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Cop Accused of Trading Favors for Sex Invokes ‘Hillary Defense’

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A lawyer for one of the NYPD cops accused of doing favors for bribes — including mile-high sex with this hooker on a free trip to Las Vegas — said his client’s behavior was no worse than Hillary Clinton’s.

“It’s similar to what the FBI said about Hillary Clinton, and why she wasn’t charged,” said John Meringolo, a lawyer for James Grant, who pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court Wednesday.

“She was unaware she was committing a crime. Here, there is no crime whatsoever.”

Meringolo described his client’s alleged actions — swapping police favors for expensive gifts like the wild trip with prostitute Gabi Grecko — as mere violations of police conduct. (Read more from “Cop Accused of Trading Favors for Sex Invokes ‘Hillary Defense'” HERE)

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More Questions About Death of UN Envoy Who Supposedly Crushed His Own Throat Before Testifying Against Hillary

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By Tyler Durden. …Another official has found himself on the wrong end of the Clintons. That John Ashe was a former President of the United Nations General Assembly highlights the fact that no one is safe once in their sights.

And as you might have guessed, there are major inconsistencies with Ashe’s death. It was not only conveniently timed because Ashe died just a few days before being set to testify against Clinton in a corruption case, but official reports indicated he died of a heart attack.

The problem, however, is that police on the scene reported Ashe died when his throat was crushed during a work-out accident.

The New York Post’s Page Six reported that after Ashe was found dead Wednesday, the U.N. claimed that he had died from a heart attack. Local police officers in Dobbs Ferry, New York, later disputed that claim, saying instead that he died from a workout accident that crushed his throat.

Adding to the mysterious nature of Ashe’s death was the fact that he had been slated to be in court Monday with his Chinese businessman co-defendant Ng Lap Seng, from whom he reportedly received over $1 billion in donations during his term as president of the U.N. General Assembly.

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John Ashe, Ex-U.N. Leader Indicted Last Year, Dies

By Steven Visser and Rob Frehse. John Ashe, the former president of the United Nations General Assembly in 2013 and 2014, died Wednesday while awaiting trial in a bribery scandal, police said.

Ashe, 61, died of injuries while lifting a barbell on a bench, the Westchester, New York, medical examiner’s office told CNN Thursday.

Earlier U.N. spokesman Dan Thomas told CNN that Ashe died of a heart attack. He now tells CNN that the information came from a newspaper report in Antiqua, as well as, a former colleague of Ashe’s. The medical examiner clarified Ashe died from traumatic asphyxia and suffered laryngeal fractures while lifting.

The completed autopsy report will not be available for approximately 16 weeks when standard tests are complete. (Read more from “John Ashe, Ex-U.N. Leader Indicted Last Year, Dies” HERE)

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Clinton Faults ‘White People’ and ‘Systemic Racism’ in Wake of Dallas Shootings

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In the wake of the deadly Dallas ambush that killed five police officers, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton put the responsibility for addressing America’s divisions squarely on the shoulders of “white people” Friday while also calling for federal guidelines to address “systemic racism” that leads to the shooting of black men by police officers

“I will call for white people, like myself, to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have ‘The Talk,’ about, you now, how to really protect themselves (from police), when they’re the ones who should be expecting protection from encounters with police,” Clinton said Friday on CNN.

“I’m going to be talking to white people, we’re the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens,” she said.

“We’ve got to figure out what is happening when routine traffic stops, when routine arrests, escalate into killings … Clearly, there seems to be a terrible disconnect between many police departments and officers and the people they have sworn to protect,” she said.

Clinton said federal policing guidelines are needed because some police departments need to address “systemic racism, which is a reality, and to go after systemic bias,” she said.

Many pushed back at Clinton.

Writing on Breitbart, Joel B. Pollak said Clinton’s comments were “deeply offensive in the context of an attack where white officers had been targeted, and the very opposite of what a president is supposed to do.”

“Clinton made stark, condescending generalizations about white people and their supposed inability to listen to black people,” he added.

He also noted that in Clinton’s view, forging unity was a one-way street

“… she made no reciprocal requests of black Americans — no need to examine cultural attitudes to police, or the hostile rhetoric of some community leaders,” Pollak added, contrasting her comments with the “measured and sensitive” statement issued by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for unity among all Americans and support for law and order to protect everyone. (For more from the author of “Clinton Faults ‘White People’ and ‘Systemic Racism’ in Wake of Dallas Shootings” please click HERE)

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“Guccifer” Is Not Missing From His Jail Cell or Dead

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(Editor’s note: although we generally do not refer readers to Snope’s due to its political bias, it appears the fact-check website got it right on this one. Please refer to the link below for the full article) On 2 July 2016, Hillary Clinton was interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On the same day, conspiracy site whatdoesitmean.com reported that hacker Marcel Lazăr Lehel (whose online moniker is “Guccifer’) had gone missing from his Virginia jail cell.

