers to recruiting diverse candidates for the intelligence fields, including whether past records of activism could hurt someone applying for a clearance later in life.
The CIA director said the agency's mission is to protect the values of the Constitution -- which include free speech. Shocking, right?
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He left out the fact that he'd do so again.
Nobody with a (D) by their name cares--they're on the other side as well.
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Mr. Brennan is using this story to cover something, and I'd like to know what it is. There's no way this story came out by accident.
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Ref #5. Are we possibly on the cusp of learning that this ever expanding list of domestic terror suspects, interviewed then dropped by the FBI....were soon after (or even previously) recruited as agents ?
If the model and alarming rate of GITMO releasee recidivism is not convincing enough, I will once again mention author Ian Johnson's 'A Mosque In Munich.'
The losses will be acceptable and soon forgotten. The 'Drone Zapp' monster however, and illusion of progress must continually be fed.
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Are we possibly on the cusp of learning that this ever expanding list of domestic terror suspects, interviewed then dropped by the FBI....were soon after (or even previously) recruited as agents ?Posted by: Besoeker It appears that this did happen with Nakoula Basseley Nakoula the Innocence of Muslims guy. You are on to something.
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.
Koskinen the Victim? I predict attendance will be very light. 
Hillary Clinton![]("https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cs2N4NzXEAQXDrB.jpg")
After the November 2015 Paris attacks, Republicans introduced a bill that would have mandated stricter scrutiny for refugees coming from Syria. Pelosi spoke out against the bill, accusing Republicans of "slamming the door on mothers and children," arguing instead for stricter gun control measures.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
