Source: Hillary Clinton to Be Interviewed by FBI TODAY

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While most Americans will be enjoying barbecue and fireworks this 4th of July weekend, Hillary Clinton will be fielding questions from the FBI.

Clinton is scheduled to meet Saturday with agents investigating her use of an private email server while secretary of state, The Daily Caller is reporting. Their source believes the interview will take place at Clinton’s Washington, D.C., home, and was scheduled for the holiday weekend to attract minimal attention. The presumptive Democratic nominee has no campaign activities scheduled for Saturday.

Interviewing the former secretary of state is believed to be the final step in the probe into whether Clinton mishandled classified information. “This is most likely the last piece because you don’t interview the principle subject until you have everything,” a former top ranking FBI official told The New York Post.

Some of Clinton’s closest aides, including confidante and deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin, have already sat down with the Feds, while the technology professional who helped set up the private server, Bryan Pagliano, has testified under an immunity agreement. CNN has reported Pagliano also turned over documents and other materials.

News that the FBI will be interviewing Hillary comes hours after U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that she will accept the recommendation of “career prosecutors and the FBI director” when determining whether to prosecute Clinton. While some have suggested a criminal indictment is unlikely, putting Clinton’s fate in the hands of FBI director James Comey could spell trouble for the scandal-plagued candidate. Twenty years ago, as Time magazine profiled in March, Comey was part of the Whitewater investigation team looking into her and her then-President husband:

In 1996, after months of work, Comey came to some damning conclusions: Hillary Clinton was personally involved in mishandling documents and had ordered others to block investigators as they pursued their case. Worse, her behavior fit into a pattern of concealment: she and her husband had tried to hide their roles in two other matters under investigation by law enforcement. Taken together, the interference by White House officials, which included destruction of documents, amounted to “far more than just aggressive lawyering or political naiveté,” Comey and his fellow investigators concluded. It constituted “a highly improper pattern of deliberate misconduct.”

Clinton was not indicted back then. But once again, Comey is investigating mishandled documents, blocked investigators, patterns of concealment and the destruction of documents on the part of Hillary. And this time the call whether to push for prosecution is his.

Both Hillary’s pending interview and Lynch’s statement that she’ll stick with the FBI recommendation presented regarding Hillary, time curiously with the still-growing uproar over Lynch’s mysterious recent meeting Monday with Bill Clinton. Lynch herself admitted Friday it was not something she would do again. But even as the Attorney General sought to put out the fire over the chat, further details sent the flames wider.

Christopher Sign, an anchor for the Phoenix station that broke the story, said Thursday night that FBI officials didn’t want any record of the supposedly social visit. He set the scene for Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, “She arrives, some people step off of her plane, the former president steps into her plane. They then speak for 30 minutes privately, the FBI there on the tarmac instructing everybody around, ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones.’”

Meanwhile, Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reported Friday that FBI agents involved in the Clinton investigation are “livid” over the meeting. The agents are not just angry over the optics. They say that because the Bureau is concurrently investigating corruption allegations against the Clinton Foundation, that Bill Clinton himself is a potential witness.

As Loretta Lynch said today, the tarmac conversation “casts a shadow” over the FBI investigation. (For more from the author of “Source: Hillary Clinton to Be Interviewed by FBI Saturday” please click HERE)

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Islamist Militants Kill 20 Hostages in Bangladesh Restaurant Attack, 13 More Rescued by Commando Raid

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At least seven Islamic terrorists attacked an upscale restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of Bangladesh’s capital Friday night, killing 20 people and taking more than a dozen others hostage before confronting authorities in a 10-hour long standoff.

Early Saturday, a Bangladeshi commando raid supported by armored vehicles resulted in the deaths of at least six attackers and the capture of a seventh. Thirteen hostages were rescued. Two police officers were killed in an earlier gun battle with the militants.

The Islamic State (ISIS) group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist activity online. The ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency posted photos purportedly showing the bodies of hostages, though their authenticity could not be immediately confirmed.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina condemned the attack in a nationally televised speech, vowing to fight militant attacks in the country and urging people to come forward with information . . .

At a news conference, Army Brigadier General Naim Asraf Chowdhury said most of the victims had been killed with sharp weapons on Friday night. (Read more from “Islamist Militants Kill 20 Hostages in Bangladesh Restaurant Attack, 13 More Rescued by Commando Raid” HERE)

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Elite NYC School Teaching Kindergartners About ‘White Privilege’

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An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,” while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.

Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side claim it’s a novel approach to fighting discrimination, and that several other private New York schools are doing it, but even liberal parents aren’t buying it . . .

Bank Street has created a “dedicated space” in the school for “kids of color,” where they’re “embraced” by minority instructors and encouraged to “voice their feelings” and “share experiences about being a kid of color,” according to school presentation slides obtained by The Post.

