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Hillary Clinton's most influential positions have been her term as a carpetbagger in the Senate, and
as Secretary of State. Her accomplishments in those two positions have been extraordinarily
sparse, mainly benefiting herself and advancing a far-left political agenda.
Our
Russia Collusion Nightmare: All Hillary's Fault? Aside from her questionable health and a lifetime of
scandal, Hillary had two sizable liabilities (of her own creation) that threatened her ability to win the general election:
(1) her use of the Clinton Foundation as a vehicle for laundering bribes from foreign governments and moneyed interests and
(2) her decision to conduct the business of the State Department (as well as to discuss our nation's most guarded secrets) on
an unsecured private email server that had been hacked by known and unknown foreign governments and adverse entities.
Peter Schweizer's Clinton Cash did a remarkable job exposing the Clinton Foundation as a spectacular pay-to-play
operation that had allowed Hillary to trade the powers of her office for personal aggrandizement (including the sale of 20%
of America's uranium to Russia for, among other things, $145 million transferred to her foundation). [...] For a normal
person with a modicum of ethical concern, sense of shame, or patriotic duty, these crimes would have been more than
sufficient to prompt withdrawal from an election for the country's highest office.
Who could forget Carlos Danger and Pierre Delecto? Obama,
Clinton and Biden ALL used secret, fake-name email accounts to hide their actions. I
am surprised that anyone is surprised that, as vice president in the Obama administration, Joe
Biden used email accounts under fake names to loop his son Hunter into official US government
business. This is how the Obama administration rolled. When high officials were
involved in a dodgy activity they wanted to shield from public disclosure laws, they frequently
used pseudonymous email accounts. That included President Barack Obama himself. As I
argued at the time, one of the main reasons the Obama Justice Department whitewashed Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's criminally negligent mishandling of classified information, through the
lawless homebrew server system she set up for doing official government business, is that Obama was
implicated. He knew that she was using a non-government communications channel because,
numerous times, she used it to correspond with him.
The
Party That Cried Wolf. Desperate to take the focus off the FBI's investigation into
her use of a private server during her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton and her
sycophants strangled reality beyond all recognition to build the case that then-candidate Donald
Trump was an agent of Russia. Although Clinton lost the 2016 election, their efforts mired
Trump's campaign and then his nascent presidency in scandal for three years. And to this day,
no one has been held responsible for what, up until then, had been the dirtiest political trick in
modern memory.
8
Cases Where Mishandling of Classified Information Went Unpunished. [#1] Former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was found to have maintained a private email server during her
four-year tenure at the Department of State. The server was located in a bathroom closet in a
loft in Denver, Colorado, and included classified information. Worse yet, Clinton used 13
mobile devices to send and receive emails on the server, and five iPads. Some of the mobile
devices were destroyed with hammers. Despite Hillary Clinton's denials, there were hundreds
of emails on her private server that included classified information.
Hillary:
The Graphic Novel. Behold: one of the cornerstone crimes that led to what we see today with Trump.
Hillary Clinton Emails Surface.
Emails from 2009 have surfaced that reveal Hillary Clinton knew about — and possibly covered up — the
threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party's Wuhan Institute of Virology while she was in office as President Obama's
secretary of state. In a leaked State Department cable obtained from Wikileaks, Clinton warned that the Wuhan Institute
of Virology could lead to "biological weapons proliferation concern." The email was sent in June of 2009 from the State
Department to all embassies in member nations. It is dated just before the Australia Group plenary session in Paris,
which took place from September 21st to September 25th, 2009.
Hillary
Clinton Privately Warned France that Wuhan P4 Lab May Lead to Bioweapon Research. In a leaked State Department
cable from 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the Wuhan Institute of Virology could lead to
"biological weapons proliferation concern." The cable, obtained via Wikileaks, was sent from the State Department in June
2009 to all embassies in member nations ahead of the Australia Group plenary session in Paris, September 21-25, 2009.
The Australia Group is an international export control forum organized to prevent the spread of technologies and research that
could be used in chemical and biological weapons. All Five Eyes nations are members of the group, including the EU,
India, Japan, and South Korea. China is not a member of the group. The cable stated, "We believe it is important
to focus on emerging chemical and biological technologies, trends in the trade of CBW-related goods and threats."
Project
Veritas Releases Shocking Never-Before-Heard Phone Call Between Julian Assange and Hillary Clinton's State
Department. Project Veritas has obtained a never before heard phone call between Julian Assange and Hillary
Clinton's State Department from prior to the publication of 251,000 US embassy cables that the WikiLeaks founder has now been
charged with releasing. The stunning phone call between Assange and State Department lawyer Cliff Johnson sheds light
on the efforts Assange went through to minimize the damage caused by the release of the cables.
Muammar
Gaddafi's Cousin To Sue Hillary Clinton For "Destroying Libya". The political official of the Libyan National
Struggle Front, Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, announced Monday he's initiated first steps to sue former US presidential candidate and
ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on charges of spreading destruction and supporting terrorism in Libya. The cousin
of the late Libyan president, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, said in an exclusive interview with Russia's Sputnik that he
had assigned his legal team to sue the former U.S. Secretary of State.
Ghislaine
Maxwell's nephew got prestigious job in Hillary Clinton's state dept. shortly after Epstein's first plea, reports
say. New evidence suggests that former President Bill Clinton may not have been the only one in the scandalous
family who'd hobnobbed with deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his sick crew. On Thursday [8/20/2020], the
celebrity tabloid OK! Magazine published a report claiming Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
had once hired the nephew of Epstein's infamous madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, to work at the department. "Alexander
Djerassi, the son of Ghislaine's sister Isabel Maxwell, was gifted a very powerful and prestigious position within her State
Department and the US Government," the tabloid reported, citing unnamed sources. Note the use of the term gifted. The
unsubstantiated allegation was that Ghislaine's nephew, Djerassi, was purposefully hired by Clinton as a gift.
Ghislaine
Maxwell's Nephew Worked at Hillary Clinton's State Department. Ghislaine Maxwell's nephew worked at the State
Department under Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, a spokesperson confirmed Friday [8/21/2020]. [...] The
revelations come as Maxwell remains jailed in MDC Brooklyn without bail since July 2 following her arrest at her New
Hampshire home. She was charged with enticing minors to engage in illegal sexual activities and faces up to 35 years
behind bars if convicted.
Report:
Hillary Clinton Hired Ghislaine Maxwell's Nephew For State Department Position. Earlier this week, the
Ghislaine Maxwell story took an interesting turn when a photograph surfaced showing former President Bill Clinton receiving a
shoulder massage from Chauntae Davies, one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims. But now, a new revelation has emerged in this
affair, and this time, it involves his wife. Ok! Magazine published a report on Thursday stating that
Hillary Clinton gave Maxwell's nephew, Alexander Djerassi, an important job in the State Department when she served as
Secretary of State.
Five
More Things You Probably Didn't Know about Susan Rice. [#3] Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice did not get along
because Rice refused to abide by the State Department's chain of command. There were many reasons for tension between
then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Rice, who at that time was U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Rice had been a close
adviser to Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, when Clinton ran against him. Obama gave Clinton the
post of secretary of state, but the two were not close. Rice, on the other hand, received the plum job of ambassador to
the U.N., maintained her close relationship with Obama, and was given cabinet rank equal to that of Clinton. Rice's
tendency to go around Clinton and the State bureaucracy to work directly with the White House caused considerable tension
with the secretary of state and her staff. A State Department officer who worked with Rice in the 1990s told me that
the relationship between Clinton and Rice and their staffs was "poisonous."
Time
to Tear Hillary Clinton's Name from State Department Pavilion. In the final days of the Obama Administration,
Clinton's name was slapped up on the walls of the just-finished U.S. Diplomacy Center at Foggy Bottom. The Hillary
Rodham Clinton Pavilion was an obvious slap in the face of the incoming administration. A defiant reminder of Secretary
Clinton's shameful legacy. On January 10, 2017, just ten days before Donald Trump was sworn into office (instead of
Clinton), the former Secretary of State returned to the State Department to help open the new pavilion that bore her
name. "I'm thrilled to be here at the new Hillary Clinton Pavilion," Clinton said during her remarks at the
ceremony. "I'm sure you will notice it is the most transparent part of the entire project." An obviously defiant
statement mocking the deceitful nature of her tenure, which included her felonious use of a private, unsecured email server
to transmit state secrets.
Obama
Had No State Department Inspector General for More than Four Years. President Donald Trump is being criticized
by his opponents after firing State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on Friday night. Sen. Mitt Romney
(R-UT) called it a "threat to accountable democracy." However, President Barack Obama did not nominate an inspector general
for the State Department during his entire first term. In fact, the post was vacant for nearly four years. The
last inspector general under President George W. Bush, Howard J. Krongard, resigned in December 2007. The position was
vacant for nearly six years until the Senate confirmed Linick in September 2013. There was little public outcry or media criticism
about the vacancy at the time.
Hillary
Clinton Vindicated On Corruption Charges? Hardly. Last week, the Washington Post reported that the
Justice Department had wound down a Hillary Clinton-related inquiry after finding "nothing of consequence." That set off a
series of Hosannas from the allegedly non-partisan press, which seems to notice quid pro quos only when they involve a
Republican. A quick review of the flagrantly corrupt dealings of the Clinton Foundation is in order. When Hillary
took the job of secretary of state under President Barack Obama, she promised that the foundation wouldn't accept foreign
donations. It took in money from at least seven foreign governments. Documents showed that 85 of the 154 private
interests who met with Clinton at the State Department had donated money to the foundation. Emails unearthed by
Judicial Watch showed that Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin — who worked for both the State Department and the
foundation — gave "special expedited access to the secretary of state" for those who gave $25,000 to $10 million.
Putin
sleeper cell: Hillary Clinton, Brennan, Clapper are agents of Russia. Its laughable that Hillary Clinton
would attack Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein as being a Russian asset. For eight years the Obama Administration laid waste
to American foreign policy and American preeminence. At the end of the Obama Administration America was badly weakened
around the globe. [...] For four years while Clinton was Secretary of State, she embarked on the greatest pay for play scam
in the history of our country. Literally raking in hundreds of millions of dollars for the Clinton Foundation slush fund.
All while trading off her position as Secretary of State. Largely from donations from foreign powers and entities.
Hillary's actions
speak louder than anyone's words. [Scroll down] During her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary was a
reliable diplomatic doormat, genuflecting repeatedly to Moscow's geostrategic wishes. She began her tenure by
presenting Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov with a large ersatz red button intended to symbolize a "reset" of relations
between America and Russia — back to the Clinton years. The Obama administration began the "reset" by
lifting sanctions imposed on Russia by George W. Bush after Russia annexed two provinces of Georgia, an ex-satellite of the
former Soviet Union. The Tsarina of Russian Reset was just beginning. [...] Add to that what James Comey said when
testifying before Congress on the Hillary email mess. He called the level of security on Hillary's Gmail account less
than that on a regular Gmail account. Apologists for Hillary argue she did not recognize the global reach of the
internet. This is clearly untrue.
Four
Year State Dept. Investigation Concludes Noting State Dept. Violations From. Perhaps the only
institution more corrupt than the Obama intelligence apparatus, writ large, was/is the Clinton constructed U.S. State
Department. Foggy Bottom is appropriately named as the septic tank for the Administrative State. Former President
Barack Obama carved out a segment of the financial indulgence, and thereafter purchased the acquiescence of Team Clinton,
when he handed Dame Hillary the keys to the State Dept as an outcome of the 2008 election. Barry from Chicago and his
fellow travelers would weaponize the domestic apparatus, and Hillary could graft the international effort; thus, the compact
was sealed.
Schiff,
Pelosi and lawless Democrats may get the civil war they want. As they continue to trample the constitution in
their efforts to destroy President Trump, Democrats are on the verge of triggering a Civil War in America. [...] If you are a
Democrat, it is OK for Hillary to line the Clinton Foundation's pockets with hundreds of millions of pay for play dollars.
Then delete 33,000 emails under subpoena. Then create and orchestrate the Steele dossier. Weaponize and deploy the
dossier through the Obama White House. As well as the CIA via the State Department, DOD, DOJ, and FBI.
A Jihad
Basis for the Coup. What were the top professionals in intelligence and Hillary's State Dept so afraid
of — so mortally afraid that they gambled their careers to block Donald J. Trump? How did a dozen top FBI
and intelligence officials blunder into virtual treason in a time of war? That is the biggest question today, and we
still don't know the whole answer. But here is a reasonable guess: Obama executed a huge flip-flop in U.S.
policy, one that continued to cover up the 9/11/01 Saudi attack on the U.S., and which also flipped U.S. policy to favor the
poisonous mullahs in Iran. We know two high-level channels for that big flip: Valerie Jarrett (born in Shiraz,
Iran) and Huma Abedin (from a Muslim Brotherhood front in the U.K.).
Hillary's
henchmen investigated. The news out of Washington is 15 people are in trouble for aiding and abetting Hillary's
use of a private computer to conduct official business as secretary of State. The Washington Times reported, "While the
full review is not completed, the department said it's found 23 violations and seven infractions of security protocols
related to Mrs. Clinton's emails. "Some of the 15 people got write-ups placed in their security files at the
department, according to a letter sent to Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican. Those could affect future attempts
to gain security clearances, the department said." No one was named but this could get quite sticky.
Why
Wasn't Everyone Looking for Hillary's Missing Emails? [Scroll down] The accusation suggests that if
Clinton's contraband communications — emails she claimed were non-work related — had been
unearthed before the election, the trove could have influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. But how
could that be if Clinton was telling the truth? This should have raised suspicions that Clinton's deleted emails
involved questions that risked implicating her in deeper scandals just months before Election Day. (Talk about
interference!) Instead, the media immediately criminalized any attempt to locate the emails that Clinton's aides erased
from her server — that is correspondence she sent and received during her tenure as secretary of state.
Never mind that the files were material to pending lawsuits and an ongoing congressional investigation.
Jim
Sciutto's Quiet Indictment of the Obama Administration. It's easy to forget just how stubbornly naïve the
Obama administration could be in its dealings, particularly with Russia. It began with Hillary Clinton's infamous
"reset button" ceremony with Russian foreign minister Sergi Lavrov and continued with the president's 2012 debate comment
that "the 1980s are now calling to get their foreign policy back, because the Cold War's been over for 20 years."
Obama declared at the G-7 summit in 2014 that Russia was a "regional power" and that its territorial ambitions "belonged in the
19th century." But Obama's 21st-century worldview had no effective response to those ambitions.
Hillary
Clinton's Russia collusion IOU: The answers she owes America. During the combined two decades she served as a
U.S. senator and secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's patrons regularly donated to her family charity when they had official
business pending before America's most powerful political woman. The pattern of political IOUs paid to the Clinton
Foundation was so pernicious that the State Department even tried to execute a special agreement with the charity to avoid
the overt appearance of "pay-to-play" policy. Still, the money continued to flow by the millions of dollars, from
foreigners and Americans alike who were perceived to be indebted to the Clinton machine or in need of its help.
Five
things that will happen if House Dems move to impeach Trump. If Democrats want to argue that corrupt intent and
an underlying offense are not needed to prove obstruction, then was former President Bill Clinton committing obstruction when
he met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix Airport while the FBI was investigating his wife's mishandling of
government emails? Or was former President Barack Obama committing obstruction when he opined that Hillary Clinton had
done nothing wrong with her emails while she was his secretary of state? Both Presidents Obama and Clinton acted before
then-FBI Director James Comey announced his recommendation that Hillary Clinton — then running for president
against Trump — should not be charged for improperly using a private email server instead of the required secure
government email system while heading the State Department. Knowing what they know today, if House Democrats move
forward on the impeachment of President Trump, five things will happen. [...]
Biden
Pushed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton To Form Closer Ties With Russia. In the aftermath of the Mueller
report and former Vice President Joe Biden's announcement Thursday he intends to run for president in 2020, several news
outlets began reporting on Biden's desire during his tenure in the Obama administration to develop closer ties to
Russia. The Washington Free Beacon published a piece Thursday morning reminding readers of Biden's defense of
Russia following then-candidate Mitt Romney's concern over Russia's apparent moves toward geopolitical domination in 2012.
Hillary's
Two-Year Tantrum. It isn't just the campaigns that were utter disasters, but also her tenure as secretary of
state. Her testimony in front of a House committee where she displayed her contempt for Congress, the American
military, her own ambassador to Libya, and the three other Americans whose lives were wasted in her foolish attempt to
politically reshape North Africa, the Middle East, and imperil our biggest ally in the region — the State of
Israel — was the height of arrogance. Hillary never understood that she was her own worst enemy. The
more people got to know her, the more they disliked her.
Questions
Real Journalists Would Ask Obama and Hillary. If there were real journalism in America today, there would be
questions right now that these real journalists would really want to ask people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, such
as, [...] "Mrs. Clinton, when did you first read the Steele dossier that you paid for?" "Mrs. Clinton, what was
your reaction when you saw BuzzFeed actually publish the dossier despite their admission that it had not been verified or
corroborated? Did you feel successful?" "As a former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, you are familiar
with investigative reports from intelligence agencies. Were you fooled by the information in the Steele dossier?
Did you believe what was in the Steele dossier?
Banned
Muslim scholar given visa by Hillary Clinton faces 3rd rape charge, could face charge in U.S.. A third woman
has accused prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape, a month after he was indicted over similar charges and remanded
into custody, judicial sources told AFP on Wednesday [4/10/2019]. [...] As Barack Obama's Secretary of State[,] Clinton, a
self-proclaimed women's rights activist (her Hillary for America policy included confronting violence against women and has
a section on sexual assault) went to bat for Ramadan. As part of an Obama administration effort to pursue a better
relationship with Muslim communities, Clinton signed special orders to allow the reentry of two radical Islamic academics
whose terrorist ties had for years banned them from the United States.
Clinton,
in newly revealed emails, discussed classified foreign policy matters, secretive 'private' comms channel with Israel.
A newly unearthed batch of heavily redacted, classified emails from Hillary Clinton's personal email server revealed that the former
secretary of state discussed establishing a "private, 100% off-the-record" back channel to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
and that one of her top aides warned her that she was in "danger" of being "savaged by Jewish organizations, in the Jewish press and
among the phalanx of neoconservative media" as a result of political machinations by "Bibi and the Jewish leadership." The
756-page group of new documents, revealed Thursday [3/21/2019] as part of a transparency lawsuit by Judicial Watch, seemingly
contradicted Clinton's insistence under oath in 2015 that she had turned over all of her sensitive work-related emails to the State
Department, and included a slew of classified communications on everything from foreign policy to State Department personnel matters.
At Last:
Real Evidence of Russian Collusion Emerges. As secretary of State, Hillary Clinton worked with Russian leaders,
including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-President Dmitri Medvedev, to create U.S. technology partnerships with
Moscow's version of Silicon Valley, a sprawling high-tech campus known as Skolkovo. Clinton's handprint was everywhere
on the 2009-2010 project, the tip of a diplomatic spear to reboot U.S.-Russian relations after years of hostility prompted by
Vladimir Putin's military action against the former Soviet republic and now U.S. ally Georgia. A donor to the Clinton
Foundation, Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, led the Russian side of the effort, and several American donors to the
Clinton charity got involved. Clinton's State Department facilitated U.S. companies working with the Russian project,
and she personally invited Medvedev to visit Silicon Valley. The collaboration occurred at the exact same time Bill
Clinton made his now infamous trip to Russia to pick up a jaw-dropping $500,000 check for a single speech.
Why
didn't the FBI open Counter Intelligence investigations into these Russian assets? For example, Barack Obama
promised Vladimir Putin that he (Obama) would be more flexible for Putin after the 2012 election. [Video clip]
More flexible for Vlad? That sounds pretty serious to me. It sounds as though Obama was acting as a Russian asset!
One of the first things he did as President was pull the missile shield from Poland to please Putin. Did a single democrat
find that objectionable? Did the FBI think a CI investigation was called for? Nope. In 2010, while his wife was
Secretary of State, Bill Clinton went to Vladimir Putin's home in Russia. The next day Clinton gives a cup of coffee speech
and walks away with $500,000. Since they file taxes jointly, that means the money effectively went into her pocket as well.
The next thing you know, $140 million flows into the Clinton Foundation and 20% control of US uranium falls into the hands of
Vladimir Putin. [...] Despite the concrete evidence that Obama and the Clinton's were truly acting on behalf of Putin and Russia,
the FBI had no interest. So who was the Director of the FBI at that time? Robert Mueller.
Weapons
that Hillary Clinton's State Dept. ran into Libya very likely used to kill Amb. Stevens, CIA operators.
Shocking new details revealed last week by a former law enforcement official named Roscoe B. Davis in a series of tweets that
were backed by previous reporting from Fox News allegedly implicate the Clinton Foundation as raking in millions of dollars
running guns and other weapons into the Middle East. Furthermore, according to Davis' information, former National Security
Advisor Michael Flynn, who once headed the Defense Intelligence Agency, was also allegedly targeted by special counsel Robert
Mueller and the Deep State because he knows all the details.
Clinton
Foundation on the Hot Seat for Potential Misappropriation of Funds. Three people have come forward with
hundreds of pages of evidence of potential wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation, including misappropriation of funds and
allegations of quid-pro-quo promises made to donors during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-N.C.) told Fox News on Thursday [12/6/2018]. Meadows, the leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus,
is also the chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations. The panel is set to hold an
investigative hearing next week on the status of the foundation case.
State
Department provided 'clearly false' statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, 'shocked' federal judge says.
In a combative exchange at a hearing Friday [10/12/2018] in Washington, D.C., a federal judge unabashedly accused career State Department
officials of lying and signing "clearly false" affidavits to derail a series of lawsuits seeking information about former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's private email server and her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth also said he was "shocked" and "dumbfounded" when he learned that FBI had granted immunity to
former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills during its investigation into the use of Clinton's server, according to a court transcript
of his remarks.
Hillary Clinton & Google Created [a] Covert Server
to Hide Classified Benghazi Emails from Congress; FBI Never Probed. It's like a bad spy movie involving a third-world government.
Or perhaps a slap stick comedy. The Secretary of State of the United States reading, sending, receiving sensitive emails with national security
secrets, threats and classified or top secret intelligence over Google's public Gmail. We expect this from chatting soccer moms but not from
the top diplomat of the United States and her aides. But it gets even worse. The FBI either never discovered this blatant and clandestine
violation of federal laws or did and simply covered it up. Following the Benghazi consulate attack in 2012, then Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton secretly worked with Google to reroute email traffic away from her private computer server and use public Google Gmail servers instead.
Hillary
Clinton Email Scandal Killed or Imprisoned 20 Spies. Will we ever really know the death toll of the Obama administration?
We know they killed 4 Americans in Benghazi. But their careless handling of classified data undoubtedly killed many others.
For example, they believe China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012. Some believe this is a direct
result of the mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and others in her State Department. The depths to which Clinton
impacted U.S. spying operations in a massive intelligence breach isn't known yet.
Massive retaliation.
[President Trump should] get a special counsel appointed to investigate whether the use by Hillary Clinton as secretary of state of
unsecured communications did any damage to the national security and national interests of the United States in any way whatsoever and
to prosecute any violations of the law found in the course of that investigation, including any irregularities in past investigations.
Also investigate how, if at all, the joint income of Hillary and Bill Clinton of $85 million during Hillary Clinton's tenure as
secretary of state was related to her official duties and to prosecute any illegalities therefrom.
Judicial
Watch Demands Re-Opening Of Hillary Email Probe After More Classified Info Found. On Thursday [8/16/2018], the watchdog
revealed that it had received two batches, 184 pages and 45 pages, of newly uncovered emails belonging to Hillary Clinton
from the U.S. Department of State sent and received over her unsecured server. The emails were uncovered by a FOIA lawsuit filed
on May 6, 2015, after the State Department failed to respond to a March 4, 2015 FOIA request seeking all emails sent or
received by Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary of State, as well as all emails by other State Department employees to
Clinton regarding her non-"state.gov" email address.
5
Reasons Hillary Clinton Was the Worst Presidential Nominee in History. [#3] Unaccomplished: Like Obama
before her, Hillary was not qualified to be president. She married the right guy, parlayed that into a short and
largely irrelevant tenure in the Senate, lost a presidential campaign, and then had a short, well-below-average run as
secretary of state. There was absolutely nothing in her background that should have made anyone think, "Wow! With
her accomplishments, she would make a great president." In fact, one of the more hilarious things conservatives did early in
the campaign was to put Hillary Clinton supporters in front of a camera and then ask them to talk about Hillary's accomplishments.
Almost inevitably they blurted out some "You go, girl" platitude because none of them could come up with anything.
The
Clinton State Department's Major Security Breach That Everyone Is Ignoring. Peter Strzok's testimony about the
email server scandal involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised headlines because of his defiant,
disrespectful, and unapologetic attitude about the bias revealed in his text messages that permeated his work at the FBI.
[...] The media, however, virtually ignored another exchange between Gohmert and Strzok that revealed a potential
bombshell. Gohmert asked Strzok about his meeting in 2016 with Frank Rucker and Janette McMillan, an investigator and
lawyer, respectively, for then-Intelligence Community Inspector General Chuck McCullough (an Obama appointee).
McCullough sent them to see Strzok, who was the FBI's deputy assistant director for the Counterintelligence Division, to
brief him and three other FBI personnel about an "anomaly" that their forensic analysis had found in Clinton's server.
According to Gohmert, the inspector general discovered that, with four exceptions, "every single one" of Clinton's
emails — more than 30,000 — "were going to an address that was not on the distribution list."
We
Have Uncovered Thousands of Docs Showing Pay-to-Play Between Hillary State Department and Clinton Foundation.
Newly released documents show Doug Band served as a liaison for Clinton Foundation donors looking for favors and official
acts from the Clinton-run State Department, the ACLJ reported. Doug Band was the 'go-to' guy for Clinton Foundation
donors. If they needed anything from Hillary Clinton, they would email Doug Band and within minutes he would forward
the message to Huma Abedin and or Cheryl Mills to help expedite the favor.
We Fight. [Quoting
candidate Donald Trump, October 13th 2016:] The Clintons are criminals. This is well-documented, and the establishment
that protects them has engaged in a massive cover-up of widespread criminal activity at the State Department and Clinton Foundation
in order to keep the Clintons in power. Never in history have we seen such a cover-up as this, one that includes the destruction
of 33,000 emails, 13 phones, laptops, missing boxes of evidence, and on and on. People who are capable of such crimes
against our nation are capable of anything.
Poof!
Making Documents Vanish is the Democrats' Way. Often, when I mention Hillary's emails to people who work in the
Defense Department or the Intelligence Community, they say something like, "If I did a fraction of what Hillary did, I'd be
in jail." "What Hillary did" was steal 66,000 documents from the State Department. She diverted emails to a server
in her basement, a server to which hostile foreign intelligence services had easy access. Roughly half the emails were
deleted, with some of the deletions occurring — "accidentally," of course — after the emails had been
subpoenaed by Congress. Then-FBI Director James Comey let Clinton off the hook because, he said later, she lacked "evil
intent." In making that judgment, Comey apparently failed to consider that spoliation of evidence — "the
intentional, reckless, or negligent withholding, hiding, altering, fabricating, or destroying of evidence relevant to a legal
proceeding" — is a modus operandi of the Clintons and their associates, and has been for four decades.
Sarkozy
Indicted For Corruption, As Clinton Cabal Crumbles. It seems as if some measure of bad karma has finally come
to haunt the friends of Hillary Clinton, with news emerging this week that France's former President Nicholas Sarkozy has
been indicted for financial corruption in Libya stemming from the late Muammar Gaddafi's alleged financing of Sarkozy's 2007
campaign. With the protection of the neoliberal Queen, Hillary Clinton, removed from the political chess board after
her failed Presidential bid, it remains to be seen as to how many more of her supporters and associates have become
perilously vulnerable to exposure. When then Secretary-of-State Hillary Clinton spat "We came, we saw, he died," in the
wake of Muammar Gaddafi's murder, she was not the only psychopath reveling in a bloody victory: Behind her, in the
shadows, corrupt leaders like Sarkozy were also cheering.
Fifty
Former Failed Obama Administration Foreign Policy "Experts" Form Think-Tank To Unite Against President Trump.
From the insufferable Iran deal, to the appeasement "Russian Reset", to the Libya fiasco, to the rise of ISIS, to installing
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to the explosion of terrorism in Yemen, to civil war in Syria, to the crisis in Ukraine, to
the 2010 State Department apology tour (WikiLeaks cables scandal), to their inability to stop North Korean nuclear ambitions and
the rise of China as an influential power, there were/are zero foreign policy successes in eight years of the Obama administration.
Radical
Islamic Scholar Given U.S. Entry by Hillary Clinton Now Charged With Rape. As Secretary of State in 2010,
Hillary Clinton used her authority to sign a special order that allowed radical Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan into the United
States after he had been banned as a national security threat during the Bush administration. On Feb. 2, 2018, Ramadan
was arrested in Paris and charged for allegedly raping two Muslim women. He has been denied bail. In addition, the
Swiss newspaper, Tribune de Geneve, has reported that Ramadan allegedly tried to seduce one of his former students, who
was 14 at the time. The Tribune also reported that three other female students have come forward claiming that
Ramadan allegedly seduced them.
NBC
News: Documents: Hillary Clinton May Have Killed Investigations Into Pedophile Ring At State Dept..
In a report earlier this week, NBC reported that there were allegations that while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State,
the quashed investigations into a prostitution and pedophile ring that was operating inside the department in order to avoid
scandal and protect high-ranking employees and an ambassador.
FBI
Investigating Clinton Foundation "Pay-for-Play" Scheme. As The New American has reported on numerous
previous occasions, the Clinton Foundation was at the center of a "pay-for-play" scheme in which both American citizens and
foreign nationals were granted access to the higher tiers of government after making substantial "donations" to the
foundation. When she was secretary of state, Clinton sent and received at least 2,079 classified e-mails over her
unsecured, unauthorized, private e-mail server and account. Many of those and other e-mails showed that she was
involved in an illegal scheme to blur the lines between the Department of State and the Clinton Foundation by soliciting
"donations" to the foundation in exchange for access to the U.S. government — essentially auctioning off access to
the Department of State.
Passwords:
Another case of Democrats unclear on the concept. What do you need spies for when you have people like this on
staff at State? The Russian intelligence services probably just kicked back and relaxed after that one fell into their
laps. It's not the first time Democrats have been caught failing to protect sensitive passwords. They're so lax
that they don't protect even themselves, as John Podesta, the lizard-like Democratic operative and chairman of the Hillary
Clinton campaign for president in 2016, found out. Podesta, recall, used the word "password" as his password on personal
email while serving as chief of the Hillary Clinton campaign. His account was breached by Russian hackers, and then its
contents were leaked all over the place by WikiLeaks.
Stunning
Audacity — Clinton Tweets Support For Iranian Protests She Previously Helped Destroy. Arguably the
most consequential failure of the Hillary State Department was in 2009 when the U.S. undermined the Iranian Green
Revolution. Not only did the U.S. do nothing to help the opposition against the Iranian regime, but US funding was cut
for democratic organizations/programs in Iran under Clinton's State Department. It was Hillary Clinton who supported
the Mullahs in an ill-fated decision to achieve the ridiculous Iranian Nuclear Deal which she was just praising and defending
three months ago.
Judicial
Watch: State Department Made Deal with Hillary Clinton to Keep Call Log, Schedules Secret. Judicial Watch
today [12/14/2017] released new U.S. Department of State documents showing former Secretary Hillary Clinton and her
then-Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin were permitted to remove electronic and physical records under a claim they were
"personal" materials and "unclassified, non-record materials," including files of Clinton's calls and schedules, which were
not to be made public. The documents show the Obama State Department records would not be "released to the general
public under FOIA." The new records also show that Huma Abedin was allowed to take five boxes of "physical files"
out of the State Department that include records described as "Muslim Engagement Documents."
Huma
Abedin Took "Muslim Engagement" Files Out of State Dept. The focus of the Muslim engagement under Obama was the
Muslim Brotherhood. I can't imagine why Huma might have wanted to remove those. Not a single thought comes to
mind as to why a woman accused of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood would want to do such a thing.
Obama
State Department Let Clinton And Huma Make Off With Boxes Of 'Muslim Engagement' Docs. The Obama State
Department allowed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin to remove call logs, scheduling
documents and files described as "Muslim Engagement" from government premises by labeling the records "private," Judicial
Watch has learned. Judicial Watch obtained records about the document removals in response to a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request for all forms authorizing the removal of "personal papers and non-record materials," according to a
Thursday press release. "These new documents show the Obama State Department had a deal with Hillary Clinton to hide
her calls logs and schedules, which would be contrary to FOIA and other laws," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a
statement. "When are the American people going to get an honest investigation of the Clinton crimes?"
What
Were Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin Trying to Hide? [W]hen then-Rep. Michele Bachmann and four of her
colleagues asked the State Department in 2012 about the ties its Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, had with the jihadist
Muslim Brotherhood, their concerns deserved careful scrutiny. Instead, Ms. Bachmann especially was vilified as an
"Islamophobe" and the questions went unanswered. Yesterday, Judicial Watch revealed that Ms. Abedin was allowed to
remove — and presumably destroy — papers about "Muslim engagement" when she and her boss, Hillary
Clinton, left the Department. Inquiring minds want to know: Did Abedin actually enable the Muslim Brotherhood's
infiltration, yet another example of the Clinton team's betrayal of our national security?
State
Department Made Deal with Hillary Clinton to Keep Call Log, Schedules Secret. Judicial Watch today [12/14/2017]
released new U.S. Department of State documents showing former Secretary Hillary Clinton and her then-Deputy Chief of Staff
Huma Abedin were permitted to remove electronic and physical records under a claim they were "personal" materials and "unclassified,
non-record materials," including files of Clinton's calls and schedules, which were not to be made public. The documents show
the Obama State Department records would not be "released to the general public under FOIA." The new records also show that
Huma Abedin was allowed to take five boxes of "physical files" out of the State Department that include records described as
"Muslim Engagement Documents."
Hillary
Clinton Personally Overturned Visa Ban for Islamist Figure Now Accused of Rape. European Islamist scion Tariq
Ramadan was banned from the U.S. by the Bush administration in February 2004 for his financial support of a charity that
funded terrorist groups. In January 2010, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton overturned that ban. Clinton
personally approved a visa for the controversial grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, Tariq Ramadan
is facing multiple accusations of rape and sexual assault of minors. Hillary Clinton's visa for Tariq Ramadan was seen
as part of the new Obama administration policy of embracing more hardcore Islamists.
Judicial
Watch says State Department sits on a 'motherlode' of Clinton documents. In a bombshell announcement, Judicial
Watch announced that the State Department has not even searched the majority of Hillary Clinton emails that it obtained from
the FBI during the criminal investigation into Clinton's conduct as Secretary of State. In a statement on Monday
[10/23/2017], the transparency advocacy group declared that the State Department told a federal court that it has yet to
process 40,000 of 72,000 pages of Clinton records that the FBI recovered last year. The revelation came during a
federal court hearing in Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking the former top diplomat's emails
that were sent or received during her tenure from February 2009 to January 31, 2013.
Judicial
Watch: FBI Recovered 72,000 Pages of Clinton Records. [Scroll down] The State Department has produced
23 batches of documents so far. At the current pace, the Clinton emails and other records won't be fully
available for possible release until at least 2020. Clinton attempted to delete 33,000 emails from her non-government
server. The FBI investigation recovered or found a number of these missing emails, many of which were government
documents. The lawsuit was originally filed in May 2015. "Secretary Tillerson should be asked why his State
Department is still sitting on a motherlode of Clinton emails," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "It is
disheartening that an administration elected to 'drain the swamp' is stalling the release of documents to protect Hillary
Clinton and the Obama administration." In a related lawsuit Judicial Watch recently revealed that the State Department
admitted it received 2,800 Huma Abedin work-related documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that were found
on her estranged husband Anthony Weiner's personal laptop. The State Department expects to complete its review and
production of the FBI records by December 31, 2017.
Trump
hits back at 'Crooked Hillary,' blames her for North Korea's nuclear progress. President Trump on Wednesday [9/20/2017]
hit back at Hillary Clinton for criticizing him over his tough talk at the United Nations aimed at stopping North Korea's pursuit
of a nuclear arsenal. In an early morning tweet, Trump seemed to put the blame on Clinton for the current standoff with Pyongyang.
