HILARIOUS: DOJ That Donated Tens of Thousands to Hillary Certain to Treat Her Crimes With the Utmost of Objectivity

Employees of the U.S. Department of Justice have given so much money to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign this time around that critics justifiably doubt the agency can handle her private email server case fairly and impartially.

In what appears to be a super-sized potential conflict of interest, Clinton, a pathological, self-serving liar who doesn’t mind if Americans die to further her political ambitions, has accepted almost $75,000 in campaign contributions in the current election cycle from employees at the Justice Department, the cabinet bureau that will eventually decide whether to prosecute the Benghazi bungler for her use of a hacker-friendly home-brew email server while top U.S. diplomat.

The server is at the heart of the scandal over Clinton’s mishandling of an Islamic terrorist attack in militant-infested Benghazi, Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 that left four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, dead. Even now, almost four years after the assault, the Obama administration has failed to provide an autopsy report about Stevens who was initially reported to have been ritualistically sodomized before being murdered by Muslim terrorists.

The fact that Mrs. Clinton destroyed email evidence — evidence subject to a congressional subpoena, no less — is already evidence in itself that she obstructed justice through spoliation of evidence. Spoliation means you can take as evidence the fact that evidence has been destroyed. Courts are entitled to draw spoliation inferences and convict an accused person on that basis alone.

This heavy team support for Hillary Clinton within the Justice Department adds to the growing expectation that she will never face justice for her willful national security breaches while serving at the State Department. After all, these DoJ employees are making it clear through their donations that they in effect want to hire Clinton as their boss. Presumably they wouldn’t want to hire her and then send her to prison.

A new Washington Free Beacon review of 2016 presidential campaign contributions reveals just how popular Mrs. Clinton is with Justice Department employees.

Clinton received $73,437 from individuals who listed “Department of Justice” as their employer. Among the 228 contributions, 12 hit the $2,700 level, the maximum amount individuals are legally allowed to give. The $73,437 is a huge improvement over Clinton’s 2008 White House run when she received 23 donations adding up to just $15,930 from DoJ employees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

In the current election cycle, Clinton rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has received 51 donations from DoJ employees adding up to $8,900. Businessman Donald Trump, now the presumptive GOP nominee, took in only two contributions from DoJ employees adding up to a meager $381.

Citizens United president David Bossie told the Washington Free Beacon he wants Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a hyper-partisan radical left-winger like her predecessor Eric Holder, to step back and appoint a special counsel to handle Clinton’s case.

“I’m not surprised in the least to see more evidence that shows the politicization of the Justice Department,” Bossie said. “How can Democrat political appointees fairly investigate someone who is about to become their nominee for president? That’s why last July I called on Attorney General Lynch to appoint an impartial special counsel to investigate the private Clinton email server.”

“Today, I renew my call that Attorney General Lynch must appoint a special counsel to determine if Hillary Clinton or her agents broke the law and compromised our national security,” he said. “This investigation needs to be conducted free of political influence once and for all.”

It’s not like the DoJ has had a sterling reputation in the Obama era. From the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal to the gangsterish Operation Choke Point, the current DoJ is an extraordinarily politicized joke of an agency that goes after Obama’s enemies while letting the administration’s friends get away with crimes on a regular basis. The previous attorney general, the openly racist Eric Holder, barely escaped prosecution after Congress found him in contempt.

This is the same DoJ that helped to cover up ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s unlawful targeting of conservative and Tea Party nonprofits.The agency refuses to investigate civil rights violations involving white victims and turns a blind eye to vote fraud. It sent radical taxpayer-funded community organizers to Sanford, Fla., and Ferguson, Mo., to foment civil unrest after Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were killed by white men in self-defense. It works with dangerous Islamist front groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to smear Americans as “Islamophobic.”

Under Obama, the Justice Department is skittish about treating criminals like criminals. The agency calls juvenile delinquents “justice-involved youth” to avoid hurting their feelings. Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason said last week that the bleeding hearts at the agency no longer refer to individuals as “felons” or “convicts” after they are released from prison because doing so makes it needlessly difficult for them to reestablish themselves in society.

