Wednesday, August 19, 2015

A SIMPLE PLAN: How Obama and Hillary made the Arab world safe for radical Islam

By Lawrence Sellin

Far from being "spontaneous" and "indigenous," the uprisings known as the "Arab Spring" that swept North Africa and the Middle East were long planned and planned from abroad with the Muslim Brotherhood's role hidden in plain sight.

The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 as a Sunni Islamist religious, political and social movement.  According to Lawrence Wright in his book "The Looming Tower," its founder Hassan al-Banna "rejected the Western model of secular, democratic government, which contradicted his notion of universal Islamic rule." The fundamental goal of the Muslim Brotherhood remains Islam's global domination, an effort that quickly turned violent and eventually spread to over eighty other nations. For example, one Muslim Brotherhood splinter group was responsible for the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for his peace treaty with Israel and another offshoot is the terrorist organization Hamas.

Barack Obama clearly supports the Muslim Brotherhood as a so-called "moderate" alternative to more violent Islamist groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State, and a vehicle for political reform in the Middle East and North Africa, as outlined in the secret 2011 directive called Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11.

SEN. MENENDEZ (D-NJ): Obama’s Iran Deal is a complete and utter failure -- and I will vote to override a veto

By Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

For twenty three years as a member of the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, I have had the privilege of dealing with major foreign policy and national security issues.  Many of those have been of a momentous nature. This is one of those moments.

I come to the issue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with Iran, as someone who has followed Iran's nuclear ambition for the better part of two decades.  I decide on whether to support or oppose an issue on the basis of whether, it is in my judgment, in the national interest and security of our country to do so.

In this case a secondary, but important, question is what it means for our great ally -- the State of Israel -- and our other partners in the Gulf.

Unlike President Obama's characterization of those who have raised serious questions about the agreement, or who have opposed it, I did not vote for the war in Iraq, I opposed it, unlike the Vice President and the Secretary of State, who both supported it.  My vote against the Iraq war was unpopular at the time, but it was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

I also don't come to this question as someone, unlike many of my Republican colleagues, who reflexively oppose everything the President proposes.  In fact, I have supported President Obama, according to Congressional Quarterly, 98 percent of the time in 2013 and 2014.  My dear, late mother would have been happy if I had agreed with her 98 percent of the time -- and I revered her.

On key policies ranging from voting in the Finance Committee and on the Senate Floor for the Affordable Care Act, to Wall Street Reform, to supporting the President's Supreme Court Nominees and defending the Administration’s actions on the Benghazi tragedy, his Pivot to Asia, shepherding the authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) to stop President Assad's use of chemical weapons, during the time I was Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to so much more, I have been a reliable supporter of President Obama.

But my support is not – and has not been driven by party loyalty, but rather by principled agreement, not political expediency.  When I have disagreed it is also based on principled disagreement.

The issue before the Congress in September is whether to vote to approve or disapprove the agreement struck by the President and our P5+1 partners with Iran.  This is one of the most serious national security, nuclear nonproliferation, arms control issues of our time.  It is not an issue of supporting or opposing the President.  This issue is much greater and graver than that.

And when you thought the Iran deal couldn’t get any worse, we discover Barack Obama is secretly sabotaging sanctions

It appears President Obama is actively sabotaging any attempt at international sanctions against Iran even if the terror state violates the terms of the nuclear deal.   Because Crusades, I suppose.

...U.S. lawmakers have been shown copies of several letters sent by the Obama administration to the Chinese, German, French, and British governments assuring them that companies doing business with Iran will not come under penalty... The Obama administration is purportedly promising the foreign governments that if Iran violates the parameters of a recently inked nuclear accord, European companies will not be penalized, according to the secret letters.

Another of the secret side deals allows Iran to use its own "experts and equipment" to provide inspectors with samples from suspected nuke sites.

In a departure from the usual procedure, Iran will be allowed to use its own “experts and equipment” to provide international inspectors with environmental samples from the military base and suspected nuclear site Parchin, the [AP] reported today, citing a classified draft of a side agreement between Iran and the [IAEA] that its reporters had seen.

Obama and Kerry may get their legacy, alright, and if they do it will be written in the ashes of the thousands (or millions) of innocents who perished in pursuit of narcissism.


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Larwyn's Linx: Menendez lays down marker for Democrats: Will your name be on Iran’s nuclear bomb?

