Connecting the dots on Hillary Clinton

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White House Struggles to Defend Lynch’s Private Meeting With Bill Clinton[/h]SHARE
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BY: Alyssa Canobbio
June 30, 2016 3:10 pm

White House spokesman Josh Earnest struggled to defend multiple questions on the private meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton during Thursday’s press briefing.
“The bottom line is simply that the president and the attorney general understand how important it is for the Department of Justice to conduct investigations that are free of political interference,” Earnest said. “And that has been a bedrock principle of our criminal justice system in this country since our founding. The rule of law if paramount and every American citizen should be held accountable to that rule of law regardless of their political affiliation, regardless of who supports them politically, regardless of what their poll numbers say. And that is a principle the president believes is one worth protecting.”
Earnest said that it was appropriate for journalists to ask Lynch about the meeting but added that the public should trust that Lynch has over 20 years of being a federal prosecutor.
Reuters’ Jeff Mason pushed Earnest and asked if the White House was concerned about the appearance of political influence int the meeting. Earnest repeated that Lynch and the president were compassionate about protecting the principle of the rule of law and that he was not at the meeting to know what had happened.
CNN’s Michelle Kosinski and Fox News’ Kevin Corke continued to question Earnest on the optics of the meeting but Earnest refused to change his statement. Earnest also told reporters to ask Lynch themselves if they wanted more details of the meeting.
CNN reported that the former president and Lynch had a meeting on Lynch’s private plane after Clinton recognized her plane on the tarmac. Lynch has maintained that the meeting was nothing but social and that two discussed their grandkids and a recent round of golf that Clinton had played.
Clinton’s wife, Hillary Clinton, is under federal investigation for her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state.

 

[ScottL]

Gee what do you think the meeting was about?

Bill put in an urgent request for some dots to be disconnected (duh).

 

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[h=1]EXCLUSIVE: State Department Won’t Release Clinton Foundation Emails for 27 Months[/h][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[h=1]Carl Bernstein Calls for Loretta Lynch to Recuse Herself From Clinton Investigation[/h]SHARE
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BY: Jack Heretik
June 30, 2016 11:00 pm

Carl Bernstein, one of the two journalists who broke the Watergate story wide open, called for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to recuse herself Thursday from any role in the investigation and possible prosecution of Hillary Clinton.
Clinton is being investigated by the FBI over the use of her private email server to transmit classified information while she was secretary of state.
Recently, Bill Clinton met with Lynch aboard her airplane while they were both at the same airport. They met for thirty minutes and say that no mention of possible investigations occurred.
CNN host Jake Tapper asked Bernstein for his take on the Bill Clinton-Lynch meeting, and Bernstein strongly condemned Lynch’s actions.
“This plays right into Trump’s hand, but the terrible thing is the incredible lapse in judgment by both the Attorney General and Bill Clinton. It’s inexplicable, it’s wrong, it’s improper and she needs the Attorney General to now recuse herself from overseeing this investigation and turn it over to the Deputy Attorney General in charge of the criminal division,” Bernstein said. “It’s unthinkable that she can go on being in charge of this investigation.”
As Tapper turned to Democratic strategist Donna Brazile for her opinion, Tapper mentioned recent instances where an attorney general has either recused themselves or been called to due to political reasons.
“Wow! So a call from Carl Bernstein, Donna, for the Attorney General to recuse herself, and let me point out, in the past where there have been politically charged investigations,” Tapper said. “First of all, John Ashcroft recused himself from the investigation [into] who leaked Valerie Plame’s identity, the former CIA covert officer, and both Senators Obama and Clinton called for Gonzalez to recuse himself during the investigation into Jack Abramoff.”

