[McClatchy] A federal appeals court will hear a case brought by Judicial Watch on Friday to make public draft indictments of Hillary Clinton from the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s.
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that files Freedom of Information Act requests, wants copies of the documents that the National Archives and Records Administration has declined to release. It filed a FOIA request for the documents in March 2015 and in October 2015 the group sued for the 238 pages of responsive records.
According to Judicial Watch: "The National Archives argues that the documents should be kept secret, citing grand jury secrecy and Clinton’s personal privacy."
But Judicial Watch says that because so much about the Whitewater case has already been made public, "there is no secrecy or privacy left to protect."
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Unless actual indictments arise due to this, what's the point? There is no middle ground on this harpy. Nothing that comes out now will sway either camp.
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I believe this is a warning shot across her bow. If the info comes out her Democrat opponents will have lots of ammo to ensure a very entertaining primary season.
[Hot Air] Watching this, I keep thinking of that Hillary clip from 2014 that made the rounds a few weeks ago in which she said "Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay." Conservatives pointed to that as proof that even the reigning Democratic nominee opposes a DREAM amnesty, but huffy lefties complained that Clinton was being taken out of context. She was referring to children who had *recently* crossed the border, they said, not to children who were brought here years ago and had built a life in America. Obviously Democrats don’t support opening the borders to let any child in whose parents want them to come.
But they do support that, in principle. If that’s not the takeaway from Pelosi’s shpiel here, what is? DREAM kids have contributed much to America, she notes, therefore it’s wonderful that their parents broke the law in bringing them here. (Pause here to reflect on the Democratic leader in the House openly praising illegal immigration as "great.") Unless she has evidence that child illegals crossing the border today would contribute less than current DACA enrollees, there’s no obvious reason by her logic why the practice shouldn’t be allowed to continue. Which, in fact, is what a lot of Democrats do want, including the lovely people who shut down her press conference a few days ago and whom she won’t criticize here except in the gentlest, most politic terms.
[Free Beacon] Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power "unmasked" some 260 people in 2016, including in the lead-up to President Donald Trump's inauguration, according to a new report.
Most of Power's unmasking happened in the final months of former President Barack Obama's administration, Fox News reports. And you were providing the names of the unmasked to whom again Ms. Poser ?
"Unmasking" refers to the process of revealing the names of individuals which are otherwise obscured but incidentally collected in intelligence reports. Some have suggested that Power, along with former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, may have misused the unmasking procedure, including by unmasking Trump campaign associates in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
In July, Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, wrote to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to inform him that the committee had learned "that one official, whose position had no apparent intelligence-related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama Administration." That official is likely to be Power.
Power, who served as U.N. ambassador from 2013 to 2017 during the Obama administration, did not respond to a request for comment from Fox. However, a previous statement from her lawyer noted that "while serving as our Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Power was also a member of the National Security Council responsible for advising the President on the full-range of threats confronting the United States. Any insinuation that Ambassador Power was involved in leaking classified information is absolutely false."
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For years I have managed to zip it --
A scarecrow may preach in a tippet --
But haven't the power
To wait one more hour...
So, which was the rat, which the whippet?
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She has betrayed the american people and the public trust. At this point jail is too good for her. I think a public hanging would be a great option.
[FREEBEACON] U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday sought a prison sentence of 21 to 27 months for former U.S. Congressman Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... , who admitted to sending sexually explicit messages to a teenage girl in a "sexting" scandal that played a role in last year’s U.S. presidential election.
"Weiner, a grown man, a father, and a former politician, willfully and knowingly asked a 15-year-old girl to display her body and engage in sexually explicit conduct for him online," prosecutors said in a filing in Manhattan federal court. "Such conduct warrants a meaningful sentence of incarceration."
A lawyer for Weiner, who is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote next Monday, could not immediately be reached for comment.
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#1 Doesn't grooming and luring a minor for the purposes of sexual exploitation start with something like 3 years?
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...Anything longer might have motivated him to start Telling People Things in order to get out of it. Can't have that.
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Anything longer might have motivated him to start Telling People Things in order to get out of it. Can't have that.
[TheAmericanMirror] Donald Trump is living rent-free in the head of Maxine Waters.
The California congresswoman went on a stem winder of a eulogy during comedian Dick Gregory’s funeral on Saturday, quickly turning it political and attacking the president of the United States, instead of remembering her friend.
"I’m cleaning out the White House," Waters declared. "We’re going to sanitize the White House. We’re not going to take what is happening in this country.
"Haven’t you taken enough?" she yelled to the crowd.
"And then comes along this person," she said with a sneer, referring to Trump.
"This person who does not respect you. This dishonorable human being who cheats everybody! This dishonorable human being who will lie at the drop of a hat.