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Nation

Menendez lays down marker for Dems: Will your name be on Iran’s nuclear bomb?: LI
House Intelligence Committee Democrats Play Political Games on Iran Deal: Fred Fleitz
Stumbling Upon a Worthy Cause: Steve Sailer

Hillary Clinton’s dumpster fire press conference: RS
Granny Clinton Shuts Down Presser After Tough Questions About Email Server: Sooper
Hillary Clinton's tense backstage confrontation with Black Lives Matter activists: DailyMail

Crushing the GOPe Road Map: Message to Trump & Cruz Supporters: Treehouse
The GOP Consulting Class Is Becoming Seriously Unhinged: Treehouse
Bush donors getting uneasy: RS

The Somali Mafia: Grooming and Pimping in Minnesota: GoV
Illegal Alien Child Abuser Skips Town: iOTWreport
Illegal alien ‘afraid of being deported’ kills six in car wreck in Texas: FAM

Economy

Unchecked Medicare Fraud is Government Run Amok: Matt Schuck
Interesting Petition Drive About Getting The Able-Bodied Off Of Food Stamps: Kevin Boyd
Teachers overwhelmingly oppose Obama’s race-based school discipline policies: Victor Skinner

Scandal Central

Hillary’s email problem gets worse: RS
State Dept. Finds 17855 Missing Hillary Clinton Adviser Emails: John Sexton
Latest Hillary server sighting: Bathroom in a Colorado loft apartment; Updated: Michelle Malkin

Many State Dept Emails Used To Register On ‘Adulterer’ Site Ashley Madison: WZ
Clinton Refuses to Say Whether She Wiped the Server: Daniel Halper
Clinton Emails and The Privatization of Mexico's State Owned Oil and Gas Company: TheRealNews

Climate & Energy

Obama’s Toxic Environmental Pollution Agency Unleashes a $30 Billion Disaster: Michelle Malkin
This Was The Moment That The Rise Of The Oceans Began To Slow: SDA
State Still Releasing Water to Save a Few Fish: Steven Greenhut

Media

Hillary Clinton, Liar: “We turned over everything that was work related. Every single thing.”: Patterico
Leftists Circulate Picture of Little Girl Carrying Governor Scott Walker’s Severed Head: ProgsToday
Police search for teens who attacked, terrorized young family: WSB 95.5

Breaking the Rules: John Stossel
Academic Fascism II: Walter Williams
Straight Outta Solutions: Ben Shapiro

World

Iran Government publishes threat to Israel video via official channels.: Vlad Tepes
What Does President Park Know?: Ethan Epstein
Islamic State jihadis 'behead top archaeologist in Palmyra': Telegraph

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

First rainfall since Tianjin explosion leaves city covered in mysterious white foam: Shanghaist
The world’s smallest drone gets ready to take flight: Zach Epstein
Increasingly bad science is still considered sacrosanct: Jim Jamitis

Cornucopia

Where are OUR Woodwards and Bernsteins?: MOTUS
Former Marine, 66, survives bloody hand-to-claw combat with black bear: Lindsey Bever
Six Alinsky Rules That Explain Obama’s Words and Deeds: Jack Kerwick (2013)

Image: Leftists Circulate Picture of Little Girl Carrying Governor Scott Walker’s Severed Head
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QOTD: "... if I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of  this would have been in the public arena. But I want people to know what  we did, I’m proud of the four years I was Secretary of State. So I know  this is all just going to work itself out as we go forward" --Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

STATE OF THE ART SECURITY: Hillary’s Email Server Kept in the Bathroom Closet of an Apartment

It turns out that the top diplomatic secrets of the Obama administration and the Hillary State Department were maintained on a home-brew server stashed in the bathroom of an apartment complex. Which seems perfectly consistent with the quality of governance:


This is the apartment complex where Platte River Networks was based until this year. It used a residential apartment as its base.
The IT company Hillary Clinton chose to maintain her private email account was run from a loft apartment and its servers were housed in the bathroom closet... ex-employees of Platte River Networks in Denver, Colorado ... revealed the outfit's strong links to the Democratic Party but expressed shock that the 2016 presidential candidate chose the small private company for such a sensitive job.

One, Tera Dadiotis, called it 'a mom and pop shop' which was an excellent place to work, but hardly seemed likely to be used to secure state secrets. And Tom Welch, who helped found the company, confirmed the servers were in a bathroom closet.

It can also be disclosed that the small number of employees who were aware of the Clinton contract were told to keep it secret.

The way in which Clinton came to contract a company described as a 'mom and pop' operation remains unclear, [though there is likely] a series of connections between the firm and the Democratic Party...

...Platte River Networks worked for Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper - once heavily tipped to be Clinton's 2016 running mate - during his election to be mayor of the city in 2003... The company's controversial vice president of sales David DeCamillis is also said to be a 'big Democrat' supporter who offered his house to Joe Biden for the party's convention held in Denver in 2008.

It will be the small scale of the firm and its own home-made arrangements which will raise the most significant questions over security and over what checks Clinton's aides made about how suitable it was for dealing with what new transpires to be classified material.