Meanwhile, the FBI’s investigation, including an upcoming interview with Clinton about the emails, is reportedly ongoing. Adding to the high-stakes political drama, the Russian government is considering releasing a trove of Clinton’s emails that have come into its possession.

“There’s a debate going on in the Kremlin right now between the Foreign Ministry and the Intelligence Services about whether they should release the 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails that they have hacked into,” Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano told Megyn Kelly on Monday.

And just days ago after it was discovered that the emails of Bryan Pagliano, the State Department tech staffer who ran Clinton server’s, had gone missing, WND reports that U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan raised the prospect in a Freedom of Information Act case brought by Judicial Watch that it may be necessary for Clinton to be put through the deposition process.

The news prompted WND to cheekily refer to Clinton as “Deleter of the Free World” in a headline.

Of course, Obama administration officials at the highest levels were long aware of Clinton’s cloak-and-dagger email infrastructure. The irretrievably corrupt Clintons created the system to frustrate Freedom of Information Act requesters, shield Hillary’s correspondence from congressional scrutiny, and funnel oceans of money to the international cash-for-favors clearinghouse known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

But getting Hillary in the prisoner’s dock won’t be easy. It may even be politically impossible.

Howard Krongard, who served as inspector general for the State Department from 2005 to 2008, predicted earlier this year that Clinton’s case would “never get to an indictment” even if the FBI referred her case to the DoJ for prosecution. He said the case would have to go through “four loyal Democratic women,” including Lynch, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, who runs DoJ’s criminal division.

None of this ought to suggest the case against Mrs. Clinton is weak. Actually, it would be difficult for it be stronger or more clear-cut.

Around the time of the attack Clinton lied about the facts and blamed U.S.-based Mark Basseley Youssef (formerly known as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula), the director of “Innocence of Muslims,” an anti-Islam movie trailer on YouTube that almost nobody had seen. She claimed back then that the video inspired the sophisticated military-style operation that she claimed materialized spontaneously outside the facility which was in Islamist-held territory.

At the military ceremony that accompanied the repatriation of the body of Tyrone Woods, a retired Navy SEAL who perished fighting off Islamists in the 2012 attack, Clinton blamed all the death and mayhem of that awful day on Youssef, who ended up going to jail as a real-life political prisoner.

She promised the dead hero’s grieving father, Charles Woods, that Youssef who was thousands of miles away from Benghazi at the time, would pay for whatever it was he had done.

“She came over … she talked with me. I gave her a hug and shook her hand and she did not appear to be one bit sincere at all and she mentioned about, ‘We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video,’” Woods recounted to talk radio host Lars Larson. “That was the first time I even heard about anything like that.”

If there is any justice, Americans will hear about Hillary Clinton’s outrageous scapegoating of an innocent man over and over again before Election Day. (For more from the author of “HILARIOUS: DOJ That Donated Tens of Thousands to Hillary Certain to Treat Her Crimes With the Utmost of Objectivity” please click HERE)

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Boehner: Trump Can Win, ‘Just Watch’

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner is confident that Donald Trump can defeat Hillary Clinton in the general election in November.

Speaking at the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, Boehner said, “Anyone who thinks Donald Trump can’t win — just watch.”

Last month, Boehner said that he and Trump were “texting buddies” who had played golf together for years.

Regarding Trump’s meeting with the current Speaker of the House, Boehner said that Paul Ryan is probably “trying to help shape the direction of Trump’s policies,” according to the Associated Press . . .

After his meeting with Trump, Ryan said that he was “encouraged” by what Trump had said. (Read more from “Boehner: Trump Can Win, ‘Just Watch'” HERE)

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House Republicans Win Court Fight over Obamacare

A major section of Obamacare that allows the federal government to subsidize costs for insurance plan enrollees has been struck down by a federal judge.

U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled Thursday that the administration does not, on its own, have the power to spend money on what are termed “cost sharing reduction” payments without an appropriation from Congress. The administration is expected to appeal.

In light of that, the judge allowed Obamacare’s operation to continue unchanged until the appeal process ends.

House Republicans had filed suit, claiming subsidies paid to insurance companies so they, in turn, lower costs for people enrolled under Obamacare, were unconstitutional. House Republicans claimed that because Congress never authorized the expenditure, the executive branch could not spend the money.