Hillary holds
a fire sale. Pay-to-play is alive and well with Hillary Clinton, now that she's charging $2,375.95 a pop to
hear her pitch her new book for sale called What Happened. Two thousand bucks? To hear her shill a book you
could order just as easily on Amazon if you really wanted it? Seems she hasn't changed a bit from her glory days shaking
down donations for the Clinton Foundation in exchange for favors. Back then, she was charging between $1 million
and $5 million a head for access to Herself and her State Department from any gamy player with the bucks to shell
out — sultans, emirs, oligarchs, goons. They all had money that was welcome, and the Clinton Foundation
rolled in the dough as she sold the State Department.
Grassley
asks State for details on Clinton's security clearance. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is asking the State
Departments for details on the security clearances of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides.
Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, sent a letter this week to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wanting to know if
the agency has suspended or revoked Clinton or her staffers' clearances. "Any other government workers who engaged in
such serious offenses would, at a minimum, have their clearances suspended pending an investigation. The failure to do
so has given the public the impression that Secretary Clinton and her associates received special treatment," Grassley wrote
in the letter.
Hillary
Clinton aides had access to State Dept. after she left, says key lawmaker. When Hillary Clinton resigned as
Secretary of State in 2013, she negotiated continuing access to classified and top-secret documents for herself and six
staffers under the designation "research assistants," according to a powerful senator who notes that Clinton was later deemed
"extremely careless" with such information. The staff apparently retained access even after Clinton announced her run
for president in April 2015, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. The access was ostensibly granted to facilitate
work on Clinton's memoir, but Grassley said he was only able to verify it after the Obama administration left the White House.
Judicial
Watch: New Documents Show Clinton Conflicts of Interest. Judicial Watch announced that it has received 508 pages of documents in
response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking information about possible conflicts of interest between the actions taken by Hillary Clinton
as Secretary of State and Bill Clinton's activities. More than 440 pages of the documents were redacted either in full, or with only minor
notations remaining.
State
Department contractors detail how Clinton and her team ignored security rules. Two State Department
contractors, with decades of experience protecting the United States' most sensitive secrets, are speaking out for the first
time about Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state and how the rules for government security clearance holders did not
seem to apply to Clinton and her team. "The State Department was her oyster and it was great for the [Clinton]
foundation and great for the Clintons to be able to have such a great position," Dave Whitnah told Fox News. Whitnah
said he worked within the State Department's Office of Security Technology which is responsible for cameras and alarms and
sweeping for bugs. Whitnah said everyone understood the secretary of state is the primary target of foreign
intelligence services.
Clinton's charity
confirms Qatar's $1 million gift while she was at State Dept. Clinton signed an ethics agreement governing her
family's globe-straddling foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009. The agreement was designed to increase
transparency to avoid appearances that U.S. foreign policy could be swayed by wealthy donors. If a new foreign
government wished to donate or if an existing foreign-government donor, such as Qatar, wanted to "increase materially" its
support of ongoing programs, Clinton promised that the State Department's ethics official would be notified and given a
chance to raise any concerns. Clinton Foundation officials last month declined to confirm the Qatar donation.
The
Clinton E-mails Are Critical to the Clinton Foundation Investigation. The Wall Street Journal's report
that, for over a year, the FBI has been investigating the Clinton Foundation for potential financial crimes and influence
peddling is, as Rich Lowry said Monday [10/31/2016], a blockbuster. As I argued over the weekend, the manner in which
the State Department was put in the service of the Foundation during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary is shocking.
It is suggestive of a pattern of pay-to-play bribery, the monetizing of political influence, fraud, and obstruction of justice
that the Justice Department should be investigating as a possible RICO conspiracy under the federal anti-racketeering laws.
Four FBI Probes
Related to the Clintons. [#1] Clinton Foundation: Four FBI field offices — New York, Los
Angeles, Little Rock and Washington DC — have been involved in a lengthy probe of the Clinton Foundation
charity. "Pay to play" allegations include the charity soliciting donations from corporations and foreign countries in
exchange for access and policy considerations from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which she denies. Emails
published this month by Wikileaks reflect consternation among various Clinton allies about the possible appearance of
conflicts of interests. Chelsea, the Clintons' daughter, worried about blurred lines between the charity and the for
profit business of one of her father's aides. In emails, the aide, Douglas Band, discussed how he'd arranged millions
of dollars in income for Bill Clinton from foundation donors. He referred to the arrangement as "Bill Clinton, Inc."
Clinton's
State Department spent $5.4 million on 'crystal stemware'. Hillary Clinton's State Department spent millions of
taxpayer dollars on lavish goods and frivolous initiatives, such as a $5.4 million "no-bid contract for crystal stemware" and
$630,000 to "increase Facebook likes on four State Department pages." [...] While wasteful spending is a familiar find at most
federal agencies, Clinton presided over particularly expensive unsuccessful reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Her agency spent more than $600 million on failed projects in those two countries alone, according to the RNC memo.
FBI
Notes Reveal Security Concerns Over Huma Abedin. [Scroll down] The security agents, who were interviewed
as witnesses in the FBI's investigation of Clinton's use of an unauthorized private email server to send classified
information, complained that Abedin had unusual sway over security policies during Clinton's 2009-2013 tenure at Foggy
Bottom. FBI interview notes indicate that Abedin, a Pakistani-American Muslim whose family has deep ties to Saudi
Arabia, Pakistan and the radical Muslim Brotherhood, was granted Top Secret security clearance for the first time in 2009,
when Clinton named her deputy chief of staff for operations. Abedin said she "did not remember" being read into any
Special Access Programs (SAPs) or compartments. If Clinton wins the presidency next month, she is expected to tap
Abedin as her chief of staff, a position that would give her the power to run White House operations — including
personnel security and visitor access. The position does not require Senate confirmation.
Clinton's
Lavish State Department Spending. Now, in another new report, we are learning that Hillary
Clinton's State Department wasted hundreds of millions of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars on a wild spending binge. [...]
These are all State Department expenditures during her tenure: • $5.4 million on a no-bid
contract for Crystal Stemware • $167.5 million on cost overruns at the Embassy in Kabul,
Afghanistan • Over $200 million on mostly unused police training facilities in Iraq
• $79,000 to buy copies of President Obama's books • $53,000 to polish marble at the
Brazilian Embassy • $630,000 to try to make State Department Facebook pages more popular
• $216,000 to hire an event planner for a 4th of July party in Madrid • $88,000 to send
three comedians to India • More than $250,000 to purchase art in Mexico •
$410,000 to purchase art in China
Podesta
relative earned six-figure fees lobbying Clinton's State Dept. during his tenure there. [Scroll down] At
that time, when Clinton was traveling to a record number of foreign countries, Podesta, a former White House chief of staff
under President Clinton, held dual titles at the State Department: as a senior advisor — entitled to an annual
salary of $130,000 never paid him, the department maintains — and as a member of a prestigious foreign policy
advisory board Secretary Clinton created. Records obtained from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management show Podesta's
tenure at State extended from Sept. 25, 2011 to Jan. 4, 2014. For several months in 2012, Clinton's final
year as secretary of state, Raytheon, the leading defense contractor, hired Podesta's sister-in-law, Heather Podesta, as a
lobbyist, federal records show.
Hillary
is a deranged sociopathic war criminal who should be indicted for conspiracy and murder. As Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton directly oversaw the overthrow of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi via NATO bombing in support of
al-Qaida-linked terror groups. This resulted in a failed state, the murder of hundreds of thousands (if not millions)
of innocent Libyan citizens — including Christians — the rise of ISIS (and other terror organizations)
and the Benghazi gun-running operation that resulted in the death of American Ambassador Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign
Service operative Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Gen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods. "We came, we saw, he died," she
cackled, callously oblivious and impervious to the death, destruction and chaos she caused or the brutal and inhuman way in
which Gadhafi was beaten, sodomized and summarily executed.
House
Republicans are already preparing for 'years' of investigations of Clinton. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah congressman wrapping up his first term atop the
powerful House Oversight Committee, unendorsed Donald Trump weeks ago. That freed him up to prepare for something else: spending years, come January,
probing the record of a President Hillary Clinton. "It's a target-rich environment," the Republican said in an interview in Salt Lake City's suburbs.
"Even before we get to Day One, we've got two years' worth of material already lined up. She has four years of history at the State Department,
and it ain't good."
The Editor says...
Tough talk is worthless unless it is accompanied by meaningful action. If all Congressmen were like Mr. Chaffetz, a corrupt president (or federal judge) could be
successfully impeached in a few weeks, but with the current crop of invertebrates, centrists and partisan obstructionist Democrats, no such action will occur.
Especially if the defendant is another sacred cow, like the one we've endured for the past eight years.
13 Times
Hillary Clinton Was A Truly 'Nasty Woman'. [#11] Prioritizing the Interests of Those Who Could Write Her Fat
Checks above Those of Taxpayers: During her time at the State Department, Hillary spent a majority of her time with
Clinton Foundation donors. It also appears Clinton delivered a speech in Morocco and pushed the U.S. government to lift
an arms embargo on Bahrain in exchange for large sums of money. Her decisions, travel schedule, and even her appointment
book seem to be determined by whoever could write the fattest check to her family's slush fund rather than what was actually
of interest to the American people.
The
$6 Billion Clinton's State Dept LOST Was Not 'Debunked'. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's claim that the $6 billion
the Department of State lost was "debunked" contradicts multiple investigations and audits by the agency's watchdog. "When you ran
the State Department, $6 billion was missing," Republican nominee Trump said during Wednesday's [10/19/2016] final presidential
debate. "How do you miss $6 billion? Six billion dollars was either stolen, they don't know. It's gone."
Clinton replied: "Well, first of all, what he just said about the State Department is not only untrue, it's been debunked numerous
times." But it was the State Department's Inspector General (IG) who found in three investigations and two audits that an
estimated $6 billion was lost to contract mismanagement, fraud and incompetence during Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
FBI
Docs: Hillary Clinton Removed Furniture from State Department to Furnish D.C. Home. An unnamed State
Department staffer disclosed to the FBI that Hillary Clinton and her staff took lamps and furniture from the State Department
to furnish Clinton's D.C. residence, according to FBI documents. The FBI document of this exchange is part of "The Vault,"
which is a collection of documents providing evidence for federal investigators looking into Clinton's private email server.
Most of the documents are testimonies provided to federal investigators in interviews the agents conducted with witnesses.
Hillary
Clinton accused of stealing furniture from the State Department. Hillary Clinton swiped State Department
furniture to decorate her Washington home, a former member of her security detail has alleged to the FBI. "Early in
Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, she and her staff were observed removing lamps and furniture from the State
Department which were transported to her residence in Washington, DC," an agent on the detail told the FBI. The agent
"does not know whether these items were ever returned to the government," according to FBI notes.
Hillary
Clinton Ran a "Shadow Government" Inside the State Department. We already knew — based upon FBI
director James Comey's egregious decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton or her aides for multiple felonies —
that there's one set of laws for the oligarchy and another for the little people. A tranche of FBI documents released
earlier today under FOIA request reveal that Hillary Clinton was also running a "shadow government" inside the State
Department. [...] Bribes, running "a shadow government", and a complete disregard for maintaining the security of America's
national secrets: what's not to like in a candidate like Hillary Clinton?
Companies
used Clinton fundraiser to lobby State Department. The nexus among private companies, Hillary Clinton's State
Department and the Clinton family foundations is closer and more complex than even Donald Trump has claimed so far.
While it is widely known that some companies and foreign governments gave money to the foundations, perhaps in an effort to
gain favor, one of the key parts of the puzzle hasn't been reported: At least a dozen of those same companies lobbied
the State Department, using lobbyists who doubled as major Clinton campaign fundraisers. Those companies gave as much
as $16 million to the Clinton charities.
Riding in Cars With Huma: Hillary
Clinton Snubbed Diplomats to Stay Near Aide. Hillary Clinton "blatantly" disregarded security and diplomatic
protocols as Secretary of State and frequently insulted U.S. ambassadors by refusing to ride with them to diplomatic events
abroad, a former U.S. diplomatic security officer told FBI agents investigating Clinton's private email server.
According to FBI interview notes released Monday, the former security officer described the "stark difference" between
Hillary Clinton's conduct as secretary of state and the conduct of her predecessor Condoleezza Rice, who closely adhered
to the appropriate protocols. Hillary's "abundant" protocol breaches, on the other hand, were widely known in the
diplomatic security community.
Marc
Turi Speaks Out About Hillary Clinton's Covert Weapons Shipments. Marc Turi was the guy who constructed the
covert weapons shipments into Libya to overthrown Mouamar Gaddaffi (2011) and send weapons to the Libyan Transitional
National Government supported by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During the original phase of the Libyan uprising,
early February 2011, the first defector from the official Gaddaffi regime was a foreign justice minister named Mustafa Abdel Jalil.
Arms
dealer says administration made him scapegoat on Libya operation to 'protect' Clinton. American arms dealer
Marc Turi, in his first television interview since criminal charges against him were dropped, told Fox News that the Obama
administration — with the cooperation of Hillary Clinton's State Department — tried and failed to make
him the scapegoat for a 2011 covert weapons program to arm Libyan rebels that spun out of control. "I would say, 100 percent,
I was victimized... to somehow discredit me, to throw me under the bus, to do whatever it took to protect their next presidential
candidate," he told Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge.
FBI
files reveal missing email 'boxes' in Clinton case, allegations of evidence tampering. Buried in the 189 pages
of heavily redacted FBI witness interviews from the Hillary Clinton email investigation are details of yet another mystery —
about two missing "bankers boxes" filled with the former secretary of state's emails. The interviews released earlier this month,
known as 302s, also reveal the serious allegation that senior State Department official Patrick Kennedy applied pressure to subordinates
to change the classified email codes so they would be shielded from Congress and the public.
Why
Doesn't The Media Ask Hillary About State Dept./ Clinton Foundation Ties To Russia? [Scroll down] On the
other hand, the media is ignoring the financial connections between Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and Russia that
suggest Hillary Clinton has already shown favoritism toward Russia. When she was secretary of state, Clinton made
deals with Clinton Foundation donors, one resulted in Russian control of 20% of American uranium reserves, another gave Putin
access to our military technology. In April 2015 the NY Times disclosed a deal which enabled Russia to own about 20% of
the uranium production capacity of the United States for a $2.35 million donation to the Clinton Family Foundation.
According to the report a Canadian based company Uranium One, owned the uranium assets was being purchased by Russian state
atomic energy agency Rosatom — a deal which had to be approved by various U.S. agencies including the State
Department. Canadian records show that while the State Department was mulling of the deal, the family foundation of
Chairman of Uranium One made four donations totaling $2.35 million to the Clinton Family Foundation.
Justice
Department drops case against arms trader who 'sold weapons to Libyan rebels' after he threatened to expose Obama and
Clinton's role in arming extremists. An arms dealer who allegedly sold weapons to rebels in Libya has walked
free after the Obama administration dropped charges amid claims the White House was worried about the trial showing Hillary
Clinton in a negative light. Federal prosecutors had faced a deadline of today to turn over discovery documents to Marc
Turi's legal team after he had been charged with selling weapons to Libyan rebels. A trial was scheduled for November 8,
the same day as the Presidential Election. But late on Tuesday [10/4/2016], the Obama administration dropped the case.
'I am glad this horrific five-year ordeal is over and I am pleased to be able to move on with my life,' Mr Turi told Fox News.
'The American public has the right to know that an injustice was committed against an innocent American.'
Arms
dealer who threatened to reveal Clinton's Libya dealings rips DOJ for 'injustice'. An arms dealer who had
threatened to reveal potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton's alleged role in arming Islamist militants until
federal prosecutors abruptly dropped their case against him Tuesday, told Fox News the case has cost him everything.
Federal prosecutors faced a Wednesday deadline to turn over discovery documents to the legal team of American Marc Turi, who
had been charged with selling weapons to Libyan rebels. Late Tuesday [10/4/2016], an announcement came that the government
was dropping the case, which was set to go to trial on Nov. 8 — the day American voters choose between Clinton and GOP
nominee Donald Trump. The move may avert a release of potentially explosive documents.
New
emails show intersection of Clinton Foundation, State Dept., paid speeches. A new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's time at
the State Department offered fresh evidence Wednesday [10/6/2016] of the pains Clinton's staff took to accommodate her husband's paid speeches
and her family's foundation — just hours after Sen. Tim Kaine dismissed the possibility that the Clinton Foundation had wielded
influence over his running mate. Emails showed Clinton's aides teamed up with the foundation to perform donor maintenance, craft
messaging on key policies and put together guest lists for both diplomatic and philanthropic events. State Department staffers were often
asked to advise Clinton's husband on how to handle politically-fraught speaking engagements or foundation events, such as an effort to bring the
new Libyan president to a Clinton Global Initiative meeting that was held less than two weeks after the 2012 Benghazi attacks.
My single biggest takeaway from
last night's debate. Tim Kaine has to be one of the most delusional people I've ever seen. To say Hillary Clinton stopped or
eliminated the Iranian nuclear program is nuts — there is no agreement with the Iranians. They've violated every bit of that
worthless piece of paper. And Osama bin Laden's death has meant nothing as we've seen a proliferation of the global Islamic jihad.
For Kaine to say Hillary Clinton knows Vladimir Putin... then why did she give him a stupid yellow toy with a red button? The reset has
failed. This was all about Kaine attempting to attack Pence for being Trump's running mate — he failed miserably.
Let's
play 'who lost more money': Trump or Hillary? Hillary says she can't understand how anyone in business could
ever lose $1 billion in a single year, yet somehow, according to an inspector general's report, the State Department
misplaced $6 billion of taxpayer money because of inadequate internal controls. Most of the sum was lost during
Hillary's four years. Hillary's losses cost the taxpayers much more than Trump's.
Key
Hillary Clinton aide repeatedly misplaced sensitive info, according to reports. A top aide to then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton found herself in hot water in 2013 with the agency's security and law enforcement arm when she lost
classified information while accompanying her boss on a diplomatic trip to Moscow, an incident that the FBI revisited earlier
this year when it probed Clinton's own problems handling sensitive data. Monica Hanley, Clinton's "confidential
assistant" at the state department, was reprimanded and given "verbal counseling" by Diplomatic Security after she left
classified material behind in the Moscow hotel, FBI documents show. The FBI spoke to Hanley, 35, in January as a part
of its investigation into Clinton's handling of top-secret and classified information when she was Secretary of State.
Hillary
"Forgot" to Take Security Training While at State Department. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton failed to
complete the highest level of security training mandated by the Department of State for the proper handling of the
government's most secret documents when she entered the department in 2009, according to documents obtained by The Daily
Caller News Foundation under the Freedom of Information Act. The State Department released 46 pages of previously
unseen documents Tuesday under a Sept. 20, 2016, order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon.
Hillary
Clinton's State Department Allowed Millions of Taxpayer Dollars to Be Spent Helping Companies Outsource American
Jobs. Hillary Clinton's State Department oversaw a government agency's expenditure of millions of taxpayer
dollars to help companies outsource American tech jobs to foreign countries. In 2010, the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars building schools in Sri Lanka and Armenia, specifically to
increase those countries' outsourcing capacity to take away American jobs.
Hillary failed as secretary
of state — why would president be any different? Hillary Clinton boasts that her experience
traveling to 112 countries as secretary of state qualifies her to be president. Don't believe it. Evidence shows
she left the State Department in shambles and our nation weaker. Her record at Foggy Bottom disqualifies her to be
president. Her failures go beyond leaving four Americans to die in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, the ridiculous Russian
"reset" and the carnage in Syria that she and President Obama idly watched unfold — and that gets more horrific daily.
The Case
Against Hillary. Today, Betsy McCaughey lays out the case against Hillary in a newspaper column. For all
her bravado and posturing on the international stage, Hillary has nothing to show but worldwide calamity. Is the world
better off now than it was when Hillary assumed power in the state department. As for her ability to manage the
department, all reports suggest that she was incompetent. And let's note that Hillary was not the only woman in
charge. She tends to surround herself with women. Some will say that this does not matter. Others will
note that it probably does.
The Case
Against Hillary. For bringing more death, destruction, destitution and chaos to the world, Hillary Clinton
ranks among the most incompetent American Secretaries of State. Benghazi was obviously not an isolated case.
Hillary was responsible for the security of her ambassadors. Either did not know what to do or did not care, but she
outsourced security around the world. Those who were providing security were not qualified to do the job. And we
did not know who they were anyway. In Benghazi, when the attack began, they simply ran away.
Hillary
Failed To Take Highest Security Training At State Dept In 2009. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton failed to
complete the highest level of security training mandated by the Department of State for the proper handling of the
government's most secret documents when she entered the department in 2009, according to documents obtained by The Daily
Caller News Foundation under the Freedom of Information Act. The State Department released 46 pages of previously
unseen documents Tuesday under a Sept. 20, 2016, order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon.
Did Clinton Emails
Get Iranian Scientist Killed? Senator Tom Cotton fielded an explosive charge this weekend: that then-Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton exposed one of America's spies and got him killed. Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri was hanged
by the Iranian regime after a secret trial. His original sentence was reported to be ten years, although it was not
officially proclaimed as the Iranian regime often issues secret sentences. Secretary Clinton's emails discussed, in an
unclassified and unsecure format, the fact that he had provided "useful information" to the United States.
Fewer
than one in five State Dept employees with security clearance completed classified info training. Fewer than
one in five employees with a security clearance at the State Department has completed the mandated training for handling
classified information as required by a 2009 Executive Order signed by President Obama, according to a new report from the
government watchdog with oversight. "Based on training records obtained from the Foreign Service Institute, the OIG
(Office of the Inspector General) found that less than 14 percent of security-cleared employees had completed the required
training within the timeframe considered in this review. Moreover, only 20 percent had completed the training even
one time since the outset of the training program," the report said.
Many
recovered Clinton emails won't go public before election. Hope you aren't waiting for the State Department to
publish every last document from Hillary Clinton's private email server before making a voting decision — you're
going to be disappointed. A federal judge has set a schedule that will only publish 1,050 pages of recently recovered
material (out of roughly 10,000 pages) by November 4th, mere days before the US presidential election on the 8th.
The Department has promised to process 500 pages per month, so you won't get the full scoop until well after the next president
takes office.
The Editor says...
It is obvious to anyone with a calculator that the State Department is engaged in partisan foot-dragging until after the presidential election.
Here's why: If it takes a month to read 500 pages, that's 86 minutes per page. Does it take you an hour and a half to read
every email message you get, and figure out what it means? Is there only one person at the State Department doing this work?
Judge
to State Department: You have five days to release Hillary's records. A frustrated federal judge ordered
the State Department to begin producing within five days hundreds of documents on whether required or recommended security
training, briefings or courses were completed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides. Judge
Richard Leon ruled Tuesday [9/20/2016] in favor of The Daily Caller News Foundation by rejecting the State Department's
motion to dismiss TheDCNF's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit concerning production of the documents originally sought under
the Freedom of Information Act. But he also denied TheDCNF's request to depose State Department officials. The
State Department has been unable to produce any records confirming that Clinton and her top aides received mandatory annual
security briefings about the proper handling of classified materials and the proper methods for conducting secure communications.
Breaking:
Judge Orders Release of Clinton Security Training Docs To Begin In Five Days. A frustrated federal judge
ordered the State Department to begin producing within five days hundreds of documents on whether required or recommended
security training, briefings or courses were completed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides.
Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday in favor of The Daily Caller News Foundation by rejecting the State Department's motion to
dismiss TheDCNF's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit concerning production of the documents originally sought under the
Freedom of Information Act. But he also denied TheDCNF's request to depose State Department officials.
The
Clinton Foundation has become a clear liability, as Bill Clinton mounts his big defense. Although Clinton and
supporters of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign are clearly apoplectic that a charitable foundation that has done so
much good work has become a potential liability for them in 2016, the fact remains that it has. Bill Clinton emphasizes
that no direct financial benefit was involved — "Nobody in my family ever took a penny out of this foundation, and
[we] put millions of dollars in," he told NPR this week — but a clear majority of Americans believe the foundation,
at best, raises concerns about conflicts of interest. And they say, by a huge margin, that Hillary Clinton did favors
for its donors during her time as secretary of state.
Documents
appear to implicate State Dept. in cover-up on Clinton emails. The U.S. State Department waited over a year
before producing emails stored on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server despite 17 Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, "in August 2013, State Department
officials were aware of 17 FOIA requests relating to requests for Clinton correspondence, including four that 'specifically
mention emails or email accounts.' "Despite the large number of FOIA requests and growing concern among top agency
officials, the State Department did not formally request that the former secretary of state produce the emails on the
clintonemail.com server until October 2014."
Under
Secretary Clinton, U.S. Permanently Resettled 31,000 Somali Migrants. Reports have identified the suspect
responsible for stabbing nine people at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota as Dahir Adan, a recent
immigrant from Somalia. According to Ahmed Adan, the suspect's father, his son immigrated to the United States
15 years ago.
From
Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer. Before becoming Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills worked for [Hillary] Clinton on an unpaid
basis for four months while also working for New York University, in which capacity she negotiated on the school's behalf with the government of Abu Dhabi, where it
was building a campus. In June 2012, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin's status at State changed to "special government employee," allowing her to also work
for Teneo, a consulting firm run by Bill Clinton's former right-hand man. She also earned money from the Clinton Foundation and was paid directly by Hillary
Clinton. In a separate case, ABC News reports that a top Clinton Foundation donor named Rajiv Fernando was placed on State's International Security Advisory
Board. Fernando appeared significantly less qualified than many of his colleagues, and was appointed at the behest of the secretary's office. Internal emails
show that State staff first sought to cover for Clinton, and then Fernando resigned two days after ABC's inquiries. Judicial Watch released documents that
show Doug Band, a Foundation official, trying to put a donor in touch with a State Department expert on Lebanon and to get someone a job at Foggy Bottom.
Bill
Clinton admits: 'Maybe' some donated money to influence State Dept.. Bill Clinton on Sunday acknowledged that
some of the donors to the Clinton Foundation likely made those donations in order to influence foreign policy, when Hillary
Clinton led the State Department. But in a Sunday interview with NPR, Clinton insisted that the donations never
influenced policy. "Well, since we had more 300,000 donors, it would be unusual if nobody did," Clinton said when
asked if some of the donors might have been trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons.
Judge
blasts State Dept for slow-walking Hillary emails. A federal judge blasted the Obama administration for
slow-walking the release of some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, saying in court Monday that the
government appears to be withholding information from voters ahead of the election. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon
said the State Department in not "being all that cooperative," and told the Justice Department lawyers to get the State
Department to shape up and do its duty. "Get with the program, so to speak, so that the people of this country can have
the information they need," he ordered. "The State Department needs to start cooperating to the fullest extent
possible. They are not perceived to be doing that."
Leaked papers appear to reveal Dem
'pay for play' scheme. The same Democratic law firm working with Google to provide people with election
information may have helped the Obama administration to run a "pay for play" operation that could explain how ambassadorships
were awarded during Hillary Clinton's tenure at the State Department, according to new leaked documents purportedly from the
Democratic National Committee. The revelation about the Seattle-based Perkins Coie was included in a batch of documents
leaked Tuesday [9/13/2016] by Guccifer 2.0, a hacker who holds information on both the DNC and the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee. Democrats have warned some of the papers might be counterfeit, but Guccier 2.0 has leaked other
papers that were not disputed by Democrats.
Clinton's
experience with classified data contradicts 'unsophisticated' excuse. "She doesn't come into this as your
average person. She comes in as someone who served on the Armed Services Committee, who has been privy to classified
information in the past before she became secretary of state, and, by the way, she was a former first lady," said Sen.
Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican who sits on the same committee, and who said she found Mrs. Clinton's
explanation to be incredible. The latest evidence confounding those trying to understand Mrs. Clinton's handling
of emails comes from the FBI, which released notes of its criminal investigation last week showing the former secretary
remarkably unaware of her own classification powers as secretary.
The US promised to rebuild Haiti after the earthquake.
Here's what actually happened. Promoted by Bill and Hillary Clinton through the work of the Clinton Foundation
and during her tenure as secretary of state, the 600-acre, $300 million Caracol Industrial Park was meant to be the U.S.
government's flagship reconstruction project in the Caribbean nation. At its star-studded opening in 2012, then-Secretary
Clinton called it "a model not just for Haiti, but for the world." [...] The State Department and its partners said the park
would create 65,000 jobs when fully operational. Nearly four years later, there are just over 9,000 employees.
Workers that Circa spoke with make the equivalent of $3.81 per day.
Clinton's
Campaign Manager Kept Blacklist of Potential State Dept Hires. Hillary Clinton's campaign manager maintained a
secret blacklist of people he deemed unqualified to work at the State Department as the former secretary of state was
beginning her tenure under the Obama administration, the New York Post reported Tuesday [9/6/2016]. "We are
beginning the process of separating people we may want to hire from people we do not want to hire at all," Robby Mook wrote
in an email to Clinton aides on Feb. 23, 2009, two weeks after Clinton started in her role as secretary of state.
"Below is a list of people we are proposing NOT to hire (the 'no-offer' list), along with the name of the person who submitted
their resume," he continued.
Judge
gives State until after election to release some Clinton docs. A federal judge on Tuesday [9/6/2016] gave the
State Department until February 2017 to release the full 1,600-page file of records about official events during Hillary
Clinton's tenure, assuring that the full batch is not public by Election Day. Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia declared that the State Department will have to release at least 300 pages of the records
per month to the Republican National Committee (RNC), which has sued the Obama administration over the materials. The
order is nonetheless a setback for the RNC, which had pleaded with the court in August for the entire slate of records to be
made public well before the November election.
$6
Billion Vanishes From State Dept. Under Hillary Clinton. In a mind-boggling example of how the government
blows — or perhaps steals — our tax dollars, billions vanished from the U.S. State Department mostly
while Hillary Clinton ran it, according to a new alert issued by the agency's inspector general. Could the former
Secretary of State be using the cash to fund an upcoming presidential campaign? In all, $6 billion are missing and it's
highly unlikely any of the money will ever be recovered. The cash was supposed to be used to pay contractors but it just
disappeared and documents that could help track the dough cannot be located. How convenient! The paper trail, which
federal law says must be maintained in the case of government contracts, has been destroyed or was never created to begin with.
Clinton
Accused of Misleading Senate to Get Herself Confirmed as Sec. of State. [Scroll down] Senator John Cornyn
made the statement to The Hill during a recent interview published on Monday. In the interview, the Texas Senator
essentially said he felt Clinton pulled fast one lawmakers eight years ago during her confirmation hearing to become
Secretary of State. Back in 2009, Sen. Cornyn held up Clinton's nomination until he was satisfied that proper
safeguards were in place to address concerns over conflicts of interest regarding foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
New
questions arise about Clinton Foundation ties to State Department. A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State
Department agreed to try to obtain a special diplomatic passport for an adviser to former President Bill Clinton in 2009,
according to emails released Thursday [9/1/2016], raising new questions about whether people tied to the Clinton Foundation received
special access at the department.
FBI
Report Reveals Clinton Didn't Know What 'C' in Emails Meant. The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday [9/2/2016]
released notes from its 3½ hour interview with Hillary Clinton about her use of a private email server while she was
secretary of state. The agency released 58 pages of emails from Clinton, of which 14 were redacted due to their sensitive
nature. Judicial Watch director of investigations Chris Farrell called the timing of the FBI release "classic Washington D.C.
style" and is disappointed at the agency's approach.
State
Department to release all Clinton schedules before election. The State Department agreed Thursday to turn over
all the planning schedules from Hillary Clinton's time serving as secretary of state to The Associated Press by mid-October
in an abrupt reversal from U.S. government lawyers' warning last week that hundreds of pages would not be released until
after the presidential election. The decision will make available all of Clinton's minute-by-minute schedules before
the presidential election. Those planning documents offer a detailed look at Clinton's daily routine during her
four-year tenure as secretary of state between 2009 and 2013.
The Editor says...
Watch for this document dump to occur on a Friday evening.
Breaking:
Judge Orders State Dept To Release Hillary's Security Training Records, Or Be Deposed. A federal judge ordered
the Department of State Wednesday [8/31/2016] to produce for The Daily Caller News Foundation the security training records
of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin within two weeks, or face direct deposition of multiple
government officials. "I'm sure you can appreciate Mr. Lee, there is a certain time sensitivity on this issue,"
U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon told Department of Justice Attorney Jason Lee, representing the State
Department. "We're looking down the barrel of a presidential election from now in two months."
How
Journalists Protect Hillary Clinton From Bad News. It took six years and a court order for the Associated Press
to dislodge Hillary Clinton's schedule from the State Department. What it showed is that Clinton entertained a parade
of visitors who were major donors to the Clinton Foundation. As thanks for this important investigative work, the AP is
being viciously attacked by other journalists.
Under
Hillary, State and the Clinton Foundation were one seamless entity. The Democratic nominee obviously didn't set up
her server with the express purpose of exposing national secrets — that was incidental. She set up the server to
keep secret the details of the Clintons' private life — a life built around an elaborate and sweeping money-raising and
self-promoting entity known as the Clinton Foundation. Had Secretary Clinton kept the foundation at arm's length while in
office — as obvious ethical standards would have dictated — there would never have been any need for a
private server, or even private email.
The Clinton
Foundation Was Designed For Two-Way Bribery. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has begun to attack
the Clinton Foundation, the global nonprofit corporation Bill and Hillary Clinton started after Bill left the White House in
2001. Trump characterized the foundation, to which he has donated, as a "business to profit from public office," and called
it a threat to American democracy. Trump and members of his campaign staff have called for the foundation to be shut
down. Trump's comments strike at Hillary Clinton's most obvious vulnerability. One of her deepest flaws as a
candidate is that the voters do not trust her. The reason for that distrust, by and large, is her long record of lying
in public. Most of those lies, since she and Bill left the White House, have been about the Clinton Foundation and how
its activities and fundraising overlapped with her duties as secretary of State.
Trump,
GOP calls on Clinton to have full State Dept schedule released. The Donald Trump campaign and Washington
Republicans are calling on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to have all of her daily schedules as secretary of
state released before Election Day, after the State Department said Friday it cannot comply with the court-ordered release
until after voting. The Associated Press reported earlier this week, after analyzing schedules released so far, that
more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton while she was secretary of state
had given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation.
Emails
reveal Clinton Foundation officials asked for favors from Hillary's team during the nominee's time as secretary of
state. A series of new emails have shed light on the relationship between Hillary Clinton and the Clinton
Foundation during the former's time as secretary of state. Clinton aide Huma Abedin and Doug Band, a former
high-ranking official with the foundation and adviser to Bill Clinton during his presidency, exchanged emails between June
2009 and March 2011. In one of the email conversations, which were released as part of a lawsuit filed by the conservative
group, Citizens United, the two spoke about passing on a message from a generous foundation supporter to the U.S. ambassador
to Malta, ABC News reports.
Clinton's
full State Dept. schedule won't be released until after Election Day. Seven months after a federal judge ordered the
State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her
time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won't finish the job before Election Day.
Clinton
Email Scandal Widens — "The Access" Is the Quid Pro Quo. The "pay-to-play" scandal between the
Clinton Foundation and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been defended by claiming Secretary Clinton took no actionable
steps to change State Dept. policy as a result of payment to the Foundation. However, as the relationships between the
Foundation and the State Department gain increased scrutiny the "access" to Clinton appears to be the purpose for the
payments. Sooner or later someone is going to mention the mysterious 2012 "Thanksgiving Holiday Fire" directly above
Hillary's office in the State Dept.
Trump:
Clinton ran a 'vast criminal enterprise' at State Department. Donald Trump launched a searing attack against
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, describing the State Department under her leadership as a "vast criminal enterprise." "This
has been a very historic week in American politics," the Republican presidential nominee told a crowd in Manchester, N.H.,
where his meteoric rise to the top of the GOP ticket first began. "This week the curtain was lifted," he continued.
"The corruption was revealed for all to see. The veil was pulled back on a vast criminal enterprise run out of the State
Department by Hillary Clinton."