Given the level of IT professionalism, little wonder the FBI believes it may be able to recover the data on Hillary's "wiped" server.

Federal Judge Accelerates Hearing on Hillary Email Case to... This Week

By Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the recent court order granting Judicial Watch’s request for a hearing this week, on Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 12:00 p.m., which had previously been scheduled for September:

The Obama administration’s obstruction of the courts and our Freedom of Information Act litigation must end. The court and the American people are weary of their legal gamesmanship. We are fighting for the public’s right to know what Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin and others were sending and receiving during their four years running the State Department.

Judicial Watch responded yesterday to the latest State Department filing from August 14:

Taking [the State Department’s] sworn statement on its face, it appears as though the declarant made no effort whatsoever to find out what electronic devices the former head of the agency and two of her closest advisors used to conduct official government business for four years and where these electronic devices may be located or if they are still in existence.

Hitler and Islam

By Baron Bodissey

The following article concerns the rich historical and contemporary connections between the Third Reich and the Islamic world. It was written by a Dutch investigative journalist, writer and blogger named Joost Niemöller, whose work has appeared here occasionally in the past. Many thanks to our Flemish correspondent GB for the translation.

It is well known that Mein Kampf is still very popular in the Muslim world: for example, in Egypt[1] and some Arab countries. But also in Turkey[2]. In Iran[3]. Or Pakistan[4]. Germans in the Islamic world are being addressed enthusiastically, because they hail from “The Land of Hitler”. Not so long ago I heard this again from a German friend who travels to the Middle East regularly. In the Islamic world a direct link[5] is being drawn between Hitler’s warfare and the Jihad. At the same time it’s very fashionable among Muslims to deny the Holocaust, which in the eyes of an anti-Semitic would rather damage Hitler’s status as a hero; why then still read his book? But then the denial of the Holocaust[6] is again necessary to refuse the justification for the State of Israel.

When it comes to feeding hate, logic is irrelevant.

Mein Kampf‘s popularity in the Muslim world is only one signal. Many links exist between Nazism and present day Islamism. One of the abundant examples is the fact that the fake document “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”[7], promoted by the Nazi ideologist Rosenberg, which would be the ultimate proof of a Jewish complot to overthrow the Christian world, became popular again among the PLO via the Islamic world.

Larwyn’s Linx: Classified Clinton emails grow to 305

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Nation

Classified Clinton emails grow to 305: Sarah Westwood
What Did This Marine Do That Hillary Clinton Didn’t?: Patterico
Slim Fast has donated $6 million to Hillary Clinton: FAM

ABC: 'Highly Likely' FBI Will Find BackUp of Hillary's Deleted Emails: Guy Benson
State Dept. uncovers 17,000 missing emails from Hillary spokesman: Sarah Westwood
State Dept. ‘Unaware’ if Clinton's, Aides’ Devices Were Secure: Daniel Bassali

Obama: The L. Ron Hubbard of Modern Liberalism: The Z Man
The 1980s Called: They Want Their American Military Back: David French
The summer of our discontent: Cal Thomas

Has the Unrepresented Majority Finally Reached Its Boiling Point?: David Limbaugh
Trump Panics the Inside-the-Beltway Establishment with His Immigration Plan: EIB
Lindsey "Fredo" Graham: Sad Little Man: AWD

Economy

Minimum Wage Spurs Restaurants to Automate?: AmInt
Qualcomm laysing off after applying for thousands of foreign workers: Mike Freeman
Donald Trump calls out Mark Zuckerberg on immigration: CNN

Scandal Central

Obama’s Betrayals: Illegality and Malfeasance in OfficeJoseph Klein: FPM
Clinton Aides Conducted Official Government Business on Personal Email: John Hayward
Oh my: State Dept suddenly finds thousands of Hillary aide’s e-mails they denied existed in 2013: Ed Morrissey

Climate & Energy

Lies Progressives Tell Us: Climate Change: Bruce Thornton
Wind Power? Forget It!: Paul Homewood
ToDaZeD CA *facepalm*: Sondrakistan

Media

BuzzFeed’s Liberal Founder Doesn’t Want Employees To Unionize…SHOCKER: Chicks on the Right
Telling The Truth About Trump Is Not Why We Lose: Jay Caruso
George Will’s wife works for Scott Walker campaign: FAM

Donald Trump on ‘Meet the Press,’ annotated: WaPo
Do You See a Difference Between Watergate & HillaryEmailGate?: MagNote
Auto Burglaries Skyrocket 47-Percent In San Francisco After Penalties Reduced: KCBS