Lehel has made headlines for breaking into the emails of a number of high-level authorities in the United States and his native Romania. He has also claimed that he hacked into Hillary Clinton’s and the Democratic National Committee’s e-mail servers.

The former taxi driver is currently awaiting sentencing in the United States on charges related to hacking into private AOL accounts . . .

Rumors that Lazar had disappeared from (or died in) custody are false and were refutedMarcel Lehel Lazar, a federal inmate also known as Guccifer, is at the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, Va. He is alive and has never been missing from this facility.

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State Department Reopens Clinton Emails Probe

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The State Department is reopening an internal investigation of possible mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and top aides, officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Although the former secretary of state’s closest confidants have left the agency, they could still face punishment. The most serious is the loss of security clearances, which could complicate her aides’ hopes of securing top positions on her national security team if she becomes president.

The State Department started its review in January after declaring 22 emails from Clinton’s private server to be “top secret.” It was suspended in April so as not to interfere with the FBI’s inquiry. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the probe is restarting after the Justice Department’s announcement Wednesday that it won’t bring any criminal charges. (Read more from “State Department Reopens Clinton Emails Probe” HERE)

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7 Key Takeaways From FBI Director’s Hearing on Clinton Email Use

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FBI Director James Comey appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday to further detail the FBI’s yearlong investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and handling of classified information while she was secretary of state.

Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, hastily scheduled the hearing just two days after Comey announced the findings of his agency’s investigation into Clinton and recommended that no criminal charges be filed against her.

Although the FBI ultimately concluded Clinton’s handling of classified information did not warrant criminal charges, Comey criticized her Tuesday for being “extremely careless” in setting up a server in the basement of her New York home and using a private email address.

A spokesman for Clinton said that she was happy the investigation is over.

“We are pleased that the career officials handling this case have determined that no further action by the [Justice] Department is appropriate,” Brian Fallon said in a statement to Politico. “As the secretary has long said, it was a mistake to use her personal email and she would not do it again. We are glad that this matter is now resolved.”

The FBI’s findings contradicted some of what Clinton has said publicly and to members of Congress regarding her private server and handling of classified information.

Those conclusions left many Republican lawmakers wondering how Comey and the FBI ultimately came to the decision not to recommend criminal charges and ultimately prompted Thursday’s hearing.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said Comey was given a “thankless” task in investigating Clinton.

“No matter what recommendation you made, you were sure to be criticized,” Cummings said. “In a sense, Mr. Director, you are on trial.”

Here are seven of the key takeaways from Comey’s appearance before the Oversight Committee:

1) Comey says there is no basis that Clinton lied to the FBI.

Nearly one year ago, on July 25, Clinton told reporters at a press conference that she was “confident” she “never sent or received any information that was classified at the time it was sent or received.”

However, during its investigation, the FBI concluded that 110 emails in 52 email chains Clinton returned to the State Department contained classified information when they were sent or received. Eight of those communications contained “top secret” information, 37 received “secret information,” and the rest contained “confidential information,” the FBI said.

Of those emails, a “very small number” had markings identifying them as classified.

During the hearing, Chaffetz questioned whether Clinton lied to the FBI during a three-hour interview that took place Saturday. Though Clinton told the public she never sent or received classified information, Comey said she didn’t lie to the FBI.

“We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI,” Comey said Thursday.

2) Chaffetz plans to file a referral to the FBI to look into whether she lied to Congress under oath.

While questioning Comey on Clinton’s statements regarding her handling of classified information, Chaffetz asked Comey if the FBI looked into whether the former secretary of state lied under oath about receiving and sending classified information.

During an October hearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Clinton about classified information sent in emails stored on her server.

“There was nothing marked classified on my emails, either sent or received,” Clinton told Jordan during the hearing.

Comey told Chaffetz that, although he was aware of Clinton’s exchange with Jordan, the FBI hadn’t investigated whether she lied under oath because the agency never received a referral to do so from Congress.

Chaffetz confirmed the committee would send a referral to the FBI to probe Clinton’s testimony.

3) Comey says Clinton’s case is very different from that involving David Petraeus.

Since the FBI’s announcement, many have been pointing to an investigation into former CIA Director David Petraeus’s handling of classified information in comparison with the FBI’s handling of the Clinton matter. Petraeus pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge after disclosing classified information to his biographer Paula Broadwell.

Cummings, the committee’s ranking member, urged Comey to point out the similarities or differences between Petraeus’s and Clinton’s cases.

“He was caught on audio tape telling [Broadwell], and I quote, ‘I mean, they are highly classified,’” Cummings said.