 

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[h=1]Morning Joe Blasts Lynch for Private Meeting With Bill Clinton Amid Email Probe[/h]SHARE
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BY: David Rutz
June 30, 2016 7:07 am

MSNBC’s Morning Joe panel ripped Attorney General Loretta Lynch for privately meeting with Bill Clinton this week, despite his wife being under federal investigation for her private email server as secretary of state.
“You can’t make this up,” host Joe Scarborough said as the panel discussed the news.
Lynch claimed the discussion, which took place aboard her government plane between her and the former president on Monday, only concerned social matters like grandchildren.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski asked what Clinton could have possibly needed to know that required a private conversation on a plane.
“There is no way you let him come on your plane and talk privately,” Scarborough said. “There’s no way.”
“It’s her decision,” said panelist Mark Halperin. “I mean, she shouldn’t have let him on the plane. He shouldn’t have wanted to get on the plane. I understand they’re friends. They have a lot to talk about.”
“No. There’s nothing else to talk about but the one thing,” Brzezinski said.
The panel mocked the idea that Clinton also wanted to talk about “community policing,” rather than the specter of the investigation that’s loomed over his wife’s campaign since she launched last April.
Co-host Willie Geist said the talk shouldn’t have happened.
“Do you really think they were talking about community policing?” Brzezinski asked, laughing.
“No, I don’t,” Geist said.
Brzezinski dismissed the notion that Lynch should have been advised better, saying it should have been obvious to her.
“I bet you they didn’t talk about it,” Halperin said.
“Come on, stop! Everybody stop,” Brzezinski said. “OK. Well, this is why this is never going to be a problem for Hillary Clinton. People are too afraid to talk about the truth and the fact that this was wrong from the get-go.”
Lynch has insisted there is no conflict of interest in the Department of Justice’s investigation of Clinton, who President Obama has endorsed for president.

 

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Obama Administration Wants to Keep Clinton Foundation Emails Hidden Until Late 2018

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The Obama Administration is already infamous for slow-walking information requests, causing investigations to drag out for years, and then complaining loudly about how long the investigations are taking! But they’ve really outdone themselves this time.

The Justice Department has filed a motion in court, on behalf of the State Department, seeking to keep a vast trove of correspondence between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aides, and the notorious Clinton Foundation, hidden from voters’ eyes for 27 months… in other words, until October 2018, about halfway through President Hillary Clinton’s prospective first term.
The story laid out by the Daily Caller grows more outrageous with each paragraph. For starters, we learn that four senior Clinton aides — Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin — were sending a lot of correspondence to the Clinton Foundation. The original tally of six thousand emails turned out to be low — very, very low. The State Department said the total has swelled to 34,116 potentially responsive documents.
“During Clinton’s four years as America’s chief foreign diplomat, her aides communicated with officials at the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings where Bill Clinton was formerly both a client and paid consultant, on the average of 700 times each month, according to the Justice Department filing,” the Daily Caller reports. This from the same gang that couldn’t spare the time to work out decent security arrangements in Benghazi.
Teneo Holdings will be a familiar name to Clinton scandal-watchers: it’s the company Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin was working for, while simultaneously drawing a full State Department check from American taxpayers, in an utterly unprecedented work arrangement that has drawn Congressional scrutiny.
Teneo was founded by President Bill Clinton’s onetime personal aide, Doug Band. Abedin was working on the kind of double-dipping program that was supposed to bring irreplaceable top corporate and scientific talent into government service, without forcing them to give up successful private-sector careers, but she was merely a staffer for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Daily Caller notes that Cheryl Mills was double-dipping too, working for the Clinton Foundation and its Clinton Global Initiative while also serving as a State Department employee. “Conflict of interest” doesn’t do justice to the stench hanging over these arrangements.
The documents Justice and State are delaying were supposed to be handed over by July 21, in accordance with a judicial order, but DOJ lawyers told the judge on Wednesday night that the State Department found some “errors in the manner in which the searches had been conducted in order to capture documents potentially responsive to plaintiff’s request.”
One reason it’s been less than smooth sailing for these Freedom of Information Act Requests is that the State Department’s entire FOIA review staff consists of 71 part-time retired foreign service officers. The Administration adamantly refuses to beef up the staff. (Which is hardly surprising, given that perpetual complaints about inadequate resources allow these FOIA requests to be dragged out for years.)
The plaintiff in the FOIA case at hand is Citizens United, the group that rose to prominence in a Supreme Court case Hillary Clinton is still trying to overturn. “The State Department is using taxpayer dollars to protect their candidate, Hillary Clinton. The American people have a right to see these emails before the election,” said Citizens United president David Bossie.
Citizens United just won another victory in court, as a federal judge ordered the State Department to hand over Hillary Clinton’s schedules for 14 overseas trips she took as Secretary of State. Some of the documents Citizens United has already secured led them to suspect the Secretary met with Clinton Foundation donors while on these trips.
Of course, the Associated Press recently learned that Clinton’s schedules were, shall we say, creatively updated by her aides, scrubbing the historical record of potentially embarrassing meetings. One of the events from Clinton’s overseas journeys, a dinner in Dublin with Teneo executives, seems to have gotten a vigorous scrubbing and disappeared from her official calendar.
“Citizens United wants to know how many overseas dinners Sec. Clinton attended with Clinton Foundation donors that didn’t make it on her schedule,” said Bossie. He can probably expect to see those schedule records sometime around 2046. They might be stashed in a lost government warehouse, right next to the Ark of the Covenant.
It’s probably a total coincidence that Bill Clinton just caused a stir by holding a mysterious private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, creating “optics” that made even some liberals queasy.
Lynch insists all they talked about was “grandchildren, golf, and their respective travels.” We can take her word that they didn’t talk about DOJ lawyers helping to shield Clinton Foundation documents from the public for 27 months, or with the depositions Clinton aides are currently giving about Hillary Clinton’s email server in another FOIA suit, right?
Also on Thursday, the White House published a fact sheet called “New Steps Toward Ensuring Openness and Transparency in Government.” No, really, they did.