Mark Levin: American Kids are Dreamers, Too: Michelle Moons
How Do You Know What’s Right and Wrong? Left-Right Differences, Part VII: Dennis Prager
Trump, Carson, Cruz Get Good News In Latest Poll: KTRH

World

With new plan, Trump blows up 2016 immigration debate: Byron York
Immigration Is About More Than Trump–It’s About The Survival Of The West: VDARE
CBP: 135 Unaccompanied Children Caught At U.S. Border Per Day in July: Brittany M. Hughes

Delusions Of Grandeur: John Kerry Is Mentally Deranged: Camp o' the Saints
Iranian Official Says IAEA Chief “Would Have Been Harmed” Had He Disclosed Side Agreements: The Tower
Sen. Ted Cruz Speaks On Iran Nuclear Deal: Justin Dougherty, News9

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Judge: 3D Gun Files Will Start a War, and Justify Dropping Bill of Rights: WeaponsMan
Study finds that coffee could prevent colon cancer from returning: The Week
IRS Admits Breach May Have Compromised Over 300,000 Taxpayer Accounts: Morgan Chalfant

Cornucopia

I love the smell of desperation in the morning: Cold Fury
Doomsday clock for global market crash nears midnight as central banks lose control: John Ficenec
Vrooooooooom: Sondrakistan

Image: Bangkok Shrine Bombing: Suspect on Security Video Hunted by Thai Cops
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QOTD: "State Department officials have uncovered 17,855 emails sent between a former Hillary Clinton spokesman and reporters that the agency long claimed did not exist.

The trove was among more than 80,000 emails belonging to Philippe Reines, a Clinton aide, that were discovered on his State Department account, officials said in court filings Aug. 13.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Gawker Media in 2013, the State Department said it had no responsive records. Gawker was seeking official correspondence between Reines and reporters from 33 news outlets.

But State officials responded Thursday with the news that they had inexplicably found 81,159 emails on Reines' ".gov" email account despite asserting two years ago that none existed. Twenty-two percent, or 17,855, of the emails were likely related to Gawker's request." --Sarah Westwood

Monday, August 17, 2015

Propagandem Fail o’ the Day

Speaking of conflicts of interest:


Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Turkey, the invasion of Ukraine, and a nuclear Iran. Yes, Hill has a done a bang-up job.


Priceless.

Hat tip: Willie.
 

GEORGE WILL EXPOSED AS A COMPLETE HACK: Repeatedly Rips Donald Trump While His Wife Works for Scott Walker

Well, this is rather corrupt and evil:

• Will calls Trump a "One-Man Todd Akin"
• Will demands the GOP purge Trump and his Trumpite supporters
• Will asks: "Do we really want to give nuclear weapons to Donald Trump?
• Will: If Trump were a Democrat mole, "how would his behavior be different?"

Well, it's fine to have an opinion, but shouldn't Will's bizarre comments be accompanied by a full disclosure?


That is, his "wife, Mari Will, works for Scott Walker."


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

THE COMING COLLAPSE: Fed Lunacy is to Blame

By Jim Quinn

This week John Hussman’s pondering about the state of our markets is as clear and concise as it’s ever been. He starts off by describing the difference between an economy operating at a low level versus a high level. He’s essentially describing a 2% GDP economy versus a 4% GDP economy. We have been stuck in a low level economy since 2008. And there is one primary culprit for the suffering of millions – The Federal Reserve and their Wall Street Bank owners. They are the reason incomes are stagnant, the labor participation rate is at 40 year lows, savers can only earn .25% on their savings, and consumers have been forced further into debt to make ends meet. Meanwhile, corporate America and the Wall Street banks are siphoning off record profits, paying obscene pay packages to their executives, buying off the politicians in Washington to pass legislation (TPP) designed to enrich them further, and arrogantly telling the peasants to work harder.

In economics, we often describe “equilibrium” as a condition where demand is equal to supply. Textbooks usually depict this as a single point where a demand curve and a supply curve intersect, and all is right with the world.

In reality, we know that economies often face a whole range of possible equilibria. One can imagine “low level” equilibria where producers are idle, jobs are scarce, incomes stagnate, consumers struggle or go into debt to make ends meet, and the economy sits in a state of depression – which is often the case in developing countries. One can also imagine “high level” equilibria where producers generate desirable goods and services, jobs are plentiful, and household income is sufficient to demand all of that output.

The problem is that troubled economies don’t just naturally slide up to “high level” equilibria. Low level equilibria are typically supported and reinforced by a whole set of distortions, constraints, and even incentives for the low level equilibrium to persist. In developing countries, these often take the form of legal restrictions, price controls, weak property rights, political and civil instability, savings disincentives, lending restrictions, and a full catastrophe of other barriers to economic improvement. Good economic policy involves the art of relaxing constraints where they are binding, and imposing constraints where their absence allows the activities of some to injure or violate the rights of others.