"This dishonorable human being who has the alt-right, and the KKK and everybody else inside his Cabinet!" she bellowed to applause.
"This dishonorable human being who can criticize everybody but (Vladimir) Putin and Russia," Waters said, referring to the man who just increased sanctions on the blustering country.
Moments later, Waters said, "Not only are we going to clean out the White House. We’re going to take back the house that slaves built!
Closing, she said, "And I know my colleagues get very upset. Some get afraid when I say ’impeachment,'" she told the cheering mourners.
"When I get through with Donald Trump, he’s going to wish he had been impeached!" Waters yelled, pointing at the crowd.
"I feel it very deeply ‐ I am so offended by him and I love my people so much I’m not gonna put up with it.
"I’m gonna say ’Impeach 45 everyday,’ ’Impeach 45 everyday,’ ’Impeach 45 everyday,'" she said during the eulogy. Video of the distinguished orator @ link.
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The Clinton Foundation must surely have this creature on a long-term retainer.
[FreeBeacon] Clinton then brought up the recent news of Russia buying ads on Facebook, adding "we're going to find out a lot more." She alluded that she will not back off the issue, saying she was like "Paula" Revere sounding the alarm, in reference to the American Revolution Patriot "Paul" Revere.
"This latest revelation, about the way they bought add on Facebook and targeted them ‐ we're going to find out a lot more." She said. "I am saying, as clearing as I can, I feel like I'm a bit of a Paula Revere. I'm trying to sound the alarm about this."
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The more insanity she spouts, the less likely the chances (already celestially remote) that she will ever be prosecuted and jailed. The subpeonaed testimony of a nutter, what is it really worth ?
[DAWN] THE apprehension was justified. US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s disregard for institutions and fondness for reckless rhetoric meant that his maiden appearance at the annual UN General Assembly was a closely watched affair. Would the most isolationist and unilateralist of American presidents in modern history attack the UN itself, a favourite target of conservatives in the US, for the alleged wastefulness and anti-Americanism of the organization? Or would Mr Trump directly attack UN member states that have earned his ire for various reasons? The US president chose to spare the UN for now from direct verbal attack, but in his extraordinary threats against North Korea, Iran and Venezuela he undermined the very principles and values on which the UN was created. It was a grim day for diplomacy and global cooperation. A pattern of the nine-month-old presidency of Mr Trump is for him to say wild, deeply unsettling things before his cabinet and the White House staff try and walk back some of the most damaging comments. But this time, the damage will be harder to contain and perhaps permanent.
To be sure, the UN is a cumbersome, frustrating organization where global ideals and national interests routinely clash. For instance, year after year, decade after decade, Pakistain patiently reiterates its desire to have UN resolutions pertaining to the Kashmire dispute implemented. But the UN is also a vital organization for a range of humanitarian interventions and is a global platform from which legally binding measures can be taken to advance global security. While Mr Trump may not care to understand or accept that, it is nevertheless shocking when he threatens to obliterate an entire country from the speakers’ rostrum in the UN General Assembly, as he did North Korea on Tuesday. Historians scrambled to find another example of a UN member state, a superpower in this case, threatening to annihilate another member state, an impoverished nation of 25m people. The bellicose rhetoric against Venezuela was also unnerving as the US president only seems to recognise the illusory sovereignty of nations when it suits him. The problems in Venezuela are manifestly deep, urgent and complex, but the Trump administration’s stance on the country has the potential to unnerve an entire continent.
On Iran, Mr Trump’s hard-line position has doubtless cheered up many conservatives in the US, but they have not been able to provide any proof of Iran violating the nuclear deal painstakingly negotiated by the P5+1. That deal was never meant to be a panacea nor was it supposed to address all of the global community’s concerns about Iran. So for Mr Trump to mindlessly attack Iran in bad faith is to send a signal that the US cannot be trusted to engage other countries responsibly or honourably. Mr Trump may not care about his behaviour, but the world certainly has to.
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You say mindless bellicosity, I say telling it like it is. To-MAY-to, To-MAH-to. Let's call the whole thing off!
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
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[Hot Air] Watching this, I keep thinking of that Hillary clip from 2014 that made the rounds a few weeks ago in which she said "Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay." Conservatives pointed to that as proof that even the reigning Democratic nominee opposes a DREAM amnesty, but huffy lefties complained that Clinton was being taken out of context. She was referring to children who had *recently* crossed the border, they said, not to children who were brought here years ago and had built a life in America. Obviously Democrats don’t support opening the borders to let any child in whose parents want them to come.
[FREEBEACON] U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday sought a prison sentence of 21 to 27 months for former U.S. Congressman 
[DAWN] THE apprehension was justified. US President 
North Korea