In the court case, the administration said a section of law that funds tax credits to help people pay for coverage also was the legal source for paying the subsidies.

However, the judge ruled that cost-sharing reductions require a separate congressional appropriation. Congress has made no such appropriation.

“Such an appropriation cannot be inferred,” Collyer wrote. “None of Secretaries’ extra-textual arguments — whether based on economics, ‘unintended’ results, or legislative history — is persuasive. The Court will enter judgment in favor of the House of Representatives …”

“Authorization and appropriation by Congress are non-negotiable prerequisites to government spending,” she wrote.

In September, Collyer had ruled in favor of House Republicans in rejecting an attempt by the Obama administration to say House GOP members lacked standing to bring the suit.

“The House sues, as an institutional plaintiff, to preserve its power of the purse and to maintain constitutional equilibrium between the executive and the legislature,” Collyer said then. “If its non-appropriation claims have merit … the House has been injured in a concrete and particular way.” (For more from the author of “House Republicans Win Court Fight over Obamacare” please click HERE)

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Cruz Returns to Senate, Reveals What His Next Move Will Be

As one Ted Cruz campaign ends, another begins.

The Republican from Texas gave CNN a one-word affirmative answer when asked if he will run for re-election to the U.S. Senate seat he won in 2012. Cruz then released a letter Wednesday that he sent to the Federal Election Commission reactivating his campaign account for the Senate and stating he was no longer a candidate for president in 2016.

Tuesday marked Cruz’s first return to Congress since ending his race for the White House last week. During a press conference, Cruz declined to use the occasion to endorse the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

In characterizing his return, The Wall Street Journal said Cruz “seemed emboldened by his unexpectedly strong showing in the race, not humbled by losing, and showed no interest in being more accommodating to the Washington establishment he campaigned against.”

“If fighting for the American people makes you an outsider in the Senate, then I will happily remain one,” he said.

Upon his return to the Senate floor, Cruz was greeted by many colleagues, some of whom he disparaged on the campaign trail as part of the “Washington cartel.”

“Wild ride,” Cruz could be heard saying at one point, according to CNN.

“It’s good to be back,” he said to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, spoke with Cruz at length.

“I was encouraging him to really get to work here,” Hatch said. “He’s got a lot of talent, a lot of ability.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was “nearby but didn’t approach Cruz,” CNN said. (For more from the author of “Cruz Returns to Senate, Reveals What His Next Move Will Be” please click HERE)

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BOOM: 12 Versions of Hillary Clinton’s Whitewater Indictments Emerge

New details continue to emerge from Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act fight with the National Archives over the release of draft indictments of Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater case. According to the Archives, release of the indictments—drafted by an independent counsel examining the Clintons’ relationship to a corrupt Arkansas S&L and an alleged cover-up—would violate grand jury secrecy and Mrs. Clinton’s personal privacy. FOIA request denied.

Judicial Watch declined to take “no” for an answer, and so off to court we went. The case is now in the hands of a federal judge.

In the course of litigation, new facts have come to light. Under FOIA, the Archives must produce a “Vaughn Index”—a tantalizing and at times maddening document. A Vaughn Index is the government saying: we are not giving you the documents, but here is an “index” of what we are not giving you, and why we are not giving it to you. Your tax dollars at work.

In the National Archives Vaughn Index for the case, we learn that the government is sitting on at least twelve versions of the the draft indictment of Mrs. Clinton, including one “listing overt acts.” From the public record, we know that the Whitewater case centered around whether Mrs. Clinton, while First Lady, lied to federal investigators about her role in the corrupt Arkansas S&L, concealed documents (including material under federal subpoena), and took other steps to cover-up her involvment. Prosecutors ultimately decided not to indict Mrs. Clinton, concluding that they could not win the complicated, largely circumstantial case against such a high-profile figure.

The draft indictments range from three to forty pages—the former likely excerpts or “scraps” from longer documents, the Vaughn Index indicates. Some of the drafts doubtless are copies but many clearly are not. A total of 451 pages of draft indictments are being withheld by the Archives.