Comey, though, said the case involving Petraeus “illustrates perfectly the kinds of cases the Department of Justice is willing to prosecute.”

“Clearly intentional conduct. Knew what he was doing was violation of the law,” Comey said of the former CIA director. “Huge amounts of information. If you couldn’t prove he knew it, raises the inference [that] he did it and effort to obstruct justice. That combination of things makes it worthy of a prosecution. A misdemeanor prosecution, but a prosecution nonetheless.”

4) There is no transcript or recording of Clinton’s meeting with the FBI on Saturday, and she wasn’t placed under oath.

Clinton met with the FBI for a three-hour interview Saturday, which Comey said was the agency’s last step before concluding its investigation.

During his testimony before the Oversight Committee today, Comey said he wasn’t involved in Clinton’s interview and admitted there was no transcript or recording of the meeting. Furthermore, Comey said Clinton was not put under oath during her interview with the FBI.

However, Comey stressed that it is still a crime to lie to federal agents.

5) Comey said Clinton isn’t sophisticated in her knowledge of classification systems.

Many of the Republicans questioning Comey wondered how Clinton, whose résumé includes first lady, U.S. senator from New York, and secretary of state, would not understand the government’s classification requirements.

“Is it your statement, then, before this committee that Secretary Clinton should have known not to send classified information and yet she did?” Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., asked Comey.

“Certainly she should have known not to send classified information,” Comey said. “As I said, that’s the definition of negligent. I think she was extremely careless. I have to think she was negligent. That I could establish. What we can’t establish is that she acted with the necessary criminal intent.”

Included in three of the emails found on Clinton’s server were paragraphs marked with a “(c),” indicating that the information referenced was to be treated as classified.

Much of that classified information originated from Clinton’s aides, but was included in emails the former secretary of state sent and received.

Comey said he would have assumed that any “reasonable” person would have known the importance of those markings. However, Comey later concluded he wasn’t sure “whether she was actually sophisticated enough to understand what a ‘c’ in parentheses means.”

“One of the things I’ve learned is that the secretary may not be as sophisticated as people would assume,” Comey said.

He further noted that Clinton didn’t have a computer in her office at the State Department.

6) Clinton gave people without security clearances access to classified information.

Comey told lawmakers Thursday that Clinton’s personal server set-up exposed people without security clearances to classified information.

“Did Hillary Clinton give non-cleared people access to classified information?” Chaffetz asked.

“Yes,” Comey replied.

Though the FBI director could not say exactly how many “non-cleared” people had access to that classified information, Comey did estimate it was between two and 10.

Both Chaffetz and Jordan questioned whether Clinton’s lawyers had security clearances and were exposed to that classified information when they were sorting through the emails that would later be turned over to the State Department.

Though Comey said Clinton’s lawyers were among those who were “non-cleared” and accessed classified information, Fallon, spokesman for Clinton, tweeted that the lawyers who sifted through the former secretary of state’s emails had Top Secret-level clearance.

7) Comey contradicted a number of statements Clinton made to reporters and Congress regarding the use of her private email server.

During his line of questioning, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., asked Comey to respond to a number of comments Clinton made over the course of the past year regarding her handling of classified information, some of which he said were found to be untrue throughout the course of the FBI’s investigation.

Comey first confirmed there was information marked classified found on Clinton’s server, despite her reassurances she neither sent nor received any information marked classified.

The FBI director then said that Clinton did, indeed, email classified material, though she in the past said she never did.

Gowdy then asked Comey if Clinton only used one device, as she said she did, to which Comey said she used multiple devices during her tenure as secretary of state.

Gowdy also questioned whether Clinton returned all work-related emails to the State Department. Thousands, Comey said, were not returned and were later recovered by the FBI.

Others were deleted, and traces of work-related emails were found “on devices or in slack space,” Comey said.

“Whether they were deleted or whether when a server changed out something happened to them, there is no doubt that the work-related emails were removed electronically from the email system,” he said. (For more from the author of “7 Key Takeaways From FBI Director’s Hearing on Clinton Email Use” please click HERE)

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State Department Reveals Its Response to FBI’s Clinton Investigation

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Days after the FBI announced its recommendation following an investigation into presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, what was on its face good news for the former secretary of state has since offered her critics more reason to oppose her.

FBI Director James Comey this week revealed the bureau would not recommend an indictment against Clinton for her use of a private email server while conducting official State Department business. The announcement, however, was preceded by a thorough denouncement of her careless and potentially dangerous behavior.

While her surrogates focus on the story’s silver lining, Clinton’s detractors remind voters of the dark cloud of corruption and incompetence they say plague her public record. According to recent reports, the executive department she once led apparently has some questions of its own in the wake of the FBI’s investigation.

State Department spokesman John Kirby released a statement on Thursday announcing an internal investigation into Clinton’s email use has been relaunched.