Hillary's
Secret Kremlin Connection Is Quickly Unraveling. Recent headlines have brought attention to the seedier side of
Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state during President Obama's first term. This scheme, which gives every
appearance of being about pay-for-play, solicited donations from foreign big-shots in exchange for access to the boss of
American foreign policy. I'll leave to others to assess the legality of this shady business — for now it's
the national security implications we need to discuss.
Here's
how cozy State Department was with Clinton Foundation. A senior executive at the Clinton Foundation left nearly
150 messages for one of Hillary Clinton's top aides at the State Department over a two-year period, according to newly
released call logs. The Clinton Foundation's chief operating officer, Laura Graham, kept in close touch with Cheryl
Mills, one of Clinton's closest aides when she was secretary of state, according to the logs analyzed by Fox News. An
August 2011 message the Clinton Foundation official left for the government worker references "our boss," suggesting both
women worked for the same person.
Hillary
State Dept. Helped Jailed Clinton Foundation Donor Get $10 Mil from U.S. for Failed Haiti Project. The
new batch of emails showing that the State Department gave special access to top Clinton Foundation donors while Hillary
Clinton was secretary of state brings to mind the case of a shady Miami businessman serving a 12-year prison sentence after
scamming the government out of millions. His name is Claudio Osorio, a Clinton Foundation donor who got $10 million
from the government after the Clinton State Department reportedly pulled some strings. Osorio got the money from the
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a federal agency that operates under the guidance of the State Department, to
build houses in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. The OPIC supposedly promotes U.S. government investments abroad to
foster the development and growth of free markets.
Clinton
State Department Stonewalled AP for Three Years. Today's blockbuster report from the Associated Press about
Hillary Clinton's meetings with Clinton Foundation donors during her time as Secretary of State contained the following
nugget: "The AP sought Clinton's calendar and schedules three years ago, but delays led the AP to sue the State
Department last year in federal court for those materials and other records." Three years ago. The
long wait was in keeping with a practice of slow-walking such requests for information.
State
Dept. Spox: Emails Not Evidence of Clinton Foundation Pay-to-Play, 'Simply Evidence of the Way the Process
Works'. The spokesman for the State Department had a difficult time during Monday's [8/22/2016] hostile and
at times uncomfortably awkward briefing with reporters as he attempted to explain away the relationship between the State
Department under Democratic nominee for president Hillary R. Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. At times, Mark C.
Toner, the department's deputy spokesman, looked at his shoes or had his eyes closed as he took deep breaths between answers
to reporters asking about revelations from 725 pages of emails released by Judicial Watch.
Clinton's
State Department Blew $6 Billion In Contracts, And We're About To Learn Why. Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton may soon have to answer questions about an estimated $6 billion in contract mismanagement, fraud and
incompetence that happened under her watch at the Department of State. Non-profit government watchdog Cause of Action
Institute (CofA) filed a Freedom of Information Act request Friday [8/19/2016] for records related to a March 2014 management
alert issued by the department's Inspector General.
Clinton
Foundation bombarded Hillary's top aide with calls when she was Secretary of State, phone records reveal.
Hillary Clinton's chief of staff Cheryl Mills's received nearly 150 phone messages from Clinton Foundation's operations
director Laura Graham during a two year span at the State Department, according to phone logs — a significantly higher number
of calls than from any other individual during that time frame. The phone logs, which were obtained by Fox News and
cited by reporter James Rosen during the State Department press briefing on Monday, raise fresh questions about the close
contact between the Clinton Foundation and Clinton's State Department office during her tenure.
Clinton
Foundation executive left 148 phone messages for Hillary Clinton's top aide. A review of State Department call
logs for Cheryl Mills, the longtime Clinton confidant who served as chief of staff for the entirety of Clinton's four-year
tenure as America's top diplomat, reflects at least 148 messages from Laura Graham — then the Clinton Foundation's
chief operating officer — between 2010 and 2012. No other individual or non-profit appears in the logs with
anything like that frequency or volume, the review found. One of the messages Graham left for Mills, in August 2011,
referenced "our boss" — without further identifying that individual.
Casey
Wasserman Mentioned in New Batch of Clinton Emails. Sports marketing executive Casey Wasserman appears in the
latest batch of Clinton emails, which show close ties between Clinton Foundation donors and the U.S. State Department.
Wasserman, whose charitable organization donated between $5 million and $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, asked
Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band for help setting up an interview for one of his high-profile clients with the U.S.
Embassy in London, the emails show. The client's name was redacted by the State Department.
Emails
reveal Clinton aide gave foundation donors 'special' access, group says. Newly released emails reveal more
instances of the Clinton Foundation appearing to reach out to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's State Department for
favors involving wealthy donors — including Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain — according to a watchdog
group that fought to obtain the emails. Judicial Watch, which released the documents Monday, said in a statement that
the messages show Clinton aide Huma Abedin "provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the
secretary of state." The documents include exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department.
Hillary
Clinton Deleted More Emails Than She Sent to the State Department. Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post
confirms a data point implicit in today's news that the FBI has found 15,000 emails from Hillary Clinton's unsecure homebrew
server, from which she conducted the work as Secretary of State and housed classified information. She hid more emails
from the State Department than she handed over to it for mandatory federal records keeping.
White
House: State Dept. responsible for Clinton's ethics. President Obama's chief spokesman said Monday that
the White House bore no responsibility for ensuring that Hillary Clinton didn't violate federal ethics rules, including
stopping her from allegedly providing special access to Clinton Foundation donors while she was secretary of state.
Josh Earnest, President Obama's press secretary, said he would not "get into" debating the propriety of Clinton's
interactions with Clinton Foundation donors while she served as the nation's top diplomat.
What
The Media Won't Tell You: A Real Comparison of Trump vs. Clinton on Russia. New revelations
regarding Hillary Clinton's conflicts of interest just keep on coming, regardless of the Democratic candidate's attempt to
stem the flow. Yet Mrs. Clinton lied to Fox News' Chris Wallace in a recent interview, saying that "there is
absolutely no connection between anything that I did as secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation." In fact, there
are a number of obvious connections between the Clinton Foundation, Clinton Foundation officials, and her State Department.
In 2009 Clinton Foundation official and co-founder of Teneo Holdings Doug Band pushed for an associate to get a job with the
State Department. "The subject line on the email read 'A favor...'" reports Breitbart. Band also communicated with
Clinton's aides via email to put Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian businessman, in touch with the State Department's
"substance" person in Lebanon. The response from the Clinton campaign is that these emails don't "involve the Secretary
or relate to the Foundation's work. They are communications between her aides and the President's [Bill Clinton] personal
aide..." This is typical obfuscation by the Clintons, not supported by the facts.
Fact
Check: Were Obama and Hillary Founders of ISIS? You Bet. Even the left-stream media is now acknowledging
that Donald Trump "has a point" when he blasts Hilary and Obama for creating ISIS. "Hillary Clinton is vulnerable.
ISIS did gain strength during her time as Secretary of State," said ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz. Conservative
talk show host Hugh Hewitt tried to give Mr. Trump an out. "I know what you meant," he suggested. "You meant
that he [Obama] created the vacuum, he lost the peace."
Senator
Rand Paul Discusses Potential For Clinton Indictment Based on WikiLeaks Claim. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
has stated his organization believes they are in possession of emails which prove Hillary Clinton was aware of the transfer
of weapons from Libya, through Turkey, into Syria. If Assange is accurate, the prior congressional testimony of Clinton
becomes another example of her deception and fraud.
Hillary's
top State Dept. aide interviewed job applicants for Clinton Foundation. Like drums pounding a rhythm to the
brain, charges of corruption and misconduct swirl around Hillary Clinton, with the latest revelation being that one of her
top aides while at the State Department took on the role of interviewing job applicants for the Clinton Foundation[,] despite
rules established to avoid such blurring of the lines. While serving as secretary of state, Clinton's former chief of
staff, Cheryl Mills, traveled to New York to interview two high-level business executives being considered to run the
nonprofit foundation, CNN reported. This taking place despite Clinton and the Clinton Foundation setting up rules ahead
of time to avoid scenarios that would "create conflicts or the appearance of conflicts for Senator Clinton as Secretary of State."
Stunning
revelation: Wikileaks hack shows that Soros called the shots on US policy toward Albania. Who was in
charge of U.S. foreign policy when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state? That is a legitimate question to consider in
light of the most stunning revelation yet mined from the Wikileaks hack. George Soros is suggesting an intervention in
domestic Albanian politics, and getting his way!
Obama,
Clinton and the power of mendacity. Over the weekend, the Iranian regime unexpectedly announced it executed its
former nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri. As reports of Amiri's demise make clear, former secretary of state Hillary
Clinton may very well be partially to blame for his death. Amiri spent several months in the US between 2009 and 2010,
when he returned to Iran. Then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton claimed at the time that Amiri came to the US
willingly. US government sources told the media that Amiri, who worked on Iran's nuclear program, was a longstanding US
intelligence agent. Amiri, they said, received $5 million for his information. He left the funds in the US
when he returned to Iran.
Exclusive:
Hillary Aide Cheryl Mills OK'd Oil Deal That Put $500K In Bill's Pocket. Then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton publicly defended an embattled banker during an official visit to Bangladesh while Clinton Foundation officials tried
to steer money from an Abu Dhabi oil company into the banker's coffers. A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation
traced the convoluted payment by TAQA — formally known as the the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company —
to Muhammad Yunus' Grameen Bank. Yunus is a long-time friend and Clinton Foundation donor. The oil company deal
eventually put as much as $500,000 into President Bill Clinton's pockets via a speaking fee he got in Scotland.
Email
batch provides additional evidence that Clinton Foundation donors got access at State Department. Newly
released State Department emails shed additional light on the relationships Hillary Clinton and her top aides maintained with
her family's foundation during the years she served as secretary of state. The emails, obtained by the conservative
group Judicial Watch as part of a public-records lawsuit, included one in which a longtime aide to Bill Clinton sought a State
Department meeting on behalf of a major foundation donor. The aide, Doug Band, who played a role in expanding the foundation's
reach, wrote to Hillary Clinton's State Department staff requesting a meeting for a wealthy Nigerian businessman of Lebanese
descent who has given the Clinton Foundation $1 million to $5 million in donations, according to disclosure reports.
Where
Did the Clinton Foundation End and the State Department Begin? [Scroll down] People had been speculating
that the Clinton Foundation had become a private version of the State Department, offering easy access to the State Department
policy decision-making process for the wealthy and well-connected throughout Obama's first term. At no time did the U.S.
State Department ever say to Bill Clinton that any of his unbelievably lucrative speaking gigs represented a conflict of
interest — even if there was reason to believe a foreign government or entities closely allied with a foreign
government were paying.
Yes,
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Did Create The Rise of ISIS — It Is an Indisputable Fact. In 2015
we noted an article at Real Clear Politics which hit on one of the key aspects of the Benghazi fiasco media have been
hell-bent on hiding; Hillary Clinton, not President Obama, is actually the person responsible for the crisis in Libya.
When we watched the House Select Committee on Benghazi hearings, it was interesting to note how no-one really went 'there' to
give Clinton full ownership of the 2011 Libyan Intervention; ownership she deserves. So let's review Clinton's ownership.
Cleveland,
cockroaches and the Clintons. [Scroll down] Athletic coaches stress that mere activity is different from production.
The former marks time, the latter propels one to a goal. Likewise, political campaigns market a candidate's resume — as
opposed to a candidate's successes (progress). Keep this distinction in mind while pondering Clinton's reminder that she
visited 112 countries while secretary of state. Now ask yourself how many of these visits produced a positive outcome
for the U.S.
Clinton
Ignored Obama's Order To Get Security Training While Sec of State, Filing Shows. Over the past year and half,
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly said that she understands the importance of handling classified materials and that she took it
seriously. But now we learn that she didn't even bother to get the security training required of every top official who
handles classified materials.
Exclusive:
Hillary Completed No Security Briefings Or Courses At State Dept. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
completed no security briefings or courses on the proper handling of classified materials and how to conduct secure
communications while at the Department of State, according to new Obama administration legal filings before the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia. The surprise admission was released late Friday and could reignite the controversy
over Clinton's "careless" handling of classified materials as asserted by FBI Director James Comey, which has already been a
central part of the presidential race.
Why Putin hates Hillary.
When mass protests against Russian President Vladimir Putin erupted in Moscow in December 2011, Putin made clear who he thought was
really behind them: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. With the protesters accusing Putin of having rigged recent elections,
the Russian leader pointed an angry finger at Clinton, who had issued a statement sharply critical of the voting results.
Exclusive:
State Dept Can't Find Evidence Hillary Was Trained To Handle Classified Documents. A senior Department of State
official claimed there is no documentation showing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ever received training in the
proper handling of classified materials, according to a June 30 Department of Justice filing in U.S. District Court.
The disclosure could buttress FBI Director James Comey's testimony before a congressional committee that Clinton was perhaps
not "sophisticated enough" to understand that the marking "C" on an email meant it was a classified document.
Huma
Abedin admits that Hillary Clinton burned her schedules while she was secretary of state. Huma Abedin, Hillary
Clinton's longtime aide, testified last week that her boss burned her schedules while serving as secretary of state. 'If
there was a schedule that was created that was her Secretary of State daily schedule, and a copy of that was then put in the
burn bag, that ... that certainly happened on ... on more than one occasion,' Abedin told lawyers representing conservative
watchdog group Judicial Watch, according to the New York Post. While Clinton admitted to deleting personal emails from
her homebrew server, this is the first time anyone in Clinton's State Department inner circle admitted to destroying public
records while on the job.
Huma
Abedin admits that Clinton burned daily schedules. Hillary Clinton's closest aide revealed in a deposition last
week that her boss destroyed at least some of her schedules as secretary of state — a revelation that could
complicate matters for the presumptive Democratic nominee, who, along with the State Department she ran, is facing numerous
lawsuits seeking those public records. Huma Abedin was deposed in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
into Clinton's emails — but her admission could be relevant to another lawsuit seeking Clinton's schedules.
"If there was a schedule that was created that was her Secretary of State daily schedule, and a copy of that was then put in
the burn bag, that ... that certainly happened on ... on more than one occasion," Abedin told lawyers representing Judicial
Watch, the conservative organization behind the emails lawsuit.
Huma:
Hillary Flouted Protocol, Used Burn Bags To Destroy Documents Prohibited By Federal Regs. Huma Abedin, a top
aide to presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, says that the former secretary of state routinely used burn bags to
dispose of personal documents during her time at the State Department. Abedin's revelation came when she was deposed by
watchdog group Judicial Watch on June 30. "If there was a schedule that was created, that was her Secretary of
State daily schedule, and a copy of that was then put in the burn bag, then that certainly happened," Abedin stated.
"On more than one occasion." Abedin also admitted to being "aware of [her] obligation not to delete federal records or
destroy federal records."
Clinton
sought secret info on EU bailout plans as son-in-law's doomed hedge fund gambled on Greece. Hedge fund manager Marc Mezvinsky had friends in high places
when he bet big on a Greek economic recovery, but even the keen interest of his mother-in-law, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wasn't enough to spare him and
his investors from financial tragedy. In 2012, Mezvinski, the husband of Chelsea Clinton, created a $325 million basket of offshore funds under the Eaglevale
Partners banner through a special arrangement with investment bank Goldman Sachs. The funds have lost tens of millions of dollars predicting that bailouts of the
Greek banking system would pump up the value of the country's distressed bonds. One fund, exclusively dedicated to Greek debt, suffered near-total losses.
Jihad's Beltway Allies. [Scroll down] The
memo — filed in the "dissent channel" set up in the Vietnam era as a way for employees to register their protest without fear of
reprisal — did not offer a scenario for a post-Bashar Syria. It simply asserted that "the moral rationale" for ending the death
and suffering is "evident and unquestionable." The memo advocated "a credible threat of military action to keep Assad in line" (as
his downfall was being arranged) and to bolster the fight against the Islamic State by helping the "moderate Sunni" forces. Reportedly,
many of the "dissidents" are Hillary Clinton's liberal-interventionist appointees from her tenure at the State Department. In view
of her vocal support for "robust" U.S. action is Syria, their memo appears to be a preemptive bid to curry favor in advance of her
anticipated victory in November. The document reflects all the flaws, inconsistencies, and outright idiocies of Mrs. Clinton's
Middle East policies, past and present.
Clinton —
a loyal oligarch and a handpicked president. In 2016, The Cairo Review wrote a report on Clinton titled Hillary
the Hawk: According to the Cairo publication, "Clinton's hawkish views go well beyond her strident support for the U.S.
invasion of Iraq in 2003 and subsequent occupation and counter-insurgency war. From Afghanistan to Western Sahara, she
has advocated for military solutions to complex political problems..." Below is a sampling of her disastrous record on
foreign affairs: • Clinton said Obama was wrong not to launch missile strikes on Syria in 2013.
• Clinton pushed for the overthrow of Gaddafi in 2011. • Clinton backed the
escalation of the war in Afghanistan. • Clinton voted for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. •
Clinton encouraged the use of killer drones. • Clinton consistently backed Israel's military
initiatives. Trump is a wolf and proud of it. Clinton is a wolf in sheep's clothing and seems to have the backing of
the ultimate authority, a global cabal.
The
Gaps in Hillary Clinton's State Department Calendar. Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her
tenure as secretary of state has been an ongoing controversy in the United States. Add to that an Associated Press
report published on Friday calling into question omissions in her official State Department calendar. According to the
AP, a number of events and meetings with private individuals, including chief executives of various companies, are missing.
With Clinton
at helm, State Dept. got 'prestigious' award for record-keeping. At the same time then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was storing
emails on a personal server in violation of the rules, her department twice received a "prestigious" award for its record-keeping practices — an
honor that, in retrospect, has watchdogs scratching their heads. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) gave the so-called
Archivist Award to the State Department in 2010 and again in September 2012, toward the end of Clinton's tenure. During the 2012 ceremony,
NARA Chief Records Officer Paul Wester described the honor, also bestowed upon the Treasury Department, as "prestigious."
Bombshell! Clinton kept secret
State Department agenda. Hillary Clinton has been accused of having a secret agenda by critics for years —
and they were right. That's according to a new report that revealed Clinton had two calender's — one for public
record, and one he used to hide names and events from her historical record of her daily activities as secretary of state.
Television cameras rolled when Hillary Clinton appeared on the central balcony of the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening
bell — just minutes after she attended a private breakfast in September 2009 with influential Wall Street and business
leaders. But the identities of her breakfast guests would be left off of her official State Department calendar —
a dozen chief executives, most of whose firms had lobbied the government and donated to her family's global charity, the Clinton
Foundation. The event was closed to the press and merited only a brief mention in her official calendar, which omitted the
names of all her guests — among them Blackstone Group Chairman Steven Schwarzman, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and then-New
York Bank of Mellon CEO Robert Kelly.
Clinton
staff removed donor meetings from State Dept. schedules. Hillary Clinton scrubbed at least 75 meetings with campaign and Clinton
Foundation donors from the official calendars she kept as secretary of state, raising further questions about the extent to which she disclosed her
political interactions. The Associated Press, which obtained Clinton's State Department schedules through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
dating back to last year, discovered dozens of instances in which Clinton's staff listed dinners with donors and gatherings with corporate executives
only as "private meetings" in the calendars.
Hillary's Huge Libya
Disaster. Prior to the February 17, 2011, "Day of Rage," Libya had a national budget surplus of 8.7 percent
of GDP in 2010, with oil production at 1.8 million barrels per day, on track to reach its goal of 3 million barrels
per day. Currently, oil production has decreased by over 80 percent. Following the revolution, the Libyan economy
contracted by an estimated 41.8 percent, with a national deficit of 17.1 percent GDP in 2011. Before the revolution,
Libya was a secure, prospering, secular Islamic country and a critical ally providing intelligence on terrorist activity
post-September 11, 2001. Qaddafi was no longer a threat to the United States. Yet Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton strongly advocated and succeeded in convincing the administration to support the Libyan rebels with a no-fly zone,
intended to prevent a possible humanitarian disaster that turned quickly into all-out war.
Ex-CIA
officer facing jail in Italy claim Clinton, State Department ignored her pleas. A former CIA officer and
diplomat who has repeatedly denied playing a role in one of the most notorious U.S. counterterrorism programs is set to
become the only American held accountable for it — and claims the Obama administration has abandoned her.
Sabrina De Sousa, who is stuck in Portugal and awaiting extradition to Italy over her alleged role in the rendition of a
terror suspect years ago, claims the State Department has ignored repeated requests to intervene on her behalf. She and
her lawyers are particularly critical of Hillary Clinton, who still has not commented on the case. Mark S. Zaid, an
attorney who previously worked with De Sousa, told FoxNews.com his firm made "multiple efforts" to reach out to the State
Department — specifically then-Secretary of State Clinton — and that "every time we were completely
rebuffed with silence."
Stunning
Emails Reveal How Clinton Foundation Donor Bought Seat As Hillary's Nuclear Weapons Advisor. Forget Hillary's
personal email server: this is what true cronyism and criminal corruption looks like, and this is the biggest threat from a
Hillary presidency. It has been widely speculated, if not proven, that donors to the Clinton Foundation who over the
years have transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to the "charitable organization", bought political favors with the
Clintons in exchange for their generosity. That has now been confirmed thanks to a stunning ABC report which reveals
how a major foundation donor — one who previously had practically no experience on intellgience matters — mysteriously ended
up as a nuclear weapons advisor to Hillary during her tenure as Secretary of State. Worse, the person in question Rajiv K.
Fernando, had been the head of a high frequency trading company, Chopper Trading (recently acquired by HFT powerhouse DRW), which may
explain the unprecedented pull of the HFT lobby throughout all ranks of the US political apparatus. In other words, Fernando
bought a seat to not only have advance knowledge of all US foreign policy, but to directly shape it, something he could then parlay
in the forms of massive policy frontrunning profits thanks to his trading company.
Email Scandal: Stock
Trader Bought Role as Hillary's Nuclear Weapons Advisor. Several revelations from the newest release of a batch
of Hillary Clinton's emails show both astonishing cronyism and lackadaisical indiscretion with national security.
Confirming longstanding allegations the ubiquitous Clinton Foundation serves as a front for political and domestic and
foreign policy favors, ABC News reported that a wealthy Foundation donor — with zero prior experience in matters
of intelligence — inexplicably received an appointment to serve as a nuclear weapons advisor to Hillary during her
tenure as secretary of state. Rajiv K. Fernando's experience to land this crucial position included fundraising for a
plethora of Democratic politicians and for the Clinton Foundation, as well as heading a powerful trading company —
but nothing concerning intelligence, much less nuclear weapons and strategy. However, according to ABC News:
"Fernando's history of campaign giving dated back to at least 2003 and was prolific — and almost exclusively to
Democrats. He was an earlier supporter of Hillary Clinton's 2008 bid for president, giving maximum contributions to her
campaign, and to HillPAC, in 2007 and 2008. He also served as a fundraising bundler for Clinton, gathering more than
$100,000 from others for her White House bid."
Emails
Show Major Clinton Donor Put On Intelligence Board Despite Lack of Experience. When presumptive Democratic
Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, a committee dealing with nuclear arms issues was staffed by many
experts in the field, and one securities trader from Chicago with no known intelligence background. State Department
emails, released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Citizens United, revealed some details behind
how this may have happened, ABC News reported. Rajiv K. Fernando had given substantial contributions and raised money
for Clinton's 2008 Presidential campaign. He also gave up to $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation before his appointment
to the State Department board. In 2011, ABC News asked the Department how Fernando was selected for the board, and some
of the released emails showed how Department officials reacted to the question.
ABC:
Did Hillary sell access to key national-security board for foundation donor? Meet Rajiv K. Fernando, a one-time
member of the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB), a group which oversees US nuclear and security policies. The
members of ISAB have top-secret clearances commensurate with their expertise in these fields, but Fernando appeared to have no such
background. "We had no idea who he was," one board member told ABC News when they first began looking into Fernando's credentials
in 2011 — and when they did, he suddenly resigned from ISAB.
ABC
News drops new Hillary Bombshell. It's easy to become numb to all of the scandals surrounding presumptive
Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton — even for those who are wide awake to the dishonest, self-serving fraud that she
is. So when a new revelation is enough to jolt even the mainstream media awake, you know it's big. A newly-released
batch of Hillary's State Department emails reveal the new bombshell that the former secretary of state rewarded one of her large
donors with a position on a sensitive government intelligence board — yeah, one involving tactical nuclear weapons and
on other crucial arms control issues — despite having no relevant experience. Nepotism — not to mention
compromising our nation's intelligence and security — at its finest. And, here's a shocker, when asked about the
situation, Clinton's staff sought to "protect the name" of the Secretary, while "stalling" the reporter.
"Failed
And Dangerous": Hillary Clinton Ironically Describes Her Own Foreign Policy Disasters. When Hillary Clinton
highlights what a dangerous and failed foreign policy looks like today, she might as well just talk about her failed record
with President Obama. Any examination of her four years as Secretary of State would illustrate how her disastrous
leadership made our country less safe at home and more unstable abroad. She failed before as America's top diplomat
and her failure then makes her disqualified to be president now.
A
window on Hillary's revolving door. The Hillary Clinton email investigation is entering a critical phase.
The FBI has already interviewed some of Mrs. Clinton's key aides when she was secretary of state and reports have said
they will soon be interviewing Mrs. Clinton herself. At this juncture, it's not a question anymore of whether any
crimes were committed, because it has been well reported that Mrs. Clinton's reckless use of a private email server and
her gross mishandling of classified information was criminal behavior. I believe that what the FBI is really honing in
on now, or should be examining, is the revolving-door State Department access that Mrs. Clinton gave her top donors and
closest friends. When the FBI interviews Mrs. Clinton and her aides, they will be able to question her about both
the substance of the emails and the use of the private email and server. With respect to the substance of the emails,
there has been plenty of focus on the classified ones, but there are also several that pose very serious ethical challenges.
In
Tense Briefing on Clinton Audit Report, State Dept. Spokesman Can't Seem to Speak. State Department
spokesperson Mark Toner was by turns taciturn and defensive in an awkward press briefing Wednesday afternoon [5/25/2016], as
he addressed the leaked audit report on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. The
audit report by the State Department Inspector General had been leaked to members of the media one day before it was due for
public release — a state of affairs that left Toner "at a bit of a disadvantage" and "somewhat limited" in his
responses, he said.
Revealed:
The State Department's Hidden Hillary Donors. Hillary Clinton may have suspended her political career
temporarily when she became secretary of state. But the Clinton fundraising machine was in full swing and raising
millions of dollars for the State Department under her watch, an analysis by The Daily Beast has found. More than a
dozen donors to Clinton's non-profit foundation and her various political campaigns poured money into an endowment she
launched into 2010 to pay for the upkeep of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms. The 42 sumptuous salons at State Department
headquarters in Washington, decorated with 18th and 19th century American furnishings, are used to welcome foreign
dignitaries, conduct diplomatic meetings and swearing-in ceremonies, and host official dinners. By the following year,
the campaign had raised more than $20 million to permanently fund restoration and maintenance for the rooms and their
collections of rare American artwork, thanks largely to reliable Clinton donors.
New
State Department Documents Reveal Clinton Top Political Operative Pushed For Hire of Pagliano at State Department. Judicial Watch
announced today [5/9/2016] that it has obtained Department of State emails showing that top Clinton aide Laura Pena helped push through the political
appointment of former Clinton for President IT director Bryan Pagliano to a Schedule C position at the State Department in 2009. The new
documents also show the involvement of Patrick Kennedy, Under Secretary for Management, in Pagliano's hiring. The emails show others in the State
International Resource Management (IT division) in which Pagliano would work questioned why a political appointee was being placed in the office.
Hillary's Libya
debacle. She cannot be blamed for Vladimir Putin's criminality or, therefore, for the failure of her "reset"
with Russia, which was perhaps worth trying. And she cannot be primarily blamed for the calamities of Iraq, Syria and
ISIS, which were incubated before her State Department tenure. Libya, however, was what is known in tennis as an
"unforced error," and Clinton was, with President Obama, its co-author.
Dianne
Feinstein Has To Use Google To Look Up Hillary's Senate Accomplishments. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein
had to turn to Google during an interview earlier this week when asked to name her former colleague Hillary Clinton's
accomplishments in the Senate. Feinstein, who met with The San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board on Tuesday
[3/29/2016], ultimately said that Clinton was not in the Senate "long enough... to do more." Clinton was elected
to the Senate from New York in 2000. She left in January 2009 to serve as secretary of state.
Clinton
skipped special cyber briefing in 2011, documents show. Even as then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was
warning department employees about the threat from cyber-attacks, she opted to skip a special 2011 cyber briefing that the
department security team put together just for her, according to congressional investigators and an unclassified letter from
the State Department. The briefing was a sign of how serious the cybersecurity threat to U.S. government systems had
become. The briefing was drawn up during the same year an internal 2011 State Department cable from Clinton, first reported
by Fox News, told State Department employees not to use personal email because of the hacking threat. Yet, Clinton was
conducting all official government business on her unsecured personal account.
Giuliani:
Hillary Clinton helped found the Islamic State. Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of the
Islamic State, according to Rudy Giuliani. Speaking to Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, the former New York City mayor said
that the Democratic front-runner "helped create ISIS" through her involvement with President Barack Obama's efforts to
withdraw from Iraq.
Role of tech who
set up Clinton's server unknown to bosses at State. The technician, Bryan Pagliano, was running the off-grid
email server that Clinton had him set up in her New York home for her work as secretary of state. But even as years passed,
Pagliano's supervisors never learned of his most sensitive task, according to the department and one of his former colleagues.
Exclusive:
Clinton Trained On Classified Docs Just ONCE At State, Breaking Protocol. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
received no security briefings on the proper handling of classified materials in three of her four years at the State
Department, according to documents released by department officials to The Daily Caller News Foundation under a Freedom of
Information request. Clinton's sole briefing occurred on January 22, the day after the Senate confirmed her to
the post. On that date, as the nation's top diplomat, Clinton signed a document acknowledging she received a security
briefing. "I hereby acknowledge that I have received a security indoctrination concerning the nature and protection of
SCI," or the nation's highest classified materials, was part of the pledge in the document.
Clinton
Email Scandal: Here's One Thing Hillary Was Trying To Hide. Judicial Watch released 276 documents Tuesday [3/22/2016] that had
been obtained through one of its Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. Among the material are emails that show the State Department under
Clinton was coordinating with the Clinton Foundation staff and how foreign governments sought favor through the intertwined State Department-Clinton
Foundation link. As we've said before, it looks as if Clinton used her job at the State Department to funnel cash into her family's
nonprofit organization.
State
Department Documents Show that NSA Rebuffed Hillary Clinton's Attempts to Obtain a Secure Blackberry. Judicial
Watch announced today [3/16/2016] that it obtained State Department documents revealing that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton repeatedly sought to obtain "Blackberry-like communications," but was rebuffed by the National Security
Agency due to security and cost concerns. The National Security Agency's Information Assurance Directorate response
was "shut up and color." The emails show that Clinton demanded Blackberry devices that could be used by her
and her staff in her office's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).
Clinton
tried to change rules to use BlackBerry in secure facility for classified information. Less than a month after
becoming secretary of state, and registering the personal email domain that she would use exclusively for government business,
Hillary Clinton's team aggressively pursued changes to existing State Department security protocols so she could use her
BlackBerry in secure facilities for classified information, according to new documents released under the Freedom of Information
Act. "Anyone who has any appreciation at all of security, you don't ask a question like that," cybersecurity analyst
Morgan Wright told Fox News. "It is contempt for the system, contempt for the rules that are designed to protect the
exact kind of information that was exposed through this email set up."
High Hopes
for Hillary Clinton, Then Disappointment in Haiti. [Scroll down] Among the litany of complaints being laid at
their feet: Fewer than half the jobs promised at the industrial park, built after 366 farmers were evicted from their lands,
have materialized. Many millions of dollars earmarked for relief efforts have yet to be spent. Mrs. Clinton's brother
Tony Rodham has turned up in business ventures on the island, setting off speculation about insider deals. "A vote for Hillary
Clinton means further corruption, further death and destruction for our people," said Dahoud Andre, a radio show host in New York
who has helped organize protests against the Clintons. "It means more Haitians leaving Haiti and not being able to live in
our country."
Another
debate, another pack of lies from Hillary Clinton. Looks like Hillary Clinton means to squirm out of tough questions
all the way to Election Day. Start with her use of a home-brewed server for all her work emails. "It was not prohibited,"
she said at the last Democratic debate. "My predecessors did the same thing." "Not prohibited"? Univision's Jorge
Ramos had just finished noting that she'd personally sent a department-wide memo warning against any use of a non-secured, unofficial
system — the kind she always used. And, no, no other secretary of state has relied on a home system for all his or
her work — especially not the classified stuff.
RNC
Sues for Hillary's State Dept Records. The government failed to answer the Republican National Committee's
request for Hillary Clinton's State Department records last October and December, so they are sending Washington a friendly
reminder. The RNC filed two lawsuits Wednesday [3/9/2016] under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain Clinton's files
during her tenure as secretary of state.
Citizens
United Sues For Clinton Campaign Finance Director's State Dept. Emails. Before and after Dennis Cheng served as
one of Hillary Clinton's top campaign fundraising directors, he worked under her as deputy chief of protocol at the State
Department as well as chief fundraiser at the Clinton Foundation. Now, Citizens United wants to know if all of those
jobs, especially the State Department gig, carried the same responsibilities.
Lynch:
FBI, DOJ Investigating 'How Information Was Handled by State Department'. "If the FBI makes the case that Hillary Clinton mishandled classified
information, put American security at risk, will you prosecute the case?" Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch at a budget hearing
on Wednesday [2/24/2016]. Lynch never mentioned Clinton. Instead she talked about "how information was handled by the State Department."
"With respect to our investigation into how information was handled by the State Department — how they handled classified information —
as I'm sure you know, that matter is being handled by career, independent law enforcement agents — FBI agents — as well as career,
independent attorneys at the Department of Justice," Lynch responded.
Did
Clinton aides try to pick [the] State [Department]'s inspector general? Hillary Clinton's private emails
indicate the former secretary of state and her closest aides may have played a role in selecting inspectors general that
oversaw work from their agency. In a 2010 exchange between Clinton and Cheryl Mills, then her chief of staff, the
two discussed an unnamed "IG candidate" and whether he would be a good fit for the agency.
Hillary
DID NOT Want To Leave Hamptons Vacation To Attend Crucial Libya Meeting. Hillary Clinton was not pleased that
her Aug. 2011 Hamptons vacation was to be interrupted by a trip to Paris to discuss efforts to help Libya's transitional
government, emails released by the State Department on Friday [2/19/2016] show.
Hillary
Clinton Emails: Secret Negotiations With New York Times, Trade Bill Lobbying Revealed In Latest State Department Release. The latest
batch of emails dating back to Hillary Clinton's tenure as U.S. secretary of state shows her appearing to lobby members of the Senate on controversial
trade bills and her office communicating with the New York Times about holding a sensitive article. The State Department release of documents on
her private email server Friday [2/19/2016] came the day before the Democratic presidential candidate heads into the Nevada caucuses. In response
to an inquiry made by the Times, Clinton aides discussed to what degree to cooperate with the newspaper, concerned that a story about a U.S. plan
to retrieve Americans could lead to its failure.
Hillary
Clinton Is Now Tied To At Least Four Investigations By Federal Agencies. The State Department's inspector general last year subpoenaed the
Clinton Foundation for documents related to work that required approval from the Hillary Clinton State Department, making it now at least four investigations
involving the Democratic presidential candidate being conducted by federal agencies. According to The Washington Post, the State Department inspector
general's subpoena, which was filed in the fall, also sought records related to longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin's concurrent employment in 2012 with the
State Department, the Clinton Foundation, and Teneo Holdings, a Clinton-connected consulting firm.
Plans
For Hidden IT Network To Help Clinton Skirt Rules Uncovered by Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch announced today [2/1/2016] that it recently
received records from the Department of State disclosing plans by senior State Department officials to set up a "stand-alone PC" so that Clinton could
check her emails in an office "across the hall" through a separate, non-State Department computer network system. Referencing the special Clinton
computer system, Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, writes Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, "The stand-alone separate network PC
is a great idea." The emails are from January 23-24, 2009, a few days after Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State.