(from the above): One reason it’s been less than smooth sailing for these Freedom of Information Act Requests is that the State Department’s entire FOIA review staff consists of 71 part-time retired foreign service officers. The Administration adamantly refuses to beef up the staff. (Which is hardly surprising, given that perpetual complaints about inadequate resources allow these FOIA requests to be dragged out for years.)

 

[ScottL]

The strangest part of this whole thing is Lynch had not much of a public role until Obama sent her out to do all the Sunday morning talk shows. And here we are a week later......

 

[russ1945]

The strangest part of this whole thing is Lynch had not much of a public role until Obama sent her out to do all the Sunday morning talk shows. And here we are a week later......

But keep in mind Obama promised the most transparent administation ever. Right.
Unless your definition of transparent is one's ability to see right through what is presented to them.
It is apparent why she was chosen to head the DOJ - that has become transparent.

 

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Hillary Clinton Throws Staffer Under The Bus Over Private Email Server

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[roadreeler57]

The real Hillary.... Her actual words:
1) "Where is the God damn flag? I want the God damn fucking flag up every morning at fucking sunrise". Hillary to staff at the Arkansas Governor's mansion on Labor Day 1991. From the book "Inside the White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 244
(2) "Fuck off! It's enough I have to see you shit-kickers every day! I'm not going to talk to you, too! Just do your Goddamn job and keep your mouth shut." Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with "Good Morning." From the book "America Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p.90
(3) "If you want to remain on this detail, get your fucking ass over here and grab those bags!" Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident. From the book "The First Partner" p. 25
(4) "Stay the fuck back, stay the fuck back away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else! Just fucking do as I say, Okay!!?" Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail. From the book "Unlimited Access" by Clinton 's FBI Agent-in-Charge, Gary Aldridge, p.139
(5) "Where's the miserable cock sucker?" (otherwise known as "Bill Clinton") Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer. From the book "The Truth about Hillary" by Edward Klein, p. 5
(6) "You fucking idiot" Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event. From the book "Crossfire" ~pg. 84
(7) "Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those fucking sunglasses! We need to go back!†Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while in route to Air Force One. From the book " Dereliction of Duty" p. 71-72
(8) "Come on Bill, put your dick up! You can't fuck her here!!" Hillary to Gov. Bill Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female. From the book "Inside the White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 243
There it is ........book, chapter and page.......the real Hillary Rotten Clinton!
Additionally, when she walked around the White House, NO ONE was permitted to look her in the eye, they all had to lower their heads with their eyes towards the ground whenever she walked by. Clearly she is a class act!
This ill-tempered, violent, loud-mouth, hateful and abusive woman wants to be your next President, and have total control as Commander-in-Chief of our Military, the very Military for which she has shown incredible disdain throughout her public life .
Remember her most vile comment about Benghazi: "What difference at this point does it make?"
Now it will be clear why the crew of "Marine One" helicopter nick-named the craft, "Broomstick ONE " - courtesy of Christina Plantz