In the United States, observers seem to scratch their heads as to why the economy has shifted down to such a low level of labor force participation. Even after years of recovery and trillions of dollars directed toward persistent monetary intervention, the economy seems locked in a low level equilibrium. Yet at the same time, corporate profits and margins have pushed to record highs, contributing to gaping income disparities.

Dr. Hussman presents his case against the Federal Reserve as clearly as anything I’ve ever read. Bailing out criminally negligent Wall Street banks with taxpayer money, allowing fraudulent accounting to cover up insolvency, printing $3 trillion out of thin air and handing it to the Wall Street banks, penalizing savings while encouraging consumers and corporations to go further into debt, and gearing all of your efforts towards creating stock, bond, and real estate bubbles, is the height of lunacy – unless you are a captured entity working on behalf of a corrupt status quo.

Larwyn's Linx: The real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets?

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Nation

The real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets?: RS
Number of Hillary Clinton’s emails containing classified info at 60 and counting: Times
Gowdy: Hillary's email server shows high 'level of concealment': Barbara Boland

The Red Pill Revolution: The Z Man
Ted Cruz’s Time: Erick Erickson
A review of the inconsistencies of the major GOP candidates: Newsmachete

A back up Server or database would be very bad news for Hillary: William A. Jacobson
Wanna See How Afraid Hillary Is Of The Email Scandal?: DCwhispers
Hillary Jokes As About 60% Say She Knowingly Lied About Her Emails: Dan Spencer

Another Obama Dreamer Murders Three in Florida: FAM
The Ghetto Jew and Israel: Sultan Knish
American Jewry’s fateful hour: Caroline Glick

Economy

Department Store Results Imploding: Jim Quinn
Fed Lunacy is to Blame for the Coming Crash: Jim Quinn
Trump's Immigration Reform Plan Designed To Get Citizens Back To Work: Breitbart

Scandal Central

Could the Jig Finally Be Up for Huma Abedin? : Robert Spencer
Hillary's State Department Routinely Hid Emails on Purpose: Patrick Howley
Clinton, Obama meet face to face on Martha's Vineyard amid email controversy, Biden chatter: Fox

Climate & Energy

The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time -- Part VI: Francis Menton

Media

America's Culture War Starts Claiming Victims: Bill Wilson
Trump Posts Immigration Plan, Establishment Mouthpieces Go A Little Crazy: James Fulford, VDARE
Trump on Clinton: Anthony Weiner one step away from our national security secrets: Karin McQuillan

New Fox News National Poll – Trump, Carson and Cruz Top Three: Treehouse
John Kasich: liberal flavor of the day: RS
I'm Number #206 But I Try Harder: Lid

World

Hey, Let’s Not Give Terrorists $150 Billion.: WeaponsMan
Obama Willfully Supporting Al-Qaeda And The Muslim Brotherhood : Jamie Glazov
Islamic State takes Libyan port city: Robert Spencer

Socialism: The Most Corrupt Path To Great Wealth: John Hinderaker
Quebec bill targets “people who write against the Islamic religion”: Robert Spencer
Hillary Clinton’s Emails: ‘Top Secret’ Problem: IHS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Miraculous You: R.S. McCain
The Dad of the Year Built His Daughter a Custom Speeder Bike Rocking Horse: Andrew Liszewski
Jeff Bezos responds to brutal NYT story, says it doesn’t represent the Amazon he leads: John Cook

Cornucopia

Our Next First Lady or Laddy: Choose Wisely Weedhopper: MOTUS
I’m Never Doing This Again: Derek Hunter
25 maps that will change the way you see the world: Mark J. Perry

Image: China Shutters 50 Websites for ‘Inciting Panic’ Over the Tianjin Disaster
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QOTD: "Beijing’s internet regulators have suspended or shut down 50 Chinese websites in the wake of last week’s explosions at a chemical warehouse in the city of Tianjin — the world’s 10th largest port — claiming they incited panic by spreading unconfirmed information about the blasts...

...Meanwhile, by midday Monday local time, the official fatality count in Tianjin was 114, with hundreds injured and at least 70 people still unaccounted for in the rubble of the blast site, CNN reported. The destruction has left thousands homeless and frustration is mounting in the city, where displaced residents and relatives of the missing await answers to questions about the cause and consequences of the explosion." --Nash Jenkins

Sunday, August 16, 2015

THE REAL EMAIL QUESTION: Did Hillary Clinton Sell U.S. Secrets?