'This
was all planned': Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying. The State Department is lying when it says it didn't know
until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal emails and a private server to conduct official business —
because it never set up an agency email address for her in the first place, the department's former top watchdog says. "This was all
planned in advance" to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency's inspector
general from 2005 to 2008. The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used
a state.gov email address like previous secretaries.
State
Dept. Records Show John Kerry Sent Hillary A 'SECRET' Email From His iPad. Emails released by the State Department on Friday [1/29/2016]
show that in 2011, then-Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry sent then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton an email from his iPad that has been deemed to contain
information classified as "Secret." While previous releases of Clinton's emails have shown that she and her staff communicated directly with
Kerry when he was a senator, the new email is the first from Kerry that the State Department has determined contains sensitive information.
Video
suggests Clinton shared info that 'would never be on an unclassified system' normally. A 2013 video, obtained
exclusively by Fox News, raises fresh questions about how Hillary Clinton handled sensitive information at the State
Department. In the video, veteran diplomat Wendy Sherman reveals that in the interest of speed, Clinton and her aides
would share information that "would never be on an unclassified system" normally. The questions surround a 2013 speech in
which Sherman compared the technology differences between serving at the State Department in the administrations of President
Bill Clinton and President Obama.
Is Hillary too Paranoid to Be
President? [Scroll down] The job of Secretary of State had never meant anything to her except as a stepping stone to
the White House. She took it to fundraise and build up her resume while maintaining total control over her emails, in violation
of the law, while displaying no regard for national security by storing highly classified materials on her own server. But instead of
protecting her campaign, the cover-up created its biggest challenge. The revelation that emails containing beyond top secret intelligence
from "special access programs" ended up on her server, which according to a former CIA officer placed the lives of intelligence sources in
danger, shows that Hillary's paranoia not only endangered national security, but even risked lives.
The
story of Hillary Clinton's national security failures deserves to be told. With the 2016 election season upon
us, I can no longer sit by and watch Hillary Clinton re-write her tenure as America's top diplomat. Clinton's performance
and record as Secretary of State was abysmal. Since she is asking the American people for a promotion, we should judge
her record honestly and decide whether or not she deserves to lead our nation at this critical point in history. I have
concluded that her record clearly shows she has already failed us.
Hillary Clinton's Trust
Issue. While both Pew and Gallup Polls indicate that trust in government is at historic lows, the Democrats are saddled
with a notorious untrustworthy leading candidate — Hillary Clinton. This article could have a 3-page bibliography of
polls and articles about Hillary's problems with trust; certainly books will be written examining Hillary's (and Obama's) lack of
character — in her case going all the way back to rumors about being fired for unethical behavior on the staff of the
House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate Hearings up to the current informed speculation that the FBI will soon be forwarding
a recommendation to the Justice Department that she be indicted for her misconduct as Secretary of State.
State
Dept jumped through hoops to allow Hillary attorney to keep classified info. Normally, anyone storing classified material in
unauthorized and unsecure facilities would face charges. When the State Department first discovered that Hillary Clinton's secret e-mail
system contained such information, Patrick Kennedy requested that her attorney, David Kendall, destroy all copies of the files in his possession.
Kendall refused, and in a "quite unusual" move, the State Department instead tried to accommodate his possession of classified material by supplying
him with a secure safe, according to The Daily Beast's Shane Harris and Tim Mak.
Former
U.S. Attorneys Predict Criminal Charges in FBI's Probe of Clinton Server. Two former U.S. attorneys said the
FBI will likely reach a determination in the next few months in its investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server,
and based on publicly available evidence said the bureau could have a strong criminal case. "I expect the FBI to conclude
the investigation within 60 to 90 days and make a recommendation to the Justice Department, and I believe they will
recommend a series of charges involving the classified information," said Joseph DiGenova, who was U.S. Attorney for the District
of Columbia during the Reagan administration. The FBI has been investigating whether classified information was mishandled
over Clinton's private email server since at least August. The probe reportedly has expanded to include contracts awarded
by the State Department in relation to Clinton Foundation donors.
How
the State Department Caved to Hillary Clinton's Lawyer on Classified Emails. The State Department put up virtually no resistance when
Hillary Clinton's private lawyer requested to keep copies of her emails — even though those emails contained classified information, and even
though it was unclear whether the attorney was cleared to see such secrets. Experts on the handling of classified information tell The Daily Beast
that the seemingly chummy arrangement between Clinton's lawyer and her former State Department aides was "quite unusual."
Nine
times Clinton Foundation donors got special access at State. Hillary Clinton has forcefully denied reports that the FBI is expanding its
investigation of her private email network to include allegations of "public corruption" involving the Clinton Foundation. But thousands of emails
made public by the State Department between May of last year and Friday [1/8/2016] indicate donors to the Clinton Foundation were often given personal
meetings, generous contracts or special consideration that was seemingly not afforded to the same number of private groups that had not written checks
to the charity.
Soros-Tied
Hillary Confidante Proposed Staging Mass Palestinian Demonstrations to Pressure Israel. During her tenure as secretary of state, a Hillary
Clinton confidante presented the politician with a scheme to secretly foment Israeli and Palestinian protests. The aim was to push the Israeli
government into negotiations to create a Palestinian state. The details were contained in the latest batch of emails released by the State Department.
Clinton
Considered Secret Plan to Spark Palestinian Protests. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton considered a secret plan created
by her then-advisers to foment unrest among Palestinian citizens and spark protests in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating
table, according to emails released as part of the investigation into the Democratic presidential frontrunner's private email server. In a
Dec 18, 2011, email, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering suggested that Clinton consider a plan to restart then-stalled peace
negotiations by kickstarting Palestinian demonstrations against Israel. Pickering described the effort as a potential "game changer in the
region," recommending that the United States undertake a clandestine campaign to generate unrest. Clinton requested that his email be printed.
The
Clinton Standard: Third World Corruption. It is most likely liberal philosophy that is causing our political leaders —
excepting Donald Trump — to refuse to defend the country against literal Islam. The refusal of our government to see the plain
truth of the matter — that we are under attack — beggars understanding. But this flight from reality and from past
American practice raises another possibility: are our leaders, or an important number of them, being bought off by our enemies? In
the past, this would have been an absurd question, a calumny. But not today given practice in office that is — apparently —
accepted as the new normal by the political elite. Look at one example: Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State.
Do
Hillary Clinton's Emails Expose A Scheme To Trade US Secrets For Political Influence? Back in August, I wrote a post titled The
real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets? As much as I loathe Hillary, this was a very serious question based on the facts
that we know. The IG representing the 17 US intelligence agencies identified two emails residing on Hillary Clinton's private, unsecure email
server as being properly classified as TS\TK, that is, the were classified Top Secret and compartmentalized under the code words Talent Keyhole which
indicates that it is imagery deriving from a KH-11 reconnaissance satellite.
The
real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets? 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.
Blumenthal
urged Clinton to use Hurricane Isaac as a political prop. Sidney Blumenthal, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's unofficial adviser, advised
Clinton in 2012 to use an impending hurricane as a prop to make President Obama look good. [...] Blumenthal, who the White House rejected as a formal State
Department employee, wrote Clinton a six-page memo on Aug. 26, and summarized it in an email to Clinton a day later. "All Obama needs to do is
turn up, surrounded by commanders, on the Gulf Coast, post-hurricane, on Saturday," he wrote. "The hurricane is the counter-convention."
State
Department Deceitfully Covered Up For Hillary. [Scroll down] Instead, the IG report, released Thursday [1/7/2016], beats
around the bush, describing "lack of oversight by leadership" as one of the factors that "appear to contribute to inaccurate and incomplete
responses." The Office of the Secretary's Executive Secretariat, which is responsible for Freedom of Information Act requests regarding the
secretary and other high State officials, "has not taken any corrective actions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of FOIA searches," the
report noted. The Obama administration pledged to be the "most transparent" ever, but the inspector general found that a March 2010 Associated
Press FOIA request "for copies of all of former Secretary Clinton's public and private calendars and schedules" were responded to in November of
that year "with records that were nonresponsive." Responses "that were nonresponsive"? Did Groucho Marx write this report?
Hillary
Clinton's $13M fail as Secretary of State. It turns out that Bill Clinton raked in millions from entities with
matters before Hillary Clinton's State Department. Oh, and the Clinton Foundation collected millions more from the same
bunch. In total, The Wall Street Journal reports, two dozen companies and groups, plus the Abu Dhabi government, gave Bill
more than $8 million for speeches, even as they were hoping for favorable treatment from Hillary's bureaucracy. And
15 of them also gave at least $5 million total to the foundation. At her confirmation hearing, questioners raised
the issue of her hubby's global business. Hillary vowed to take "extraordinary steps ... to avoid even the appearance of a
conflict of interest."
[Hillary]
Clinton [was] advised to consider resigning as secretary of state after Obama's Russia comments. A key Hillary
Clinton adviser told her that she may have to consider resigning as secretary of state after President Obama was caught
telling Russia's president off-mic early in 2012 that he could make more concessions on missile defense after November's U.S.
elections. In addition, Mark Penn told Mrs. Clinton that Mr. Obama's not-so-secret words "may be about the stupidest
thing ever said by a president in foreign policy."
Judicial
Watch Sues for Info on Team Hillary at State Department. Earlier this month Judicial Watch announced the filing
of a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking ethics and employment records of Cheryl Mills
and Huma Abedin, the longtime and ethically-challenged aides of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The lawsuit
was filed after the State Department failed to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted on August 18,
2015. Judicial Watch is seeking access to the following records on Mills: ["]All SF-85s and 85Ps; SF-86s; SF-450s;
certificates of divestiture; individual waivers or any other applicable ethics statues, regulations, guidelines or agreements.["]
A separate FOIA request, submitted on August 19, 2015, seeks access to Abedin's and Mills' OF-109 forms, which are signed, under
penalty of perjury, by departing government employees stating they have turned over all official documents and records to the State
Department. The OF-109 form records are not limited to classified material. It requires that all records must be
left in the hands of the State Department, including emails.
Hillary
Clinton Once Called Assad a Reformer, Now Says He Can't Stay in Power. Hillary Clinton blamed the rise and
growth of the Islamic State on Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad during the Democratic presidential debate on Saturday night
[12/19/2015] after calling Syria's ruler a "reformer" four years earlier when she was secretary of state.
Hillary
Clinton: The criminal investigation keeps moving forward. While the country has been fixated on Donald Trump's
tormenting his Republican primary opponents and deeply concerned about the government's efforts to identify any confederates
in the San Bernardino, California, killings, a team of federal prosecutors and FBI agents continues to examine Hillary
Clinton's tenure as secretary of state in order to determine whether she committed any crimes and, if so, whether there is
sufficient evidence to prove her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. What began as an innocent Freedom of Information Act
request by Judicial Watch, a D.C.-based public advocacy group promoting transparency in the executive branch, has now become
a full criminal investigation, with Clinton as the likely target.
Homeland
Security Chairman Michael McCaul: Hillary Clinton 'Responsible' for Islamic State. Homeland Security Chairman
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) blames President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the rise of the Islamic
State. "I would say that she and the president are responsible for ISIS rearing its ugly head," McCaul said, during a
Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters in Washington D.C. this morning [12/9/2015]. He argued that any
Republican nominee for president would have a huge advantage over Clinton in 2016 as it was clear that the issue of national
security was paramount among voters. "I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the
Obama administration's foreign policy," McCaul said, referring to her role as Secretary of State.
Clinton
opened State Department office to dozens of corporate donors, Dem fundraisers. As secretary of state, Hillary
Rodham Clinton opened her office to dozens of influential Democratic party fundraisers, former Clinton administration and
campaign loyalists, and corporate donors to her family's global charity, according to State Department calendars obtained by
The Associated Press.
Did
Clinton State Dept. properly probe ambassador who solicited prostitutes? Sen. Chuck Grassley pressed the State
Department Monday on why an internal investigation into whether an ambassador solicited prostitutes in Belgium was seemingly
shut down by Hillary Clinton's top staff in 2011. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Grassley demanded to know
why Cheryl Mills, Clinton's former chief of staff, was one of only two officials permitted to interview the Belgian ambassador
after he was accused of "routinely ditching his protective security detail in order to solicit prostitutes in a public park in
Belgium." The other official, Patrick Kennedy, halted the initial investigation two days after it began and kept the probe
out of the hands of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the inspector general by downgrading the matter to a "management issue."
State
Department Documents Reveal Rushed Approval of Hillary Clinton Memoir, Classified Information Concerns on Book's Iran Chapter.
Judicial Watch today [11/18/2015] released documents from the Department of State revealing that State Department officials ordered rushed
approval of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's manuscript for her memoir Hard Choices. The documents show a key
State Department official had concerns about the disclosure of classified information in the book concerning Iran and an effort to destroy
draft copies of Clinton's book in State Department files and from State Department computer systems.
Helping
Hillary Clinton Figure Out Her 5 Greatest Accomplishments. Of course, the real problem Hillary has isn't that
she doesn't have achievements; it's just that they're not exploits that anyone would want to base a run at the Presidency on.
[... For example,] She was one of the worst Secretaries of State in U.S. history: Donald Trump calls her "the worst
Secretary of State" in American history, but this is an old country that has had a lot of people in that position; so that
may be unfair. Maybe she's just one of the worst Secretaries of State in American history. Look at what happened
on her watch. We helped radical jihadis take over in Libya and that country is falling apart. Benghazi also
happened and while she was publicly telling the world a video caused it, she was privately telling people it was a terrorist
attack. Additionally, we backed a radical jihadi takeover of the government in Egypt that thankfully fell apart.
We pulled all our troops out of Iraq, which set the stage for ISIS to move in. Our relationship with the Israeli government
deteriorated. So did our relationships with China and Russia. To top it all off, the State Department lost track
of 6 billion dollars while she was Secretary of State.
Judge:
State Dept. 'lackadaisical' in processing Clinton files. A federal judge scolded the State Department Tuesday
for being "lackadaisical" in processing the emails turned over by former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as messages
and notes from other department officials. Judge Rudolph Contreras said the department has had Mrs. Clinton's emails since
December, and he wondered why it is only now beginning to hire additional reviewers to go over her messages and the tens of
thousands of other documents that are being sought as the Obama administration faces an avalanche of open-records requests
concerning her time in office.
DCNF
Sues State For Hillary, Aides Security Training Records. The Daily Caller News Foundation filed a lawsuit
Monday [11/9/2015] in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia over the State Department's failure to release
records showing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides passed all mandatory security courses on
handling classified materials. The DCNF previously filed an Oct. 9, 2015, Freedom of Information Act request
for the training records, but the department did not respond to the request within the 20 days allowed by the law.
Teneo, firm with Clinton ties,
declines to answer Senate questions. Teneo, a global consulting firm with ties to White House contender Hillary
Clinton, has dismissed a U.S. Senate panel's suggestion that it had undue influence at the State Department when Clinton was
the top U.S. diplomat, calling its work in Washington "insignificant" in a letter.
Clinton
Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info. A day after assuming office as
secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal
penalties for "any unauthorized disclosure" of classified information. Experts have guessed that Clinton signed such an
agreement, but a copy of her specific contract, obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute through an open records
request and shared with the Washington Free Beacon, reveals for the first time the exact language of the NDA.
Clinton
Signed NDA Laying Out Criminal Penalties for Mishandling of Classified Info. As the nation's chief diplomat,
Hillary Clinton was responsible for ascertaining whether information in her possession was classified and acknowledged that
"negligent handling" of that information could jeopardize national security, according to a copy of an agreement she signed
upon taking the job. A day after assuming office as secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented
Information Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal penalties for "any unauthorized disclosure" of classified information.
Hillary
Clinton's Secrets Contract Should [End] Her Candidacy. Massive government is usually viewed as functioning
top-down: The elected politician tries to guide the bureaucracies, directives routinely get distorted, and the end result
includes horrors such as little old ladies being manhandled as potential terrorists at airports. In the case of Clinton
becoming secretary of state in 2009, however, it worked bottom-up, and accomplished something quite sensible. Thanks to an
open records request by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a key non-disclosure agreement the beleaguered front-runner for
the Democrats' presidential nomination signed is now public.
Hillary
signed State Department contract saying it was HER job to know if documents were classified top secret. Hillary
Clinton's claim that she was unaware top secret documents on her private email server were highly classified took a hit on
Friday [11/6/2015], with the revelation of a State Department contract she signed in 2009. The 'Sensitive Compartmented Information
Nondisclosure Agreement,' which Clinton inked during her second day as Secretary of State, declared that she was personally responsible
for determining if sensitive documents in her possession were classified at the government's highest level.
Whitewashing
Hillary — step one in shutting down the FBI's probe. Hmm. [James] Clapper answers to the president —
who issued clear marching orders months ago, announcing that Clinton's server scam was "not a situation in which America's national security
was endangered." Oddly, news of Clapper's finding got leaked to Politico soon after the Washington Free Beacon reported Clinton did
indeed, right after taking over at State, acknowledge her responsibility to properly guard classified info — and that "negligent
handling" of it could bring criminal penalties. Until the Beacon broke that news, even the State Department was unclear on whether
Clinton ever signed the Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement. By so doing, she promised not to put classified
info at risk — by, say, storing it on a home-brewed email server.
Did
Hillary Emails Put State Department In Compromised Position? Government officials routinely make Friday afternoon document dumps
knowing that the news coverage and public interest will be weak. It's their way of hiding what should be out in the open. Friday's [10/30/2015]
deposit of emails might turn up the evidence many are looking for. But it will take time before the entire tranche can be scrutinized.
If there's gun in there that's still smoking, it's unlikely to be uncovered right away.
Clinton:
I didn't have a computer in my State Dept. office. Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she did not conduct most of her
official business as secretary of state via email, during her testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, remarking that
she did not even have a computer in her Foggy Bottom office. During questioning from Indiana Republican Susan Brooks, Clinton
was asked to account for the relative lack of emails to and from State Department officials regarding the situation on the ground in
Libya from 2011 to 2012, as the situation deteriorated.
The Editor says...
There's an easy way to refute this claim: Bring in the current Secretary of State, put him under oath, and then ask him if there was a computer
in his office on his first day as Secretary, and ask him if there were any work-related files on that computer when he got there. This is one
of the most transparent lies Hillary Clinton has ever told. Name one (other) cabinet-level official, at any time in in this century, who did
not have a computer in his or her office. For that matter, name one federal bureaucrat in Washington without a computer in his or her office.
I await your answer.
4
Times Sidney Blumenthal Was More Than Just 'A Friend' To Hillary Clinton. Why is this important? Remember:
Blumenthal didn't work for the State Department. In fact, he was persona non grata in the White House. Clinton wanted to
hire him, but President Obama refused to allow him to serve under his administration. That didn't stop her from communicating
with him about how things were going in war-torn Libya. Coincidentally, (or not-so-coincidentally) Blumenthal was working
as an adviser to a shady business venture that sought to work with Libyan rebels.
Hillary
Had No State Department Computer. Was She Ever Really Sec. of State? One of the weirdest moments in today's House committee hearing
came when Hillary Clinton testified that she did not have a computer in her State Department office: [...] But of course, that isn't what Hillary
did. She had a computer, she was on the internet, she used email. Just not in her office and not using the government system, which was
at least semi-secure. Rather, she had her own incompetent home-brew arrangement that was a virtual invitation to invasion by hostile powers.
A home-brew system, moreover, for which Sid Vicious had the address, but Chris Stevens didn't. Which shows Hillary's priorities.
Hillary Clinton: 'I Did Not Email During
The Day'. Hillary Clinton says she did not generally send or receive emails during the daytime during her tenure as Secretary
of State, despite copious evidence to the contrary. "I did not email during the day except on rare occasions when I was able to,"
Clinton said. Clinton spent a chunk of time at Thursday's [10/22/2015] House Benghazi Committee hearing defending herself against the
suggestion that she exposed classified information on email, saying that she did not conduct the business of the U.S. government on email.
The Benghazi hearing. If you
watched closely enough you could tell how isolated Clinton was in her own department. When talking about State Department employees, she
stressed that they were not her staff. She surrounded herself with partisan loyalists to an extent that should trouble voters.
What was clear is Sidney Blumenthal, her hatchet man and political fixer had a whole lot of access, showering her with e-mails. In what was
surely Clinton's worst moment, Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked her why she sent on one of Blumenthal's memos to the White House, removing an
"identifier" showing it came from Blumenthal.
Bill
Clinton scored paid speeches while Hillary made official State Dept. visits. Back when they occupied the White
House, Bill and Hillary Clinton boasted that Americans "got two for the price of one." The folks in Ireland have a good sense
now what that actually costs. As Irish businesses were arranging for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to make one
of her last official visits to Ireland in December 2012, her husband, Bill, suddenly landed a half-million speaking gig for his
foundation on the Emerald Island, according to newly released emails from the conservative group Citizens United that show the
business of State and the business of Bill were often intertwined.
Clinton
State Department approved U.S. weapons shipment to Libya despite ban. The State Department initially approved a
weapons shipment from a California company to Libyans seeking to oust Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 even though a United Nations
arms ban was in place, according to memos recovered from the burned-out compound in Benghazi.
Group
Sues State Department to Release Clinton Schedule. A conservative nonprofit group is suing the Department of
State to release details about Hillary Clinton's schedule during her tenure there, according to court documents filed on
Monday [10/19/2015]. Citizens United initially submitted a public information request for the information on the
former secretary of state last March, but the State Department has yet to turn over any documents.
Beyond
Clinton: Cybersecurity Failures Are Widespread Under Obama. Under continued fire for her use of a private,
unsecured email account to conduct official State Department business, Hillary Clinton now faces charges that cybersecurity
suffered at the State Department during her time as secretary. The Associated Press gathered various internal audits over
the years, and found that the department's compliance with federal cybersecurity standards "grew worse each year of her tenure."
State
Dept. network security lax under Clinton. The State Department was among the worst agencies in the federal
government at protecting its computer networks while Hillary Clinton was secretary from 2009 to 2013, a situation that
continued to deteriorate as John Kerry took office and Russian hackers breached the department's email system, according to
independent audits and interviews.
Surprise:
Cybersecurity Deteriorated Under Hillary Clinton. In an Associated Press exclusive, Ken Dilanian notes just how
bad cybersecurity was during Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State. The article is primarily published in local news sites,
though the NY TImes does have it as a web only piece, not in their published paper. Other national news outlets,
such as ABC, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, MSNBC, for instance? Not at this time[.]
Emails
show Qaddafi son offered talks — but Clinton ordered top general to 'not take the call,' source says. New emails
obtained by Fox News show that in March 2011, at the height of the Arab Spring revolution inside Libya, dictator Muammar Qaddafi's son Saif
was willing to talk peace from the ground in Libya — but a source told Fox News the offer was rejected by then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton. In the years since Qaddafi was forced from power, Libya's government has collapsed, and extremist groups including ISIS
have exploited the power vacuum. While the Obama administration has promoted the use of "soft power" and diplomacy, the documents suggest
the option was not vigorously pursued here.
How
Hillary Clinton kept her wealthy friends close while at State Department. The note to Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton from liberal financier George Soros demanded "urgent attention from the highest levels of the U.S.
government." Clinton swiftly alerted a top aide to what she described as a "very forceful message which is good —
and needed." The e-mail exchange, in which Soros warned of growing unrest in Albania, illustrates how Clinton interacted
with major donors to her family's causes during her tenure at the State Department, staying in touch with her political network
before her 2016 run for the Democratic presidential nomination. And they show how these donors, some of them with interests
before the U.S. government, gained high-level access to press their policy concerns inside the Clinton-led State Department.
Clinton
Wrecked State Department's Post-9/11 Digital Information Security. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
use of a private email server to conduct official diplomatic business created many national security problems, but they may
pale by comparison with the wreckage she left behind in her department's main digital information security office.
Harold W. Geisel, the State Department's acting Inspector General, issued eight scathing audits and investigation reports
during Clinton's tenure, repeatedly warning about worsening problems and growing security weaknesses within the Bureau of
Information Resource Management, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.
Judge
Napolitano: Hillary's Troubles Just Keep Cascading Down Upon Her. There are new questions if Hillary Clinton
committed perjury when she said in a sworn statement that she turned over all of the official correspondence from her secret
email server, deleting only personal emails. The State Department said Friday [9/25/2015] that it recently obtained a series
of emails that Clinton did not turn over. The messages were exchanged with retired Gen. David Petraeus when he headed the
military's U.S. Central Command. They began before Clinton entered office as secretary of state and continued into her first
days at the State Department.
Hillary
Clinton Can't Name A Top Accomplishment While Secretary Of State. Hillary Clinton could not name her "number
one accomplishment" while she was secretary of state during her first live interview of the campaign season with CNN's Wolf
Blitzer Thursday [9/17/2015]. Clinton instead said that anyone who is interested in her accomplishments should "read my
book 'Hard Choices.'"
Form
SF-312 and its potential consequences for Hillary Clinton. Back in March, as the Hillary Clinton email scandal
heated up, the question arose whether Clinton executed Form OF-109 when she left the State Department. This is the form in
which a departing official certifies, under penalty of perjury, that she has "surrendered to responsible officials all unclassified
documents, and papers relating to the official business of the Government acquired by me while in the employ of the Department."
Hillary indisputably did not surrender all such documents when she moved on from the State Department. Thus, as we noted (per
Shannen Coffin), if Hillary signed this form, she's vulnerable to the charge of perjury.
State
Department Is Mum On Whether Hillary Signed Important Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement. Amid the
many unanswered questions in the Hillary Clinton email scandal is whether the former secretary of state signed an official
document acknowledging that she turned over all of the classified information in her possession to the State Department when
she left office in Feb. 2013. The "Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement" — Special Form 312 —
also requires incoming government officials to acknowledge that classified information can be either "marked" or "unmarked" as such.
But finding out whether Clinton signed the document has been difficult.
State
Dept. concedes 'gaps' in Clinton emails; contradiction could result in perjury charge. The emails former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton turned back over to the government last year contained "gaps," according to
internal department messages evaluating her production. Mrs. Clinton took office on Jan. 21, 2009, but the first
message she turned back over to the department was dated March 18, and the earliest-dated message she herself sent was
on April 13, or nearly three months into her time in office, according to a message obtained through an open records
request by Judicial Watch, which released it Monday [9/14/2015].
Exclusive:
State Department 'Email Czar' Received Classified Hillary Clinton Emails. The "email czar" hired by the State
Department to handle the agency's response to the Hillary Clinton email scandal has a second hidden conflict of interest: she
received some of the same classified emails that were also sent to Hillary Clinton via her private email system, Breitbart
News has learned. Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Janice L. Jacobs this week to serve as a non-partisan,
non-political "transparency coordinator." The recently retired bureaucrat will lead the State Department's political response
to the various Clinton email investigations in Congress and the various civil lawsuits filed by transparency groups.
Hillary
Clinton Knew Benghazi Terrorists Used Video as 'Cover'. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was warned that
the Benghazi terrorist attack was carried out by a terrorist group using Youtube video protests as "cover," in a memo that
she received the day after the attack. Nevertheless, Clinton still went ahead and pushed the false talking point that
spontaneous protests incited by the Internet movie Innocence of Muslims caused the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris
Stevens and three others.
Has
Hillary Clinton created a national security disaster? Most coverage of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
server (including mine) has focused on whether she lied about her usage and whether she violated the law. This focus is
natural because Clinton is running for president. Presumably, only partisan Democrats are likely to support a liar and even
some of them might balk at backing a criminal. But Stanley Kurtz looks at a different and vital question, namely the
nature and scale of the damage to American national security caused by Hillary's mishandling of classified information.
Hillary's
Emails: How Big a National Security Disaster? Has Hillary Clinton been lying about her e-mail system and did
she violate the laws against mishandling classified material? Coverage of Clinton's e-mail scandal has been focused on those
questions, but shouldn't we be paying more attention to the nature and scale of the damage to American national security caused by
Hillary's carelessness with classified information? We're not focused on the details of the security damage because it's
difficult to know whether and to what extent Hillary's communications were intercepted, and more difficult still to make public
whatever our intelligence agencies may have figured out on that score. But maybe we already know enough to conclude that
Hillary's e-mail scandal constitutes one of the most serious American national security disasters on record.
Could
This Be the Scandal That Finally Sinks Hillary Clinton? Secretary of State is the only executive office Hillary
Clinton has ever held. When she lost the Democratic primary in 2008, this was the position she wanted as her stepping stone
back to the presidency. It was an office in which she could rack up experience doing something that seems presidential —
dealing with foreign policy — without having to take responsibility for whatever Obama messed up in domestic policy.
This scandal takes the one big thing Hillary Clinton has done in the past ten years to demonstrate her credentials to run for president,
and it turns that one big asset into a big liability. It turns her tenure at the State Department into something she cannot mention
without raising questions about all the classified information she potentially laid bare to Russian and Chinese hackers.
Hillary
and Obama Own the Tragic Libyan Exodus. Last week, in one incident, as many as 180 men, women and children
drowned when the boat carrying them capsized off the Libyan coast. "Libya is a major transit route for migrants hoping to
make it to Europe," reported Reuters. "Smuggling networks exploit the country's lawlessness and chaos." What Reuters did
not explain, at least in any detail, is "why Libya?" In this, Reuters was hardly unique. The same media that gleefully
blamed Iraq's post-Saddam disorder on George Bush refuse to even address the question of who is to blame for the "lawlessness and
chaos" in post-Qaddafi Libya.
Unofficial
adviser regularly sent Hillary Clinton anti-Israel articles. A former aide to President Bill Clinton regularly sent articles
decrying Israeli leadership to Hillary Clinton when she served as secretary of state, a new batch of emails released by the State Department
revealed Monday evening [8/31/2015]. Sidney Blumenthal, who appears to have served as an unofficial adviser to Clinton during her
tenure at the State Department, sent the former secretary of state an assortment of articles, many of them penned by his son, Max, regarding
Middle Eastern politics. Max Blumenthal has not only accused Israel of committing war crimes, but he has also described the nation as
an apartheid state.
Clinton tapped foundation donors to fund State
Dept. project. Hillary Clinton tapped into the vast network of donors cultivated by her family's foundation to fund one
of her first major initiatives as secretary of state: constructing the U.S. pavilion at the 2010 World's Fair in Shanghai.
Emails included in the 7,000 pages of records published by the State Department Monday [8/31/2015] suggest Clinton's close
relationships with corporate executives helped bring in the $61 million needed to build the pavilion.
State
Department IT staff among those in the dark about Clinton's private email address. Members of the State
Department's information technology staff were among those who were unaware that Hillary Clinton was using a private email
address during her time as secretary of state, the latest release of messages from Clinton's private server revealed late
Monday [8/31/2015]. In one email, dated February 27, 2010, an IT worker on the State Department's computer "help desk"
sends a message to Clinton's email address inquiring about why one of Clinton's correspondents has been getting a "fatal error"
when she tries to send messages to the secretary of state.
Top
State Department Staff Used Personal Email to Send 'Sensitive' Data. Senior State Department officials at the
U.S. Embassy in Japan have been caught sending "sensitive" information over personal email accounts, subjecting the
information to potential hacking attacks and other cyber threats, according to a new report by the department's inspector
general. Embassy staff, including the U.S. ambassador to Japan, were found to conducted "official business" via their
personal email addresses, highlighting an issue of concern among national security experts and officials in the wake of
disclosures about Hillary Clinton's email habits during her tenure as secretary of state. The use of personal email
among Obama administration officials has raised concerns about the protection of sensitive data, which could be stolen by
hackers and foreign governments.
Hillary
Clinton's State Department IG Was More Lapdog than Watchdog. Without the House Select Committee on Benghazi's
initial probe into Clinton's communications, even the fact that she used a private e-mail account to conduct government
business may have remained a secret. It's puzzling. At the time, many State Department employees did appear
to know of Clinton's private account, yet the State Department inspector general (IG) only opened an investigation into the
scandal in April 2015, years after she had left office. Before then, the agency's top watchdog had given no indication
that it was either aware of, or concerned by, Clinton's e-mail practices. Why?
Another Lie: State Dept. Never Told DHS About Hillary's
Server Despite The Rules. Seems to make sense: The DHS required regular updates about the security of email
systems so they could audit them to discover if they were secure or if they were hackable. Grandmonster Hillary never told
them about this key system, upon which she conducted all of her official State business Pinterest-based
Yoga Routine Research.
If
there was no classified material, Clinton wasn't doing her job. "There is no classified material." That's how
Hillary Clinton put it when asked in March. To anyone who knows what the secretary of state actually does, this seemed
strange, to put it mildly. Then the Clinton line was: "I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at
the time." Notice that she is reduced to pleading mere recklessness as a defense against possibly mishandling confidential
material. Well, to begin with, classified material does not need a label to make it so.
DHS
has no record of State Dept. giving info for Clinton server audit, despite rules. All federal government agencies are mandated to
submit a list of systems, vulnerabilities and configuration issues to DHS every 30 days. The department then performs a "cyberscope
audit" to ensure security, a responsibility the agency has had since 2010. FoxNews.com learned of the lapse as a result of a Freedom of
Information Act request submitted June 11. It is not clear if State Department officials in charge of compliance with the DHS audits
knew of their boss's server, which has been shown to have included "top secret" information in emails.
Hillary's
security breach, and why it matters. Perhaps you've heard of Sergey Lavrov — or perhaps you haven't. He has
been Russia's foreign minister since March 9, 2004. Imagine what U.S. intelligence agencies might have gained if they'd had access in
real time (or even with some delay) to every email and direct message Lavrov sent or received from Jan. 21, 2009 through Feb. 1, 2013.
How Obama and Hillary made the
Arab world safe for radical Islam. 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.
Hillary's
State Department Routinely Hid Emails On Purpose. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's State Department
routinely failed to preserve its own emails in order to intentionally hide them from official records. Clinton-era email
use at the State Department was fraught with widespread, intentional concealment, according to an October 2014-March 2015
semiannual report to Congress filed by the State Department's office of inspector general (OIG). Only a fraction of
the messages sent by email were stored as "record emails," according to the report.
White House: China's been hacking our
emails since, oh, around the time Hillary began using her own insecure email server. Completely unexpected news o' the
day: it would appear that Red China's cyber-warriors have been hacking sensitive White House, State Department, and related diplomatic
emails since — you guessed it — Hillary Clinton began operating her own private email server to conduct official
government business. [...] In fact, a wide variety of cybersecurity experts had claimed that it was a virtual certainty that Clinton's
private email server had been hacked by China, Russia, and Iran.
Clinton
adviser on Israel had commercial ties to Middle East. A controversial Clinton adviser
who faced penalties for conflicts of interests under President Bill Clinton was still assisting
Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, despite the fact that his consulting firm was engaged in
commercial activities in countries where she worked, emails show. Sandy Berger, who gained
notoriety when he stole classified documents from the National Archives prior to testimony before
the 9/11 Commission, had Hillary Clinton's personal email address and emailed her about Israel,
Pakistan and terrorism in 2009.
DOJ-Media-Intel
Election Interference Predates Trump. The [Sandy] Berger case is the deep state's
Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering its mysteries. In 2004, while reviewing files at the
National Archives in preparation for the 9-11 Commission hearing, Berger, Bill Clinton's national
security advisor, stole highly classified documents, stored them under a construction trailer
during a break, retrieved them at day's end, admittedly cut them up, and threw the pieces
away. On April 1, 2005, the DOJ announced its extraordinary plea deal with Berger —
a $10,000 fine and a three-year suspension of his top-level security clearance. Long before
Trump's emergence, Democrats were playing by a radically different set of rules. At least
three of the DOJ attorneys mishandling the Berger case were Democrat donors.
Judge
Orders State Department Turn Over Thousands of Clinton Documents Before Democratic Primary. A federal judge
has ordered the State Department to release thousands of documents to the Associated Press related to former secretary of
State Hillary Clinton in the next few months. The AP reported that U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon on Friday
[8/7/2015] set the schedule for the federal agency's release of the documents, which are related to longtime Clinton aide
Huma Abedin's employment status in addition to Hillary's schedules, appointments, and call history while at the State
Department. In March, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against the State Department, accusing the government
agency of failing to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for thousands of documents related to Clinton,
one of which was made more than five years ago.
Judge
Sullivan is not amused. It's hard to keep up with the news bearing on Madam Hillary's
use of a private email account/server during her tenure as Secretary of State.