Meanwhile, white kids are herded into separate classrooms and taught to raise their “awareness of the prevalence of Whiteness and privilege,” challenge “notions of colorblindness (and) assumptions of ‘normal,’ ‘good,’ and ‘American’” and “understand and own European ancestry and see the tie to privilege.” (Read more from “Elite NYC School Teaching Kindergartners About ‘White Privilege'” HERE)

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Leaked Documents Reveal Democratic Campaign Donors

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Hillary Clinton was once asked which of her enemies she was most proud to call her enemies. She responded, “Well, in addition to the NRA, the health insurance companies, the drug companies, the Iranians … probably the Republicans.”

But according to recently hacked Democratic National Committee documents, while the Democrats, like Clinton, have harsh things to say about their enemies, in private they often reach out their hands to those same entities for campaign donations.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, those documents reveal the DNC has asked coal companies, insurance companies, and even corporations like Walmart for donations to the presidential campaign.

Here’s a list of the companies the DNC has targeted for solicitation, solicited, or from which campaign contributions have already been received: Tobacco company Altria, genetically modified agricultural firm Monsanto, Walmart, McDonald’s, and a gaggle of fossil fuel companies.

Democrats, historically, have lambasted McDonald’s and Walmart for their resistance to minimum wage hikes.

Health insurers Cigna, Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealth Group have also been courted. Bernie Sanders often attacked Clinton during the primaries for her close ties to Wall Street, so it may come as a surprise to Sanders’ supporters the very same DNC which sponsored Sanders’ presidential run has solicited the financial giants to support Clinton.

While Clinton considered drug companies her enemies, she seems to have no problem allowing the DNC to solicit funds from those same companies on behalf of her campaign bid for president. Drug companies such as Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, and Eli Lilly were all allegedly targeted by the DNC for campaign contributions.

Wall Street targets included Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, UBS, and the American Bankers Association, supposedly marked as a “high priority” potential donor. (For more from the author of “Leaked Documents Reveal Democratic Campaign Donors” please click HERE)

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GOP Billionaire: Trump Worthy of Christian Support

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Foster Friess, a billionaire who donates generously to the Republican Party, said in a letter to supporters that Donald Trump deserves the backing of the evangelical community because God, throughout biblical history, has always tapped the imperfect to work his perfect will.

“[A]ll throughout history,” he wrote, “God has harnessed imperfect people to fulfill his perfect will. King David sent Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah, off to the front lines in hopes he would be killed so David could play cozy with the guy’s wife.”

He went on, saying he thought even the most “principled evangelical Christian woman” ought to support Trump, even if she had concerns about his morals and past indiscretions, the Washington Examiner reported. And, he reminded, “You and I are changing and so is Donald Trump,” the newspaper reported. (Read more from “GOP Billionaire: Trump Worthy of Christian Support” please click HERE)

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‘NeverTrump’ Delegate Seeks Court OK to Break Election Law

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A Republican leader in Virginia is heading to court to see if he can receive protection from prosecution if the vote he casts at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, is not for the presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, but rather for someone else.

Virginia election law states that party delegates have to vote for the winner of the primary, or else they face a fine of $2,500 and up to a year in jail.

But Carroll Boston “Beau” Correll Jr., a Republican Party delegate who dislikes Trump for president, wants a judge to save him from that law, and has filed a federal lawsuit set to be heard on July 7, NBC 12 reported.

His argument?

Correll says his First Amendment rights, as played through his right to select the candidate of personal choice, trumps Virginia’s election law. (Read more from “‘NeverTrump’ Delegate Seeks Court OK to Break Election Law” HERE)

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WE DEMAND A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: Secret Clinton-Lynch Meeting Highlights Democrat Corruption

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Hillary Clinton is currently under a criminal investigation by the FBI. The FBI reports to the Department of Justice run by Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Knowing these facts, you’d expect that Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton would avoid meeting secretly aboard private jets. Yet that’s exactly what happened in Phoenix this week:

“Amid an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of email and hours before the public release of the Benghazi report, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton. The private meeting took place on the west side of Sky Harbor International Airport on board a parked private plane… Sources tell ABC15, Clinton was notified Lynch would be arriving at the airport soon and waited for her arrival.”

The meeting lasted “around 30 minutes,” yet Lynch expects the American people to believe that Hillary Clinton’s criminal investigation never came up. Since the story broke of Lynch and Bill Clinton’s clandestine meeting, the reaction has been swift, harsh, and bi-partisanly negative.

