Sometimes you have to wonder how much of this stuff an ordinary Democrat voter can swallow before they too are suffocated by the obfuscation and avoidance.  It looks like Hillary has found another person to put on her “vast right wing conspiracy” list.

(Via Bloomberg) The Hillary Clinton campaign has gone on the attack against the government official who conducts oversight of the State Department she used to run, accusing him of partisanship and misconduct without any direct evidence. That strategy could backfire by politicizing the role of the government’s inspectors general and undermining needed State Department reforms. (more…)

People are making a rather big deal of the DOJ granting immunity to a Clinton staffer who was involved in the set up of the private email servers. The presumption is this may be her undoing. 

Sorry, but you can put me in the cynical column.  The Democrats and Republicans cooperated together to protect the congressional intelligence gang-of-eight oversight committee surrounding Benghazi, do you really think the DC UniParty is going to let one of their leaders suffer a DOJ indictment?  Not-Going-To-Happen, ever.

(Via WaPo) The Justice Department has granted immunity to the former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.

The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano who worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009. (more…)

We are going to put up two separate threads, one for Nevada where Democrats are caucusing, and a separate thread for South Carolina where Republicans are voting.

The Nevada Caucus early entrance polls are HERE (via NBC) and CNN has a live-blog of ongoing events HERE.  Politico has Caucus Results REPORTING HERE

UPDATE 5:24pm EST – AP Calls Race for Hillary Clinton

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic caucuses in Nevada. @AP race call at 5:15 p.m. EST. #Election2016 #APracecall

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 20, 2016

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The U.S. State Department released more of Hillary Clinton’s emails today.  One of those emails is noted as originating on March 22nd 2011, the exact day President Obama launched the attacks on Libya.

The newly released email confirms what many already knew – it was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power who convinced President Obama to go to war in Libya:

“Turning POTUS around on this is a major win for everything we worked for”..

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There may indeed be a feeling of disappointment amid many political followers who support Donald Trump today. A sense of disappointment because he did not win the Iowa caucuses.

However, long-time readers here will probably not hold as much angst at the result; and just about all of us are overly familiar with the sense of futility against it all.

These 2016 events are predictable, very predictable.  They are so predictable we outlined exactly how they would take place back in 2013, more than two years ago.

Before reading further – GO HERE AND SEE – These events are not organic, they are born from a very specific origin.  We stated in November of 2013 that Senator Marco Rubio would be propped up by the political machine in the 2016 Presidential race, for a very specific purpose.

There are trillions of dollars at stake.  The characters who indulge themselves within the scheme and graft will do anything to retain their place, power and influence.  None of this is happenstance. (more…)

We will keep this post at the top of the page throughout the evening and provide live updates as they come in.

At 11:30pm with 95% of Precincts reporting Candidate Ted Cruz appears to have won Iowa.  CNN is calling the race for Ted Cruz.

Additionally, Marco Rubio has done exceptionally well in the populous areas of Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Des Moines.  In the major metropolitan areas Marco Rubio has placed first which has pushed, Cruz to second and Donald Trump third.

A significant percentage of the high voter turnout was to the benefit of Marco Rubio.  Donald Trump won some of the more conservative counties, but in the areas where the GOPe, or establishment Republican party, hold strength – Marco Rubio was able to pull enough votes from Trump to provide Cruz a victory and make the race closer.

The GOPe executed a strong game in Iowa.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration confirmed for the first time Friday that Hillary Clinton’s unsecured home server contained some of the U.S. government’s most closely guarded secrets, censoring 22 emails with material demanding one of the highest levels of classification. The revelation comes just three days before the Iowa presidential nominating caucuses in which Clinton is a candidate.

The State Department will release its next batch of emails from Clinton’s time as secretary of state later Friday.

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(Via Fox News) Hillary Clinton’s emails on her unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government’s most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers.

Fox News exclusively obtained the unclassified letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that identified “several dozen” additional classified emails — including specific intelligence known as “special access programs” (SAP).   (more…)

NBC News will be hosting the fourth Democrat Debate tonight in Charleston South Carolina. The debate begins at 9:00pm Eastern and is co-sponsored by U-Tube.

Lester Holt, Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd and several popular YouTube creators are moderators and participants.  The debate is carried live on NBC broadcast and MSNBC cable channels.  There is also a Live Feed HERE via NBC NEWS