Should
Clinton's lawyer have classified info in his possession? Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton seems to be taking more questions from the media these days —
but will the media continue to ask her questions about her State Department emails? During a press
avail earlier this week — there wasn't one question asked on that topic. And now we have
new questions about whether her attorney should be allowed to have the 30-thousand emails turned over to
the State Department from her private server in his possession on a thumbdrive.
Hillary
mishandled secret reports from 5 different agencies. Classified emails that were
transmitted on Hillary Clinton's private email server contained information that belonged to five
different intelligence agencies. The National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency,
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA
each claimed data that appeared in emails sent to and from Clinton's server, according to McClatchy.
In a classified Benghazi-related email that was improperly made public May 22, the NSA, DIA and
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency had information at stake, the report said.
Is
Obama taking Hillary out? The Clintons and the Obamas have a long history of bad blood, dating to the
2008 primary race. After Mr. Obama creamed her, he offered her the plum gig of secretary of state. Friends
close, enemies closer. She tried to get her dirty tricks consigliere, Sidney Blumenthal, a top position in the
State Department, which Mr. Obama pointedly denied. So she hired him anyway through the Clinton Foundation.
Through Mr. Blumenthal, she was fed all kinds of intelligence on global hotpots such as Libya, much of it inaccurate, as
she circumvented traditional government communication chains via her private email server. What was she hiding
from Mr. Obama? And why? Perhaps because she trusted Mr. Obama about as much as she trusted Bill.
Sandy
Berger urged Hillary to portray Bibi as obstacle to peace. Sandy Berger, a former national security adviser
for President Bill Clinton who pled guilty to stealing and destroying classified documents, advised Hillary Clinton when
she was secretary of state on how to portray Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the obstacle to peace and how to
make his political life "uneasy." The revelations came in a new batch of Clinton's emails released on Friday [7/31/2015]
by the State Department.
Facts in Clinton's
'secret' emails came from five intelligence agencies. The classified emails stored on
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server contained information from five U.S.
intelligence agencies and included material related to the fatal 2012 Benghazi attacks, McClatchy
has learned. Of the five classified emails, the one known to be connected to Benghazi was among
296 emails made public in May by the State Department. Intelligence community officials have
determined it was improperly released.
Cause
of Action Sues State for Clinton Records Failure. A whistle-blowing organization is
suing Secretary of State John Kerry and the National Archivist for failure to properly preserve
former Secretary Hillary Clinton's electronic trail. Cause of Action (COA), a non-profit and
nonpartisan government accountability organization, filed a lawsuit against the agency, claiming it
did not perform its due diligence in ensuring that Clinton followed record keeping protocol. COA
executive director Dan Epstein said the suit was necessary to ensure transparency in future administrations.
"This case is about no government official being above the law and the duty of Secretary Kerry and Archivist
[David] Ferriero to fulfill their statutory obligations to hold former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
accountable for misusing taxpayer funded federal property," Epstein said in a release.
New
Clinton email batch contains dozens of classified sections. Dozens of Hillary Clinton
emails from a new batch released by the State Department Friday [7/31/2015] contain retroactively classified
sections, dealing with everything from post-coup Honduras to meetings with Middle East allies. The
release underscores concerns, which have mounted in recent days, that the Democratic presidential candidate's
private email account contained sensitive information — though Clinton stresses she never sent or
received anything that was classified at the time. In the emails made public Friday, the government
censored passages to protect national security at least 64 times in 37 messages, including
instances when the same information was blacked-out multiple times. State Department spokesman Mark
Toner said Friday that this information was all retroactively upgraded to "confidential."
Hillary
Must Explain Her 2-Month Email Gap. Hillary Clinton assured the country in March that
she had turned over every single work-related email from her private server. So why are there no
emails for two months during a critical time at State? Here's what Clinton said at that March
press conference. "I ... provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totaled
roughly 55,000 printed pages, even though I knew that the State Department already had the vast majority
of them. We went through a thorough process to identify all of my work-related emails and deliver
them to the State Department." Now it turns out that there are two months during which —
if Clinton's statement above is to be believed — she apparently didn't send any emails at all
while Secretary of State.
A
curious — and coincidental — two-month gap in Hillary e-mails.
Has there been a Rose Mary Woods at work in Hillary Clinton's management of her e-mails? The State
Department insists that they have made public all of Hillary's e-mails pertaining to the security of
the Benghazi consulate and the Libya mission from 2012. If that's true, The Daily Beast's Alexa
Corse and Shane Harris report, then no one on Hillary's team — including the Secretary of
State herself — bothered to communicate for two months about the rise in violence
in the spring that precipitated the attack on the consulate itself at the end of the summer: [...]
Not
Just Hillary — Clinton Staffer Delivers 20,000 Work-Related Emails From Private Account.
Philippe Reines, Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and Huma Abedin all used non State Dept. email accounts during their
tenure within the Clinton led State Department. It appears all of them joined with Hillary Clinton to avoid
FOIA investigative inquiry into their activity. Reines turns over 20 boxes of hand-selected emails for
review.
The
Missing Hillary Emails No One Can Explain. Among the approximately 2,000 emails that former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton has released from her private account, there is a conspicuous two-month gap. There are no
emails between Clinton and her State Department staff during May and June 2012, a period of escalating violence in Libya
leading up to the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that left four Americans dead. A
State Department spokesman told The Daily Beast that for the year 2012, only those emails related to the security of the
consulate or to the U.S. diplomatic presence in Libya were made public and turned over to a House committee investigating
the fatal Benghazi assault. But if that's true, then neither Clinton nor her staff communicated via email about
the escalating dangers in Libya.
Reported
two-month gap in Clinton emails coincides with escalating Libya violence. A State
Department spokesman told The Daily Beast that only emails related to the security of U.S. diplomats
in Libya or the consulate in Benghazi were turned over to the House select committee investigating
the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack. If true, that means neither Clinton nor her staff communicated
via e-mail during a period that saw three attacks on international outposts in Benghazi, including one on
the consulate itself. That attack, on June 6, 2012, involved the detonation of an improvised
explosive device outside of the consulate, prompting the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli to warn Americans about
the "fluid security situation in Libya."
"We
Need A Woman of Your Special Skills". The woman who "discovered" all of those deleted emails at the
IRS was the one person the State Department felt it had to have onboard to "vet" Hillary's emails? I wonder why.
Federal
Judge Declares State Department Will "Answer For" Any Destruction of Clinton Emails.
Judicial Watch announced today [7/20/2015] that a federal judge warned the State Department that it
will "have to answer for" any destruction of Hillary Clinton email records. [...] At the hearing,
attorney Chris Fedeli pressed Judicial Watch's concerns about the preservation of records, especially
email records that were not part of the 55,000 pages of records turned over by Mrs. Clinton to the
State Department late last year.
Clinton
insider faced IG probe for informal diplomacy. A longtime Clinton ally who was once
under investigation for a possible violation of the Logan Act may have helped Sidney Blumenthal
prepare intelligence memos for Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of state. Cody
Shearer was the subject of a State Department inspector general probe in 1998 after he allegedly
conducted rogue negotiations that "caused temporary diplomatic damage in Bosnia," according to
documents obtained by Citizens United through the Freedom of Information Act.
State
Dept. stonewalls emails tying Clinton to Benghazi talking points. The pair of undisclosed emails came to
light in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch after the State
Department told the group it planned to withhold the records. The select committee confirmed to the Washington
Examiner that the records had not been given to Congress. Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said the
agency's refusal to release the two emails to either his group or the select committee suggests information about
Clinton's involvement is being covered up. "There is something here that is scandalous, otherwise they
would have released it," Fitton said.
Time to Arrest
Hillary. Hillary Clinton led the charge in the Obama administration to go to war in
Libya. Her objective was to overthrow the regime of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Not one to be deterred
by opponents in the Pentagon and Congress to her reckless interventionist plans, Hillary decided to end-run
them. Her State Department helped facilitate what Andrew P. Napolitano in his scathing article has
called "Hillary's secret war." When the secret war began to backfire, as arms ended up in the hands
of anti-American jihadists, Hillary Clinton and other senior members of the Obama administration engaged in lies,
obstructions of congressional investigations and scapegoating to cover their tracks.
Paul:
'Very good chance' Clinton lied about knowledge of arms to rebels in Libya, Syria.
Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Wednesday [7/8/2015] that he believes "there's a very good chance"
Hillary Clinton was lying when she said in 2013 that she didn't know about the alleged U.S.-backed
flow of weapons to rebels in Libya and Syria when she was secretary of state. Recently
released emails detail Clinton's interest in arming Libyan rebels in 2011 and show the 2016
Democratic presidential hopeful appearing to endorse the idea of using private contractors to
her then-deputy chief of staff.
Medical
Bill: Mystery donor picked up $150G tab for 2010 Clinton speech. It was a big coup
when a nonprofit medical trade group landed Bill Clinton as a speaker at its 2010 annual conference
in Chicago — so big that some members wondered how the former president was being paid.
Not to worry, members of the Radiological Society of North America were told: An anonymous donor
footed his bill. The $150,000 fee was a mere fraction of the $48 million Clinton took in from
215 speeches between 2009 and 2013, while his wife was secretary of state.
House
Speaker John Boehner: Hillary Clinton is lying about State Department emails. House
Speaker John Boehner on Sunday [7/12/2015] accused former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
of lying about the email scandal that is hounding her campaign for the Democratic presidential
nomination. "She is not telling the truth. She had an obligation to turn these e-mails
over," Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Clinton
emails reveal U.S. wanted to set up back channel after 2009 Honduran coup. In the
aftermath of the 2009 coup that overthrew Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton requested the assistance of a prominent D.C. lobbyist to act as a back channel with
the interim government in Tegucigalpa, even as the United States was denouncing the putsch.
According to emails released this week from Clinton's private server, the former secretary of state
and presidential candidate asked if Lanny Davis, a lobbyist and former White House Counsel to Bill
Clinton, could help in the talks with then-interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti.
State
Department Hid Clinton Aide's Special Job Status, Grassley Charges. State Department
officials "failed to disclose" a special employment status granted to Cheryl Mills who was former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, according to Sen. Charles Grassley. Mills
was designated a "Special Government Employee," and may have "abused her access" for the benefit of
former President Clinton and the Clinton family's foundation, Grassley, the Iowa Republican, charged
Tuesday [7/7/2015] in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry. Grassley is chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Latest
Batch Of Hillary Clinton Emails Reveals More Lies. While the latest batch of Hillary
Clinton emails contains many embarrassments — like her troubles with a fax machine —
it also exposes still more deceptions on her part and by those around her.
Clinton might have hoped she put that whole silly email kerfuffle behind her when she deigned to
hold a press conference in March to answer questions about all the official email correspondence as
secretary of state that took place on her personal account.
RNC
Plans Sustained Attack on Hillary Clinton's Record at State Department. The Republican
National Committee has been looking into Mrs. Clinton's record and polling in battleground states to
see whether she is be vulnerable when it comes to her tenure running a large bureaucracy, the State
Department, in President Barack Obama's first term. The RNC wants to highlight concerns raised
about various management practices and oversight during Mrs. Clinton's watch.
Peter
Schweizer: Deleted Hillary Emails Probably Relate to 'Clinton Cash' Transactions.
During a C-SPAN interview on Sunday, July 5th, Clinton Cash author and Breitbart News Senior
Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer addressed the renewed interest in Hillary Clinton's private email
server, saying the scandal "works hand in glove with the issues raised" by his bestselling book.
State Dept. withholding content of Obama/Hillary
call from night of Benghazi attack. Some of us remember that Barack Obama jetted off
to a fundraiser in Las Vegas on the night our consulate in Benghazi was attacked by terrorists
associated with Al Qaeda. Now you might be able to offer this defense of the president: He can do
his job from anywhere. He has communication capabilities wherever he goes, and he has the freedom to
use them any time he wants. And, yes, that's true. And on the night of September 11, 2012, he
did make use of his communication tools to talk with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about what was
happening in Benghazi. Not only that, but it turns out there is a transcript of that call in the
possession of the State Department.
Hillary
Spox: We Don't See The Need To Turnover Email Server. On Monday's [7/6/2015] broadcast
of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Hillary Clinton presidential campaign communications director Jennifer
Palmieri discussed the controversy regarding the Clinton campaign, including roping the media off in
an event over the weekend, the state of the Clinton campaign and her Democratic presidential race
opponent Bernie Sanders. Palmieri also discussed the issues involving Clinton's email server and
said she didn't see the need for Clinton to turn over the email server from she set up from her
time at the State Department.
Vicious
Sid's State Department. The big find in the first dump of emails from Hillary
Clinton's secret email server, aside from a few insulting comments about Cuban Floridians, is the
fact that The New York Times was on to a much bigger story in May than it realized. Sid
Blumenthal, the former Clinton hatchet-man from the 1990s, was not just sending Secretary of State
Clinton briefings about the situation in Libya, but was briefing her about nearly every corner of
the globe. Though barred by President Obama's minders from any official job in the administration,
vicious Sid had constant access to Clinton.
Dozens
of Hillary Emails Classified. Michael Schmidt of the New York Times reported
this morning that dozens of Hillary Clinton's emails are now be labeled classified. Clinton, of
course, said that none of her emails were classified.
Hillary: The More
You Know.... E-mails revealed that Blumenthal, who was forbidden employment by the
Obama White House, essentially functioned as a State Department employee, advising Clinton about
Libya and messaging on crucial issues. We also reported yesterday [7/1/2015] on the proof that White House
aides weren't forthcoming about being aware of Clinton's private e-mail account. Both Rahm Emanuel
and David Axelrod were in the know about the e-mail system as far back as 2009.
Hillary
Clinton: How much longer can she hide the truth? Because [Hillary] Clinton used her
husband's computer server for all of her email traffic while she was the secretary of state, a
violation of three federal laws, few in the State Department outside her inner circle knew what she
was up to. Now we know. She obtained permission from President Obama and consent from
congressional leaders in both houses of Congress and in both parties to arm rebels in Syria and
Libya in an effort to overthrow the governments of those countries. Many of the rebels Clinton
armed, using the weapons lawfully sold to Qatar by Turi and others, were terrorist groups who are
our sworn enemies. There was no congressional declaration of war, no congressional vote, no
congressional knowledge beyond fewer than a dozen members, and no federal statute that authorized this.
Blumenthal's
State Dept. role went far beyond Libya. New emails released by the State Department late Tuesday [6/30/2015]
reveal a controversial aide played a much larger role in advising Hillary Clinton than the former secretary of state originally
suggested. Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton confidante whose potential employment at the State Department was nixed by Obama
administration officials, advised Clinton on the content of her speeches, on political developments in a number of countries
and even on how her policies were playing in the international press.
Blumenthal
gave diplomatic advice to Hillary Clinton as early as 2009, emails show. Controversial
aide Sidney Blumenthal was sending then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advice on sensitive
diplomatic matters much earlier than previously known, even as the White House was blocking him from
becoming a part of her staff, according to emails released late Tuesday [6/30/2015] by the State
Department. The emails, which make up the first in a number of document dumps of Clinton's
private email server, from which she controversially conducted official State Department business,
also show that Clinton paid special interest to the attempt to hire Blumenthal.
Attorney
in Charge of IRS' Email Production Now in Charge of State Dep't Emails. Catherine
Duval, the attorney in charge of the Internal Revenue Service's email production to Congress, has
changed jobs: She now manages the State Department's email production to Congress, Rep. Trey Gowdy
(R-S.C.) told a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday, June 25.
Both the IRS and State Department have come under congressional scrutiny over their email production amid
suspicions that critical documents may have been withheld or destroyed.
State
Dept admits Hillary did not turn over all emails; Gowdy calls news 'troubling'. [Scroll down] The documents
contained an admission that Libya-related emails between Clinton and longtime associate Sidney Blumenthal that Blumenthal turned
directly over to the Benghazi committee had not been given by Clinton to the State Department. The discovery of the emails
proved that Clinton, contrary to her public claim, had not turned over all her emails "that could possibly be work related."
State
Dept. Gets Libya Emails That Hillary Clinton Didn't Hand Over. The State Department said on Thursday [6/25/2015]
that 15 emails sent or received by Hillary Rodham Clinton were missing from records that she has turned over, raising new
questions about whether she deleted work-related emails from the private account she used exclusively while in office.
The disclosure appeared to open the door for Republicans on Capitol Hill to get more deeply involved in the issue.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who is running for president, said he planned to send a series of
questions to the State Department about the missing emails and about why it allowed her to use the personal account.
State
received Libya emails Clinton did not disclose. The State Department has received 15 emails involving
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton it did not previously possess, a new report says. A State official
admitted Thursday evening [6/25/2015] that the agency could not previously find the messages from Clinton's tenure as secretary
there, according to The New York Times. It said State discovered it lacked the communications following the House
Select Committee on Benghazi's release of roughly 60 emails it had acquired Monday.
Clinton
Aide Worked on UAE Project While at State Department. Hillary Clinton's top aide Cheryl Mills held several
outside roles, including a board position with a UAE-funded university in Abu Dhabi, while working as chief of staff and
counselor at the State Department, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. After joining the State Department
in the beginning of 2009, Mills continued to serve as general counsel for New York University for several months.
She also sat on the board of the "NYU in Abu Dhabi Corporation," the fundraising arm for the university's UAE satellite
campus. The school is bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi government and has been criticized by NYU professors and human
rights activists for alleged labor abuses.
Hillary and History.
There are no sure things in politics, but Hillary Clinton is the closest thing to a sure thing to
become the Democrats' candidate for president in 2016. This is one of the painful but inescapable
signs of our time. There is nothing in her history that would qualify her for the presidency, and
much that should disqualify her. What is even more painful is that none of that matters politically.
Many people simply want "a woman" to be president, and Hillary is the best-known woman in politics, though
by no means the best qualified. What is Hillary's history? In the most important job she
has ever held — Secretary of State — American foreign policy has had one setback
after another, punctuated by disasters.
Author
Eviscerates Hillary Clinton's Sgt. Schultz Defense. For example, Manchester, NH
television host Josh McElveen asked Hillary to explain the reasons for her State Department's
approval of the sale of 20 percent of all U.S. uranium to Vladimir Putin's Russian government.
Hillary's response: she claimed she had no involvement.
'Clinton
Cash' author demolishes Hillary's self-defense. Grave incompetence or brazen dishonesty?
Those are the only two conclusions one can reasonably come to after reviewing Hillary Clinton's stunning Sunday
[6/21/2015] interview on local New Hampshire TV. When WMUR local TV host Josh McElveen asked Clinton why
her State Department greenlit the transfer of 20 percent of all US uranium to the Russian government,
Clinton claimed she had no involvement in her own State Department's decision to approve the sale of
Uranium One to Russia. "I was not personally involved because that wasn't something the secretary
of state did," said Clinton.
New
emails show possible Benghazi deception by Hillary Clinton, Obama admin. Congressional
Republicans released nearly 200 pages of emails involving former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton, saying Monday [6/22/2015] they raised questions about whether the Obama administration and the
Democratic presidential candidate herself were truthful when they said they turned over all of her
email communications on Benghazi. Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on
Benghazi, which is looking into the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya, said the new emails were obtained
directly from Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton confidant, and demanded to know why they weren't turned over
first by the State Department. He ordered the department to search its files to see whether it has
them but failed to turn them over, or whether Mrs. Clinton never released them in the first place,
which would contradict her public statements.
Blumenthal
emails show Clinton encouraged 'unsolicited' intelligence. "Greetings from Kabul!"
Hillary Clinton wrote to her trusted former aide, Sidney Blumenthal, on the morning of July 7, 2012.
"And thanks for keeping this stuff coming!" The secretary of state's warm encouragement underscores
concerns that members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi have expressed since discovering earlier
this month that Blumenthal possessed dozens of previously undisclosed emails in which he and Clinton discussed
Libya. Roughly sixty new emails published by the committee Monday [6/22/2015] suggest Clinton relied
heavily on what lawmakers have called "unvetted intelligence" from Blumenthal in the months before and after
the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi.
Benghazi
panel releases 60 emails from Clinton adviser Blumenthal. The House Select Committee
on Benghazi on Monday [6/22/2015] released roughly 60 emails that former Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney
Blumenthal sent to the secretary of State during her tenure. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) challenged
the State Department to say whether or not it already possessed the messages from Blumenthal, which were sent to
Clinton's personal email server while she served as the nation's top diplomat. [...] Gowdy gave the department
until the end of the day on Monday [6/21/2015] to determine whether it has copies of the 60 emails.
Benghazi
investigators ponder: Is State Dept. lying, or is Hillary? The message was clear.
Clinton had turned over everything, and the State Department would make it all public. Then State
sent Clinton's emails that concerned Libya to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Chairman Trey Gowdy
immediately expressed skepticism about the claim that everything had been turned over. "There are
gaps of months and months and months," Gowdy said. Gowdy's suspicions appear to have been confirmed.
Hillary's
Islamic connection. So many lies, coincidences and distractions, so little time.
Perhaps the most serious (who can keep count?) of the new Hillary revelations are that Huma Abedin's
emails are among the missing from Hillary's private email server. Were Ms. Abedin's emails
trashed to cover a conflict of interest when she was taking pay as a private consultant while on the
State Department payroll as an aide to Hillary? Ms. Abedin was traveling chief of staff and
"body woman" during Mrs. Clinton's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
That's her role in this campaign. That intimacy, long demonstrated, has been a crucial contribution
to the Clinton decision-making process, both before and after her service in the Obama administration.
Blumenthal's
E-Mail to Hillary on Spinning Qaddafi's Fall. Although Hillary Clinton prefers to describe Sidney Blumenthal as nothing
but "an old friend," NR has obtained an exclusive copy of one of the now-infamous e-mails he sent Clinton on the war in Libya, and it
suggests otherwise. The e-mail, which Blumenthal provided to Benghazi Committee investigators earlier this week, shows him
advising Clinton on a most delicate matter: How she should respond to the fall of Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi.
Blumenthal
email confirms: Libya was to be Hillary's crowning accomplishment. Paul [Mirengoff] wrote earlier today [6/18/2015] about
the trove of Libya-related emails that Sidney Blumenthal has turned over to a House committee. The emails are embarrassing to Hillary
Clinton because she received the emails from Blumenthal, but apparently failed to produce them to the committee.
Benghazi
investigators ponder: Is State Dept lying, or is Hillary? [Trey] Gowdy's suspicions appear to have been confirmed.
As part of the committee's questioning of Clinton friend and defender Sidney Blumenthal, who exchanged many emails with Clinton on the
subject of Libya, Blumenthal turned over a bunch of emails with Clinton that the committee had never seen before. The State
Department had not given them to the committee when State originally turned over what were purported to be all of Clinton's Libya-related
emails. Which led investigators to ask: Did the State Department fail to turn over all the Clinton emails it had pertaining to
Libya? Or did Clinton not give all her Libya-related emails to the State Department, which in turn could not pass them on to the committee?
Documents
challenge Clinton claim no classified intel on personal emails. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her
personal email account to handle high level negotiations in 2011 for a no-fly zone to help topple Libyan dictator Muammar
Qaddafi, according to a series of emails obtained by Fox News, challenging her claim the private server did not hold classified
information. The emails [...] conflict with Clinton's statement that she did not put national security at risk by
using a personal account. "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified
material," Clinton, now a candidate for president, told reporters in March. "I'm certainly well-aware of the classification
requirements and did not send classified material."
Blumenthal
advertised that he sought Libya info for Clinton. Sidney Blumenthal, an embattled former Clinton aide,
made it known to associates that he was collecting information about Libya for the purposes of passing it along to
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. An executive manager at the consulting firm that employs Tyler Drumheller,
the man whom Blumenthal has claimed was the real author of the intelligence memos he sent to Clinton, said Blumenthal
began working with Drumheller to gather information about Libya as early as 2009 and did not hide the fact that he was
providing the information to Clinton.
Sources:
Clinton confidant who sent Libya memos paid $200G by Brock network. The Clinton confidant under scrutiny on Capitol Hill
over detailed Libya memos he sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told lawmakers earlier this week he has been pulling in
$200,000 a year from Clinton ally David Brock's media operation, congressional sources tell FoxNews.com. The figure is far
higher than initially reported.
Records
suggest Hillary chief of staff blocked probe of ambassador nominee. Top State Department staff under Hillary Clinton
allegedly blocked an investigation into the president's nominee for ambassador to Iraq. The ambassador-designate, Brett McGurk,
was accused of engaging in inappropriate behavior with a reporter from the Wall Street Journal and funneling her information he
was not authorized to disclose. McGurk withdrew his name from consideration for the ambassadorship in the face of a growing
scandal over emails that revealed his extra-marital affair with the reporter, Gina Chon. His relationship with the journalist
prompted concerns among Republican lawmakers, although the extent of the internal cover-up of his conduct was not then known.
Official
sued to keep Clinton State documents secret. Harold Geisel, the temporary inspector general of the State
Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure, sought to keep early drafts of a controversial watchdog report under wraps
in federal court. Geisel also invoked an executive privilege in an attempt to protect the drafts from prying eyes,
after it became clear watchdogs had gotten a hold of them.
Bush says Clinton
failed as secretary of state. In his New Hampshire debut as an official candidate,
[Jeb] Bush commended Clinton as tough and smart Tuesday [6/16/2015] but labelled her record as
secretary of state "a complete failure" and said she didn't accomplish much as a New York senator
before that.
Two
years later, Hillary's time at State keeps getting worse. This spring, Americans
learned that Clinton used a private email system to conduct all official State business, probably
violating the law; that Clinton was receiving and sharing advice on Libya from Sid Blumenthal, who
at the time had business interests in that country, with top officials; and that foreign and
corporate interests were making large donations to the Clinton Foundation and paying Bill Clinton
handsomely for speeches at the same time they were lobbying the State Department for favors. Now
comes news that officials at the State Department's inspector general's office removed damning
passages from an audit that highlighted some major problems within the agency.
Three Pinocchios: Bill
Clinton's claim that Hillary did economic diplomacy because there was no Commerce Secretary. Former President Clinton
exaggerated when he claimed that for "much of the time she was secretary," there was no commerce secretary. For three out of
the four years, there was a Senate-confirmed commerce secretary sitting near Hillary Clinton at Cabinet meetings. Moreover,
the secretary of state is supposed to engage in economic diplomacy, whether or not there is a commerce secretary. Yes, there
was some turnover in the leadership of the commerce department. But Clinton's assertion that if not for Hillary Clinton,
"nobody would have been doing" economic diplomacy is quite a stretch, given the dominant role of the Treasury Secretary on
international economic issues.
Hillary
Clinton's fifteen biggest scandals. The Clintons have been no stranger to scandals, some dating back
to when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. But there are many scandals that originated in Hillary Clinton's
tenure as secretary of state.
State
Department Has No Record of Clinton IT Security Training. The State Department has no record of former
Secretary Hillary Clinton or her two top aides receiving IT security training while Clinton led the department, the
Washington Free Beacon has learned. In response to a Freedom of Information request filed by the nonprofit
Competitive Enterprise Institute in March, State said it could not locate any record of Clinton, chief of staff Cheryl
Mills, or deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin undergoing any sort of IT security training. "One former, senior executive
branch personnel official contacted me to point out the requirement that appointees take this training, and that if Mses.
Clinton, Abedin or Mills had deigned to follow the law, a record of this would exist," explained CEI senior fellow Chris
Horner, who filed the FOIA request.
The Editor says...
Someone who can't be fired is under no obligation to report for training, and someone who is confident of her
immunity from criminal prosecution is unaffected by the law.
Calls
of State Dept. misconduct include Inspector General's office. State Department officials blocked
investigations into potentially embarrassing allegations of misconduct from agency investigators and even inspector
general staff during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. A former official in the State Department
inspector general's office who was involved with preparing the sanitized report said agency officials also interfered
in probes originating in the Office of the Inspector General.
Hillary's
officials cut criticisms out of State Dept reports. State Department Inspector General
officials edited out passages of a high-profile report in 2013 that could have embarrassed Hillary
Clinton just days before she quit President Obama's Cabinet. The officials excised details of a
cover up of misconduct by Clinton's security team. The edits raise concerns that investigators
were subjected to "undue influence" from agency officials.
Hillary's officials cut criticisms out of State Dept. reports.
State Department Inspector General officials edited out passages of a high-profile report in 2013 that could have embarrassed Hillary Clinton
just days before she quit President Obama's Cabinet. The officials excised details of a cover up of misconduct by Clinton's security
team. The edits raise concerns that investigators were subjected to "undue influence" from agency officials. The Washington
Examiner obtained earlier drafts of the report which differ markedly from the final version. References to specific cases in which
high-level State officials intervened and descriptions of the extent and frequency of those interventions appear in several early drafts but
were later eliminated.
Hillary
Clinton's real Libya problem. Hillary Clinton has another Libya problem. She's
already grappling with the political headaches from deleted emails and from the terror attack that
left four Americans dead in Benghazi. But she'll face a broader challenge in what's become of
the North African country since, as secretary of state in 2011, she was the public face of the U.S.
intervention to push out its longtime strongman, Moammar Gadhafi.
Another
Controversy Over Hillary Clinton's Time at the State Department. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton did nothing to stop the sale of a Michigan battery company to a Chinese firm,
despite making complaints about it on the campaign trail last month, the Detroit Free Press
reported. A123 Systems was sold to Wanxiang in early 2013. During a campaign stop in
New Hampshire last month, Clinton raised concerns about the sale during a town hall meeting.
Hillary
Clinton's State Department Increased Chemical Arms Sales To Middle East Countries That Gave To
Clinton Foundation. As Egyptian democracy protesters massed in the streets of Cairo in
2011, provoking a bloody crackdown from the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak, U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton presented herself as a champion of human rights. Clinton was "deeply concerned
about the use of violence by Egyptian police and security forces against protesters," she told
reporters at the State Department. "Egyptian authorities," she urged, should not impede "peaceful
protests." But behind the scenes, Clinton pursued contrasting aims. She cautioned the White
House about backing the ouster of President Mubarak, whom she had previously described as a family
friend. Her State Department cleared Egypt to continue purchasing arms the U.S. government
classified as "toxicological agents," a broad designation that included chemical and biological
weapons, as well as vaccines — this, at the very moment Mubarak's forces were unleashing
one toxicological agent, tear gas, against protesters demanding his ouster.
Why
Hillary Can't Run on Her State Department Record. Hillary Clinton's record as secretary of state became a
hot-button issue this week after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Bloomberg Television that the Barack Obama
administration's failed "reset" policy with Moscow was her "invention." Here's why it matters: Her campaign
chairman, John Podesta, gave an interview to Bloomberg View's Al Hunt in April in which he said holding up the "major
accomplishments" from her State Department tenure would be a centerpiece of her campaign. Podesta may want to
reconsider that plan. Running on Clinton's signature diplomatic initiatives is fraught with risks because, on
closer inspection, most that he mentioned don't hold up to scrutiny.
Hillary
Gave Sweetheart Arms Deals To Clinton Foundation Donors. Here's an interesting coincidence,
countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation "just happened" to get approvals for a bigger cache of
weapons from the Hillary Clinton-run Department than the countries that didn't donate. And the real
interesting part about this revelation was it was discovered and published by the ultra-liberal Salon.
The Secretary of State is in charge of "the continuous supervision and general direction of sales" of arms,
military hardware and services to foreign countries. In practice, that meant that Clinton was charged
with rejecting or approving weapons deals — and when it came to Clinton Foundation donors, Hillary
Clinton's State Department did a whole lot of approving."
The
Long, Partisan Journalism Career of Sid 'Vicious' Blumenthal. If Hillary Clinton becomes president
of the United States, she will undoubtedly bring with her to the White House her long-time trusted aide, confidant,
and spinmeister, journalist Sidney Blumenthal. Blumenthal served in Bill Clinton's White House as a special
advisor, and was recently a staff member at the Clinton Foundation. Perhaps the most noteworthy revelation
coming out of Hillary Clinton's e-mails from the time she was secretary of state is what they show about her
relationship with Blumenthal.
Hillary Clinton,
Lord of War. While presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was America's top diplomat
the Department of State that she oversaw approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to
20 nations whose governments forked over millions of dollars to the now-embattled Clinton Foundation.
According to an International Business Times report by David Sirota and Andrew Perez, "at least seven foreign
governments that received State Department clearance for American arms did donate to the Clinton Foundation
while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary." The article identified the seven nations as Algeria,
Australia, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar, and Thailand. Mainstream media's surprisingly probing coverage
of the unfolding Clinton Foundation donations-for-favors scandal suggests that reporters have turned on the
Clintons in the age of Obama.
Remembering Libya:
Hillary's Iraq. If you're a Republican planning to run in 2016, you're going to be
asked about Iraq — and you're expected to say it was mistake. While it is legitimate
to ask members of the party chiefly responsible for a military venture that cost hundreds of billions
of dollars and over 4,000 American lives whether they would do it again, there's another failed foreign
intervention that's getting conveniently overlooked this election cycle — even though one of its
architects is running for president. That adventure, of course, is the U.S.'s 2011 foray into Libya.
Clinton's
empty 'old friend' excuse on Sid Blumenthal. To hear Hillary Clinton tell it, Sidney
Blumenthal was no more than an old friend trying to help out by dropping her an occasional unsolicited
e-mail with advice. And the only reason she listened, she said, was to keep from being "caught in
the bubble" of hearing only from "a certain small group of people." Now we know better.
Turns out Blumenthal was no casual correspondent: He was repeatedly plying her with dubious
"intelligence" on Libya — much of which turned out to be false, but which she nonetheless
passed on to State Department underlings.
How
Hillary and Bill Have Democrats Legally Conned. [Scroll down] The amounts
involved are breathtaking. According to Sirota's accounting from public records, the Clinton-led
State Department authorized $165 billion in sales to 20 nations that donated to the foundation.
State also authorized another $151 billion in "Pentagon-brokered deals" with 16 nations that coughed up
cash for the family charity. Some of the defense contractors involved also donated to the foundation, and
a few of them paid big money to Bill Clinton for speeches. The US routinely conducts arms sales to allies,
but this wasn't a case of business as usual. Comparing the three full fiscal years of Hillary's tenure at
State to the corresponding timeframe of the Bush administration's second term, Sirota found that the State Department
nearly doubled the sales to those nations, and increased the amount of Pentagon sales by 143 percent.
Hillary's
Libya Emails. Hillary Clinton has sought to avoid public scrutiny of her emails since
before she was sworn in as secretary of state. When she did turn over some of her emails to the
State Department, it was Clinton and her lawyers who decided which ones they would make available and
which they would withhold. While it might be useful for Clinton defenders to pretend otherwise,
there was no expectation that Clinton would voluntarily share incriminating emails, especially now,
in the first weeks of her presidential campaign.
Emails
show Clinton's interest in arming Libyan rebels despite prohibitions. Recently released emails detail
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's interest in arming Libyan opposition groups using private security contractors
before the fall of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011 — though at the time, the opposition was not formally recognized
by the U.S. or United Nations, which prohibited arming without following strict guidelines and oversight. The
issue remains so sensitive that the emails recently released by the State Department redacted a key line on the matter.
But the unredacted version of the same email, released to the congressional Benghazi Select Committee and first posted by
The New York Times last Thursday, showed Clinton appearing to endorse the idea of using private contractors to her
then-deputy chief of staff, Jake Sullivan.
Clinton
Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department. Even by
the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A
consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced
fighter jets to the United States' oil-rich ally in the Middle East. Israeli officials were
agitated, reportedly complaining to the Obama administration that this substantial enhancement to
Saudi air power risked disrupting the region's fragile balance of power. The deal appeared to
collide with the State Department's documented concerns about the repressive policies of the Saudi
royal family.
What
Hillary Clinton's e-mails tell us about her management style. For those who have
worried that Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign would be a repeat of the chaotic
operation she ran eight years ago, her advisers have often pointed to her time in between at the
State Department — which by comparison was an archetype of crisp managerial efficiency.
But a trove of newly released e-mails suggests that one of Clinton's tendencies persisted during her time as
secretary of state — an inability to separate her longtime loyalties from the business at hand.
While Hillary Slept.
The White House noted that Clinton had been a "critical voice on Libya," working closely with the
president, NATO, and a number of contact groups both during the coalition intervention and in its
aftermath. And when officials received a presidential briefing three days after the September 11,
2012 attack that took the life of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, Hillary Clinton was asleep.
