Obama must be watching the unfolding 2016 election with a growing sense of horror. The Democrats got the greatest gift imaginable when Donald Trump got the Republican nomination, but Hillary Clinton has already all but frittered away the greatest natural advantage any politician could possibly have – being a woman running against Donald Trump. Clinton’s inept, bungling campaign has alienated huge portions of the blue collar Democrat voting base and has made a race that should be a cakewalk into one that is actually competitive.
One thing that Barack Obama has shown during his seven and a half years in office is that he really is an ideologue. Unlike Clinton, he cares deeply about actually advancing progressive causes, and he is nearly obsessed with his legacy – much of which will be built on unilateral action that could easily be undone by a hostile successor (if we suppose that Trump would actually care to undo any of it). On the other hand, if a Democrat succeeds him, he knows that many of these programs will become much more difficult to undo.
His alliance with Clinton has always been one of political convenience rather than one of genuine friendship, if the Democrat insiders who constantly gab to the media are to be believed. I don’t believe for a moment that Obama has any personal investment in Hillary Clinton becoming President – he’d personally be just as happy with Bernie if not more so.
Moreover, his own Justice Department is allegedly threatening open mutiny if action is not taken against Clinton after the probe into her private email server is completed. If Clinton were in a strong position for the general election, no doubt Obama would order Lynch to softpedal any action that lands on Clinton herself, no matter what the facts say. However, Obama can read the polls as well as anyone, and he knows that Sanders would walk all over Donald Trump, whereas Clinton might well find herself in a dogfight. (Read more from “Will Obama Indict Clinton to Save His Party?” HERE)
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On Thursday evening, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan issued an order preventing the distribution of videotaped depositions connected to the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
The move comes after lawyers for Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, requested the seal to prevent their use for political purposes.
As part of his decision, Sullivan has sealed the tapes until he orders otherwise. However, transcripts of the tapes will be released.
“The public has a right to know details related to the creation, purpose and use of the clintonemail.com system,” said Sullivan.
According to the judge, sealing the videotapes will simply “avoid unnecessary briefing” going forward.
The ruling was handed down just hours before Mills was set to appear before lawyers representing Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog organization.
On Friday, lawyers for the group will question Mills on the setup and use of Clinton’s private server as part of a larger investigation into the matter.
Judicial Watch will interview multiple current and former Clinton staff as part of the group’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which has been underway for some time.
In one of the transcripts released so far, State Department official Lewis Lukens claimed he was unaware Clinton used her private email for official matters.
“My understanding was that she was using the equipment to contact family and friends,” said the former deputy executive secretary at the State Department.
Clinton has continued to deny any wrongdoing in her conduct. However, according to a new report released by the State Department’s Inspector General, the Democratic presidential candidate clearly failed to follow the law. (For more from the author of “Federal Judge Seals Video Evidence Pertaining to Clinton Email Scandal” please click HERE)
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Bernie Sanders said he didn’t care about Hillary Clinton’s emails but the Inspector General at the State Department sure did.
In a 83-page report released Wednesday the Obama-appointed Inspector General found that Clinton’s use of a private email system did not comply with federal records policies. And, while the IG’s declaration Clinton disregarded the rules is remarkable, it’s even more stunning how baldly Clinton lied, on multiple occasions, to multiple people about the matter.
Three noteworthy examples stand out.
First, Clinton told the press she was “not willing to say it was an error in judgment because…nothing that I did was wrong.” Now, it’s a regular bullet in her talking points to admit she made “a mistake.”
Second, in the past Clinton said she was fully cooperating with an FBI investigation into her email. “I’m more than ready to talk to anybody, anytime,” she said. “And I’ve encouraged all of, you know, my assistants to be very forthcoming.”
But, “anybody, anytime” was never true.
She may be cooperating on some level with the FBI, but she never did with the IG.
In a footnote on page 5 of the report, the Office of the Inspector General states that Clinton and several of her top aides, including her former chief of staff Cheryl MIlls, former deputy chief of staff for operations Huma Abedin, and former deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, refused requests for interviews.
Third, Clinton insisted everything she did was permitted. According to the report, page 43, staff at the State Department who were concerned about the fact that her personal system was not subject to federal records law and carried security risks were told Clinton’s “personal system had been reviewed and approved by Department legal staff.”
Not true. The IG found no evidence her system had ever been reviewed by legal counsel.
Moreover, State Department employees who raised those questions were instructed that their “mission is to support the Secretary” and to “never to speak of the secretary’s personal email system again.”
(Take a moment to absorb the fact that even her own staff were lied to about the legal merits about what she was asking them to help her do, possibly putting their careers in jeopardy.)
None of this was a “mistake” as Clinton says.