In its final brief in the case, Judicial Watch took a wrecking ball to the Archives’ grand jury secrecy and personal privacy claims. Judicial Watch noted “the truly enormous quantities of grand jury material already made public” in the independent counsel’s final report. Judicial Watch provided the court with a detailed list of grand jury and non-grand jury material that had already been made public. If there ever was a valid claim to grand jury secrecy in this closely scrutinized case, it is long gone.

The Judicial Watch brief noted that the Archives “fails to identify a single, specific privacy interest Mrs. Clinton still has in the draft indictments” following publication of the independent counsel’s report and “hundreds of pages of grand jury materials, non-grand jury materials, and independent counsel legal theories and analysis that are already in the public domain.”

A typical FOIA privacy claim centers on unwarranted invasions of personal privacy. But in Mrs. Clinton’s case, the brief noted, the Archives “makes no claims that disclosure of the draft indictments will reveal any particular personal, medical or financial information about Mrs. Clinton, much less anything intimate or potentially embarrassing.”

Mrs. Clinton of course is one of the most famous women in the world, a former First Lady, senator and secretary of state, and the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president of the United States. The findings of an investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton told the truth to federal investigators and withheld evidence under subpoena while she was First Lady is clearly matter of public interest as voters weigh her suitability for the highest office in the land. (For more from the author of “BOOM: 12 Versions of Hillary Clinton’s Whitewater Indictments Emerge” please click HERE)

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Tom Cotton Won’t Rule out VP Slot on Trump Ticket

Sen. Tom Cotton won’t rule out or “rule in” the possibility of joining presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s general election ticket as a candidate for Vice President, he reveals in a new interview.

From U.S. News & World Report:

Would you accept an offer to be Trump’s running mate?

(Laughs) I haven’t seen it floated out there. Like I said I’ve been focusing my political work on making sure that we hold the Senate and focus the rest of the time on my son.

So that’s not ruling it out?

I wouldn’t rule it in either.

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GRASSROOTS: Clinton Super PAC Attacking Hillary Online Critics

Evan Halper at The Los Angeles Times describes the ongoing trainwreck that is the Hillary Clinton campaign. Vast right wing conspiracy, indeed.

Hillary Clinton’s well-heeled backers have opened a new frontier in digital campaigning, one that seems to have been inspired by some of the Internet’s worst instincts. Correct the Record, a super PAC coordinating with Clinton’s campaign, is spending some $1 million to find and confront social media users who post unflattering messages about the Democratic front-runner.

In effect, the effort aims to spend a large sum of money to increase the amount of trolling that already exists online.

The plan comes as Clinton operatives grapple with the reality that her supporters just aren’t as engaged and aggressive online as are her detractors inside and outside the Democratic Party.

The lack of engagement is one of Clinton’s bigger tactical vulnerabilities, particularly when compared with rivals like Donald Trump, whose viral social media attacks are legion, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is backed by a passionate army of media-savvy millennials…

…using a super PAC to create a counterweight to movements that have sprung up organically is another reflection of the campaign’s awkwardness with engaging online, digital pros said.

“It is meant to appear to be coming organically from people and their social media networks in a groundswell of activism, when in fact it is highly paid and highly tactical,” said Brian Donahue, chief executive of the consulting firm Craft Media/Digital.

“That is what the Clinton campaign has always been about,” he said. “It runs the risk of being exactly what their opponents accuse them of being: a campaign that appears to be populist but is a smokescreen that is paid and brought to you by lifetime political operatives and high-level consultants.”

With Granny Catlady’s favorability rating trending to that of the Zika virus, one would assume that times are getting desperate in the Clinton campaign. (For more from the author of “GRASSROOTS: Clinton Super PAC Attacking Hillary Online Critics” please click HERE)

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FBI Chief: Email Investigation More Serious Than Clinton Says

FBI Director James Comey challenged Hillary Clinton’s characterization of the federal investigation into her use of a private email server Wednesday when speaking with reporters.

The Hill reports:

Clinton and her allies have repeatedly called the probe a routine “security inquiry.” But Director James Comey told reporters that wasn’t an accurate description.

“It’s in our name. I’m not familiar with the term ‘security inquiry,’ ” Comey said at a roundtable with reporters, according to Politico.