While Hillary Slept.
[Scroll down] Clinton was asked if she was ever "specifically briefed on the security implications" of
using a private email to conduct State affairs. To this inquiry, Clinton launched into a response that
centered on the fact that she had never sent classified information over the one "homebrew" server of which
the public was aware. "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email," Clinton insisted.
"There is no classified material. So I'm certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and
did not send classified material." Once again, America, whether Clinton engaged in any impropriety
depends on what the definition of "is" is. No one asked Clinton about classified information,
per se. And it was revealed this week that Clinton had, in fact, received sensitive/unclassified
materials via her email account.
Hillary's
Real Benghazi Problem. Why were Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans murdered?
Because by September 2012, Libya was a terrorist playground. Since then, things have only gotten worse.
Libya has become a failed state, a 21st century source of boat people, as refugees from ubiquitous violence stream
across the Mediterranean. Libya is now a haven for ISIS and other terrorist groups; it was on the Libyan coast
that ISIS beheaded 30 Christians. Some of the "refugees" now making their way into Europe are, in fact,
ISIS agents. In short, Libya is a disaster. Whose disaster? Hillary Clinton's. It was Hillary
who, more than anyone else, pushed to overthrow Moammar Qaddafi. Why? No compelling reason.
'Chris
Smith' — Hillary Mixes Up Slain Ambassador's Name In Email To Aides. Emails
released Friday by the State Department show that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mixed up
the names of the Americans murdered at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
Clinton sent an email with the subject line "Chris Smith" shortly before midnight to three top aides,
Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and Victoria Nuland.
8
things we learned from the Clinton emails. The highly selective trove of Hillary
Clinton emails released by the State Department Friday [5/22/2015] revealed both the seemingly strong influence
Sidney Blumenthal wielded over the secretary of state and the preoccupation with media coverage exhibited by her
closest aides. [...] The emails show that Clinton's staffers often circulated and debated press clippings amongst
themselves and occasionally discussed how to respond to certain media criticisms. They also provide a
narrow glimpse of how the State Department's top ranks operated in the weeks before and after the greatest
crisis of Clinton's tenure.
Top
Aide's Pre-Benghazi Email: Hillary Clinton Had 'Leadership/ Ownership/Stewardship of This Country's Libya Policy From Start
to Finish'. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had "leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country's Libya
policy from start to finish," says an email written by one of Clinton's top aides — and forwarded to Clinton
herself — as the Libyan rebellion that sought the overthrow of Muammar Qadhafi appeared to be nearing a triumphant
moment. The email is one of those the State Department has thus far given to the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Clinton
emails silent on deadly danger facing Americans in Benghazi. The newly released
Hillary Clinton Benghazi emails do not contain any communications relating to security from the
critical last month before the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. facility in Libya.
During that period, Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who along with three other Americans would die in the
attack, warned Clinton and other State Department officials of a growing danger, indeed a security
emergency, in Libya. Stevens specifically noted that the possibility of an attack on Americans was
growing, and, if such an attack occurred, the U.S. contingent did not have the strength to repel it.
But to judge from the emails made public Friday [5/22/2015], Clinton gave not a thought to the matter.
Bill
doubled speaking fees from foreign groups while Hillary was secretary of state. Former
President Bill Clinton netted millions in speaking fees from appearances around the world while his
wife served as secretary of state, but earned far less from abroad in the years since Hillary Clinton
left the State Department. Bill Clinton took in $2.2 million from just six international
speeches in 2014, according to financial disclosure forms released Friday as required by Hillary Clinton's
presidential candidacy. By contrast, the former president reportedly earned more than twice
as much for appearances made across borders while Hillary Clinton was in office.
Hillary
Clinton takes tough questions, gives easy answers. Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Rodham Clinton broke her silence Tuesday on scores of questions dogging her campaign, from
her State Department email to foreign donations to her family's charity and the massive wealth she's
amassed. Mrs. Clinton's exclusive use of a private email account to conduct official business as
secretary of state garnered fresh attention this week when the State Department said it likely would
not be able to release the 55,000 pages of emails until January. The candidate balked at the
delay, which would make the emails public just before the first nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.
State
Department: We need until January 2016 to release Clinton emails. The State Department
says it needs until next year before it will be ready to publicly release tens of thousands of
Hillary Clinton emails from her time in charge. The uproar over Clinton's exclusive use of
private, rather than official, email during her tenure as Secretary of State erupted earlier this
year and is still rumbling on.
Hillary's
crisis of competence. Named secretary of state by Obama in 2009 after having failed in
her first attempt to be president, she began her term trying for a 'reset' with Russia, in which
even finding the right Russian word became an embarrassment. She supported regime change in Libya
that proved catastrophic, and failed to foresee, prepare for or deal with the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2012 in Egypt and Libya that killed our ambassador and three other Americans.
She insisted for over a week later that the riots were caused by a video made in America, which she
surely had known was a lie.
Hillary
Caught in Another Email Lie: New Docs Reveal She Used Second Private Account While Sec. of
State. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been caught in another lie
regarding her private email accounts that she used during her tenure at the agency. Though her
lawyer David Kendall told the House Select Benghazi Committee that Clinton's "hrod17@clintonemail.com"
email address "was not an address that existed during Secretary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State,"
new emails obtained by the New York Times show that Clinton did indeed use that email address for
official business.
Hillary's
Next Scandal: Passenger Lists of Her Flights Ordered Released by Judge. There seems to
be a connection between donors to the Clinton Foundation and contracts from foreign countries
receiving favorable treatment from the State Department. Sixty companies contributed
$26 million to the foundation. Forty four of those companies also contributed to
a 3.2 billion dollar fund for the Clinton Global Initiative, which is a wing of the
foundation. At least twenty five companies made contributions to fifteen private/public
partnerships set up by Clinton and guess who administered them? The State Department.
Is
[the] State Department Protecting Hillary's Presidential Bid? The State Department is
dragging its feet with unusual delays in releasing records pertaining to presidential contender
Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. Some requests are up to four years old.
It's not as if the Associated Press and others that filed the Freedom of Information Act requests
were asking for Clinton's private diaries or the encryption codes used by the State Department.
Among the requests are such seemingly innocuous things as schedules, appointment, travel records,
where and when she traveled, and who she traveled and met with. There are items, however, that
a 2016 presidential candidate might prefer to remain out of sight and out of mind for as long as possible.
Why Hillary Will Flop. The sole
executive experience of Hillary in her life has been as Obama's secretary of state. During those years, she did nothing
but leave a dreadful legacy for America. In 2016, it is certain that American foreign policy will be seen almost universally
as a huge failure.
Clinton
Foundation donors while Hillary was Secretary of State had ties to foreign governments, report
says. The Clinton Foundation raised millions of dollars from individuals with ties to
foreign governments and state-owned companies while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, according
to a published report. The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday [3/19/2015] that more than
a dozen such individuals, along with their foundations and companies, gave between $34 million and
$68 million in the years after Clinton became America's top diplomat in 2009.
State
Department: On second thought, we didn't vet those Clinton Foundation donations. In
fact, the only submissions for review that came from the Clinton Foundation during Hillary's tenure
related to paid speeches given by Bill Clinton — hundreds of them, plus a few
consulting deals for Bill. Let that sink in a bit. Which foreign governments
paid Bill to speak, and how much did the Clintons pocket through that process from governments
with business at State?
State
Department walks back claim on Clinton Foundation review. The State Department is
stepping back from a spokeswoman's comment last week suggesting that the agency's ethics lawyers
signed off on donations to the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of
state. Asked at a daily briefing Thursday about the foundation's failure to submit a $500,000
donation from the country of Algeria for a conflict of interest review in 2010, State Department
spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that the department did such reviews whenever the non-profit
founded by former President Bill Clinton sent in information about a potential gift. "We like to
review — and we have reviewed every donation that was submitted," Psaki said.
State
Department approved 215 Bill Clinton speeches, controversial consulting deal, worth $48m. A joint investigation by the Washington
Examiner and the nonprofit watchdog group Judicial Watch found that former President Clinton gave 215 speeches and earned $48 million
while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton
Foundation during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch and released Wednesday [7/30/2014]
in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act case, State Department officials charged with reviewing Bill Clinton's proposed speeches did not object to a single one.
Donation
to Clinton Foundation while Hillary was Secretary of State violated ethics agreement, report
says. The Clinton Foundation was on the defensive Wednesday after disclosing that it
had accepted millions of dollars from several foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was
secretary of state, including one donation that violated the foundation's ethics agreement with the
Obama administration. Most of the contributions — which had not previously been
detailed by the foundation — were possible due to exceptions written into the organization's
2008 agreement with the White House that limited donations from foreign governments, according to The
Washington Post, which first reported the contributions.
Foreign
governments gave millions to foundation while Clinton was at State Dept.. The Clinton
Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham
Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement
with the Obama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday [2/25/2015]. Most of the
contributions were possible because of exceptions written into the foundation's 2008 agreement, which
included limits on foreign-government donations.
Rubber-Stamp
Approval Slips Over Hil's Chasms of Conflicts. "The (William J.) Clinton Foundation exists
as a temptation for any foreign entity or government that believes it could curry favor through a donation,"
cautioned Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana. "It also sets up potential perception problems with any action
taken by the secretary of state in relation to foreign givers or their countries...." Therefore, he
concluded, in a sharp reversal of his own logic, "I believe that every member of this committee will seek
ways to support Senator Clinton's work as secretary of state." Huh?
The
Decline and Fall of Hillary Clinton. If President Obama's goal in appointing Hillary Clinton as
Secretary of State was to neutralize his biggest rival, he has certainly succeeded. Clinton looks a
shadow of her former self, and has been the most low-key Secretary of State in recent times. Her
immediate predecessors Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were far more prominent figures on the world
stage during their first six months in office. Clinton, in contrast, looks tired, disinterested,
and largely going through the motions.
Hillary's Ego: Bigger
Than the Congo. The plot of our secretary of state's early-August diplomatic trip to Africa
can be summarized as follows: she arrived, toured several nations, acted like a spoiled princess, and
then refused to apologize for her abhorrent behavior.
Hillary Salutes
the Saudi King. Amid all the coverage of President Obama's address to the United Nations, we should
also note the obsequious "salute" that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave yesterday to Saudi King Abdullah.
... No mention was made of the fact that Saudi Arabia remains the only country in the world without a public church,
or that is has been singled out by the State Department as one of the world's worst religious persecutors.
I find this very hard to believe. Hillary
Clinton: No more president runs. Hillary Clinton has made her first, and last, run for the
presidency. The secretary of state replied "no" when asked in an interview that aired this morning on
NBC's "Today" show whether she'll run again. "This is a great job," Clinton said of being secretary of
state. "It is a 24/7 job. And I'm looking forward to retirement at some point."
Undiplomatic Diplomacy.
Isn't a diplomat supposed to be — you know — diplomatic? Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton doesn't seem to think so. On her current visit to Pakistan, she managed to insult both her own
government and Pakistan's in the space of a few minutes.
No class, bad memory.
Hillary Clinton continued her farcical visit to Pakistan today [10/31/2009] by blaming Obama's failure to
make any progress with respect to Israeli-Palestinian relations on George W. Bush.
Hillary
Clinton scrubs Ronald Reagan from history. It's bad enough that President Obama could not be
bothered to attend the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But
Hillary Clinton's refusal to even acknowledge the role played by Ronald Reagan in the Wall's demise as well
as the downfall of Communism was highly insulting towards one of the greatest figures of our time, and
reeked of petty and partisan mean-spiritedness.
Prosecuting American 'War
Crimes'. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed "great regret" in August that the U.S. is not a
signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration
may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague.
Hillary Clinton has gone AWOL on the Iranian front. One
would have thought that with a potential revolution on the streets of Tehran, and with scenes of horrific and
savage brutality against protesters by the Iranian regime, that Washington's official voice on international
affairs might at least have expressed an opinion.
Where Oh Where Is Hillary?
Nile Gardiner at the Daily Telegraph writes: "The White House should send a search party to track down
Hillary Clinton. America's foreign policy chief has been missing from the world stage for several days,
and has become as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel at the height of the French Revolution." Come to
think of it, we haven't seen or heard from her since the Flight 253 bombing attack.
Obama's Dangerous Diplomacy.
As a presidential aspirant, Hillary Clinton condemned "cowboy diplomacy" that alienated America's allies; as
secretary of state in the Obama administration, she has practiced it...
U.S. allies find Obama a
frosty friend. Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, was in Canada the other day.
She criticized Ottawa for not inviting Aboriginal groups to a meeting on the Arctic, and for not including the
facilitation of abortion in the Canadian government's "maternal health" initiative to developing countries.
These might seem curious priorities for the global superpower at a time of war...
Hillary: Bull In China Shop
Diplomat. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is often described as sidelined from the big jobs
in foreign policy, given her political rivalry with the president. But to look at the areas where she is
active shows a lot of messes.
Hillary Invades
Canada! Canadians hosted hundreds of American air passengers whose planes were grounded on 9/11.
They opened their hearts and their homes to us. During the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-81, fearless
Canadian diplomats in Tehran helped smuggle out of that maddened country endangered Americans. None of
that seemed to matter this week. Not content with putting an end to America's historic "special
relationship" with Britain, nor with bullying the U.S.' only reliable ally in the Mideast, Israel, the
Obama administration has launched an attack on our Northern neighbor, Canada. Their unguided missile
landed squarely on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. It was Hillary.
What, No Hillary? The
White House very quickly got out in front of a story. There is no truth to the rumors that President
Obama might name Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court. ... Senators on the Judiciary
panel might be most interested to learn what, if any, role Hillary Clinton played in the 2001 Marc Rich
pardon. Remember him? He's the fugitive felon who got a pardon after his ex-wife, Denise,
made some hefty contributions to the Democratic Party.
Secretary Clinton Helps Islamic
Terror Supporter Enter U.S.. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an order allowing a
radical Islamic man with terrorist ties to tour cities in the United States in spite of a six-year ban,
according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police's Terrorism Committee.
Taxpayers
foot State Department's stiff liquor bill. Months after President Obama urged federal agencies
last year to cut wasteful spending, the U.S. Department of State paid $3,814 to fill an order of Jack Daniel's
whiskey for gratuities at one of its many overseas embassies. The booze buy wasn't unusual. Last
year alone, the State Department sent taxpayers tabs totaling nearly $300,000 for alcoholic beverages
— about twice as much compared to the previous year, according to an analysis of spending records
by The Washington Times.
Hillary Clinton: 'We Have a Lot to Learn' About
Energy Policy From Other Nations . Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told officials from more
than 32 Western Hemisphere nations on Thursday [4/15/2010] that the United States is looking to those nations
to develop better energy policies and practices. "For our part, we believe the United States has a lot
to learn," Clinton said at the Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas in Washington.
Treason
Season at the State Department. The Obama administration appears to be unable to distinguish
between the reasonable Arizona immigration law and the acts of merciless dictators in China. It's a
vivid illustration of Obama's 'Blame America First' policy.
State Dept. Changes Passport Policy to Accomodate
People Who Change Gender. The U.S. State Department is marking lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender "Pride Month" by changing its policy concerning gender change on passports and consular reports
of birth abroad. As of June 10, the State Department no longer requires that individuals provide
proof that they have had sex reassignment surgery, but only requires certification from an "attending
physician" that the individual received "appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition," which
may or may not include surgery.
Hillary Clinton: Secretary of Your Estate.
When it comes to your income, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton believes what's hers is hers and what's yours
is hers. If Obama is a "citizen of the world," Hillary Clinton wants to be the tax collector of the world.
During a recent speech at the Brookings Institution, Clinton said, "The rich are not paying their fair share in
any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues, whether it's individual, corporate, whatever the
taxation forms are."
Hillary to World: Raise Your Taxes!
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her push for higher taxes around the world, asserted facts about Brazil's
economy that are contradicted by her own department's official profile of the South American country.
Clinton has taken on an odd diplomatic priority by urging the U.S., and other countries, to raise taxes.
She said during a trip to Pakistan that the country needed to increase taxes.
What
Side Is She On? Hillary Clinton assured Ecuadoreans the U.S. would sue Arizona if it tried to
enforce federal immigration laws. She said it just as the feds ceded part of Arizona to Mexican
traffickers.
Clinton pledges to defend gay rights at
home and abroad. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged to end violence and discrimination
against gays and lesbians at home and abroad Tuesday [6/22/2010], as the Obama administration moves to extend
further benefits to gays working in the federal government.
The
New Math Of Hillary Clintonomics. With job creation in the U.S. basically at a standstill aside
from some government hiring of temporary census workers, even after a trillion-plus in stimulus spending, Hillary
Clinton's answer for more growth and more jobs is to remove even more money from the people who earned it and
hand it over to the federal government.
The Anti-Women Agenda of Hillary's State
Department. Secretary Hillary Clinton's State Department has proven that the only 3:00 a.m.
calls that they are willing to answer are calls that further a dangerously misguided progressive agenda.
During the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton proudly proclaimed that she'd be "ready on day one," but
she neglected to mention that she'd only be ready to push dogmatic ideological movements. Two examples
in the past month alone attest to that fact.
Can Chelsea Clinton receive gifts from foreign heads of state for her wedding?
[Scroll down] So in other words, yes, Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of the sitting secretary of state and
the former president, can receive all the gifts she likes from foreign heads of state, or even "international
organizations." The confidentiality agreements would make it very easy for someone outside the country,
say, to pay for all of the flowers in the wedding without public scrutiny. Not that we should worry
about that, Brooks explained, because we have to presume that the activities are above board. On the
other hand...
State
Department: Taliban is not a terrorist organization. A new State Department report designating
terrorist organizations notably excludes one group: the Taliban. The U.S. has been fighting a war
in Afghanistan for almost a decade aimed at "defeating the Taliban," Taliban members repeatedly have threatened
and killed American citizens and lawmakers have increased pressure on State to add the Taliban to the list.
The
State Department's Islamic Supremacist. It's unbelievable but true: the imam of the projected
Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is on a grand tour to Qatar, Bahrain,
and the United Arab Emirates — paid for by the U.S. State Department with taxpayer money. The State
Department confirmed Tuesday [8/10/2010] that they were sending Rauf on this mission.
Hillary and the
Ground Zero Mosque Imam. It is time for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to step up to the
plate and investigate Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, who is currently touring the Middle East at the expense of
American Taxpayers as an envoy of her Department of State. Claudia Rossett, one of America's premier
journalists, today reveals several disturbing facts that more than warrant an official investigation.
Critics
attack State Department program sponsoring Ground Zero imam's trip. Amidst the contentious
debate surrounding the building of a mosque and Islamic community center at Ground Zero, it was revealed that
the imam behind the project — Feisal Abdul Rauf — will soon be departing on a State
Department-sponsored trip to the Middle East — and American taxpayers will be footing the bill.
'Ground
Zero' imam on Mideast tour to make Islam 'Americanized'. The imam behind the plan to build a
mosque near Ground Zero surfaced yesterday far from the controversy — in Bahrain, where he's on a
taxpayer-funded trip to the Middle East to spread good will. Appearing in public for the first time in
weeks, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, speaking at a mosque near Bahrain's capital of Manama, said he wants to "Americanize"
Islam — but dodged questions about the uproar over his planned mosque and community center.
Cashing
In On Ground Zero. Among the prime planners of a $100 million Islamic center and mosque
near Ground Zero, it's not just Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who is visiting the Middle East this summer at U.S.
taxpayer expense. The State Department is also about to send Rauf's wife and Cordoba Initiative fellow
director, Daisy Khan, on her own taxpayer-funded "public diplomacy" trip to the United Arab Emirates.
Clinton
Invokes Climate Change Debate to Explain Pakistan Floods. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
other officials are pointing to the devastating floods in Pakistan and other extreme weather events as signs
that climate change is getting worse. Clinton, in an interview with Pakistan's Dawn TV, said "there is
a linkage" between the recent spate of deadly natural disasters and climate change.
Secretary
Clinton's Climate Con. Our secretary of state tells the world the devastating Pakistani floods are
caused by man-made global warming as the U.N. plans to exploit the crisis to restart stalled climate talks.
Obama
administration indicts America. Move over Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. The State
Department has made it official: The United States violates human rights. In an unprecedented
move, the Obama administration submitted a report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights detailing
the progress and problems in dealing with human rights issues in this country. The document is a
strange combination of left-wing history and White House talking points.
The
State Dept.'s Campaign Brochure. When the president violated all traditional comportment and
protocol in his State of the Union address in January by blasting Supreme Court justices sitting a few feet
away from him, he said he didn't think "American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful
interests, or worse by foreign entities." Now his administration has reversed that image. Our own
State Department has had the taxpayers bankroll what amounts to an Obama campaign pamphlet concocted for the
consumption of a foreign entity: the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Human Rights
Kowtow. President Obama and his State Department have been widely criticized for downplaying
human rights in their efforts to engage abusive regimes in Iran, China, Russia, Burma and even Sudan. But
there's at least one country whose human rights record merits the Administration's minute scrutiny:
the United States.
Human Rights through
the Looking Glass. During this past year, under the guidance of our HRC, Hillary Rodham Clinton,
"senior representatives" from "more than a dozen" federal entities wandered the country listening to the
self-serving laments of various liberal pressure groups. At the end of the process, they compiled these
gripes into a 29-page report and sent it to the U.N. HRC for review. Among the reviewing states of the
HRC are human rights luminaries like Cuba, Russia, Red China, Saudi Arabia, and — when not busy sending
"emergency transaction" e-mails — Nigeria. Our State Department calls the UPR [Universal
Periodic Review] process "a unique avenue for the global community to discuss human rights around the
world." Any sane person would call it a self-deluding boondoggle and, if its recommendations are
followed, a self-destructive one as well.
U.N. report clearly
not treason, just treasonous. Apparently the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton's State
Department consider our republican form of government a human rights deficiency.
U.N. Human Wrongs.
The U.S. State Department is holding up Arizona as America's human rights problem, fishing for applause from the
likes of Cuba and Libya. But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer isn't taking it lying down.
Clinton to unveil funds for clean cookstove
push. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce on Tuesday a U.S. contribution of more
than $50 million toward providing clean cooking stoves in developing countries to reduce deaths from smoke
inhalation and fight climate change.
The Editor says...
(1) Every dollar that goes toward the fight against "climate change" is a wasted dollar, since the climate has
always been in a continuous state of flux. (2) The United States has no business spending tax dollars
on other countries' problems. (3) What fuel will be used in these "clean cooking stoves" that will add
any less to "climate change"? Petroleum? Natural gas? Coal? Aren't these the very same
energy sources the Democrats so vigorously oppose? (4) If people are dying from smoke inhalation,
using the fires they now have, they must be cooking indoors, so why won't the new stoves be just as hazardous?
Hillary Clinton Wants Global Standards For Cookstoves.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Tuesday [9/21/2010] at a
meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. The goals of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves are
multi-tiered. "First, a major applied research and development effort to improve design, lower costs and
develop global industry standards for cookstoves", Clinton said. "Second, a broad-based campaign to
create a commercial market for clean stoves, including reducing trade barriers, promoting consumer awareness
and boosting access to large scale carbon financing."
The Editor says...
Will "global industry standards for cookstoves" make the stoves cheaper and more accessible? Of course
not. Government regulations always make prices increase. If the end users are currently burning
firewood and dung, how bad could a new stove be, with or without global standards?
Hillary
Clinton stays away from mid-term elections. Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, will be
several thousand miles away from American shores on election day in a move some are interpreting as a
deliberate way of literally distancing herself from the result.
Why
is Hillary Clinton hiding? As Toby Harnden reports, Hillary Clinton has opted to stay well clear
of today's midterms, sitting them out in a two-week tour of Asia and Australasia. In fact she's been as
elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel in the past few days. That's a perfectly astute move from her point of
view.
What President
Obama Didn't Learn at Harvard. [Scroll down] Hillary Clinton made it a point to get out
of town. She didn't want to be near the wreckage. Her patronizing put-down of the American people
was similarly the product of our elite Ivy grad schools. She said we had a petulant "Goldilocks" attitude.
Some of us say Obama's policies are too hot. Some say they are too cold. And the impatient
electorate is too demanding; we want him to get it just right. How insulting. How arrogant.
But it is typical of the way liberals talk down to Americans.
Hillary Clinton: Secretary of
State is "My Last Public Position". Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has once more reiterated
that she will not run for president in 2012, going so far as to refer to her current role in government as "my
last public position." At a town hall meeting appearance in Manama, Bahrain on Friday, Clinton denied
intentions to run for either president or vice president on the ticket with President Obama, who defeated her
in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. Some experts have also speculated that she could replace Robert
Gates next year when he retires as secretary of defense.
Hillary's Puppy-Dog Diplomacy.
Whatever happened to America's most-driven woman, whose post-Lewinsky scorn would lead to the sweetest revenge
ever as first female president? Where is the first lady who reputedly threw lamps at her cheating chief
executive husband, and who wouldn't say die in the primaries against Barack Obama? Where, for that matter,
is the relentless, Nixonian secretary of state WikiLeaks tells us ordered her underlings to spy on a foreign
head of state and U.N. personnel?
Hillary's Long Goodbye.
For the moment I am still consigning the rash of stories writing Hillary Clinton's political obituary to the too-good-to-be-true
file. Yes, the Secretary of State has openly stated that Secretary of State will be her "last public position."
Liberal Math.
Hillary Clinton, a multimillionaire, given her past lucrative books deals and sales, and her
husband's near $100 million in honoraria after a near decade of speaking fees, is now hawking
signed DVDs of her convention speech in 2008. Apparently she hopes to pay off her sizable campaign
debts that still exceed $9 million. Questions arise: the Clintons this summer were just
negotiating to buy a $11 million Westchester County mansion, despite owning luxurious homes in
Washington and New York. Cannot the Clintons defer purchase of such upscale estates until they
pay what they owe, since the cost of the estate and the debt owed are about equal?
Hillary
Pitches Signed DVD for Money. Over two years after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got shellacked
by Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries, she remains in debt and has gone the Home Shopping Network path
to raise money: Selling signed copies of a DVD recording of her Democratic Convention speech.
Hugo Chavez Admires Hillary
Clinton's 'Spontaneous Smile'. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez bumped into Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton in Brazil this weekend at the inauguration of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female president,
and the two shook hands and chatted. "She had a very spontaneous smile and I greeted her with the same
effusiveness," Chavez later explained.
Hillary & Hugo's Handshake.
What is Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton doing shaking hands with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez?
The two exchanged pleasantries in Brazil during the inauguration of its new President Dilma Rousseff.
Hugo
Feels The Love. If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different
result, how is one to characterize Hillary Clinton's latest grip-and-grin encounter with Venezuela's Hugo
Chavez in Brazil on Saturday?
The
Worst Secretary of State. Simply by virtue of being married to Bill, being a woman, and being
as left-wing and progressive as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton gets a pass on pretty much everything.
The media swoon over what a trailblazer she's been, how brilliant she is, and what a spectacular job she's
doing as Secretary of State. None of those things are true, particularly that last one.
With Hillary Clinton in charge of the State Department, this is what happens: Heather has two
passports. The Obama administration's war on traditional values is picking up steam.
Just three days before Christmas, the State Department buried an announcement that "mother" and "father"
were being banished from the bureaucratic lexicon. In their place, politically correct terms intended
to appeal to the vanity of homosexual activists will be inserted. Application forms for documents such
as passports will use "parent one" and "parent two" or "parent A" and "parent B" instead of
supposedly obsolete concepts like mother and father. ... Obama administration officials are all in favor of
breaking down the distinctions between men and women and any role they might play in society.
Cultural
vandalism. Lost in the wake of the horrific shootings in Tucson was a modest battle in the culture
war: The State Department quietly decreed that some passport applications would henceforth be gender
neutral. No more "mother" and "father"; such terms were apparently too retro, too judgmental for the
Foggy Bottom bonzes. Instead, Parent One and Parent Two would do just fine. O Brave New World,
that has such bureaucrats in it.
Hillary's
foot-in-mouth moment as a climate scientist. In August, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton told reporters that the floods that were ravaging Pakistan at the time were linked to global
warming. ... [But] There's a peer-reviewed paper about to be published in the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society, and in the press release about the paper, they don't even mention the word
"climate." Simply put, a rogue storm system, part of the normal chaotic nature of weather on
this planet, was the cause of last summer's devastating floods. Nothing else. Anyone who
claims that the storm was part of "climate change" is simply flat wrong, and that includes Hillary.
Hillary and the
Muslim Brotherhood. Why would a proto-feminist Secretary of State be silent on the very real
potential of a patriarchal Islamist system like the Muslim Brotherhood gaining power in Egypt? Hillary
Clinton's deafening silence in full view of her boss's Muslim sympathies as well as her own complicity in
dialoguing with those who wish to subjugate women worldwide has left even die-hard Hillary supporters baffled
and disgusted.
Pathetic. The secretary
of state steps up to the plate on Libya — and whiffs.
Obama-Inspired Chaos.
According to Hillary Clinton, "the safety and well-being of Americans has to be our highest priority." Oh,
really? That comment, proffered by our secretary of state Tuesday [2/22/2011], is overshadowed by the
serious jeopardy U.S. citizens now encounter thanks to the ideological blindness and national security
incompetence of the Obama administration.
Rip Van
Clinton. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is complaining that Iran is subverting the upheavals
in the Middle East. So what else has been new for the last 30 years?
Hillary Clinton not on board for
second term. Hillary Clinton really, really, really doesn't want to be president or
vice president, or to become defense secretary or to continue serving as secretary of state if President
Barack Obama is elected to a second term, she made clear in an interview Wednesday [3/16/2011].
Hillary's Moment.
Inside the Obama administration, a debate is raging. In the face of the uprisings in the Middle East,
Barack Obama has opted to sit on his hands. He has a talent for that. Robert Gates, who is
extremely wary — one might even say, excessively wary — of commitments abroad, is
happy about the President's passivity; Hillary Clinton, who had hoped that we would act to tip the balance
in Libya, is not. It would not be hard to imagine her resigning from the cabinet over this issue.
The
Obama Administration's Ineptness. On Sunday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton —
when asked about why we're involving ourselves in Libya but not Syria — said this about Bashar
Assad: "Many of the Members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have
said they believe he's a reformer." For understandable reasons — more about that in a
moment — those comments didn't fly very well. So it was time for a retake. Yesterday
[3/29/2011], when asked about her statement at a press conference, Secretary Clinton said, "Well, first, Jay
[Solomon], as you rightly pointed out, I referenced opinions of others. That was not speaking either
for myself or for the administration." As walk backs go, this one was unusually clumsy and obviously
untrue. Mrs. Clinton could simply have said her previous comments were wrong and she was revising
them. Instead we get a response that no one believes.
Ladies Who Launch.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with a little help from her friends, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Susan Rice and National Security Advisor Samantha Power, is being hailed as a decisive leader for persuading
an indecisive President Obama to use military force against Libya in order to prevent "a potential humanitarian
crisis" by Muammar Gaddafi against his own people. Who knew that feminists would go to war against anyone
but white male Republicans and Clarence Thomas?
Who's
wearing the pantsuit at the White House? In the end, the call didn't come at 3 a.m.
But the Decider in Chief who answered the phone made sure that everyone in the White House knew who wore the
pantsuit around there. And just as in the (first) Clinton presidency, the leaks began to pour out.
It was Hillary — not the former junior senator from Illinois — who forced the decision
to intervene in Libya, "according to senior administration officials speaking only on condition of anonymity"
to the New York Times.
President
Obama's New Anti-American Secretary of State. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made it clear
that she will not serve another term under President Obama. Who can blame her? She has become
the face of a fecklessly reckless administration, a pathetic press relations lackey for the worst foreign
affairs president in the history of the country.
Leave No Limo Behind.
They are buying limousines in Washington. Lots of them. The number of government limousines
increased by 73 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration. The official
justification for the acquisition (with borrowed Chinese money) of all this rolling stock is "security."
Our bureaucrats, it seems, are not safe riding around in ordinary vehicles or, perish the thought, driving
themselves to work. This, it seems, is especially true of those brave souls who toil at the State
Department, which is where most of the limos have been put into service.
A
Marriage Made by Hillary Clinton and the Muslim Brotherhood? [Scroll down] In 2008,
Hillary Clinton was running for president. There were widespread insinuations that she was involved in a
romantic and/or sexual relationship with Abedin, her ever-present personal assistant. Those whisperings
persisted into Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State. Abedin's 2010 marriage to [Anthony] Weiner, at which Bill
Clinton presided, put those rumors to rest. In Islamic law, a Muslim must officiate a marriage ceremony;
hence if Bill Clinton was the only one officiating, the marriage was not valid according to Islamic law.
Huma Abedin would undoubtedly have known that. Thus, if no Muslim was officiating along with Clinton,
Weiner would not have had to convert to Islam, as the whole thing was a charade from the outset, apparently
entered into with the full awareness of all parties concerned.
Weiner's
In-Laws' Secret Muslim Brotherhood Connections. Was Huma Abedin — wife of Anthony
Weiner and deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton — unaware that her mother was reported as a
member of the Muslim Brotherhood? Did Western media miss what has been revealed in several Arab
newspapers and left secret in American government circles?
Politician seeks answers on Weiner wife Huma
Abedin's private consulting gig. One of the Senate's most aggressive investigators is probing longtime Hillary Rodham
Clinton aide Huma Abedin's employment status, asking how she got a sweetheart deal to be a private six-figure consultant while still
serving as a top State Department official.
The Other Weiner.
If Anthony Weiner hadn't decided to run for mayor, we might never have learned about the cushy deal Hillary Clinton's State Department
arranged for his wife. But that deal has now caught the attention of Sen. Chuck Grassley. And the Judiciary Committee's
ranking Republican has sent State a letter asking 18 specific questions about how and why Huma Abedin was allowed to work
simultaneously for Foggy Bottom and private clients.
Questions on the Dual Role of a Clinton Aide
Persist. Ms. Abedin, 37, a confidante of Mrs. Clinton's, was made a "special government employee" in June 2012. That allowed her to continue her
employment at State but also work for Teneo, a consulting firm, founded in part by a former aide to President Bill Clinton, that has a number of corporate clients,
including Coca-Cola. In addition, Ms. Abedin worked privately for the Clinton Foundation and for Mrs. Clinton personally.
The Threat We Face. [Scroll down] This is why — to take
one disturbing example, I know that Hillary Clinton's right hand, Huma Abedin, the former deputy secretary of state, and chief foreign policy adviser on Muslim Affairs is
a Muslim Brotherhood operative. Huma Abedin's late father was a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and her mother and brother still are. [...] Huma Abedin has never to my
knowledge uttered a word of disapproval about the Muslim Brotherhood's desire to rid the world of Christians and Jews or to bring all infidels under the heel of totalitarian
Islamic law. Her spiritual adviser Yusef al-Qaradawi is the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood.
What About Huma?
[T]he new House Select Committee on Benghazi must focus on the nature and consequences of Hillary
Clinton's conduct with respect to the policies that led up to the attacks of September 11, 2012;
what transpired that evening; and the cover-up that followed. To really get to the bottom of these
matters, however, Chairman Trey Gowdy and his colleagues must also examine with care the role played by a
top Clinton lieutenant who has, to date, been almost completely unmentioned in the reporting, leaking, and
congressional inquiries about Benghazigate: Huma Abedin. This is all the more curious since Ms.
Abedin has extensive family and personal ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Whose Side Are You On,
Hillary? Our secretary of state questions the patriotism of those criticizing the
administration's Libyan policy and disregard of the War Powers Act. Remember when dissent was the
highest form of patriotism?
State Department
Funds Anti-American Propaganda. While other U.S. departments and agencies waste tax payer money,
no other department does it with quite the counter-productive flair of our friends in Foggy Bottom. First,
there was the issue of U.S. money going to pay salaries to jailed Palestinian terrorists, including those who
murdered Americans. Now, it turns out that the State Department is paying money to the United Nations
Development Program...