Over at RedState, author "streiff" makes a stunning -- and quite rational -- assertion:

While the media is focusing your attention on the shiny object that is her email server, the real story is not being told. The circumstantial evidence indicates that Hillary Clinton, or members of her inner circle with her connivance, purloined highly classified US intelligence and either sold it, traded it, or used it for personal gain. This is not a conspiracy theory and it is not hyperbole. Stick with me for a moment.

Let's summarize what Clinton and her associates may be in for:

• Removing TOP SECRET documents from a SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility, an installation specifically designed to handle highly sensitive information) and placing them on a non-secure system: A Felony

• Removing classification markings from government documents: A Felony

• Trading classified information for money or favors: Not Just a Felony, Possibly Treason

Back to streiff's agenda, the first bullet point of which is the media smokescreen, happily relayed by -- among other -- the Associated Press.

CLINTON CRIME FAMILY COMICS: Hillary’s 5 Funniest Email Lies

Another instant classic by our long-suffering summer intern @BiffSpackle, based upon an editorial by The New York Post:
On Fox News the other day, blogger and counterterror analyst John Schindler explained the ramifications of Clinton's actions.

And if Vegas had a line on it, my guess is that longtime aides Huma Abedin and/or Cheryl Mills illegally removed the classification markings from the emails destined for Hillary, so she could always claim she didn't know they contained TOP SECRET information. And each such action is a felony, too.
 
 
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Larwyn's Linx: Understanding just how serious Hillary’s email server problem really is

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Nation

Understanding just how serious Hillary’s server problem really is: Bookworm
Contra Media Spin, It’s Hillary Under Investigation, Not a Server: Jonah Goldberg
Hillary's Emails Were Backed Up On Another Server: David Martosko

Colorado court outlaws religious freedom: RS
Illegal Alien Deported 14 Times Arrested For Transporting Meth In Billings, MT: WZ
Backers fear Clinton hurt by old weaknesses: WaPo

"Immigrant": The New N-Word: Ann Coulter
In the Wake of Proposition 47, California Sees a Crime Wave: Debra Saunders
Obama Illegal Kills Three in Florida: FAM

Congress Can Rewrite the Iran Deal: Orde Kittrie
Progressives Push for New “Right”: The Right Not to Bear Arms: LI
The Brilliantly Run Campaign of Senator Ted Cruz: VA Right

Economy

Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family?: Kay S. Hymowitz
Greece’s painful and irresponsible bail out: John Redwood
Hard Times Goin’ ’Round: Daily Pundit

Scandal Central

Prosecutor Who Took Down Petraeus Now Looking Into Clinton Server: Katie Pavlich
Senior Clinton Adviser Huma Abedin Facing Investigation for Her Role in Hillary’s Email Scandal: Chris Enloe
State Dept. confirms Clinton aides had other unreported email accounts: Stephen Dinan

Hillary Clinton’s five email lies: Post
Obama's Betrayals: The President's Secret Offer to Iran Before Negotiations: Ari Lieberman
Obama, Koch Bros Team Up to Help Oppressed Drug Dealer: Daniel Greenfield

Climate & Energy

The anti-human Green movement: “The mission, once noble, had become corrupted.”: ProWis

Media

Sarah Palin bashes Erick Erickson for mocking her family: FAM
MSNBC Targets “Stump for Trump” Girls, Wants Childrens’ Names and Name of Employers: GWP
Why Yes, I am Insta-Posting These Days: Ed Driscoll

The Conservative Heart – A Book Review: NoisyRm
Obama Ignores V-J Day Remembrance: Kim Quade
How Hillary will probably shrug off the email server story: Jazz Shaw

NYT’s Castrated House Conservative Reveals How Low His Information Really Is: Daily Pundit
This Commercial For Raisin Bran Makes Me Want to Break Things: Glob
Obamacare Could be Heading to the Supreme Court (Again): Andrew Kloster

World

All the President's Lies: Annika Hernroth-Rothstein
Obama’s Iran deal: A fight to a very bitter end: David Horovitz
‘Schindler’s List’ producer slams Hollywood Jews’ support for nuke deal: Times of Israel

'ISIS Head Repeatedly Raped US Aid Worker Kayla Mueller': Clarion
“France is no Longer for the French”: Baron Bodissey
Modern Day Slavery in Vietnam and Malaysia: Michael Benge

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Kaspersky faked malware to harm rivals: Ex-employees: itnews
Police radios will be KILLED soon – yet no one dares say 'Huawei': Simon Rockman and Kat Hall
Scientists Discover Marijuana Actually Helps Heal Broken Bones: Saso Denkovik

Cornucopia

White House vs. Big House: Springer
National Airborne Day 2015: BlackFive
Reaganite's Sunday Funnies: RRR

Image: Backers fear Clinton hurt by old weaknesses
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QOTD: "Tens of thousands of emails once housed on former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's private computer server were moved to another device after a Colorado company took possession of the device in 2013, leaving open the possibility that copies of messages Clinton later chose to delete might still exist.