She intentionally lied about her secret email system many times, offering up false pretenses of transparency and legality. She made concentrated efforts to evade federal public records laws, while at the same time, putting national security at risk.
All because she wanted to protect her personal political agenda more than properly carry out her duties as a public servant.
And, she tried to cover it all up until she got caught red handed.
Bernie Sanders and other Democrats ought to care. Otherwise they are condoning the scandal. (For more from the author of “The Three Most Stunning Lies About Hillary’s Emails” please click HERE)
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GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump thrust the name of Vince Foster back into the spotlight Tuesday more than two decades after his case was ruled a suicide, saying the Clinton aide’s death in 1993 was “fishy” and deserved to be taken “very seriously.”
And that’s a sore spot in the campaign of rival Democratic Party front-runner Hillary Clinton. So sore, in fact, that in February when WND emailed questions to the Clinton campaign about an investigative piece it was preparing on Foster’s death, the campaign refused to respond.
A look at Foster’s final day shows Hillary Clinton was desperately trying to reach him before his body was discovered by Park Police. She asked her chief of staff three times to contact Foster and have him call her. But she has never been asked why she was so eager to talk to him on the day his body turned up dead in Fort Marcy Park outside of Washington, D.C., on July 20, 1993.
But now Trump has raised the issue and placed the long forgotten ghost of Vince Foster under the bright lights of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump said Foster “had intimate knowledge of what was going on. He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide.” (Read more from “Why Was Hillary Trying to Reach Vince Foster on the Day He Died?” HERE)
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Professional Republicans in the #NeverTrump movement continue to oppose the presumptive nominee selected by the GOP electorate and are now floating strategies to throw the election to Hillary Clinton.
However, an examination of Clinton’s campaign promises reveals that Republicans who are willing to thwart Trump in favor of Clinton will be complicit in electing a President who would seek to bring about the complete and, possibly irreversible, dissolution of our nation’s borders.
A review of Clinton’s stated positions on the issue suggests she is perhaps the most extreme candidate on immigration ever to run for the office of the U.S. Presidency. Her views place her even further outside the mainstream of the American electorate than President Barack Obama, who systematically dismantled U.S. immigration law during his two terms in office . . .
Clinton has pledged to enact amnesty within her first 100 days in office. As NBC recently reported: “If elected, the former secretary of state has promised to build on President Obama’s executive actions and introduce comprehensive immigration reform during her first 100 days in office.”
Clinton’s website has explained that by “comprehensive immigration reform,” Clinton means full citizenship for illegal immigrants, which would give them welfare access, voting privileges, and the ability to bring over their family members through chain migration. (Read more from “Clinton Releases Plan to Dissolve U.S. Border Within 100 Days” HERE)
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The Obama administration is stepping in to prevent Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from being deposed in a legal case dealing with her use of a private email server for classified information.
The Hill reported Friday that the Justice Department has filed a motion opposing a request from legal watchdog Judicial Watch that Clinton be deposed.
The filing states Judicial Watch is, “seeking instead to transform these proceedings into a wide-ranging inquiry into matters beyond the scope of the court’s order and unrelated to the FOIA request at issue in this case.”
Attorneys filed the motion Thursday, calling the request to depose Clinton “wholly inappropriate.”
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said the request to have Clinton deposed was made for an important purpose. “Mrs. Clinton’s testimony will help the courts determine whether her email practices thwarted the Freedom of Information Act.”
The case against Clinton is a result of Judicial Watch’s attempts to obtain documentation related to the 2012 terrorist attack’s in Benghazi. Investigation into the incident expanded into questions concerning Clinton’s handling of classified emails.
Although Clinton is not expected to be called on to answer questions in the original case, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan said, “Based on information learned during discovery, the deposition of Mrs. Clinton may be necessary.”
The Justice Department called the request to depose Clinton “overbroad and duplicative.” The motion also asserted the depositions in the original case should be finished before attempting to question Clinton. (For more from the author of “Obama Administration Files Motion in an Effort to Protect Clinton” please click HERE)
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By Raheem Kassam. Top European leaders have blasted Bill and Hillary Clinton following a war of words about the commitment to democracy of both the Polish and Hungarian governments. One leading figure insisted Mr. Clinton “needs a medical test” following his remarks.
Bill Clinton upset NATO allies in a broadly unreported gaffe accusing Poland and Hungary of thinking “democracy is too much trouble” and wanting to have an “authoritarian dictatorship.” This is despite the fact that Poland recently held elections turfing out the establishment political parties in an election with a higher turnout than Mr. Clinton’s re-election in 1996.
Poland’s newly elected Prime Minister Beata Szydlo called Clinton’s words “unjustified and simply unfair”, adding: “With all due respect, and without using coarse words [Clinton] exaggerated and should apologize to us”.
