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QOTD: "At this point Mr. Secretary [John Kerry] there is only one thing you can do to avoid making this trip [to Cuba, the first such trip in 70 years] the disaster that it already is. You could, if you truly believe in the principles of what our founding fathers said in Philadelphia more than 200 years ago, demand to see the Cuban dissidents [imprisoned and tortured by the Castro regime].
Go shake hands with them and say that freedom-loving Americans believe in their cause. Give them hope for a better tomorrow. Show them that the United States truly is looking for a day when Cuba will be a democracy again." --Guillermo Martinez
It all started in August 2014 when O’Keefe donned green fatigues and an Osama bin Laden costume and sneaked across the U.S. border to Mexico and then back into Texas, a stunt cited by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during congressional hearings. His point, O’Keefe said in an interview Wednesday, was to “show that our elected officials were lying to the American people” by saying the border is secure.
But he may have messed with the wrong bureaucrats, since the powerful DHS — the third-largest Cabinet department — controls border security. Ever since, O’Keefe says, he has been stopped and questioned at length by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers each of the five times he has tried to reenter the United States. The questions, he says have been overly intrusive, covering everything from his business operations and what his next investigative project will be to his political views.
“It is our contention that this is retaliation for our journalism along the Mexican border,” O’Keefe said. “It’s troubling that they are doing this to a citizen reporter. … These questions have nothing to do with national security or border issues or smuggling narcotics into the country. They are questions that they would never ask a Washington Post reporter, that they would never ask NBC News"...
...Judge Emmet Sullivan today ordered the State Department to file by noon, Friday information about what it is doing to search Hillary Clinton’s email server now in the custody of the Justice Department and FBI. The court also reiterated its directive that the State Department disclose additional information about where government records may reside. The order is the result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The lawsuit was reopened because of revelations about Hillary Clinton’s email records...I hope you're sitting down to hear this bit of breaking news: Hillary Clinton hasn't been fully forthcoming in answering questions about her secret email server and the reasons for its mysterious degaussed hard drive....Late last night, the State Department filed correspondence in response to another order by Judge Sullivan requiring the State Department to report on his directive to take steps to ensure that Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Abedin, and Clinton aide Cheryl Mills did not destroy government records. The filing included a letter from Hillary Clinton’s lawyer David Kendall that read in part:
[W]e have voluntarily provided to the Department of Justice on August 6, 2015, the .pst file containing electronic copies of the 55,000 pages of emails on a thumb drive (along with two copies), which had been securely stored in my possession, after receiving from the Department of Justice an assurance that it would maintain this file in an appropriately secure manner and the Department’s opinion that such maintenance would satisfy any preservation obligations I am under. Similarly, Platte River Networks is today providing to the Department of Justice the server and related equipment on which emails to and from Secretary Clinton’s clintonemail.com were stored from 2009 to 2013 and which PRN took possession of in 2013. This is following the Department of Justice’s assurances to us and counsel for PRN that it would maintain the server equipment in an appropriately secure manner. The Department also gave counsel its opinion that such maintenance would satisfy any preservation obligations we have.
“This latest order shows the courts are expecting quick action on Mrs. Clinton’s email system and that the Justice Department won’t be able to bury her emails,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And her lawyer’s letter in response to the court’s orders shows Mrs. Clinton continues to withhold material information from the court. It also looks as if Mrs. Clinton is still withholding emails from the FBI and Justice Department.”
QOTD: "The lady out in front of the Department of Justice wears a blindfold and holds a set of scales and she does so that she treats everybody the same whether it's me or you, whether it's General Petreaus, whether it's a cabinet level official. I was not part of the prosecution team or the defense team for David Petreaus, I don't know all of the facts. I know this, the same rule ought to apply people irrespective of their station in life.
So, I'm going to have to count on the Bureau [FBI] and [Director] Jim Comey has a reputation for even handedness and fairness. The same folks who investigated and prosecuted General Petreaus are looking into the current allegations [regarding Hillary Clinton] with respect to classified information and if the facts are the same then I expect the result to be the same." --Rep. Trey Gowdy
MES: Let’s talk about a subject that seems that it’s very difficult to go away. And that’s the e-mail scandal. Even though you swore under penalty of perjury that you have turned over all e-mails that are related to any kind of, you know, federal record. Judicial Watch is still claiming that it’s not enough. Do you think that at the least that this has created the perception that you’re hiding something?
QOTD: "Hillary Clinton has directed her aides to hand over to the Justice Department a private e-mail server that she used during her tenure as secretary of state, her presidential campaign said Tuesday... [she] has also asked that the department be given a thumb drive that contains copies of her e-mails...
...Clinton's promise to to hand over the server and thumb drive came after the Intelligence Community Inspector General [said they] had identified materials in two out of four suspect e-mails that had gone through her private server that "include information classified up to ‘TOP SECRET//SI/TK//NOFORN.'"--Jennifer Epstein
Chinese cyberspies have been reading the private emails of Obama-administration officials and "top national security and trade officials" since 2010, according to a senior administration official and a top-secret NSA document obtained by NBC.
The email espionage — codenamed "Dancing Panda" by the US before being dubbed "Legion Amethyst" — was detected in April 2010... "The intrusion into personal emails was still active at the time of the briefing and, according to the senior official, is still going on," NBC reported... "Dancing Panda" has successfully attacked at least 600 targets over the last five years, according to NBC.
The period overlaps with Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for work-related correspondences while she served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013...
QOTD: "Obama is using every anti-Jewish ‘dog whistle’ he can think of to slam American Jewish critics of the Iran nuke deal: ‘Dual loyalties,’ ‘moneyed interests,’ ‘Jewish lobby,’ ‘billionaires,’ hoping Congress evaluates the deal fairly “not based on lobbying, but based on what’s in the national interests of the United States of America.”
Our Divider-in-Chief, who has done so much to harm race relations in the U.S., is now dividing Americans based on religion." --Shifra