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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Attkisson: Beest Scrubbed Server Over Embarrassing Benghazi Info
[Breitbart] Monday on Newsmax TV's "The Steve Malzberg Show," investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson said common sense dictates coming to the conclusion that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton scrubbed clean her email server because there must have been "very very bad or embarrassing things on there" because she would rather "take the heat'" from destroying evidence when there are active congressional investigation requesting the material.

Attkisson said, "To me this all points to Benghazi and things she did not want to turn over and did not turn over, communications regarding the story that the administration most wants to go away, most want to controversialize, and most wants to say its a non story. I think that is what it says"
Ms. Attkisson writes for the minority, as over half of the voters have no 'common sense,' and enthusiastically support the Champ and the Beest.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2015 07:22 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  (s)he would rather "take the heat'" from destroying evidence when there are active congressional investigation requesting the material.

Shades of Richard Milhouse Nixon.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/05/2015 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  ...don't forget the Left's principle of "one set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee".

The problem for the Trunks was that for the Donks it wasn't about anything other than power. Nothing will deter or shame them from that objective. So, there's no need to 'play nice' hoping they'll reciprocate. What was impeachable for Nixon doesn't qualify for anyone with a -D on the identifier.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2015 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Trunks and Donks....after their second term, just refer to them as Tdrounks. It's a red squirrel - grey squirrel thing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2015 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  If Nixon had the "morals" of HRC, he would have destroyed all of the tapes, not just 18.5 minutes of them.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/05/2015 12:55 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Trunks and Donks....after their second term, just refer to them as Tdrounks.

How about "Drunks"? Ted Kennedy could be the mascot.
Posted by: charger || 04/05/2015 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  But...but...but...that was over four years ago!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/05/2015 15:06 Comments || Top||

#7  The hackers have those e-mails.
They don't like her either.
They should come out around election time.
Posted by: newc || 04/05/2015 17:16 Comments || Top||

#8  The Clintons are just trying to air all the dirty laundry now - get past it and get on the campaign trial. Dude that was like 2 years ago- we need to look to the future.
Posted by: Vernal Spavins7649 || 04/05/2015 20:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Dude that was, like, 2 years ago. Ancient History.

Now lets look at the rumors that my opponent might have sneered at a gay person once 30 years ago! What a homophobic *monster*!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/05/2015 21:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Throwing Hillary under the Bus once again to save the Bammer.

By most accounts, the Bammer "was in the room" when the final decision on how to handle Benghazi was made. IT CAN'T BE HER CALL BECAUSE HILLARY AS SECSTATE WAS AND REMAINS, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, N-O-T #1 = EL SUPREMO ON THE NATCOMAUTH LIST.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/05/2015 23:41 Comments || Top||


What Was Indicted Dr. Melgen Hoping to Buy With $100k Donation to Harry Reid's Super PAC?
[Breitbart] In its indictment of Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Florida opthalmologist, the Department of Justice cites Melgen's $600,000 donation to Senator Harry Reid's (D-NV) Senate Majority PAC in 2012. That money, the feds charge, was earmarked for the successful re-election of Menendez, and was part of "hundreds of thousands of dollars and contributions to entities that benefitted MENENDEZ's 2012 Senate campaign, in exchange for specific requested exercises of MENENDEZ's official authority."

The indictment makes no mention of the additional $100,000 Melgen contributed to the Senate Majority PAC a mere two weeks before Reid arranged an August 2, 2012 meeting among himself, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, and Menendez.

At that meeting, Menendez advocated directly to Secretary Sebelius on behalf of Melgen's appeal of an HHS finding that he owed $8.9 million for overbilling Medicare in 2007 and 2008. That advocacy, the indictment charges, was the influence Melgen received from Menendez in return for his $600,000 contribution to Reid's Senate Majority PAC.

That charge leads to an obvious question.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Could all this have anything to do with Reid's recently announced retirement?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/05/2015 15:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I wondered the exact same thing Abu. I even wondered if his treadmill injury was somehow staged.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2015 16:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Secret Service, DHS to Chaffetz: Hey, sorry about leaking your rejection
[HOTAIR] House Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) received apologies on Thursday from both DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and acting Secret Service chief Joseph Clancy, after a leak within the agency about Chaffetz’ own attempt to join the Secret Service. Chaffetz has become one of the most vocal public critics of the agency’s performance, and it seems as though one or more people within the Secret Service wanted to retaliate. Big mistake:
Forget the bum! We've seen him at Fornan's a time or two. Besides that, he goes to BYU football games.
Senior staffers for a House committee overseeing the Secret Service have asked the Obama administration to investigate complaints that agency employees circulated private personnel information revealing that the panel’s chairman was once rejected for a job as an agent, according to people familiar with the discussions.
He's too honest, seldom drinks or chases whores. He'll never fit in.
The committee staff referred the issue Thursday to the Department of Homeland Security after receiving whistleblower complaints that Secret Service staff at agency headquarters had circulated potentially unflattering information about Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). He has been an outspoken critic of Secret Service managers after a string of security lapses.
Posted by: Fred || 04/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There better be people fired for cause for this, not only the low level ones, but the managers that allow such a politically corrupt environment.
Posted by: OldSpook || 04/05/2015 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, we're well past the point where the Civil Service Act should have been repealed. If the bureaucracy is going to behave as it has done for a couple of decades, we might was well just play the old game of firing everyone with a change in who's in charge. At least they'll remember who they really work for (the electorate) and there would be far more accountability cause you could fire those who appointed/hired them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2015 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 Actually, we're well past the point where the Civil Service Act should have been repealed. If the bureaucracy is going to behave as it has done for a couple of decades, we might was well just play the old game of firing everyone with a change in who's in charge. At least they'll remember who they really work for (the electorate)


This.

