Rumor has it that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry threatened to un-friend Lavrov on Facebook. Meanwhile, President Obama is strongly considering approval for a pointed #Hashtag campaign. Follow-up To This Story
(Via Reuters) Secretary of State John Kerry told his Russian counterpart on Saturday the United States was deeply concerned about reports that Moscow was moving toward a major military build-up in Syria widely seen as aimed at bolstering President Bashar al-Assad. (more…)
Against the backdrop of the recent poll showing Donald Trump easily defeating Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head matchup with registered voters, the Andrea Mitchell interview takes on a new light.
* Trump 54%, Clinton 36%. * Trump 53%, Sanders 39%. * Trump 53%, Biden 37%. * Trump 54%, Gore 36%.
Obviously Mitchell (wife of Alan Greenspan) has always been a Hillary devotee, so there’s no substantive questions. However, there is information to showcase how Hillary is prepped for defending her absolutely horrible record as Secretary of State. Specifically the introduction of the “bathtub principle” regarding the current EU immigration crisis:
Shortcuts:
01:00 – 12:00 Discussion of email issues. “no apologies”.
12:00 – 14:00 Discussion of presidential race. Joe Biden as challenger
14:00 – 17:00 Discussion of Iran. Hillary support for deal.
17:00 – 20:00 Discussion of Donald Trump. Attacks on Huma Abedin
20:00 – 23:00 Discussion of current EU immigration crisis. Hillary begins “bathtub principle” obfuscation. {more below}
23:00 – 27:00 Discussion of China and Women’s Rights Issues
27:00 – 39:30 Discussion of Hillary losing the election yet again.
Three takeaways from the Washington Post report: 1.) Clinton paid Bryan Pagliano to maintain the server. 2.) Required disclosure forms by Pagliano show no outside income was reported. 3.) Pagliano has plead the Fifth and refuses to talk to congressional investigative committee. In addition, with all these email revelations coming out, I can’t shake the sense that the mysterious fire in Clinton’s State Department office during the Thanksgiving holiday of 2012 -immediately after the Benghazi attack- was perhaps not accidental.
(Via Washington Post) Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private e-mail server she used while heading the agency, according to an official from Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The unusual arrangement helped Clinton retain personal control over the system that she used for her public and private duties and that has emerged as an issue for her campaign. But, according to the campaign official, it also ensured that taxpayer dollars were not spent on a private server that was shared by Clinton, her husband and their daughter as well as aides to the former president. (more…)
♦ Perhaps people will begin to connect the dots behind the Hillary Clinton goal to remove gate keeper Muammar Gaddafi. ♦ Maybe people will begin to understand the Rivkin Project. ♦ Maybe, just maybe, people will awaken to why the EU was willing to pay Gaddafi €5 Billion to keep the North African migration under control. ♦ Maybe, people will understand why multi-culturalism was declared a failure – by the same people now being hammered by the migration they formerly denounced. Nah, probably not…. But you’ll find me short on sympathy for an EU collective who refused to help stop ISIS, the various regional Mid-East wars, the spread of Radical Islam or the wholesale societal collapse which accompanies doing nothing.
However, for those who want to fully understand how this entire fiasco began, a pretty good basic summary is available here. The problem is not recent !
(Via The Daily Mail) Europe’s migrant crisis escalated last night as border controls were reintroduced and Germany admitted it could no longer cope with the influx.
Berlin had sought to criticise others – including Britain – for not taking in enough refugees after it announced it would no longer deport those coming from Syria.
But the EU’s passport-free travel zone was on the brink of collapse after Germany was forced to ask Italy to tighten border controls. (more…)
Well this wouldn’t look good in advance of Hillary’s own testimony. Nothing sketchy here. Move along, move along…. (via Daily Caller) The State Department IT worker who managed Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of state will plead the Fifth Amendment if called to testify about his work on the Democratic presidential candidate’s mysterious email setup, his attorney informed the House Select Committee on Benghazi this week.
The committee subpoenaed Bryan Pagliano on Aug. 11, according to The Washington Post. In addition to testifying on Sept. 10, committee chairman Trey Gowdy asked Pagliano to produce documents related to the servers he managed on behalf of Clinton.
Pagliano worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign before moving over to the State Department in May 2009, several months after Clinton took office. He left the agency at the same time as Clinton, in Feb. 2013. (more…)
FOX EXCLUSIVE:At least four classified Hillary Clinton emails had their markings changed to a category that shields the content from Congress and the public, Fox News has learned, in what State Department whistleblowers believed to be an effort to hide the true extent of classified information on the former secretary of state’s server.
The changes, which came to light after the first tranche of 296 Benghazi emails was released in May, was confirmed by two sources — one congressional, the other intelligence. The four emails originally were marked classified after a review by career officials at the State Department. But after a second review by the department’s legal office, the designation was switched to “B5” — also known as “deliberative process,” which refers to internal deliberations by the Executive Branch. Such discussions are exempt from public release. (more…)
As unbelievable as this seems apparently Hillary Clinton was not prepared for the most transparently obvious question that would be asked?
(Via NBC) The FBI may be able to recover at least some data from Hillary Clinton’s private email server even though there was an attempt to wipe it, two sources with direct knowledge of the process told NBC News on Tuesday. (more…)
D’oh, this is one of those ‘and-they-thought-they-could-get-away-with-it-stories’. More than three years ago Gawker was in a back-and-forth blistering e-mail conversation with Philippe Reines, Deputy assistant to Hillary Clinton. Subsequently they (Gawker) submitted a FOIA request to the state dept. for Mr. Reines emails. The State Department said they didn’t have any of Reines emails.
(Via Mediaite) Two years after claiming they couldn’t find certain emails from a former staffer, the State Department suddenly announced in court that they had found more than 17,000 of them.
The backstory is that back in 2013, Gawker filed a FOIA request for any emails sent from deputy assistant Secretary of State Philippe Reines to employees of 34 media outlets. Reines had something of a reputation of sending extremely confrontational emails to reporters telling them to “f*ck off,” and Gawker no doubt wanted to mine his emails for more gems. (more…)
Given the history of Clinton debate into the meaning of “is” we can only imagine the level of professional obfuscation that will surround the meaning of : “Classified”, “Secret”, “Top Secret” etc.
(Via Washington Times) While media coverage has focused on a half-dozen of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal emails containing sensitive intelligence, the total number of her private emails identified by an ongoing State Department review as having contained classified data has ballooned to 60, officials told The Washington Times.
That figure is current through the end of July and is likely to grow as officials wade through a total of 30,000 work-related emails that passed through her personal email server, officials said. The process is expected to take months. (more…)