Mr. Clinton’s remarks came during a Hillary for President campaign rally in New Jersey this week, where he claimed: “They want (Russian President Vladimir) Putin-like leadership. Just give me an authoritarian dictatorship and keep the foreigners out” . . .
But in Mr. Clinton’s attempts to use foreign affairs against Mr. Trump, he angered one of NATO’s most important members: Poland, and one of the few countries holding back the tide of migration into Europe: Hungary. (Read more from “Top European Leaders Hammer Clinton, Claim He’s a Soros Puppet, Needs ‘Medical Test'” HERE)
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Bill Clinton: ‘I Sometimes Feel That I’m Totally Useless in This Election Season’
By Ryan Lovelace. Former President Bill Clinton sounded frustrated about his value to his wife’s presidential bid on the campaign trail in South Dakota on Friday.
The ex-president took a moment to ponder his lot in life onstage, and revealed the exasperation he has experienced stumping for Hillary Clinton.
“I sometimes feel that I’m totally useless in this election season because I’m a happy grandfather. I’m not mad enough at anybody,” Clinton said. “And because the life I spend now is driven by the real world and facts. I mean, we live in kind of a fact-free political universe, you know?”
The 42nd president’s remarks come after Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, has repeated “rape” allegations against the former president and suggested Hillary Clinton would want to keep her eye on her husband if they got back to the White House. (Read more from “Bill Clinton: ‘I Sometimes Feel That I’m Totally Useless in This Election Season'” HERE)
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Clinton Rape Accuser Blasts ‘Biased’ NBC Anchor
By Bob Unruh. Here’s what Broaddrick said today in response to Mitchell’s claim:
“Nothing has changed from the detailed investigation NBC did into my story in 1999 before airing my Dateline interview with Lisa Myers,” Broaddrick said in a statement to Los Angeles attorney Candice Jackson, who conducted the in-person interview with Broaddrick for WND, having previously authored the acclaimed book, “Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine.”
“And if NBC now thinks my experience has been ‘discredited,’” Broaddrick continued, “why would Andrea Mitchell call me to ask me for any new information about my encounter with Hillary after the assault? And why wouldn’t Andrea Mitchell have written her own news story explaining exactly how I’ve been discredited? Lisa Myers actually warned me about Andrea. Andrea is obviously mad at me for exposing her rudeness and bias when she called me this year. I think being a lapdog for Hillary Clinton discredits Andrea Mitchell and NBC as journalists!”
“Rudeness and bias”? Here’s how Jackson reported Broaddrick’s comments about her call with Andrea Mitchell in her interview story:
Juanita created a social media firestorm earlier this year by tweeting that she had been “dreading seeing my abuser on TV campaign trail for enabler wife … but his physical appearance reflects ghosts of past are catching up.” One of the many media figures who called her after this tweet was Andrea Mitchell of NBC. Because she’d had a positive experience with Lisa Myers with NBC back in 1999, Andrea Mitchell was one of the few calls Juanita returned in the aftermath of her trending tweets. Andrea Mitchell asked her just one question, listened to her answer, and told Juanita condescendingly, “We’re not going to air anything with you because you have nothing new to add.” Juanita felt bewildered by Andrea Mitchell’s dismissive attitude.
(Read more from “Clinton Rape Accuser Blasts ‘Biased’ NBC Anchor” HERE)
The State Department’s inspector general has determined that Hillary Clinton did not comply with the agency’s record policies, singling out her use of a private, unsecured email server for particular scrutiny. The IG further revealed that Clinton and her aides refused to participate in the review.
The independent watchdog’s 83-page report to lawmakers noted one of the major failures of the former secretary of state was not turning over her emails when she left office, as required by law. “Therefore, Secretary Clinton should have preserved any Federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records with the related files in the Office of the Secretary,” the report states.
“At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service and, because she did not do so, she did not comply with the Department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act,” it adds.
“In December 2014, nearly two years after leaving office, she turned over more than 30,000 emails she said represented all of her work related correspondence. She said she also exchanged about 31,000 personal emails during her time as secretary and those notes have been deleted,” The Washington Post reported.
While current Secretary of State John Kerry and former secretaries Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice all cooperated with the review, Clinton and her former State Department aides Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and Huma Abedin all declined to do so.
The IG review is separate from the FBI investigation into whether Clinton’s use of a private, unsecured server violated the law regarding the handling of classified information.
As reported by Western Journalism, more than 2,000 Clinton emails were found to contain classified information, including 22 designated “top secret” and too damaging to be released to the public, even now.
When the story broke of Clinton’s use of an unsecured server last spring, she told reporters “no classified material” was on it. Later in the summer, she said it contained none that was “classified at the time.” In late January, she stated no information had been “marked classified.”