President Obama’s former chief strategist David Axelrod took to Twitter, calling the Lynch-Clinton meeting “foolish”:

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Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) also had harsh words concerning the Lynch and Clinton’s secret meeting. (I’m not saying, I’m just saying.) Speaking with CNN, the Delaware senator strongly condemned the Attorney General’s judgment:

“A Democratic senator said Thursday that Attorney General Loretta Lynch should not have held a private meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week. ‘I don’t think it sends the right signal. I think she should have steered clear even of a brief, casual, social meeting with the former president,’ Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said on CNN’s ‘New Day.’”

The Morning Joe panel was equally unsparing of Lynch’s decision to meet secretly with the husband of someone currently under FBI investigation:

At the very least, Clinton and Lynch’s surreptitious meeting is awful, embarrassing optics for the Justice Department and its claims of objectivity; while at worst, this is a former president pressuring a former employee of his to not indict his wife. This incident calls into question whether the FBI will be allowed by the Department of Justice to follow the evidence in the Clinton criminal investigation. The only solution to this crisis is the appointment of a special prosecutor for the Clinton case. If Attorney General Lynch has any respect for the rule of law, she must act immediately. (For more from the author of “WE DEMAND A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: Secret Clinton-Lynch Meeting Highlights Democrat Corruption” please click HERE)

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IT AIN’T ABOUT GUNS: Democrats Super-Excited About Killing off Your Due Process Rights

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The latest efforts to enact gun-control by Democrats in congress are either strictly symbolic, since they would not have stopped the San Bernadino or the Orlando Islamic extremists, or a Trojan horse to abolish the 2nd Amendment. Their proposal is to deny 2nd Amendment rights to anyone on the Transportation Safety Administration’s (TSA) “no-fly list.”

The murderers in San Bernadino and Orlando were not on the no-fly list, so even if such a law were in place, those acts of domestic terrorism would not have been prevented. So from that standpoint, such legislation would be mostly symbolic, and solve little to nothing.

It is much more likely, however, that the legislation is a Trojan horse to literally abolish 2nd Amendment rights of all, or more likely, select citizens.

The no-fly list is created by bureaucrats of the Executive Branch, and is so secretive that people don’t even know their names are on it until they attempt to board a flight. We have no idea exactly how many people are on the no-fly list, but an FBI factsheet uncovered by PolitiFact in 2013 indicated there were 47,000 names on the list at that time.

Not only do citizens not know if they’ve been added to the list, they have no way of preventing themselves from being added, since the government maintains it in secrecy, and has provided no clear criteria or rationale for names being added to it. As Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU Nation Security Project has said, “The government puts people on the no-fly list using vague and overbroad standards, and it is wrongly blacklisting innocents without giving them a fair process to correct government error.”

The ACLU has filed suit against the government over their seemingly arbitrary and spurious addition of names. As Shamsi explains, “Our no-fly list lawsuit seeks to establish a meaningful opportunity for our clients to challenge their placement on the list, which is error-prone and has had a devastating impact on their lives.”
And since the list is maintained by the Executive branch, and in secrecy, the potential for abuse is massive. Just look at how the IRS, which is also administered by the Executive branch, has politically targeted purported enemies of the Obama administration, and conservative political activist groups. Such abuse has tyranny and fascism written all over it!

Especially in light of what the Obama administration did just after it came to power in 2009. In an Agency Assessment from Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” the “enemies of the state” were clearly identified, and it was entirely based on ideology.

According to the, communiqué the issues qualifying citizens for “enemies of the state” status include opposition to gun control, government infringement on civil liberties, abortion, hate crime legislation, anti-illegal immigration, and opposition to same-sex marriage. In a footnote, the document states, “[Rightwing extremism] may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.” In other words, everyone who is not a left-wing radical was identified officially an enemy to the Obama Administration and accused of being a potential domestic terrorist! By their own admission, however, they had no evidence of potential threats, so the assessment was nothing but a political hatchet-job against those who don’t agree with them.

After passage of the Democrat’s bill denying 2nd Amendment rights to those on the no-fly list, all that would need to be done by an unscrupulous and tyrannical president, is put all citizens with political leanings identified by the 2009 Agency Assessment on the no-fly list. From the Democrat’s perspective, problem solved. But for the nation, nothing solved, since leftists perpetrate most mass killings.

Once on the no-fly list, it’s nearly impossible to get off of it. The ACLU has declared, “The government denies watchlisted individuals any meaningful way to correct errors and clear their names.” Eleven term congressman John Lewis (D-GA), has been trying to get his name off of the list for five years.

There is no process by which a citizen can be prevented from being added to the no-fly list, or the FBI’s Terrorist Watch List. Which means, if a citizen were added to one of them, they would be deprived of their constitutional rights without due process, which is guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments. This would be just one step away from the government denying 1st Amendment (freedom of speech, etc.) rights by placement on a government watch list, or “no speak” list, again denying due process, and violating rights assured by our most foundational document. This would be tyrannical and fascistic, and as antithetical to American values as one could get!