 

[bilbal]

She is so void of personality that her speechwriters actually have to put in her teleprompter how she is to emote and the dingbat actually reads it.

http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/teleprompter-gaffe-flub-oops-blunder-hillary-clinton-sigh

 

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Indicted or not indicted, Clinton could lose politically


Republicans call on attorney general to appoint special prosecutor in Clinton email case
Loretta Lynch says she will accept the recommendation of career investigators, prosecutors
FBI inquiry continues as Clinton prepares to accept Democratic nomination for president

FILE - In this June 22, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a rally in Raleigh, N.C. In her quest for the White House, Clinton is using every fundraising technique at her disposal, including intimate salon-style gatherings with elite donors. Chuck Burton AP

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WASHINGTON No matter how the FBI investigation into the handling of sensitive information on Hillary Clinton’s personal computer server ends, it likely will hurt her presidential bid.
If she is indicted, she will face further questions about her honesty and perhaps even calls for her to step aside. If she isn’t indicted, as many legal experts predict, critics will accuse the Obama administration of letting her escape charges merely because they want her to win the White House.
The threat of political pain even with no indictment was underscored as dozens of Republicans lawmakers pressed Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint a special prosecutor far removed from the White House to determine if any laws have been broken.

I'VE ASKED ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNCH TO APPOINT A SPECIAL COUNSEL TO PROVIDE SOME MODEST LEVEL OF INDEPENDENCE SO THE PUBLIC CAN KNOW THAT WE'VE GOTTEN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS. IT'S ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL THAT WE DO SOSen. John Cornyn of Texas, the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate
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But Lynch has resisted those demands even after Barack Obama said Clinton did notendanger national security, after the president and vice president endorsed her, and afterLynch met privately with Clinton’s husband this week.
Under pressure, Lynch did announce Friday that she expects to accept the recommendation of investigators and prosecutors at the FBI and the Justice Department as well as FBI Director James Comey, a Republican, in the case. “I fully expect to accept their recommendations,” she said.
She said that she still plans on reviewing the case, which was launched by the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division after classified information was found in some of Clinton’s emails last year, and will not recuse herself.
Don Smaltz, a lawyer appointed as an independent counsel to investigate former President Bill Clinton’s secretary of agriculture, Mike Espy, in the 1990s, said Lynch should have appointed a special prosecutor last year.
“I think she would have a more thorough investigation,” he said. “The public could have more confidence in whatever the outcome is.”
(Get the political buzz of the day, every day from McClatchy)
The year-long investigation is expected to conclude in the coming weeks, though it could take longer, leaving open the probability it will cast a shadow over Clinton as she accepts the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in Philadelphia this month and launches hergeneral election campaign against Republican Donald Trump.