The FBI seized the server this week in a stunning move, signaling a new intensity in the investigation into whether Clinton knowingly send or received top-secret classified information through her private address while she was America's top diplomat.

Bloomberg reported Thursday night that Barbara Wells, an attorney for Platte River Networks, Inc., confirmed that while the server hardware now controlled by the FBI 'is blank and does not contain any useful data,' its contents could still be safe and sound elsewhere.

That's because the server's messages were 'migrated' to another server that still exists, she said, before ending the Bloomberg interview without specifying where that device is located and who owns it – only that her company no longer has it." --David Martosko

Saturday, August 15, 2015

VEGAS: Even Odds That Aides Huma Abedin or Chery Mills Removed TOP SECRET Classification Markings (a Felony) from Hillary’s Emails

You know it's gotten serious. I refer, of course, to the nearly unbelievable saga of Hillary Clinton's private email server, which the former Secretary of State used to conduct official government business. In clear violation of the National Records Act. And generate a billion or more in cash to the Clinton Global Graft Initiative in exchange for favors from the U.S. government.

And we all know where the Clinton "charities" spend their donations (hint: it starts with C, ends with N and has "LINTO" in the middle).

The negative PR has gotten to the point that even Granny Catlady was forced to address the scandal. In a public forum today, Hillary says that she never sent or received material that was marked classified.

Yet, my friends, Top Secret information was discovered among her various illegal email accounts, which makes clear that someone intentionally removed the TS/SI/TK/NOFORN classification markers. These denote "Top Secret, Signals Intelligence, Talent Keyhole, No Foreign Nationals" classified information -- in this case, spy satellite photos.

One State Department official has a theory as to how the classification markers were removed:

OBAMA’S POST-RACIAL AMERICA: Mentor of His Minister Shrieks "White People Deserve to Die" in Latest Sermon

Likely only a very few political junkies (i.e., losers) like myself remember the close personal relationship between Barack Obama's longtime minister, Jeremiah Wright, and the virulent racist Louis Farrakhan. Obama marinated in the hateful, anti-white, anti-semitic rhetoric of Wright for 20 years, which were mere echoes of statements by Nation of Islam chief Farrakhan.

It turns out that Farrakhan has been on one of his verbal jihads of late, this time calling for an ethnic cleansing of white people.

After two weeks of news reports that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan had called for an army of 10,000 volunteers to kill white people if the government doesn’t give the black community “justice,” Farrakhan is reshaping his message – but only slightly.

In a new video of a three-hour address given Aug. 13, Farrakhan said white people (presumably the news media reporting on his previous comments) reported his controversial comments to provoke a race war when he gathered with his followers at the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March on Oct. 10 in Washington, D.C.

... “I wouldn’t bring our young women and young men into some place to be slaughtered. But that’s what the white man hopes for. That’s why he makes mischief with my words. ‘Farrakhan wanna get an army to kill people,’ because, you see, white people deserve to die. And they know so and they think it’s us coming to do it. No, no, no.”

Farrakhan later said in the video that a God will send a UFO, “a chariot” or “wheel in the sky,” to rescue his followers and carry out justice if a race war began

In other words, Louie has backed away from a call for direct racial cleansing by his army of Islamic warriors and instead wants some aliens to do it.

Say, if memory serves, that appears to be happening as we speak (e.g., "Illegal Aliens Account for Over 30% of All Murders in Some States").


Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.
 

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT LOST: Huge Majorities of Voters Want an End to Sanctuary Cities, Aggressive Deportations

Not that you heard any of this from vintage media, but it turns out that the electorate actively seeks an end to Barack Obama's illegal amnesty executive order; that it wants illegal aliens aggressively deported; and would love the federal government to go medieval on sanctuary cities.

What, exactly, do voters want the government to do with illegal alien criminals?
President Obama's plan to exempt up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation remains tied up in court, but most voters still don’t think the United States is aggressive enough in deporting those who are here illegally.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 60% of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. government is not aggressive enough in deporting those who are in this country illegally...
As for sanctuary cities:
Following the murder of a young woman in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant from Mexico, voters want to get tough on so-called “sanctuary cities” that refuse to enforce immigration laws.

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. Justice Department should take legal action against cities that provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% oppose Justice Department action against sanctuary cities.
Which could be why Donald Trump's immigration rants have struck such a chord. And why pro-illegal immigration candidates like Jeb Bush and John Kasich are dead candidates walking.


Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News.
 