Hillary
Clinton: 'I'm Trying to Increase the Number of Visas' for Iranian Students. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton told BBC Persia Wednesday that the State Department plans to set up a "virtual embassy" in
Tehran by the end of the year to answer questions about how Iranians can study or travel in the United
States. "I'm trying to increase the number of visas for students so that we have more Iranian students
coming to study here. We're trying to reach out to the Iranian people, and we've tried to reach out to
the government, just not very successfully," she said in an interview with BBC Persia's Bahman Kalbasi.
The Editor says...
Oh yes, the Muslims are coming to this country to study, all right. They're coming here to study the
airports, the subways, the water supplies, the power plants, and the tallest buildings.
Hillary
Clinton: 'Religious Beliefs' Are 'Standing in the Way of Protecting Human Rights of LGBT People'.
Religious beliefs and cultural values do not justify the failure to uphold the human rights of homosexuals,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday [12/6/2011]. "Now, raising
this issue, I know, is sensitive for many people and that the obstacles standing in the way of protecting the
human rights of LGBT people rest on deeply held personal, political, cultural, and religious beliefs," Clinton said.
Hillary's Surreal State Department.
Hillary Clinton was once seen as a radical busybody, clamoring for this or that absurd invented right, such as the
right of children to sue their parents. Now she is seen as a safe establishment figure. But the truth is that
she hasn't changed. She is still a radical scold. Back in the days of the Clinton presidency she pushed
the world to embrace an international right to abortion. These days her ambition is to impose upon all the
nations of the earth "LGBT" rights. Bill Clinton's State Department was famous for its Christmas trees adorned
with condoms as ornaments. Hillary's State Department is even more radical; it seeks to turn the world into
San Francisco.
Obama's war on decency:
[Scroll down] The second news item was Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech in Geneva on Tuesday [12/6/2011],
announcing that American taxpayers will be paying for homosexual activism around the world through a $3 million
Global Equality Fund. That's right. In a time when the United States is facing massive debt, plus a
rising China and militant Islam, we're going to use foreign aid money to promote "gay rights" to the world.
A Shameful State
Department Initiative. Today [12/12/2011] the Islamized State Department will be meeting with the
Islamic supremacist Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to discuss strategies and develop action plans in which
to impose the restriction of free speech (or blasphemy, as truthful speech about Islam is considered in Islamic
law) under the Sharia here in America. Photos accompanying news reports about the upcoming meeting shows Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton with OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at a meeting last summer in Istanbul. Such prominence
is given to this totalitarian organization. That photo reminds me of Neville and Adolf.
Hillary
Clinton: 'I've Made Women a Cornerstone of American Foreign Policy'. During her tenure as secretary
of state, Hillary Clinton says she's instructed U.S. diplomats and development experts to "partner with women to
find ways to engage and build on their unique strengths, help women start businesses, help girls attend school"
and "push" women to get involved in peace talks and elections. "I've made women a cornerstone of American
foreign policy," Clinton told a 'Women in the World Summit' in New York City on Saturday [3/10/2012].
Obama's Overseas Travel
Turning Into Campaign Stops. [Scroll down] Lastly there were photos of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dancing at a Cartagena club
and knocking back a beer. Undignified in a diplomatic context, they are perfect images in a populist campaign context.
Hillary Clinton Playing Russian Roulette with the
Russians. [Scroll down] It would be hard to imagine more errors in a single answer. Russia's change of leadership?
What change? Putin has been in charge since New Year's Eve 2000. That has never been in doubt. The Obama administration made
much — too much — of its closeness to Medvedev, even giving the appearance of disrespect to Putin in the process. That's
like cozying up to the monkey in the hopes of showing up the organ grinder.
Hillary and Barack Kneel at China's Altar.
If anybody, anybody with sense, actually believes that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is happy to be staying in China, or that he and
his family will be safe for longer than a few months, that person is, in the old terminology, a "useful idiot" for the Communist cause.
The American agreement that sends Chen back from the U.S. Embassy is a craven capitulation to Chinese Communist thuggishness.
Will Obama Leave The US In Shambles If He Loses the
Election? Just like a spoiled child who doesn't know the word "NO", I believe that if Obama loses the upcoming election, he and his communist
regime will do everything in their lame-duck power to destroy America to a point of no return for the incoming President. New information on five
treaties that are currently being negotiated by Hillary Clinton and other members of the regime's state department could spell grave danger to the
soverignty of the United States of America.
Hillary
Clinton Needs A New Global Warming Travel Agent. Our Secretary of State said she was on a mission to see for herself the
impacts of global warming. That being the case, she should have started her trip in Iowa, in the heart of the World's
Breadbasket. Why Iowa? Because as the world has warmed, crops have responded with ever-improving yields. Nearly
every year, important crops set yield-per-acre records in the United States and elsewhere. This is consistent with the basic
science that carbon dioxide is aerial fertilizer. It is also consistent with longer growing seasons and the improvement in soil
moisture that accompanied warmer temperatures. Want to see for yourself the impacts of global warming, Secretary
Clinton? Start in Iowa.
The
LOST sinkhole. Like those who say climate change is an emergency too obvious and urgent to allow for debate, some proponents
of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a.k.a. the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), say arguments against it are nonexistent.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says any such arguments "no longer exist and truly cannot even be taken with a straight face."
Favoring condescension over persuasion, she ridicules people who she says think that, because the treaty was negotiated under U.N.
auspices, "the black helicopters are on their way."
Hillary Clinton Breaks Secretary of State Travel Record.
Hillary Clinton will travel to Latvia on Thursday [6/28/2012], the one-hundredth nation she'll visit as Secretary of State, reports CBS. With still
six months to go and a ticket to ride pretty much anywhere, she's already bested Madeline Albright's record of 96 nations visited as President Bill
Clinton's Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001.
Hillary Clinton's Legacy.
Bret Stephens has a devastating column in today's Wall Street Journal questioning the conventional wisdom that Hillary
Clinton has been a good secretary of state. He goes down a litany of trouble spots and shows that the strategic position of
the United States has declined as a direct result of Clinton's decisions, policy, and direction.
State Dept. Advisers: Let's Cut Nukes Some More. A State Department
advisory board report made public Tuesday shows that the Obama administration is studying cuts in U.S. strategic arsenals to "very low" levels and ultimately
eliminating nuclear arms. The advisory board, headed by former Defense Secretary William Perry, reflects themes promoted by liberal arms control and
disarmament officials in the administration and calls for a new U.S. nuclear doctrine dubbed "mutual assured stability" based on better relations with Russia.
The Muslim Brotherhood in the
Obama Administration. If anyone needed evidence that Hillary Clinton is in the pocket of the Muslim Brotherhood, the events of
the last few days should be more than sufficient.
Hillary Doubled Down on
Egypt 'Apology'. [Secretary of State] Clinton reiterates an apology issued earlier today [9/11/2012] by the U.S.
Embassy in Cairo — now deleted — which said: "We condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals
to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims." "The U.S. deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of
others," Clinton said. "Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation," she added.
However, the White House has distanced itself from such apologies, according to Politico, saying that they were not "cleared by
Washington." Evidently, there is some discord in Washington.
Mrs. Clinton, Mr.
Obama, it's time to wake up and smell the global jihad. There are people in this world — and not a small number of
them — who share the vision bin Laden had and have the will and means to act. No amount of apologizing for America, embracing
our adversaries or mistreating our allies will change that. It is worth recalling that Cairo, the city where a mob entered the US embassy
compound and burned an American flag, was the epicenter of what critics call Obama's "apology tour."
Obama and Clinton Must Resign — NOW!
The damage they have done to America, worldwide, may be irreparable. We cannot allow them to continue to charge around like
blind bulls in the proverbial china shop. Republicans, speaking as one, must demand their resignations, and any Democrat who
still has a vestige of patriotism and love of country left must join with them. We cannot let another day go by with people so
obviously unqualified and unsuited to occupy positions of power and authority continuing to do so.
Colonel:
Hillary Made Decision Not to Post Marines at Benghazi. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Fox News military
analyst Colonel David Hunt laid the blame for the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the Benghazi, Libya
American mission on Hillary Clinton and the State Department.
Chaos at the State Dept? I spoke
with a well-placed journalist last night whose sources describe the situation at the State Department in one word: "Chaos."
The working assumption is that several American embassies may have been penetrated, or are vulnerable to attack, because so many of
them rely on local residents for staff needs at the embassy, and as such may be in a position to breach security if they have been
recruited by Al Qaida.
Hillary Clinton Should Resign. [T]his
Secretary of State has irrefutably proven herself to be naïve, weak, and grossly incompetent. And no, it doesn't matter that the
Secretary has said she wishes to leave the Obama administration if the President is re-elected. Hillary Clinton
has to go. Now.
Now
Hillary Clinton strongly hints that Libya consulate WAS attacked by Al Qaeda. In a humiliating admission, Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton said today [9/26/2012] that there was an explicit link between the al Qaeda network in North Africa and the deadly attacks on the U.S.
consulate in Libya, backtracking from what the State Department had said previously.
What Did Hillary Tell Obama on 9/11?
On Friday [10/12/2012], a CNN reporter asked Hillary Clinton what she was doing as the attack occurred, and Clinton responded with a 400-word answer
that avoided the question.
Hillary Clinton: Accomplice to Liars.
What has Hillary Clinton done to invite such high levels of praise and esteem? HillaryCare? Stuck by her husband (who also polled
at 66% favorability!) who lied, straight-faced, to the American people? Hurriedly "moved" to New York so she could become that state's
next U.S. Senator? Slammed Barack Obama on the primary campaign trail, only to turn around to become his Secretary of State, supporting his
every move to denigrate America throughout the world? Ignored the pleas for additional security from our ambassador to Libya as 9/11 approached,
then covered up the real events that led up to his murder by blaming an obscure, cartoonish video as well as the First Amendment?
Mark
Steyn: Hillary Clinton used Libyan ambassador's dead body 'as prop to peddle a false narrative'. On Hugh Hewitt's radio [program] last week,
National Review columnist Mark Steyn accused the Obama administration of using slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens as a political prop.
[...] "Aside from anything else, it's a wonderful example of how shriveling and corrupting politics is — that in the end, her great friend
Chris, his coffin, his body, assuming they're not lying to us about the body being in there. [..."]
White House: Buck Stops With Hillary on Libya.
Today, the White House finally revealed its policy on embassy security: keep President Obama out of the loop so he can claim plausible deniability
and blame Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for any problems.
Did Biden Hang the
State Department Out to Dry at the Debate? Everyone loves Hillary Clinton these days. She's got an approval rating way higher than
that of Joe Biden or of President Obama, who can barely muster 50 percent on a good day. But what if the most politically significant
foreign-policy failure of Obama's presidency is actually due to a failure of the diplomatic-security strategy at the Clinton-run State Department?
That's certainly what all the evidence suggests.
Obama bites the hand that feeds him.
[Scroll down] Hillary's leverage is at its peak now, when Bill is leading the Obama reelection charge and when a sudden resignation would
represent a huge setback for Obama. The Clintons can try to use this leverage to halt White House efforts to scapegoat Hillary. Then,
they can hope the issue blows over. However, the Benghazi story isn't likely to blow over.
Will Hillary resign? Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton has stepped forward to say she accepts responsibility for the fact that our consulate in Benghazi was refused enhanced
security. This is another example of her willingness to take one for the team. But what does it mean? Will she
"accept responsibility" by resigning her office? This is what is meant by accepting responsibility in most parliamentary
democracies. As secretary of state, she surely knows that any of her NATO colleagues who accepted responsibility for
such a debacle would immediately surrender his office.
Hillary Makes the Smartest
Political Move of this Cycle. [Scroll down] It undermines Obama by making her look strong, and [Obama] look weak.
He is now forced to make some kind of statement second as a response. It's the 3 AM phone call with her answering
while he goes to Vegas.
Passing the buck on Benghazi.
Mrs. Clinton said she was taking responsibility to avoid a political "gotcha." The Benghazi tragedy was far more than just a
"bump in the road," as President Obama described it. If Mrs. Clinton wants to accept the blame, she also should accept the
consequences.
Benghazigate Reveals the
Perfidy of Obama and Hillary Clinton. Over the last five weeks, three distinct stages have unfolded in the Benghazi
cover-up revealing the inner Obama and Clinton. At first blush, we thought Benghazi exposed the amateurish and irresponsible
nature of the Obama administration. For Mr. Obama, "responsibility" does not mean precluding terrible events from happening,
rather responsibility to appoint a commission to investigate what already happened, with a likely outcome exonerating the President.
State Dept. Official to
Attend OIC Meeting Today on Banning 'Defamation of Islam'. After the disaster of trying to blame an obscure YouTube video for the attack on the
CIA operation in Benghazi and Obama's prophecy at the UN that "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam," Hillary Clinton's State
Department appears to be taking another run at the First Amendment free speech rights of American citizens.
A Fine Mess at Foggy Bottom.
While Hillary Clinton coasted for much of her term on the good press that comes with being a Clinton, until the last couple of months
she was having a decidedly average run as secretary of state. But the Benghazi debacle — which was in large part the result of
Clinton's incompetence and lack of attention — followed by the expected defection of most of our European allies at the UN vote
on the Palestinians today [11/29/2012], reveals a State Department marked by ineptitude and surprising irrelevance.
Clinton to Testify on
Benghazi Attack at Open Hearing. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon testify before US lawmakers at an open-door
hearing about the deadly September attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, a top lawmaker said. Clinton will appear before the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs "to discuss, in an open hearing, the findings and recommendations" in a State Department report on the
attack, committee chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said on Friday [12/7/2012].
Jeanine
Pirro Blasts Hillary For Benghazi Cover-up. Unlike most in the media, Judge Jeanine Pirro has not let the Benghazi story go.
She's still on the case, keeping it alive until the new congress convenes in January and they take it up, again.
Hillary's fortuitous fall from her Benghazi
Stonewall. The alleged fainting spell and subsequent concussion of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears a bit fortuitous, if not downright
suspicious when factoring in all of her stonewalling and obfuscation to this point. It all started on September 16th, when U.N. Ambassador Susan
Rice — instead of Hillary — appeared on five Sunday talk shows to give demonstrably false information about the attack on the U.S.
Consulate in Benghazi.
Clinton calls in sick
again, innoculating possible 2016 run against Obama Middle East policy. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced another sudden illness,
marking the third time since Sept. 11, 2012 that she has distanced herself from President Barack Obama's faltering Muslim-outreach strategy. The
illnesses — and her pending departure from the job — have protected her from growing criticism about the Middle East strategy [...]
Hillary in Hiding. The U.S. Secretary of State, suffering from a sick
stomach, has reportedly fainted and bumped her head. As a result, her spokespeople have already announced that she will be unable to testify at the Benghazi
hearings, although she was not due to appear until December 20, many days after the vaguely reported fainting spell. Already, the internet is resounding
with a chorus of "How convenient!"
Benghazi
report could tarnish Clinton's legacy. [Scroll down] "The Board found that certain senior State Department officials ... in critical positions of
authority and responsibility in Washington demonstrated a lack of proactive leadership and management ability appropriate for the State Department's senior ranks," the
report concludes in its section on accountability of personnel.
Clinton And Kerry Get A Free
Ride From The Press. [Hillary] Clinton claims she can't testify for Congress on Thursday because she fell down over the weekend and got a concussion.
Maybe so, but thus far no one's seen a medical report. What's more, it's the second time Clinton has put off crucial congressional testimony about the murder of a
U.S. ambassador and three other U.S. officials by Islamist terrorists in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11. The previous time, she had more pressing business,
tasting wine in Australia and checking up on East Timor. It looks like avoidance of responsibility to preserve her own political viability.
Bolton:
Clinton Suffering from 'Diplomatic Illness' to Avoid Benghazi Testimony. Former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton implied Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton is exaggerating her illness so that she does not have to testify before Congress about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi that killed four Americans,
including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
Hillary Clinton's head fake.
Clinton's story beggars belief: While traveling in Europe, she contracted a stomach virus ... which made her dehydrated ... which made her faint at
home ... which caused her to fall and hit her head ... which gave her a nasty concussion. So Clinton's deputies will appear in her stead before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday to explain the State Department's failures. That is not
nearly enough.
Benghazi Report Disqualifies Hillary For
White House. A less-than-adequate independent review cites "grossly" inadequate leadership, "systemic failures" and "management deficiencies" that
mean our secretary of state isn't ready for that 3 a.m. call either.
A diversionary announcement to draw attention away from the Benghazi scandal: Obama Wants 100,000
American Students to Study in Communist China. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday [1/24/2013] will
celebrate the launch of a newly rebranded organization called the "100,000 Strong Foundation," which aims to have 100,000
American students studying in China by 2014. Thursday's event will "underscore the importance of study abroad in China and the
benefits to our strategic relationship with China as well as the personal benefits individuals receive through these exciting
experiences," the news release said. Until now, the 100,000 Strong Initiative — announced by President Obama
on his trip to China in 2009 — has operated inside the State Department. Thursday's 1 p.m. ceremony marks its
transition to a non-profit, nongovernmental organization operating independently.
Yesterday, Hillary
Showed You All of Her Flaws. Like Barack Obama, Hillary is completely unqualified for the position she holds. In fact, her
entire career in the Senate, her run at the Presidency and the job she now holds are all owed to the fact that she married the right man,
as opposed to any accomplishments of her own. [...] Hillary had no accomplishments or even stands of note while her husband was President,
did nothing special while she was in the Senate and has done nothing worthwhile since she became Secretary of State — yet,
she's probably the most likely candidate to be nominated by the Democrats for the presidency in 2016.
Things Only a Democrat Could Get Away With.
In her joint appearance with Obama on 60 Minutes, [Hillary] Clinton claimed that her critics were not living in an "evidence-based world". This
is the same world of which she wrote in her goodbye letter to her State Department colleagues; "I am proud of what we have accomplished together." Those
accomplishments are hard to find among the debris of three failed wars, two failed containment policies in Iran and North Korea, and more attacks on American
diplomatic facilities than ever before.
The Democratic Disgrace. Every job has a minimum requirement.
The absolute very least that anyone can do without being considered a complete and utter failure. [...] The minimum requirement for a Secretary of State is to at least
pretend to care why such an attack took place. Hillary Clinton failed that minimum requirement by declaring that it didn't matter why the attack happened. [...] For
her, what happened at Benghazi made no difference because she knew that she could not and would not be held accountable for it.
The Hillary standard. It shouldn't take two dead
diplomats in just seven months (and seven other US fatalities) before someone in Washington understands that there's a serious problem in keeping our envoys safe.
This is not about finding political scapegoats. It's about protecting Americans who serve our nation.
Democrats' Agenda for Benghazi
Hearing: Protect Hillary at All Costs. Ahead of Wednesday's long-awaited hearings at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the
Benghazi terror attack of Sep. 11, 2012, Democrats have a clear agenda: protect Hillary Clinton at all costs.
Hillary
Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end. When it first became clear that the CIA's Benghazi
talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. After all, it served President Obama's
political purposes to claim, at the height of a political campaign in which he was taking credit for the fall of al Qaeda, that the
death of a U.S. ambassador was down to spontaneous outrage over a video, rather than pre-planned terrorism. It turns out,
however, that the State Department was the prime culprit.
On CNN, Mother
Of Slain Benghazi Victim Excoriates Hillary Clinton: 'I Blame Her'. Pat Smith, mother of slain State Department officer Sean
Smith, who died in the September 11, 2012, attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, tore into the federal government and their
efforts to investigate that deadly attack on Tuesday. In an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, Smith said that she blames former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for failing to ensure her staff was secure and for not taking blame for that failure after they were
killed in the line of duty.
Brit
Hume: 'No way' for Hillary Clinton to escape responsibility for Benghazi. Senior Fox News political analyst Brit Hume laid
out why this week's testimony on last September's terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya could be problematic for former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton. Hume, speaking on Tuesday's [5/7/2013] broadcast of "America Live," said there is no feasible way for her
to escape any responsibility since she had to be involved in the crafting of the talking points that came out after the attack that
resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including then-U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Dems'
Benghazi Hearing Mission: Help Hillary For 2016. Congressional Democrats will go all-out to protect their likely 2016
presidential nominee. They won't ask why a 10-man SWAT team was sent to arrest a filmmaker while pleas for help in Benghazi
were ignored.
Why Benghazi is a Blow to
Obama and Clinton. The administration's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on U.S. installations in eastern Libya
was inaccurate, irresponsible and shrouded by campaign-style spin. It belied President Obama's oft-broken promise to run a
transparent government. If nothing else, Benghazi is a blow to the credibility of the president and his potential successor,
then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
From Bimbos to Benghazi. [Scroll
down] Close to the top of said liberal agenda, on the political side, is the preservation of Mrs. Clinton's reputation and
record as Secretary of State. A necessity for her presumed 2016 presidential candidacy that is thoroughly entangled with
both the record and long-term historical legacy of the Obama presidency itself. Thus, the tactics used to smear Bill Clinton's
women — his "bimbo eruptions" as the phrase of the day went — are now being wheeled out to deal with Hillary
Clinton's Benghazi whistleblowers.
Hillary Hasn't Heard the End of
Benghazi. While nothing said at the hearing was the "smoking gun" that some in the GOP suspect will eventually bring senior
administration officials down because of the Libyan tragedy, enough questions were raised to keep the fires stoked on the issue for the
foreseeable future.
Paul: Hillary Clinton 'should
never hold high office again'. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul wrote Friday [5/10/2013] that former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton "should never hold high office again" in the wake of criticism over the administration's handling of the lead up and aftermath of
the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Paul made the comments in an op-ed Friday in The Washington Times.
Testimony from several whistle-blowers at at hearing before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday contradicted Clinton's account
of the events surrounding the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, as well as the version of events put forward by the administration.
Hillary
Clinton's Allies Come to Her Rescue Over Benghazi. Longtime allies of Hillary Clinton are coming to her defense amid
new reports suggesting the State Department, under her stewardship, altered talking points about the attacks in Benghazi to remove
references to terrorism and al Qaida. [...] Some of the defenses sounded reminiscent of Clinton's own famed allegations of a "right-wing
conspiracy" in the late-1990s after reports her husband had an affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The moment of
responsibility for Hillary Clinton. When I took Hillary Rodham Clinton to task in January for the mishandling of
security in Benghazi, Libya, I told her that if I had been president at the time, I would have relieved her of her post. Some
politicians and pundits took offense at my line of questioning. During those hearings, I reminded Mrs. Clinton that multiple
requests were sent to the State Department asking for increased security measures. I asked if she had read the cables from
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens asking for increased security. She replied that she was busy and had not read them.
I find that inexcusable.
Kerry Pledges to 'Leave No
Stone Unturned' on Benghazi Culpability. Amid potentially damaging new revelations about the State Department's early
assessments regarding attribution for the Benghazi consulate attack, Secretary of State John Kerry pledged Thursday that if any
disciplinary action is found to be necessary, he will ensure it happens.
The Editor says...
That's meaningless: Hillary doesn't work there any more, so she is immune from Secretary Kerry's "discipline."
Could Benghazi impact Hillary
Clinton in 2016? Gregory Hicks, the number two diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, described being in constant contact
with then-Secretary of State Clinton the night of September 11, 2012. And yet he said his requests for military resources to be
deployed to Benghazi were repeatedly denied.
Benghazi Continues: Hillary de Medici.
Some folks on the right, because they have been so accustomed to failure in the face of a monolithic media, will be ready to throw in the
towel. That group is particularly disturbing because they are the very people who should be pushing this forward. Without
realizing it, their proclamations of pessimism are a self-fulfilling prophecy. I urge them to overcome it for the sake of our
country, because — trust me — Benghazi is not over. It has only just begun.
The Clintons' Fixer. If the GOP
congressmen and whistleblowers who spoke at Wednesday's hearing are correct, [Cheryl] Mills stands at the center of the Obama
administration's attempt to put the lid on the Benghazi scandal. Ohio congressman Jim Jordan described Mills as "the person
next to Secretary Clinton," tracing the growing scandal to the highest echelons of the State Department.
The Whistleblower Blocker: Cheryl Mills. Who is Cheryl
Mills? She was general counsel and chief of staff to Secretary Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi attack. She is also one of
the ultimate Clinton insiders. Here are six things you should know: [#1] She's been working for the Clintons on and off
since 1992.
Mother of Benghazi victim: I blame
Hillary. One woman still looking for answers about the September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi,
Libya, is Pat Smith. Her son Sean Smith, a State Department information officer, was one of four Americans killed during the
attack. "I blame her," said Smith, referring to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "That's her department, she's
supposed to be on top of it, and yet she claims that she knows nothing, it wasn't told to her," said Smith. "Who's running the
place?"
White House hopes under
fire. The Clinton political machine is in full campaign mode already, preparing for 2016 and hoping voters forget by then
that she had a key role in the Obama administration's handling of the terror attack.
Hillary
Clinton's Shameful Intimidation Of Gregory Hicks. The secretary of state in the most transparent administration in
history has her chief of staff warn a Benghazi whistle-blower to not spill the beans on Benghazi to a U.S. congressman.
Hillary Misled
Congress — But Not Under Oath. Wednesday's testimony on the Benghazi terror attacks by State
Department whistleblowers before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform contradicted several statements by
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in testimony before House and Senate committees in January. However, while
Clinton may have misled Congress in her testimony, she likely did not commit perjury because she never actually testified
under oath.
Hillary 2016:
Another Benghazi Casualty. Well, we've finally settled on that elusive Clinton Doctrine: "We leave our diplomats
and soldiers behind." Or, alternatively, "What difference does it make?!" Unfortunately for Clinton, it translates to a
potentially devastating blow to whatever 2016 presidential aspirations she had.
Hillary
Clinton: I certainly did not know of any reports that contradicted Susan Rice talking points. Considering that Gregory
Hicks, the original source of all information coming out of Libya the night of the Benghazi attacks, testified that he never suggested
or said there was a protest that morphed into a terrorist attack, and that he also said the YouTube video was a non-event in Libya,
it does appear that this is a lie by Hillary Clinton.
Benghazi Talking
Points: A Lie Hillary Agreed Upon. At least a dozen rewrites of the Benghazi talking points were made, with all references
to al-Qaida and prior attacks removed at the direction of the secretary of state's office.
Benghazi
Whistleblower Attorney: Congress Must Subpoena Hillary Clinton to Testify Again. Earlier today [5/10/2013], we learned
about a bombshell report that said the CIA's Benghazi talking points were changed 12 times, with extensive input from the State
Department. It comes after State Department whistleblower Gregory Hicks testified Wednesday that he was shocked when he saw Susan
Rice blaming a protest for the attack on numerous talk shows.
Hillary
Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end. When it first became clear that the CIA's Benghazi
talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. [...] It turns out, however, that the State
Department was the prime culprit. It was State that pushed back hard against the original talking points. The White House,
probably for the political reason cited above, took its side. Why did State want the talking points changed? Because it had
ignored warnings about rising terrorist activity in Libya and had reduced security rather than beefing it up, as our embassy requested.
Obama-Hillary
Axis Exposed As Purely Self-Serving. President Obama and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put the common good before
political ambition by teaming up — or so we were told. An updated book-length expose indicates the opposite.
CBS
News: U.S. State Department Cover-Ups Range From Prostitution Charges to Drug Rings. Uncovered documents show the U.S. State
Department may have covered up allegations of illegal behavior ranging from sexual assaults to an underground drug ring. CBS News
reports that is has unearthed documents from the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), an internal watchdog agency, that implicate the State
Department in a series of misconducts worldwide.
Hillary's sorry state of affairs.
A State Department whistleblower has accused high-ranking staff of a massive coverup — including keeping a lid on findings that
members of then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's security detail and the Belgian ambassador solicited prostitutes. A chief investigator for
the agency's inspector general wrote a memo outlining eight cases that were derailed by senior officials, including one instance of
interference by Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. Any mention of the cases was removed from an IG report about problems
within the Bureau of Diplomatic Security [...]
Whistleblower:
Hillary's Chief Staff Quashed State Dept. Scandal Investigation. A former senior investigator with the State Department's
criminal investigative unit has turned whistleblower and alleged to both the media and Congress that senior staff within State Department
covered up investigations into appalling behavior committed by members of Hillary Clinton's security staff and our ambassador to
Belgium. One of those alleged to have interfered was Cheryl Mills, Hillary's chief of staff.
Hillary's State Department
Sex Scandal. Public anger about the lies that were told about the Benghazi terror attack as well as her failure
to provide adequate security to diplomats that were placed in harm's way was bad enough. But the latest State Department
scandal linked to her office is the sort of thing that could begin the process by which Clinton's status as the inevitable
Democratic presidential nominee starts to unravel.
Two New Obama Scandals in a Single Day.
White House Dossier last week noted a total of 20 significant Obama administration scandals, but that was before these latest two
and the revelation that the government is keeping track of telephone calls and Internet traffic. In one the fresh scandals
that came to light Monday, CBS News revealed that State Department investigations into misdoings by officials overseas —
several having to do with sex — were manipulated or quashed.
Tweet This!
Hillary Scandals Explode. Prime among those scandals is Benghazi. Clinton's failure to adequately protect
her own diplomats in Libya and the multiple lies told about the terrorist attack are bad enough in themselves to warrant multiple
investigations. But now it turns out that there was an entirely different kind of scandal brewing in the State Department's
halls and embassies during her tenure: Multiple sex scandals, including charges — not proven — that
Howard Guttman, a longtime Democratic supporter who now serves as ambassador to Belgium, solicited sex from prostitutes and even
children. CBS News has reported that investigations into a number of sexual misconduct charges on the part of both
ambassadors and security officers were quashed by order of Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills.
No Word From Kerry on
State Dep't Sexual Misconduct and Coverup Claims. Amid continuing fallout over allegations that senior State Department
officials tried to stop investigations into personnel misconduct, Secretary of State John Kerry kept a low profile Tuesday, making no
public comment on the controversy. [...] The suspected misconduct, which occurred during the tenure of Kerry's predecessor, Hillary
Clinton, included the alleged use of prostitutes by Clinton's security personnel during foreign trips — a practice described
as "endemic" — and the alleged solicitation of prostitutes, including minors, by a Europe-based U.S. ambassador.
Damage control: Hillary
Clinton loyalists suspected of criminal cover-ups for diplomats. Congress and the State Department's inspector general are
examining allegations that senior officials working under Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton may have suppressed investigations
into suspected criminal activity among U.S. diplomats abroad — including the alleged solicitation of prostitutes by an
ambassador in Europe.
State
Dept. Pushes Back on Report of Prostitutes, Cover-ups. The State Department is strongly denying allegations from a former
department investigator who claimed top officials tried to halt or delay several potentially damaging investigations. Aurelia
Fedenisn, the whistle-blowing former investigator, also claimed that when the department's Office of Inspector General tried to
expose the interference in a report, that language was scrubbed.
Clinton confidante
at center of Benghazi damage-control tied to probe of suspected diplomat crimes. A longtime confidante of Bill Clinton
and Hillary Rodham Clinton who reportedly played a key role in the State Department's damage-control efforts on the Benghazi attack
last year is also named in accusations that department higher-ups quashed investigations into diplomats' potential criminal activity.
Cheryl Mills, who served in a dual capacity in recent years as general counsel and chief of staff to Mrs. Clinton as secretary of state,
was accused of attempting to stifle congressional access to a diplomat who held a senior post in Libya at the time of the attack.
'Criminals' hired by State
Dept. The State Department has hired an alarming number of law-enforcement agents with criminal or checkered
backgrounds because of a flawed hiring process, a stunning memo obtained by The [New York] Post reveals. The background
problems are severe enough that many of the roughly 2,000 agents in State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security can play only limited
roles in agency efforts to police bad conduct and prosecute wrongdoers.
State Department Whistleblower Seeks Congressional Protection After State Threatens Her Kids.
The State Department whistleblower is Aurelia Fedenisn. She worked in the department's inspector general's office until her
retirement in December 2012. According to USA Today, she has sought protection as an official whistleblower after the State
Department directly threatened her, once at her home. It threatened her with criminal charges when she turned over documents
to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) showing evidence that the department had watered down her report, in which she alleged that the department
at the highest levels had scuttled eight investigations into a range of criminal wrongdoing.
More
State Department Cover-up: Shooting of Two Pregnant Women and Two Men. Things for the State Department just keep getting
worse. First we learned from CBS News that Department official covered up and interfered with inspector general investigations of
sexual misconduct, including the soliciation of prostitutes by an ambassador. Then we learned those sexual solicitations involved
minors. Now, we're learning State Department officials covered up the shooting of four Hondurans.
Hillary Clinton's Legacy of Scandal.
In the midst of the eruption of near-daily scandals involving the Obama administration, let us not forget that until just a few months
ago, Hillary Clinton was the most significant persona within that administration besides the president himself. Let us not also
forget that notwithstanding the scandal-grenades going off all around us, Mrs. Clinton diligently plans her run for the presidency, even
while several of those scandals are obviously and entirely her responsibility, exposing the State Department during her tenure as an
utter sewer of corruption, cronyism, and fatal incompetence.
Foreign
Affairs Chairman: Give Me the Unedited Memo on State Dept. Misconduct. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chariman Ed Royce
(R-Calif.) has asked the State Department's inspector general to elaborate on the "undue influence" found to have been exerted by
higher-ups to interfere with investigations into department misconduct. The final OIG report that Congress got lacked any references
to the specific cases of criminal and other misconduct apparently detailed in an October 2012 OIG memorandum, Royce noted.
Did senior State Department security
officials commit perjury? Two top officials at the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DS) — the federal law enforcement
agency that protects American diplomats and investigates allegations of criminal misconduct by State Department employees — gave sworn testimony
earlier this year that appears to be evasive at best, and untrue at worst, according to evidence obtained by Fox News.
'Atmosphere of secrecy' pervades State Dept.
office, audit finds. A key State Department bureau that manages the official face presented by the U.S. to the rest of the world is rife with
management problems that have left "an atmosphere of secrecy, suspicion and uncertainty," according to a department watchdog review released Thursday [6/20/2013].
The Never-Ending Clinton Sex Scandals.
A State Department whistleblower has claimed that Hillary's people covered up multiple scandals, including the sexual abuse of minors by an
ambassador who donated money to Hillary and Obama, as well as sexual assault and sexual harassment cases worldwide. And then there are
the reports that Hillary's security detail routinely hired prostitutes on international diplomatic visits.
State Department's Sex Trafficking Scandals.
Pssst, did you hear? President Obama is replacing Ambassador Howard Gutman in Belgium. You remember Ambassador Gutman, don't you?
He's the big Democrat donor President Obama nominated to represent his policies in Belgium and who, it is alleged, trolled for prostitutes —
some of them children! — in a park near his official residence. Late in the day on Friday, June 21, the White House released a
list of new nominees for various posts, and Denise Bauer was listed for the United States Ambassador to Belgium post.
Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower's Law Firm . The offices of a Dallas
law firm representing a high-profile State Department whistleblower were broken into last weekend. Burglars stole three computers and
broke into the firm's file cabinets. But silver bars, video equipment and other valuables were left untouched, according to local Fox
affiliate KDFW, which aired security camera footage of the suspected burglars entering and leaving the offices around the time of the incident.
Watergate-style burglary
hits State Dept. whisteblower's law firm. Remember Aurelia Fedensin? She's the former investigator for the State Department
Inspector General who blew the whistle on Hillary Clinton's State Department covering up scandals and squashing investigations around the world.
Fedensin and her family have already been hassled with intimidating displays of force by the same State Department that seemed relatively untroubled
by an ambassador allegedly chasing underage prostitutes through the streets of Belgium. Knowing that her allegations would be explosive,
Fedensin wisely retained the services of a law firm called Schulman & Mathias of Dallas, Texas. Which just got robbed in a
Watergate-style break-in.
Obama
Scandal Machine's Own Amateurish Break-In? [Scroll down] [Aurelia] Fedensin's allegations touch former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton more directly than anyone else currently in the Obama administration. Clinton was
SecState when the eight investigations that Fedensin alleges were scuttled by senior department members, were scuttled.
The scandals even touch Clinton's own security detail as well as her long-time fixer, Cheryl Mills.
State Department's Credibility Remains in Tatters.
After the news broke that the ambassador to Belgium and members of his security detail had allegedly been soliciting prostitutes, including in
some cases minors, President Obama quietly announced that he would reward another major fundraiser, Denise Bauer, by naming her as the replacement
for that post. Bauer had been "finance chair for Women for Obama and raised more than $500,000 for the president's re-election
campaign" — classic qualifications, apparently, for the President who was going to change the way Washington does business. [...] There
is another disturbing aspect to this story. The whistleblower who revealed the cover-up of these investigations, Aurelia Fedenisn, has
borne the brunt of State Department bullying as a result of her efforts to bring the cover-ups to light.