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The FBI and Department of Justice do not generally comment on cases if charges aren’t filed, but legal experts expect them to announce their conclusion because of the publicity surrounding the case.
At least 2,079 emails that Clinton sent or received contained classified material, according to a State Department review of emails Clinton turned over after she left the department. Most were at the confidential level, which is the lowest level of classification, but a handful were at the top secret level.
None of Clinton’s emails was marked as classified during her tenure, State Department officials say, but intelligence officials say some material was clearly classified at the time. Clinton initially said she did not send or receive any classified information – a denial she later adjusted, saying that none was marked as classified at the time.
In October, 44 Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Lynch demanding she name a special prosecutor. “A Special Counsel must be appointed to preserve the integrity of this investigation and any subsequent prosecution and ensure that there is no bias or undue influence from the White House,” the lawmakers wrote.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest has repeatedly said Obama has not and will not be involved in any decision relating to the case – a practice legal experts say is usually followed.
“He believes that this matter should be handled without regard to politics,” Earnest said Friday. “And he believes this investigation should be conducted based on facts, not based on the political affiliation or the political standing of anybody who may be involved in it.”
After Watergate, Congress passed a law allowing for the appointment of an independent counsel to create a check on the president and top appointees. But lawmakers let the statute expire after independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment and trial.
INDEPENDENT COUNSELS HAVE EXAMINED MORE THAN A DOZEN CASES INCLUDING THOSE OF JIMMY CARTER’S CHIEF OF STAFF, HAMILTON JORDAN, THE IRAN-CONTRA SCANDAL DURING RONALD REAGAN’S TERM, AND BILL CLINTON’S HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY, HENRY CISNEROS. THE MOST FAMOUS, KENNETH STARR, BEGAN LOOKING THE WHITEWATER LAND DEAL AND EXPANDED THE INVESTIGATION TO INCLUDE BILL CLINTON’S AFFAIR WITH MONICA LEWINSKY THAT LED TO THE PRESIDENT’S IMPEACHMENT AND TRIAL.

The law required the attorney general to appoint an independent counsel – chosen by a panel of judges – when there was substantial evidence of a crime by any of 49 federal officials. Without the law, Lynch is allowed but not required to appoint a special prosecutor.
Peter Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor who handled cases against public officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, said attorneys general investigate and prosecute government officials all the time. “There is no requirement for attorneys general to recuse themselves,” he said.
Legal experts say independent counsels or special prosecutors have, at times, abused their own power or made their cases political.
Katy Harriger, a professor at Wake Forest University who has studied special prosecutors, said administrations can face criticism no matter which route they take. “It’s kind of damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” she said.

IF REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO MAKE IT AN ISSUE, THEY ARE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT AN ISSUE. FACTS DON’T STAND IN THEIR WAYScott Falmlen, a Democratic consultant in North Carolina
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A report by the State Department inspector general determined that her email arrangement violated State Department rules, that she did not seek permission for the setup and that her was shut down at least once because of fears it had been hacked.
Clinton failed to hand over all her work emails, despite being asked to do so repeatedly. She said she is unable to access emails she sent or received in her first two months as secretary of state because her emails were not yet being captured on her server. And in recent weeks,several new batches of emails have come to light that she did not turn over.
Legal experts say investigators could be looking into potential violations of Section 1924 of Title 18, which deals with the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material, or even the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime for anyone "through gross negligence," to allow the loss, theft or removal of classified information or fails to promptly report such mishandling to his superior.
Abbe Lowell, a defense attorney who has represented a slew of public officials, including governors and members of Congress, said cases like this are conducted by line agents and prosecutors who he said are as “independent and zealous as they can be.”
“This is a big case for them,” he said. “If a political appointee quashed it, there would be hell to pay.”

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article87312972.html#storylink=cpy



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[Dave007inVegas]

Indicted or not indicted, Clinton could lose politically

Either way there will be a shit storm unlike anything this country has seen since 9/11.

 

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[ScottL]

She's not going to be charged with anything.

 

[roadreeler57]

Will Putin Release Hillary’s Emails? - USA Phase
U.S. intelligence agencies are said to be closely watching Russian online blogs and other postings for any signs that Moscow hackers have covertly obtained the bulk of Hillary Clinton’s email messages stolen from her private email…
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