I'll take a Republican (or almost any non-Dem) candidate seriously when I see them address this issue, and have some specific proposals to deal with this crap.

Posted by: charger || 04/05/2015 12:10 Comments || Top||


Cracks Appear in Democratic-Jewish Alliance Over Iran Deal, Netanyahu
It's time to put up or shut up, guys.
[WSJ] Many U.S. Jewish leaders are unnerved both by the new Iran nuclear agreement and the public falling out between President Barack Obama
If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon...
and his Israeli counterpart, developments that are creating a rift in the durable alliance between Jews and the Democratic Party in the run-up to the 2016 elections.

Worried that Iran might still develop a nuclear weapon despite the accord announced Thursday, the Jewish leaders say they feel torn between an B.O. regime that has pressed hard for a deal and an Israeli government that has repeatedly warned that Iran is a grave threat to the Jewish state and can't be trusted to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

A group of Jewish Democratic House members met with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough in his office last week and cautioned that for them to help "sell a very unpopular [Iran nuclear] deal to our constituents," Mr. Obama must "increase his popularity with our constituents," said a Democratic congressman involved in the meeting.

Republicans have begun making moves to try to capitalize on this unease, hoping to peel away Jewish votes and campaign contributions that have historically skewed Democratic.

Republican congressional leaders have been critical of the proposed Iran deal, and the GOP's likely 2016 presidential contenders have largely opposed it. It isn't clear congressional Republicans have a way to block any final deal, and experts warn that even if a Republican wins the White House in 2016, it won't be as easy to wipe off the books an international agreement as campaign rhetoric may suggest.

Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ...
, the presumed Democratic front-runner, has voiced guarded support for the Iran deal, casting it as "an important step toward a comprehensive agreement that would prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon." Many Jewish leaders have said that if Mrs. Clinton, who enjoys strong ties to the Jewish community, becomes the party's nominee, that would help salve the discontent with the White House.

The politicians who met with Mr. McDonough last week also urged that Mr. Obama soften his tone toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and avoid "getting into a daily argument with" him, one participant said.

After Mr. Netanyahu won re-election, White House officials criticized him for moving farther to the right during the campaign by warning about Arab Israelis flocking to the polls and dropping his support for a two-state solution to a Middle East peace agreement.

A White House front man said Mr. Netanyahu had used "divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
rhetoric" and cautioned that the U.S. would "reassess" its options toward the Middle East conflict. Mr. Netanyahu later reaffirmed his commitment to a two-state solution and apologized for his comments on Arab Israeli voters.
Posted by: Fred || 04/05/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Shuddup I'm tellin ya! When he's swinging at Bibi, he's leaving Fox News alone.

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2015 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  No matter how upset they are, the vast majority of these leaders will pull the D lever in 2016.

When American Jews vote primarily for conservative candidates, this will have meaning. When any leftist, Jewish or not, critiques the Dems but doesn't change their voting pattern, it's all for nought. I want to pull my hair out every time conservatives get excited about a Camille Paglia or Alan Dershowitz critiquing the current crop of leftists in office. It's theater and nothing more. Call me when they stump for Walker or Cruz.

Until then I would say that this is just an interesting factoid.

Posted by: no mo uro || 04/05/2015 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Something about Leopards and spots.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2015 7:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey, I'd settle for them just stop writing checks.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2015 8:46 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2015-04-05
  Civilians flee as militants seize most of Yarmouk camp
Sat 2015-04-04
  Qaeda advances on Syria army base near Idlib: monitor
Fri 2015-04-03
  Yemen Rebels Push Deep into Hadi's Former Refuge Aden
Thu 2015-04-02
  Shabaab militants claim responsibility for Garissa University attack
Wed 2015-04-01
  Libya's Tripoli govt sacks Hassi
Tue 2015-03-31
  A deputy, a relative, an ideologue: key Houthi leaders reportedly killed
Mon 2015-03-30
  One Dead, Two Injured in Shooting at Gate of NSA HQ
Sun 2015-03-29
  Joe Biden demanded Porosheno sack Kolomoisky
Sat 2015-03-28
  Nigeria Recaptures Gwoza from Boko Haram
Fri 2015-03-27
  Egyptian navy has fired shots at Iranian warships
Thu 2015-03-26
  Yemen's Houthis take over state institutions in Aden
Wed 2015-03-25
  Unknown plane fires 3 rockets at Hadi's palace in Aden
Tue 2015-03-24
  White House: Israel's '50-year occupation' must end now
Mon 2015-03-23
  Yemeni president declares Aden provisional capital
Sun 2015-03-22
  US evacuates troops from south Yemen base


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