“Given the Department of Justice has now made its announcement,” he advised, “the State Department intends to conduct its internal review. Our goal will be to be as transparent as possible about our results, while complying with our various legal obligations.”

The departmental investigation’s scope, reports indicate, will include whether Clinton and/or her closest aides mishandled classified data. No end date has been set for the review, which Kirby explained could result in “administrative sanctions” against State Department officials involved in any wrongdoing.

Top Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan are among those being named as likely to be of particular interest to department investigators. (For more from the author of “State Department Reveals Its Response to FBI’s Clinton Investigation” please click HERE)

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THE CLINTON EMAIL COVER-UP: Author Lee Cary Predicted It All

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Author Lee Cary predicted all of this in March; he reminded me with an email yesterday with the subject heading “Today, I take no joy in an accurate prediction”.

Here’s the email he sent me in March, edited only very slightly for readability:

On Mar 31, 2016 10:32 PM, “Lee Cary” wrote:

I think the fix is in.

Comey is, I believe, not the reincarnation of Elliott Ness.

Here’s how I see it playing out: He announces, after the fact of his advertised interview meeting with Hillary Clinton, that the event was professional and candid, as well as thorough and blah blah blah, and at the end of it concluded, in consultation with other high ranking FBI officials, that, while there were errors in judgment to which she has, in part, admitted, nothing Secretary Clinton did reached the level that warranted the FBI recommending an indictment to the AG. In effect, case closed.

The mainstream media then says we can all put this behind us and go forward with the silly season without the matter hanging over her. All the media, from FOX to MSNBC have bought, and promoted, the meme of Comey as the stand-up-guy, the Untouchable.

I look at his involvement in Plamegate, Patrick Fitzgerald’s (mentored by Comey, and godfather to at least one of his children) activities paving the way for Obama in Chicago by getting Rezko and Blago out of the way with no blowback on Obama, and, earlier, that episode when Ashcroft was in the hospital. Add to that one of Comey’s big promoters has been Chuck Schumer…

…In the wake of what I think will happen, happening, there will be a division between the ones who buy the con, and those who see the Fix but won’t have any explanation as to how it happened.

That’s it. (For more from the author of “THE CLINTON EMAIL COVER-UP: Author Lee Cary Predicted It All” please click HERE)

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FBI Director Comey Called to Answer for Hillary Decision

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FBI Director James Comey will appear before Congress on Thursday to explain his bombshell decision not to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton over her handling of classified information on her private, unsecured email server.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Fox News on Wednesday that Comey will answer questions before his committee regarding the decision.

“The FBI’s recommendation is surprising and confusing,” Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said. “The fact pattern presented by Director Comey makes clear Secretary Clinton violated the law. Individuals who intentionally skirt the law must be held accountable. Congress and the American people have a right to understand the depth and breadth of the FBI’s investigation.”

Comey, in making his announcement not to recommend indictment on Tuesday, described the former secretary of state’s actions as “extremely careless,” which would seem to meet the legal standard of “gross negligence” laid out in the applicable statute.

The FBI director stated 110 emails were “determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.” Of those, eight contained Top Secret information.

These findings contradict statements made by Clinton about her email server. First the former secretary claimed her server contained no classified information, but then over 2,000 emails were found that did contain such information. Clinton then changed her defense claiming none was classified at the time, which was also found not to be true.

Clinton altered her story yet again saying nothing was “marked” classified at the time, which was also false.

“Comey’s decision was seen in many quarters as a punt. By branding Clinton’s use of unauthorized servers to send and receive sensitive — and in some cases top secret — information as ‘extremely careless,’ Comey gave Clinton’s critics plenty of ammunition,” Fox News reported.

“By stopping short of referring the results of his bureau’s year-long probe to the Attorney General to pursue an indictment, Comey may have removed the biggest obstacle in Clinton’s path to the White House,” the news outlet added.

Comey took no questions in making his Tuesday announcement, so his appearance on Thursday will potentially give the public the first opportunity for further explanation behind his decision. (For more from the author of “FBI Director Comey Called to Answer for Hillary Decision” please click HERE)

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Sanders Considering Endorsing Clinton

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The Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns are discussing a potential event next week in New Hampshire, during which the Vermont senator would endorse Clinton’s White House bid.

A Democrat familiar with the plans said Wednesday if the two sides continue to make progress, Clinton and Sanders would appear at the joint event Tuesday in New Hampshire. The Democrat spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the plans . . .

Sanders has withheld his endorsement of Clinton since the end of the Democratic primaries in mid-June, pressing for policy commitments from the campaign and party leaders developing the platform that will be considered at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. But he has shown signs of coming around. (Read more from “Sanders Considering Endorsing Clinton” HERE)

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