This argument was brilliantly illustrated in a House Government Oversight Committee hearing exchange between chairman Trey Gowdy and DHS Deputy Director Kelli Burriesci in December. That two minute video should be watched by every American, and can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wrxmaMLXLE.

And while we’re on this subject, why is it that the ire of the anti-gun left is invariably targeted against the National Rifle Association? Founded in 1871, the NRA is the oldest continuously operating civil rights organization in the country. Their objectives are protecting our 2nd Amendment rights and teaching responsible and proper gun use. Blaming them for abuse of those rights is like blaming the ACLU for 1st Amendment abuses, like hate speech! Can’t get much more illogical and inane than that!

Gun control is a key issue for the left, since it can be so easily fomented emotionally. But it does nothing to address the underlying social and cultural issues which are the cause of violence and domestic terrorism. And using vague government controlled lists as the basis to deny fundamental rights is a violation of our constitutional rights, which define what it means to be an American citizen. (For more from the author of “IT AIN’T ABOUT GUNS: Democrats Super-Excited About Killing off Your Due Process Rights” please click HERE)

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Just-Released Poll Shows Dems’ Preferred Choice for President and It’s Not Hillary

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The Hill reported Friday that, according to a recent poll, most Democrats would choose a third term for President Obama over presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

According to a WPA research survey, 67 percent of the Democrats surveyed would abandon the current presidential election if there was a way for Obama to serve a third term.

The poll shows only 28 percent are ready for a changing of the guard, while 6 percent remain undecided.

A memo from WPA read, “The results should give pause to the Hillary Clinton campaign as Democratic respondents clearly prefer the status quo to a Clinton presidency.”

With the Obama administration winding down, the president’s approval rating seems to be increasing.

Earlier this week the Washington Post released the findings of a Washington Post/ABC News poll which reveals 56 percent of those polled approve of Obama’s performance. The poll also shows that 56 percent feel the time has come to take the nation in a different direction.

Obama’s net approval, as indicated by the poll figures, is nearly 80, compared to former President Clinton’s approval of almost 60.

While President Obama is enjoying an increase in his approval rating, Hillary Clinton’s rating has decreased.

A Gallup poll from April shows Clinton’s favorability rating to be 36 points. That is down drastically from the 63 points she received in November.

The Clinton campaign is striving to garner additional support from voters who had supported Sen. Bernie Sanders.

On a positive note for Clinton, the survey suggests that Sanders’ supporters are rallying behind her rather than Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (For more from the author of “Just-Released Poll Shows Dems’ Preferred Choice for President” please click HERE)

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Marine Corps Gives Women the Option of Ditching Pullups for Pushups Instead

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The Marine Corps has rolled out a series of physical fitness changes Friday, saying women can simply do pushups as an alternative to pullups and admitting the service lowered standards to keep women from failing.

Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller has called this physical fitness standards update the most dramatic since 1972.

Brian McGuire, deputy force fitness branch head for the standards division of Marine Corps Training and Education Command, told Marine Corps that the pushups were implemented to make sure that the Marine Corps didn’t “create a manpower problem by having some female Marines failing.”

In other words, pushups constitute lowered physical standards in an effort to make sure that more women don’t wash out of the service.

In November, the Marine Corps launched a review of physical fitness standards (PFT) and finalized the changes as of Friday. The new standards, which come as a final solution to the problem of women failing at pullups, will kick in January 1, 2017, Military.com reports.

Instead of the previously offered flexed-arm hang as a substitute for doing pullups, the new substitute is a set of pushups — for both men and women. But with pushups, the maximum PFT score achievable is lower than the maximum PFT score for pullups.

For example, women can reach the highest PFT score of 100 if they complete seven to ten pullups, whereas if they opt for pushups, their max score is 70, which limits opportunities for upward mobility in the service.

If women choose for the pushups option, they’ll have to complete anywhere from 40-50. For men who choose to do pushups over pullups, they’ll have to complete 70-80, depending on age.

“Push-ups become an option on the PFT, but Marines are incentivized toward pull-ups, as these are a better test of functional, dynamic upper body strength and correlate stronger to physically demanding tasks,” Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller told troops Friday, according to Military.com. “Push-ups are also a valid exercise and good test; however maximum points can only be earned by executing pull-ups.”

Although the service previously relied on flexed-arm hangs as a substitute for pullups, it became clear that it was a poor substitute, and so Marine leadership eliminated the option in 2012. Instead, the plan was to mandate that women perform at least three pullups. But that plan of mandating three pullups never really saw implementation, as leadership delayed it repeatedly because it turns out that more than 50 percent of women in boot camp couldn’t pass even that low of a standard. (For more from the author of “Marine Corps Gives Women the Option of Ditching Pullups for Pushups Instead” please click HERE)

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