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary Finds Deleting Emails Funny; Resurrects Sad, Old Right Wing Conspiracy Canard

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Nation

Hillary Finds Deleting Emails Funny; Resurrects Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: RWN
Giving the Civil War veteran the last word on Democrats: Bookworm Room
Intelligence community wants Clinton’s security clearance suspended: Times

The Why Questions: The Z Man
The Biggest Idiots in Politics: John Hawkins
Why Liberals are Dangerous and Must Never be in Charge: Lloyd Marcus

Shooter in Staten Island Standoff, Was Democrat Community Organizer: AmPower
Illegal Alien Beats 2 Year-Old Child Nearly to Death; Now Out On Bond: Treehouse
Huma Abedin Pledges to Preserve Emails After Judge's Order : Breitbart News

‘How many Americans must die at the hands of unlawful criminal immigrants?’: Times
In GOP field, Ted Cruz stands alone by refusing to bash Donald Trump: Ben Bullard
Convention of States: Richard F. (Buz) Williams

Economy

The Hunt for the 2% Solution: Irwin M. Stelzer
Court Decision on F-1 Work Permit Painful for Employers: Ian R. Macdonald
$22 million in taxpayer funds flushed away on Detroit cruise ship lure: Marathon

Scandal Central

Hillary Clinton emails included very secret satellite images: Taylor Millard
Exclusive: Hillary’s IT Contractor Did Not Have Proper Security Clearance: Richard Pollock
Flashback: Planned Parenthood lobbyist argues for killing babies born alive after failed abortion: Howard Portnoy

Climate & Energy

The Green Socialists of Mars: Sultan Knish
Report: Danger of Government-Created Solar Bubble Bursting When Subsidies Expire in 2016: CNS
Critics of carbon regulations using mine spill to skewer EPA: AP

Media

“A Stampman hanging on a Tree”: J.L. Bell
Mark Levin interviews Donald Trump: Scoop
Trump Expects to Face Vice President Joe Biden in General Election: Breitbart

The far left has lost faith in Hillary Clinton: Glob
Fox News’ fiery response to Trump’s ‘bizarre’ claim about Megyn Kelly’s vacation: BPR
Donald Trump Supporters You Should be Ted Cruz Supporters!: Onan Coca

World

ISIS is Conducting a Real War on Women: Aaron Goldstein
Russian Economy Nears ‘Perfect Storm’: Oil at $25 a Barrel, Ruble at 125/$1, Inflation at 30%: Paul Goble
Cancerous Ex-President Has Cancer: Post

New York: Muslim pleads guilty to supporting the Islamic State: Robert Spencer
Islamophobia: Fact or Fiction?: Denis MacEoin
Photo Of What Appears To Be A Beheading Victim In IKEA Indicates Attackers Were Likely Muslims: Shoebat

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

BMW X5 M: Car and Driver
Insane: New Video Of The Biggest Great White Shark Ever Filmed Surfaces: WZ
Windows 10 Is Spyware?: C. Mitchell Shaw

Cornucopia

Conservatives Beware: The Speech Police Are Coming For You: Paul Jossey
They Shoot Horses Don’t They?: MOTUS
Elusive Alchemy: MOTUS

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QOTD: "Imagine this: Amidst a close election, a partisan government lawyer with questionable authority investigates a conservative nonprofit supporting a political candidate. The government theorizes the candidate and organization are communicating too much—”coordinating” in legal parlance. A court eventually exonerates the group finding the government’s theory onerous. But it does so only after a years-long investigation that clouds the group’s operations, impedes its fundraising efforts, and ultimately negates its ability to influence voters during the election.

The above scenario indeed happened. But it was not, as the reader may suspect, the recently terminated ‘John Doe‘ investigation, which targeted Wisconsin Club for Growth–as well as other organizations–for supporting Scott Walker during his recall election. The nonprofit was the Christian Coalition, [the year was 1996,] the candidate was George H. W. Bush, and the government lawyer was then-Federal Election Commission enforcement chief Lois Lerner." --Paul Jossey

Friday, August 14, 2015

SURPRISE: The Schmucks Running Hillary Clinton’s Email Server Had No Security Clearances

By Richard Pollock

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entrusted her email server to an IT firm that was not cleared to handle classified materials, according to the chief spokesman for the Defense Security Service.

The DSS is an arm of the Defense Department and is the only federal agency authorized to approve private sector company access to sensitive or confidential material.

The agency reviews and approves private contractors to assure they have secure facilities and approves security clearances for employees to clear them for access to sensitive or classified materials.

Since 2013, Clinton used Platte River Networks, a small Denver-based company, to upgrade and maintain her private email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.

About 13,000 companies have received FCL or facility-wide clearance. But Platte River is not one of them.