MSM protecting Hillary
from scandal taint. A former member of then- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's protective detail has been sentenced
to a year in prison, extending the strong of scandals that have engulfed the agency since Mrs. Clinton's tenure began. The diplomat
had faced a possible 7 year term, but pleaded guilty, sparing the expense and delay of a trial and perhaps shortening his sentence.
Whistleblowers. So what did whitleblower Aurelia Fedenisn blow
the whistle on? She is a former investigator in the Inspector General's office in the State Department. Agents for the department had been
working on investigations that uncovered serious and criminal wrongdoing. Their work, they said, was subject to influence and manipulation by
higher-ups at the department. Agents told the IG's office they were told to stop investigating a U.S. ambassador in a sensitive post who
solicited prostitutes in a public park. Fedenisn, a 26 year veteran at State, went public.
The Watergate of Whistleblowers that could bring down Hillary Rodham
Clinton. Being a whistleblower under the tyrannical rule of Barack Hussein Obama seems to be getting a bit "dicey" these days.
So too is being a law firm representing such whistleblowers. If you're not subjected to extravagant 21st century NSA surveillance technology,
you just might end up being the victim of a less-glitzy, low-tech 1970s Watergate-era style burglary. According to the mainstream media under
Obama, of course, these things simply don't happen. Oh, except that they do, but you're just not supposed to know about them.
State
Department agency deemed 'critical' to information security is a mess, report shows. An obscure little State Department
agency whose work is called "critical to the Department's information security posture" has been in a shambles for years, and is still
in chaos, according to an audit report by the department's inspector general released yesterday [7/19/2013]. As one result of all
the bumbling and inaction, the security checks that the agency is supposed to perform and subsequent approvals for use that it is
supposed to bestow every three years on 36 of those State Department systems have lapsed entirely, meaning that they are operating,
in effect, illegally.
Hillary Clinton,
Queen of Profit (Cattle Futures Aside). Hillary Clinton is getting $200K per speech. I think that qualifies as
"cashing in." I also think it qualifies as "trading on one's public office." I have used some pretty old-fashioned
phrases here. We heard them in 1989, when Ronald Reagan went to Japan for a week and came back with $2 million. (An
old Reagan hand described this as "the Reagans' retirement fund.") There was a storm of condemnation. Has there been any
storm over Hillary Clinton? Over Bill Clinton, and Al Gore? Haven't they made tens of millions or hundreds of millions
of dollars?
Huma, Hillary & hiring.
Thus far, the State Department has stonewalled. It claims the questions can't be answered because of issues of employee confidentiality.
In fact, the issues these questions about [Huma] Abedin's employment raise have to do with conflicts of interest and State's accountability to
the elected representatives of the American people.
Hillary's
$500K Saudi jewelry. World leaders lavished President Obama and top administration officials with hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of jewels, artwork and other extravagant gifts last year, the State Department disclosed Thursday [8/29/2013]. Most of the gifts are
turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration or the General Services Administration (GSA), though recipients are allowed to
retain many for official use or buy them for their personal collections.
Jeb Bush to Award Hillary 'Liberty Medal' on Eve of Benghazi
Anniversary. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) will honor former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with this year's Liberty Medal from the National Constitution
Center. The award will be presented to Clinton on September 10th, the eve of the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States mission in Benghazi
that killed four Americans.
Hillary Clinton heckled on Benghazi during
award ceremony. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fielded hecklers who hounded her on Benghazi at the tail end of an award acceptance
speech she delivered at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening [9/10/2013]. Mrs. Clinton was accepting the 2013 Liberty
Medal, an honor to recognize her career in public service and advocacy for women's rights, CBS reported.
D.C.
executive linked to secret 2008 aid to Hillary Clinton. The D.C. businessman at the center of an ongoing city corruption investigation secretly spent more than
a half-million dollars on get-out-the-vote efforts for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, according to interviews and court documents filed Wednesday.
Clinton Muslim Brotherhood Operative
Arrested in Egypt. The arrest of Gehad el-Haddad for inciting violence is a sobering reminder not just of how close Hillary Clinton's network
is to the brutal Muslim Brotherhood, the Left's favorite Islamofascist cell, but also of the extent to which Islamist enemies of the United States have
infiltrated the American political establishment.
The Clintons Employ Muslim
Brotherhood Officials? You Can't Be Serious. I don't know who is more shocked about this, me or Huma Abedin, but it turns out that a former top
Clinton Foundation official is also ... a senior Muslim Brotherhood official who has just been arrested for — you'll never guess — inciting
violence in Egypt. Not to worry, I'm sure it was only moderate violence.
Second Hillary Clinton aide got special
'status' at State Department. A longtime adviser and confidante of Hillary Clinton had "special government status" while the former
Secretary of State was at Foggy Bottom, allowing her to work on a targeted project about women's issues while she maintained her own business,
officials told POLITICO. Maggie Williams, who has been in Hillary Clinton's orbit for years and who took over her campaign after a shakeup in
the 2008 presidential race, was granted "SGE sta tus" to work with the Global Women's Issues office, officials said.
State Department swept sex scandals under the rug. Months after
whistleblowers accused the State Department of covering up employee sex scandals, most of the cases have been ignored or swept under the rug, critics charge. Records
show that staffers were given cushy jobs or allowed to retire, and watchdogs say the feds have hardly bothered to investigate since the shenanigans came to light this past
summer.
Hillary Clinton's Lucrative
Goldman Sachs Speaking Gigs. Hillary Clinton spoke at two separate Goldman Sachs events on the evenings of Thursday, October 24 and
Tuesday, October 29. As both Politico and the New York Times report, Clinton's fee is about $200,000 per speech, meaning she
likely netted around $400,000 for her paid gigs at Goldman over the course of six days.
Hillary's Odyssey. Hillary Clinton is no doubt a
talented speaker. She recently went into what the left wing sees as the heart of darkness of the American 1 percent at Goldman Sachs, purportedly
gave two brief chats, and walked away with a reported $400,000 in fees. Such compensation is almost as profitable as Hillary's long-ago cattle-future
trading, in which as a talented rookie speculator she beat one-in-several-million odds by parlaying an original $1,000 investment into a $100,000 profit.
Paul: Benghazi should
disqualify Clinton from holding higher office again. Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said Tuesday that former U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton's decisions surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, "should
preclude" her from holding higher office again. [...] "There were still people alive and fighting for hours upon hours, and there were some people in
Tripoli who could have gone. I don't think that decision was made by a military person. I think it was made ultimately by a politician."
Sen. Rand Paul gets applause with anti-Clinton remark at The
Citadel. Potential 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul drew applause from The Citadel's Corps of Cadets on Tuesday [11/12/2013]
when he said Hillary Clinton should be disqualified from running for president because of the Benghazi affair. "Her failure to provide our
ambassador and his mission with adequate security should preclude Hillary Clinton from ever holding high office again," Paul said of the former
secretary of state in connection to last year's fatal attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city.
Judicial
Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2013. [Scroll down] Former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: On January 23, 2013, outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified to
congressional committees regarding the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, which led to the murder of U.S.
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American citizens. At times evasive, at other times defensive and aggressive,
Clinton delivered her version of events in the days before and after the murders in Benghazi. And, in the end, the
Secretary of State pretended to take "responsibility," but gave a predictable response regarding who is to blame: "...the
level of responsibility for the failures...was set at the Assistant Secretary of State level and below," Clinton said, referring
to an investigation of the incident. In other words, this was not my fault.
CNN's Jake Tapper says Hillary will have to
answer for Benghazi. CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Monday [1/6/2014] that if or when Hillary Clinton runs for president, "there will have to be
some questions answered about [Benghazi]." Tapper spoke with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday about the former Secretary of State's
prospects for the presidency. One of the few mainstream media reporters to challenge the Obama administration's deflections over the deadly
September 2012 attack in Libya, Tapper noted that it won't be easy for Clinton to shed her Benghazi baggage on her way to the White House.
Hillary's Hit List. It
would be political malpractice for the Clintons not to keep track of their friends and enemies. Politicians do that everywhere.
The difference is the Clintons, because of their popularity and the positions they've held, retain more power to reward and punish than
anyone else in modern politics.
What did Hillary really accomplish
at State? Aside from her already noted record setting pace for racking up frequent flier miles, what did she really do?
Was there any great peace deal brokered somewhere? Some breakthrough in trade or normalization of relations with a previously
hostile nation? Or even the submission of one to international pressure brokered by the US? Nothing seems to jump to mind.
$6 Billion
Goes Missing at State Department. The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion
used to pay its contractors. In a special "management alert" made public Thursday [4/3/2014], the State
Department's Inspector General Steve Linick warned "significant financial risk and a lack of internal control
at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years. The alert was just
the latest example of the federal government's continued struggle with oversight over its outside contractors.
"What difference, at this point, does it make?" State
Department misplaced $6B under Hillary Clinton. The State Department misplaced and lost some
$6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure
of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.
The $6 billion in unaccounted funds poses a "significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of
internal control over the Department's contract actions," according to the report. The alert,
originally sent on March 20 and just released this week, warns that the missing contracting funds
"could expose the department to substantial financial losses."
Carter
dismisses Clinton's State work. Former President Carter says Hillary Clinton "took very little action" as secretary of
State to bring about peace. Carter, 89, made the remark about the former secretary of State and 2016 Democratic front-runner
in a phone interview with Time magazine Wednesday night after he spoke at the Civil Rights Summit in Austin, Texas.
Reporter Asks State Dept for One Accomplishment from Hillary Clinton's
Big Review Process. When she was secretary of state, Hillary Clinton instituted a Quadrennial Diplomacy
and Development Review. The first one was completed in December 2010. Nearly four years later, AP reporter
Matt Lee asked State Department Jen Psaki to name one thing that Clinton's QDDR accomplished. Just one.
She can't. [Video clip]
Hillary Clinton's
Accomplishments. I challenge you to name a single accomplishment from Hillary Clinton
that isn't personal in nature. From her years as Secretary of State? From her years as a
Senator from New York? Even her time as a simple lawyer... remember why she got fired from the
Watergate investigation? Her employer, Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat said, "Because
she was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the
Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality."
The Editor says...
Is the Republican nominee going to describe Hillary Clinton as a carpetbagger, or talk about
the laundered bribe disguised as a brief investment in cattle futures? There is a lot of dirt
in the Clintons' past, I predict the Republican nominee will be too polite to talk about any of it.
State Department spokeswoman can't name Hillary Clinton's diplomatic
achievements. Hillary Clinton's legacy as secretary of state is thin, judging from a press conference
Tuesday [4/22/2014] in which the State Department's chief spokeswoman couldn't articulate any of the future presidential
candidate's achievements on the job. She's not alone, with experts of all political stripes finding it
difficult to bolster Clinton's resume as America's top diplomat.
State Department gets second chance to list Hillary Clinton
accomplishments. It doesn't go well.. With plenty of time to prepare, the State Department
came up with a number of mostly bureaucratic reorganizations as the legacy of Secretary Clinton's QDDR.
[Associated Press reporter Matt] Lee was not impressed. "Were there any of these that didn't simply involve
rearranging of the bureaucratic deck chairs or shuffling responsibilities between one bureau to another or
creating a new level of bureaucracy?" he asked. "Were any of the accomplishments in —
outside of that, those areas?"
Clinton's
State Department resisted labeling Boko Haram as terror group. The kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls by
radical Islamic terror group Boko Haram has drawn international condemnation, including that of former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton. "Abominable," is how she described the kidnapping, calling it an "act of terrorism" that merits "the fullest response
possible." But the State Department, under Clinton's leadership, repeatedly resisted and blocked efforts to designate Boko
Haram as a terrorist group. Those who pushed for the designation as early as 2011 are now saying the department missed a
major opportunity to track and target the deadly organization as it grew.
Hillary Clinton's State Dept. Blocked Terrorist Designation for Boko Haram. "We
must stand up to terrorism," bleated Hillary Clinton a few days ago in a tweet expressing outrage against Boko Haram, the jihadist
organization that has abducted hundreds of young girls in Nigeria. Yet, when she was actually in a position to stand up to
Boko Haram's terrorism as secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton instead protected the group.
Hillary Clinton's State Department refused to brand Boko Haram as 'terrorists'.
Under then-Secretary Hillary Clinton, the U.S. State Department repeatedly refused to add the Nigerian al-Qaeda affiliate group Boko
Haram — the organization responsible for the recent kidnapping of more than 300 young girls — to its official
list of terrorist organizations. In November 2013, current Secretary John Kerry did what Clinton wouldn't. Boko Haram
is the group that has claimed responsibility for kidnapping hundreds of girls in Nigeria, promising to sell them into slavery.
Hillary's
State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists. The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard
against placing the al Qaeda-linked militant group Boko Haram on its official list of foreign terrorist organizations for two years.
And now, lawmakers and former U.S. officials are saying that the decision may have hampered the American government's ability to
confront the Nigerian group that shocked the world by abducting hundreds of innocent girls.
State Department compared Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis to religious minorities in
United States. When congressional leaders asked the State Department to tailor American assistance to Nigeria
in such a way that would protect Christians from religious persecution at the hands of Boko Haram, an extremist group that
kidnapped hundreds of Christian girls last month, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's team dismissed the idea on the
theory that the organization was not motivated by religion.
The Editor says...
Hillary Clinton apparently does not understand that Islamic terrorism is motivated by Islam. This alone disqualifies her
for the office of President, or Secretary of State, or carpetbagging Senator from New York.
Hillary and the Face of
Terror. Hillary Clinton, under attack for refusing to label brutal and murderous Nigerian Al Qaeda affiliate,
Boko Haram as a terrorist organization during her tenure as Secretary of State, resurrected the old poverty-causes-Jihadism
myth, rebranding it as "social justice." Though later, during her now iconic Congressional testimony about Benghazi,
Hillary slipped up and admitted that we are facing a "spreading Jihadist threat." Of course, Hillary is not the only
Obama Administration Official to trot out this demonstrably false canard. President Obama himself infamously voiced
the same nonsense right after 9/11, while still a state Senator in Illinois; current Secretary of State John Kerry
reiterated it last fall, and Code Pink has also attempted to recently perpetrated the myth.
Hillary
Clinton Protested Designation of Boko Haram as Terrorist Group. While Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
fought hard against officially designating the Islamists of Boko Haram as a terror group — placing her in the
camp of far-left activist group MoveOn.org. [...] The African terror outfit is again in the news last month by
kidnapping and selling into sexual slavery upwards of 250 Nigerian girls. The group did this because these
girls dared to go to school and gain an education, something Islamic fundamentalists oppose. The name
"Boko Haram" means "Western education is sinful."
The
Obama State Department's Understanding of Boko Haram Was Even More Delusional than You Thought. A news
article in today's [5/9/2014] New York Times sets out to explore why the United States waited until November 2013
to designate Nigeria's Boko Haram as a "foreign terrorist organization." In light of the group's latest
atrocity — the kidnapping and enslaving of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria's Borno state last month — this
is a very good question. The article makes the point that the terrorist designation was made after Hillary
Clinton resigned as secretary of state, and confirms reporting that it came after a two-year debate in which "the
Justice Department, the F.B.I., American intelligence officials and counterterrorism officials in the State
Department" all called for the designation but State ultimately opposed it.
Why
Hillary Clinton's State Dept. didn't list Boko Haram as a terrorist group. The US lists Boko Haram as a foreign
terrorist organization. But that designation occurred only last year, under John Kerry's State Department. An
earlier proposal by a congressional committee that the group be placed on the US terror list was studied but ultimately
denied in 2012 by Mrs. Clinton's State Department. The Clinton State Department did add three Boko Haram leaders
to the US list of individual terrorists, including Abubakar Shekau — the leader who issued a video this week in which
he claims the mass kidnapping and vows to "sell in the market" the 276 girls though to still be under his control.
Hillary
Revising History of Her Iran Sanctions Role, Senator Claims. Hillary Clinton is
exaggerating her role in imposing sanctions on Iran when she was Secretary of State in what one
Republican said today was a "blatant revision of history." [...] "The truth is that Hillary
Clinton's State Department fought tooth and nail against the very congressionally imposed sanctions
that she is now boasting about," Rubio spokesperson Alex Conant said in a statement.
Hillary
Clinton and the release of thousands of criminal aliens. In effect, the administration
has, as Bill Otis puts it, "unleashed its own crime wave." But who within the
administration was responsible for this for wanton indifference to public safety? One responsible
party is Hillary Clinton. [...] [F]ederal law requires the secretary of state to stop
issuing visas to the citizens of any country that refuses to take back its nationals. Refusing to
issue visas to citizens of a foreign country would provide a powerful incentive for that country to
take back its nationals and thus create a significant likelihood of removal in the foreseeable
future. This, in turn, would enable the U.S. to avoid releasing criminal aliens onto our streets.
Hillary
Clinton, Boko Haram, and Obama's Most Dangerous Lie. Hillary Clinton, we now know,
strongly opposed placing Boko Haram on the State Department's official list of foreign terrorist
organizations. According to Josh Rogin, the Justice Department (including the FBI), the CIA, and
more than a dozen senators and congressmen wanted Boko Haram designated a foreign terrorist
organization, but Clinton successfully resisted. Boko Haram wasn't so designated until late this
year, after Clinton had left Foggy Bottom. Now that Boko Haram is holding more than 200 Nigerian
girls, forcing some to convert to Islam and threatening to make sex slaves out of others, Clinton
takes a different view of this outfit. Recently she tweeted: "Access to education is a basic
right [and] an unconscionable reason to target innocent girls. We must stand up to terrorism."
But why didn't Clinton stand up to Boko Haram's terrorism by designating it a foreign terrorist
organization when she was in power?
The
Obama Administration's Ethics Problem. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton left office with American foreign policy in
shambles. She has been unable to make the argument that a single initiative — reset with Russia, lead from behind in Libya, red lines on
Syria, deadlines to Iran, complete withdrawal from Iraq, pressure on the Israelis, outreach to radical Islam and Latin American Communist
dictatorships — had met with success. Clinton infamously dismissed the lingering mysteries surrounding the Benghazi deaths with
"What difference at this point does it make?" She also refused, despite numerous entreaties, to place the now-infamous Nigerian
terrorist group Boko Haram on a State Department terrorist watch list.
Hillary Clinton's Speaking Circuit Payday: $5 Million (and Counting). Since
leaving [the] State [Department], Clinton has made more than 90 speeches and notable appearances. Her hosts have included
private equity firms, investment banks, nonprofit galas, trade association conventions, and a slew of colleges and universities.
At least two-dozen of those were paid speeches. With her usual fee of $200,000 a speech, Clinton has banked close to $5 million
for her speeches and appearances in the last 15 months.
Hillary's
big economy speech forgets about Obamanomics. [Scroll down] And this is the inherent
vulnerability of a potential presidential run: All the long-term problems she'll mention haven't really
gotten any better under the current Democratic president. So, to use Bob Dole's 1996 phrase, she needs
to be a "bridge to the past," to the bubbly, booming 1990s.
NBC's
Richard Engel: 'Hard Pressed' to Name Country with Which Hillary Improved Relations.
On Thursday, NBC News' award-winning foreign correspondent Richard Engel was pressed by Home Depot
founder Kenneth Langone to "name one country" with which the United States has better relations
today than it did when President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took
office in 2009. Engel noted the increasing number of nations with which the U.S. has worse
relations, but said he was "hard pressed" to identify a relationship which has improved.
"I think you'd be hard pressed to find that," Engle said after noting that bilateral relations with
most European countries "have gotten worse."
Hillary
Clinton's Senate years curiously missing from her memoirs. Next week Hillary Clinton
will release "Hard Choices," a memoir of her years as secretary of state. [...] Clinton's first book covered the period
from her birth in 1947 through 2001. Her second book covers 2009 through 2013. What about the eight years in between,
from 2001 to 2009? That was the time Clinton served as a U.S. senator, and it is the only part of her life she has not seen
fit to write a book about.
The
Post-Achievement Politics of Obama and Hillary. Obama and Hillary don't just suffer
from a shortage of accomplishments. They're also burdened with a surplus of failures. Benghazi
worries so many Hillary supporters because there is nothing to balance it against. There is no,
"But look at all the good she did." Hillary didn't do any good. She didn't do much of anything
except tour countries and pose for photos.
Hillary Clinton:
We were dead broke. Hillary Clinton, who recently raked in $5 million dollars in speaking
fees in 15 months, recounted to Diane Sawyer the sad tale of her former destitution, telling her, "We came out
of the White House not only dead broke but in debt." According to Clinton, she and her husband,
who has made over $100 million since leaving the White House, "struggled to, you know, piece
together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea's education, you know, it was not easy."
2001
was Hillary's Year of Great Fortune, not of being "dead broke". The problem is not
that the Clintons made a fortune. This is America, after all. People are entitled to make a fortune
so long as they do so lawfully, and we've not yet reached the point where the law dictates when
people have made enough. The problem is that Hillary is not being straight with the public. [...]
In mid-December 2000, a month before Bill left office, Hillary signed a book deal with a near
record $8 million advance.
Hard Knocks Hillary. Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton thinks everyone should shut up and stop second-guessing her
(and her husband's) voracious appetite for money. Clinton, who charges up to $200,000 to give
one-hour speeches to Goldman Sachs executives and others, claims that she and Bill were "dead
broke" and in debt following their eight years in the White House, and "struggled" to pay the
mortgages on their multiple mansions and finance their daughter Chelsea's education at Stanford,
Oxford, Columbia, and Oxford (again).
Hillary
Clinton doubles down on poverty claim and says 'relentless persecution' by Republicans made them 'deeply in debt'. Former
secretary of state Hillary Clinton told the German magazine Der Spiegel on Tuesday that she and her husband Bill were indeed 'deeply in
debt' when they left the White House and blamed 'relentless persecution' by Republicans for her legal bills after his presidency.
The claim has added fuel to the fire Clinton herself touched off last month when she claimed they were 'dead broke' after their time in
the White House. The former first lady earns $200,000 or more every time she makes a public speech. The former president has
earned a reported $104 million in speaking fees since he left the Oval Office behind him.
Senator:
Clinton State Dept. Broke Law, Lied About Boko Haram Terror Threat. A leading senator
has charged that Hillary Clinton's State Department broke the law by intentionally obfuscating and
downplaying to Congress the terror threat posed by the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram, which
recently gained international infamy for violently kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls.
Sen. David Vitter (R., La.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, petitioned Secretary of
State John Kerry on Monday to explain why Clinton's State Department misrepresented and downplayed
key information about Boko Haram's terrorist activities in its annual reports to Congress.
More
to 'Hard Choices' than Benghazi. It took a village of handlers to produce Hard Choices, dumbed down to the
point of explaining that winter in the southern hemisphere occurs at a different time of year. The book is highly
autohagiographical, bulked with gossipy filler such as half a page on Benazir Bhutto's shalwar kameez, [...]
Billions
In Taxpayer Dollars Spent On 'Lyrical, Poetic' Embassy Architecture Overseas. Under
the Obama administration, embassy construction costs have exploded even while security —
a major issue in the Benghazi scandal — has grown worse. Now we know why. A video
released by the State Department in 2012 shows exhibits the philosophy behind a campaign begun under
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to build fancy buildings overseas to enhance the nation's
reputation.
Show us the receipts. Hillary
Clinton Says She's Donated All University Speaking Fees. "All of the fees have been
donated to the Clinton Foundation for it to continue its life-changing and life-saving work. So it
goes from a foundation at a university to another foundation," Clinton said when asked about the
criticism she and her husband have faced recently for their wealth. Hillary Clinton reportedly
makes roughly $200,000 for each speaking engagement. And recent reports show that she has made much
more from some of the country's top universities.
The Editor says...
It's always amusing to hear a key figure in the Abortion Party talk
about his or her "life-saving work," and it's always "for the children."
Hillary's disturbed.
Hillary Clinton says she's "deeply disturbed" by the Supreme Court decision this week to uphold
Hobby Lobby's rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Basically, the former first
lady, senator and secretary of state is saying the court is letting bosses who oppose contraception
impose their religious views on employees. Of course, it does nothing of the kind. For one thing,
Hobby Lobby has no objection to — and continues to pay for — 16 forms of birth
control. It's just one reason The Washington Post gave Hillary "Two Pinocchios" for her claims.
Hillary
Clinton donates big speaking fees to a nonprofit foundation — her own. To
give the organization its full name, that's the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation
(originally, the William J. Clinton Foundation). Set up the year after Bill Clinton
finished his second term as president, the Clinton Foundation says its mission is "to bring people
together to take on the biggest challenges of the 21st century," including economic development,
global health, climate change, and empowering women and girls. The Wall Street Journal
reported recently that the foundation has collected between $750 million and $1.7 billion
over the years. That's a lot of clout for influencing the public — i.e., political
— discussion on major issues, something any other politician with presidential stars
in his or her eyes could only envy.
15
Brutally Hilarious Amazon Reviews On Hillary Clinton's 'Hard Choices'. Hillary Clinton's book,
Hard Choices, has been something of a hot topic lately, although not in a positive sense. With
abysmal sales and a clear message throughout the book which implies she will be running for President in 2016,
it is safe to say that Hillary has been having a "hard time" promoting her book.
State
Department approved 215 Bill Clinton speeches, controversial consulting deal, worth $48m. A joint investigation by the Washington
Examiner and the nonprofit watchdog group Judicial Watch found that former President Clinton gave 215 speeches and earned $48 million
while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton
Foundation during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch and released Wednesday [7/30/2014]
in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act case, State Department officials charged with reviewing Bill Clinton's proposed speeches did not object to a single one.
Hillary
Clinton: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shoot-down was "terrorism". "They were equipped
by the Russians. They were trained by the Russians. There may have even been Russians on the ground
with them and the result was this horrible attack," Clinton told Fusion during a wide-ranging interview.
"And yes, it is a form of terrorism... When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like
Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline."
The Editor says...
This is a transparent attempt to dilute the definition and concept of terrorism by lumping senseless Islamic
barbarism together with ruthless (but commonplace) acts of war and calling either one "terrorism."
Hillary
Clinton and the Decision to Intervene in Libya. Hillary Clinton has been working full-time to
control the story of her time as Secretary of State. That was the point of her clunky, largely unread
book, and the point of her awkward, gaffe-laden book tour. Clinton argues (plausibly) that she wanted
a more activist approach to Syria than that served up by her boss. She argues (implausibly) that she
wasn't really sold on the "reset" with Russia.
Say,
the Clintons' 'Speaking Fees' Sure Look Like Hefty Foreign Bribes. Hillary Clinton claims that when she
and Bill left the White House, they were "dead broke." Well, what's One Broke Girl to do with a youthful yet
retired husband and lots of legal bills to pay? Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State. Bill Clinton
set up a foundation, which is tax-exempt. Through that foundation, Bill booked a pile of extremely lucrative
speaking engagements all over the world. Hillary's State Department approved all of them, according to documents
FOIA'd into the light by Judicial Watch and the Washington Examiner.
JW Forces Release of
Clinton State Department Conflict of Interest Docs. Judicial Watch announced today [7/30/2014] the release
of more than 200 conflict-of-interest reviews by State Department ethics advisers of proposed Bill Clinton speaking and
consulting engagements during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. [...] "These documents are a bombshell and
show how the Clintons turned the State Department into a racket to line their own pockets," said Judicial Watch President
Tom Fitton. "How the Obama State Department waived hundreds of ethical conflicts that allowed the Clintons and their
businesses to accept money from foreign entities and corporations seeking influence boggles the mind. That former
President Clinton trotted the globe collecting huge speaking fees while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy is
an outrage. No wonder it took a court order to get these documents. One can't imagine what foreign policy
issues were mishandled as top State Department officials spent so much time facilitating the Clinton money machine."
So
Why Is Hillary Doing Stupid Things? [Scroll down] Now, with President Obama's
poll numbers sliding, and especially as his foreign policy doves are coming home to roost, his
former chief diplomat is trying to tell Americans that she is not on board with the current
direction of U.S. foreign policy. The Post describes her move as her "most forceful effort yet to
distance herself from an unpopular administration." This attempt to swim away from the wreckage is
hardly believable. She was an architect of the policies we now see so obviously failing. She
boasts that the "reset" with Russia was a "brilliant stroke."
It
may be impossible for Hillary Clinton to distance herself from Barack Obama. By their
admission, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden inherited a war that had been won. In 2011
Mr. Obama said America was "leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq," and Mr. Biden
proclaimed Iraq "one of the great achievements of this administration." Mr. Obama then committed a
massive error in judgment by withdrawing all U.S. troops. That allowed the rise of the Islamic State
of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, the world's most formidable, merciless and dangerous terrorist army.
ISIS is now establishing an Islamist caliphate that stretches from Aleppo in Syria to Fallujah and
Mosul in Iraq and beyond.
State
Department can't account for $6 billion in last 6 years. After six months, the search
for missing State Department accounting records continues. Multiple websites, including the
American Thinker, reported in early April 2014 that, "There has been, in the most charitable
interpretation, grave sloppiness in spending and accounting for money at the cabinet agency run by
Hillary Clinton." The sloppiness involves $6,000,000,000.
Charge:
Benghazi Boiler Room Operation Hid Documents. A top former State Department official is charging that senior
aides convened an after-hours Foggy Bottom operation to sift through Benghazi-related documents and separate out those that
might be damaging to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The documents were supposed to be turned over the the
Accountability Review Board, an internal State Department probe that has been criticized for not addressing the potential
culpability in the Benghazi matter of Clinton or President Obama.
Clinton
State Department Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review. As the House
Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department
diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants were part of an
operation to "separate" damaging documents before they were turned over to the Accountability Review
Board investigating security lapses surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S.
mission in Benghazi, Libya.
State
Dept. inspector general: More evidence of rampant mismanagement under Hillary Clinton.
The State Department's Office of Inspector General has released another "management alert" detailing
rampant mismanagement within the agency, much of it during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
tenure. The inspector general's latest "management alert" — the third released by the
agency's internal watchdog in a little over a year — warns that the State Department's
management and oversight of grants has become a serious financial liability.
Hillary's
reputation for competence as Secretary of State erodes from within. Hillary's tenure
as Secretary of State continues to draw internal criticism. The former Secretary of State is coy
about her 2016 POTUS candidacy intentions, but the department's Office of Inspector General (OIG)
continues to identify administrative incompetence concerning financial and information security
matters during her tenure.
Account
of Clinton Aide's Benghazi Document Sifting Familiar to Career Public Servant. To
Sonya Gilliam, a recent account of improper sorting of Benghazi-related documents at the State
Department brought back vivid memories of her own encounters with high-level government officials
who withheld, deleted or destroyed public records. And one name stood out for its familiarity:
Cheryl Mills. A former deputy assistant secretary of state had told The Daily Signal that Mills
was present during an after-hours document operation in a basement room of the State Department in
October 2012. Mills was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Milking
the State Department's cash cow. The liberal media is ignoring the developing story
detailing the fiduciary incompetence of the Department of State (DOS) during Hillary Clinton's
tenure as Secretary of State. Meanwhile, the Inspector General (IG) of the DOS, Steve A.
Linick, appears to be taking his job quite seriously.
Delays
plague Hillary Clinton's State Dept. Files. The State Department has failed to turn over government documents covering
Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state that The Associated Press and others requested under the U.S. Freedom of Information
Act ahead of her presumptive presidential campaign.
Veterans
Group: Hillary 'Can't Hide' From Failures As Secretary Of State. Could Hillary Clinton's tenure as
secretary of state come back and bite her with veterans in 2016? A conservative veterans group behind a new
anti-Clinton video series thinks so. "As veterans, when we have friends who are still on active duty still
going back to these conflicts without a clear mission it very much upsets us," Dan Caldwell, Marine Corps veteran
and legislative director for Concerned Veterans for America, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "The fact
remains that Hillary Clinton was at the table and helped craft, drive, and implement a lot of these failed national
security policies. She cannot walk away from that, and she cannot hide from that." Caldwell said that
Clinton has tried to spin her involvement with the botched foreign policy maneuvers of the Obama administration,
but he said veterans won't forget Hillary's failures if she runs for president.
Hillary's
State Department OK'd Bill's big-money speeches. Less than a year after Hillary
Clinton became secretary of state, former President Bill Clinton asked the State Department to
approve a paid, videotaped speech he was asked to make at a gala in Shanghai, sponsored by a Chinese
sports foundation. Wealthy hedge fund manager Kai Jiang wanted to pay the former president an
undisclosed amount through a charity fund set up by his wife, Crystal Huang, a Chinese TV and film
star who regularly serves as fodder for the Chinese tabloids.
Lying
About Benghazi Was Hillary's Only Accomplishment. Documents from Judicial Watch show
that Hillary Clinton's closest advisers knew from the onset, before she launched an inflammatory
video lie, that Benghazi was a terrorist attack for which Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility.
'Mrs. Clinton, name an accomplishment," Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and prospective
2016 GOP presidential candidate, asked Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
How
Many Straws on Hillary's Back? Polls show that right now Hillary would both win the
Democratic nomination and be elected president. But that likelihood assumes that four considerations
will go her way. The first is that she will not have to run on her record as secretary of state.
Instead, she is betting that her iconic status and her years in Washington as first lady and then as a
senator will trump her four years as Barack Obama's chief foreign-policy architect. Her record as
secretary was dismal — perhaps the worst since the tenure of Cyrus Vance under Jimmy
Carter. The Obama/Clinton reset diplomacy with Russia ended with Vladimir Putin gobbling up Crimea
and eastern Ukraine, and starting a bitter new Cold War. Her idea of bombing Libya without
congressional approval and in excess of the limited U.N. resolutions proved a disaster, especially
when the U.S. let the ensuing mess on the ground fester.
Clinton
confidante Huma Abedin sure had a lot of special deals set up for her at the State
Dept.. According to a New York Times investigation, Abedin was the beneficiary
of a special arrangement in which she was allowed to consult outside of the State Department while
she served as an agency employee. That practice is not prohibited, but State Department
officers are required to disclose any income that they make while consulting outside the
agency. Abedin, however, was not. "Ms. Abedin did not disclose the arrangement —
or how much income she earned — on her financial report," The Times reported.
Could
Boko Haram be Hillary Clinton's Biggest Scandal? One senator wants to know if former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deleted her emails regarding the very delayed designation of Boko
Haram as a terrorist organization — and if a very well-heeled donor influenced that
policy. The query is not new for Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), but it's now reflected in some
additional disturbing lights: the admission by Clinton that she used personal email while the
nation's top diplomat and screened which ones to keep or discard, and the ascension of Boko Haram to
an ISIS affiliate.
Bloomberg:
Don't forget that State had no independent IG under Hillary. How did the State
Department get away with so many failures during Hillary Clinton's leadership? They ran a consulate
in Benghazi with substandard security even for normal locations, let alone in the collapsed-state
region of eastern Libya in 2011-12. Hillary herself and her closest aides didn't use State
Department e-mail systems despite both policy and legal requirements to do so.
One
More Question on Hillary Clinton E-Mails: Where Was the Watchdog? One of the many
unanswered questions of the Hillary Clinton e-mail story has been: Whose job was it to raise and
address concerns about her exclusive use of a private account? According to open government
advocates, it would have been the agency's permanent, independent Inspector General —
someone nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate — if such a person had existed.
Investigators
Probe Clinton's Hiring Practices While at State. A federal watchdog just opened an investigation into whether former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke the law by allowing one of her top advisors, Huma Abedin, to work at Teneo, a private
consulting firm while serving in an influential role at State. The investigation comes at the request of the Chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley (R-IA) who asked the State Department's Inspector General Steve Linek to dig into whether
the former secretary committed any wrong doing by hiring Abedin and others through a special federal program.
'Genocide'
charged as up to 700 drown while trying to flee Libya. Barack Obama and Hillary
Clinton were directly behind the destabilization of Libya. Hillary Clinton "falsely claimed Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi was planning genocidal attacks against his domestic enemies" in order to justify
attacks by a US-led NATO coalition. Obama went so far as to proclaim the death of the dictator a
'foreign policy success'.