“We’re conducting an investigation … That’s what we do,” he said, according to Fox News. Comey reportedly declined to say whether or not the investigation is “criminal” in nature.

While Comey acknowledges the FBI is not “tethered to any external deadline,” the federal probe is likely heading into its final stages. Hillary Clinton herself is expected to face in-person questioning within weeks.

As badly as Clinton wants to dismiss the gravity of the situation, the outcome of the investigation could potentially have seriously damaging effects for her presidential bid. (For more from the author of “FBI Chief: Email Investigation More Serious Than Clinton Says” please click HERE)

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Donald Trump Rolls out His Nickname for Bernie Sanders

Donald Trump rolled out the latest of his brand names that he employs against opponents, labeling Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, “Crazy Bernie.”

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made reference to the new moniker both in an interview on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning and with his ever-active Twitter account.

“I call him ‘Crazy Bernie’ because he’s not very good,” Trump told Fox.

“Who is going to run against a socialist and lose?” he asked. “I mean, he’s a socialist. You’re going to pay 95 percent tax.”

He added, “I’d love to run against him in one way, but there’s something about running against Hillary [Clinton] that I really do [inaudible].”

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt noted that Trump would have crossover appeal with Sanders voters if Clinton became the Democrat nominee. Exit polling from the West Virginia primary Tuesday night found one-third of Sanders voters would cast their ballot for Trump over Clinton in the general election.

Co-host Brian Kilmeade pointed out a Clinton match-up would be better for the billionaire candidate than one with Sanders, based on most recent polling. The Real Clear Politics average of polls gives Sanders a double-digit lead over Trump: roughly 52 to 39 percent.

“I never hit him, don’t forget. I haven’t started on him. I haven’t said anything about him. Maybe I’m going to have to start,” the GOP candidate responded.

Trump tweeted Wednesday:

As reported by Western Journalism, a Public Policy Polling survey released on Tuesday finds Clinton up a scant four points over Trump, 42 to 38 percent. The Real Clear Politics average of polls taken over the last month gives Clinton approximately a six-point lead over the presumptive GOP nominee.

The Trump campaign also received some welcomed polling news Tuesday from the battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. A Quinnipiac University poll found very tight races in the three states. Clinton is up by a single point in both Florida (43-42 percent) and Pennsylvania (43-42 percent), while Trump has a four-point lead in Ohio (43-39 percent). (For more from the author of “Donald Trump Rolls out His Nickname for Bernie Sanders” please click HERE)

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Donald Trump Just Made a Huge Announcement About His Vice President Pick

By Associated Press. Donald Trump, the Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee, says he’s narrowed his list of potential running mates to “five or six people,” all with deep political resumes.

He says he has not ruled out New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former rival who has embraced the billionaire’s campaign with gusto . . .

The real estate mogul and former reality television star said he’s giving special weight to political experience because he wants a vice president who can help him “with legislation, getting things through” Washington if he wins the White House. (Read more from “Donald Trump Just Made a Huge Announcement About His Vice President Pick” HERE)

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Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump Pick up Victories, but Little Changes

By Emily Schultheis. Coming on the heels of a dramatic primary night last Tuesday, when Ted Cruz left the GOP race after losing in Indiana and effectively ceded the Republican nomination to Donald Trump, this week’s primaries largely stuck to expectations and did little to change the trajectory of the race.

On the Democratic side, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won West Virginia’s Democratic primary, but his victory there will do little to help him close the deficit with Democrat Hillary Clinton in both pledged delegates and raw votes.

Sanders benefited from an open primary in West Virginia, in which independents could choose to vote in the Democratic or Republican primary. Of those who identified as independents — a full 34 percent of the Democratic electorate — exit polling finds Sanders had a 61-to-22 edge among those voters. Clinton, meanwhile, edged Sanders slightly among self-described Democrats, 49 percent to 46 percent.

With another victory under his belt, Sanders has a fresh data point for his decision to remain in the race — his campaign noted in a statement Tuesday night that this is now Sanders’ 19th win of the primary season. (Read more from “Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump Pick up Victories, but Little Changes” HERE)

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