The report comes at a difficult time for Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, as she has seen her lead in the polls against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump vanish. Her lack of honesty and trustworthiness is one of the main factors identified by poll respondents who hold a negative view of her candidacy. (For more from the author of “State Department Inspector General Releases Scathing Report on Hillary Clinton” please click HERE)
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A new filing by the Justice Department contains a key phrase that some might construe as a hint that criminal prosecution is being planned for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Last week, Vice News reporter Jason Leopold formally protested the classification of an FBI declaration that provided details about the investigation into how sensitive information ended up on Clinton’s private email server.
The Justice Department submitted the declaration as part of “a secret filing,” but a U.S. District Court judge ordered them to publicly submit a redacted copy of the document or at least “show cause why” that isn’t possible.
They responded in kind by saying they couldn’t make the document public because it would “adversely affect the ongoing investigation” into Clinton’s private email server.
Fair enough, but it is two words further into the DOJ memorandum that will be sure to raise some eyebrows. The department claims it can’t reveal the document because doing so could “reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”
Via Law Newz:
Attorneys with the U.S. Department of Justice say they cannot make public a classified FBI declaration because it would “adversely affect the ongoing investigation” into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The recent filing by DOJ attorneys, obtained by LawNewz.com, is significant because it not only acknowledges the ongoing federal probe, but also asserts that if the declaration is made public, it could “reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”
Enforcement proceedings? Does this mean the FBI has found enforcement to be necessary?
It should be noted that this particular phrase is used in federal law on disclosing public information “compiled for law enforcement purposes,” in tandem with another set criteria – when “the investigation or proceeding involves a possible violation of criminal law.”
The Legal Information Institute writes:
(1) Whenever a request is made which involves access to records described in subsection (b)(7)(A) and—
(A) the investigation or proceeding involves a possible violation of criminal law; and
(B) there is reason to believe that (i) the subject of the investigation or proceeding is not aware of its pendency, and (ii) disclosure of the existence of the records could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, the agency may, during only such time as that circumstance continues, treat the records as not subject to the requirements of this section. [Emphasis added]
That’s a far cry from the “security review” Clinton has repeatedly claimed the FBI is undertaking. (For more from the author of “Does This DOJ Memo Hint That Criminal Action Against Hillary Is Forthcoming?” please click HERE)
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By David Martosko. Donald Trump’s latest effort to saddle Hillary Clinton with her husband’s sexual indiscretions hit Instagram like a bomb on Monday.
‘Is Hillary really protecting women?’ Trump tweeted, along with a link to a short video featuring the voices of two of Bill’s sexual-assault accusers, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey.
The 15-second video also includes a reference to Clinton’s former White House intern paramour Monica Lewinsky, in the form of a stogie clenched between the former president’s teeth.
Independent Counsel Ken Star wrote in his bombshell report on the Clinton impeachment saga that the then-president sexually pleasured Lewinsky, then in her early twenties, with a cigar.
Broaddrick accused Clinton of raping her in a hotel room when he was the attorney general of Arkansas. Willey has charged that he groped and fondled her against her will in the Oval Office. (Read more from “Trump Slams Hillary Clinton for Not ‘Protecting Women’ in Video Featuring Voices of Bill’s Sex-Assault and Rape Accusers” HERE)
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Leftist Salon: Donald Trump Is Going to Win; This Is Why Hillary Clinton Can’t Defeat What Trump Represents
By Anis Shivani. The neofascist reaction, the force behind Trump, has come about because of the extreme disembeddedness of the economy from social relations. The neoliberal economy has become pure abstraction; as has the market, as has the state, there is no reality to any of these things the way we have classically understood them. Americans, like people everywhere rising up against neoliberal globalization (in Britain, for example, this takes the form of Brexit, or exit from the European Union), want a return of social relations, or embeddedness, to the economy.
The Trump alliance desires to remake the world in their own image, just as the class representing neoliberal globalization has insisted on doing so. The difference couldn’t be starker. Capitalism today is placeless, locationless, nameless, faceless, while Trump is talking about hauling corporations back to where they belong, in their home countries, fix them in place by means of rewards and retribution, like one handles a recalcitrant child.
Trump is a businessman, while Mitt Romney was a businessman too, yet I predict victory for the former while the latter obviously lost miserably. What is the difference? While Trump “builds” things (literal buildings), in places like Manhattan and Atlantic City, places one can recognize and identify with, and while Trump’s entire life has been orchestrated around building luxury and ostentatiousness, again things one can tangibly grasp and hold on to (the Trump steaks!), Romney is the personification of a placeless corporation, making his quarter billion dollars from consulting, i.e., representing economic abstraction at its purest, serving as a high priest of the transnational capitalist class.(Read more from “Donald Trump Is Going to Win: This Is Why Hillary Clinton Can’t Defeat What Trump Represents” HERE)
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