By Jonathan E.P. Moore
IS OBAMA PROTECTING HILLARY TO PROTECT HIS OWN LEGACY?
What a debacle, what a conundrum, what a joke! With this late Labor Day Friday’s document ‘dump’ of the facts that this Administration continues to hide from the American People, and the letter of the law, should make every American cringe!!
I think we as Americans should use this opportunity to unite the country behind this outsider, and use this attempted overthrow our founding father’s Constitutional Republics version of Democracy to Socialism! There is no way if you have any common sense at all that Hillary Clinton can only win the election if voter fraud, like in Obama's win in 2012, is part of the game plan!!
I can’t see how anybody who believes in what this country stands for, no matter what your religious, gender, party affiliation, race, or sexual preference, how this Obama/Hillary anti-American agenda is going to change the path of America for our kids and our kid’s kids moving into the future! I also can't believe that college educated voters still favor, according to the 'Paid to Report' Media Polls, Hillary Clinton, and is ahead of Trump by a large number!!!......REALLY!!
Hillary keeps doubling down on her email excuses, her health, her Clinton Foundation, and her personal empty unproven rhetoric of Donald Trump! There is no ‘Law’ that says he has to release his taxes, and with the Obama IRS you know that they are controlling the shots, and as Trump says, when the audit is done he will release them, and also think that when Hillary releases the 33,000 missing emails that he should release his returns immediately!
Trump, as required by law, submitted his financials when he started this campaign, and just because Hillary has nothing to add to her continuation of Obama’s mission of destroying America from within through her mentor Alinsky’s Socialist agenda, has only personal attacks on Trump! Hillary has nothing new on Immigration, Obamacare, Obama’s feckless foreign and economic policies, and like Obama, taking money from George Soros, who’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ is more important than our ‘Vets,’ our poor, our impoverished inner city youth, or the ‘Will’ of the American People!
What Hillary is missing is that Trump is not a politician, but a businessman who delegates responsibility! Don’t you remember that Trump funded his own Primary without the political strings that usually come attached for payback of political favor? Don’t you know that his cabinet appointees come with no strings attached? Don’t you know that he will get rid of Obama’s regulation Czars that Obama/Hillary used to eliminate 83,000 coal worker jobs and shut down some 400 mines?
Trump will, no matter where they come from, put together the best Administration in the last 100 years! The Trump Administration will consist of only three strings attached by our Founding Fathers’, our Constitution, and the ‘Will’ of the American People! I don’t know about you, but I can more than live with that!!!
Because of Comey’s FBI and Lynch’s DOJ under the guidance of the biggest anti-American traitor since Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War general whose betrayal of George Washington became an American legend, the American People are living under a lawless Congress that has abandoned the American people, our founding fathers, and our Constitution!
When are we as one say enough is enough and take back our country? When are we going to get justice for the last 7+ years of illegal immigration overrides of the Constitution and our laws, Obama’s illegal Executive Orders and Presidential Memorandums, rogue leaders of the IRS (Lois Lerner), DOJ (Eric Holder then, and Loretta Lynch now!) who delivered a message of two standards of the law of the land, and let’s not forget, the funded by Obama, the Sanctuary cities that are milking the taxpayer’s dollars (intentionally) to support the illegal immigrant and refugees while using ‘Motor Voter laws’ to stack the deck to win the election through voter fraud! http://whileyouweredozing.blogspot.com/2016/07/its-time-to-prove-that-youre-for-new.html#.V8_rSK-V-74
I just gave you my introduction to just a few things that were included in last Fridays ‘Labor Day Dump’ that this Obama Administration didn’t want you to see! Other things that have popped up is the fact that Hillary and her aides declared 'I don't remember' 327 times when asked about the missing emails, and that the mainstream Media, meaning ABC, NBC, and CBS combined, only mentioned Hillary's coughing jags and health issues only 1 time, and call it a 'Conspiracy Theory!'
‘WE WIRED IT’: EMAILS SUGGEST CLINTON AIDE STAGE-MANAGED BENGHAZI HEARING QUESTIONS!
Newly released emails suggest a senior Hillary Clinton aide stage-managed her first hearing on the Benghazi terrorist attack by feeding specific topics Clinton wanted to address to Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, who at the time was acting chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
"We wired it that Menendez would provide an opportunity to address two topics we needed to debunk (her actions/whereabouts on 9/11, and these email from Chris Stevens about moving locations,)" Clinton media gatekeeper Philippe Reines wrote to Chelsea Clinton the morning of the Jan. 23, 2013 hearing.
Right out of the gate, the first hearing question from Menendez that day covered both topics referenced by Reines.
Menendez asked for Clinton’s “insights on the decision-making process regarding the location of the Mission.” The senator added, “can you also in your response, you touched upon it in your opening statement, but what actions were you and your staff taking the night of September 11 and into September 12?"
The then-secretary of state had an answer on both fronts! She told the committee that "[Ambassador] Chris [Stevens] was committed to not only being in Benghazi but to the location," and that on the night of the attack, "I was notified of the attack shortly after 4:00 p.m. Over the following hours, we were in continuous meetings and conversations both within the department with our team in Tripoli, with the interagency and internationally."
The emails were obtained by the group Citizens United as part of its ongoing Freedom of Information Act request to the State Department for emails from Chelsea Clinton and Hillary Clinton's closest aides.
“This email chain provides a rare behind the scenes look at which Benghazi-related issues the Clinton camp had concerns about going into Secretary Clinton’s January 2013 testimony on Capitol Hill, and what they had apparently plotted out beforehand with a Democrat committee member to deal with those concerns,” Citizens United said in a statement. “Citizens United will continue to release all new Benghazi emails we receive through our FOIA lawsuits as they come in -- the American people have a right to know the full picture.”
Fox News asked the Clinton campaign as well as Menendez's office if they coordinated before the 2013 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing; what was meant by the term "wired;" and how the email exchange was consistent with the principle of independent congressional oversight. There was no immediate response from either.
In 2013, the New Jersey senator -- who is now facing federal public corruption charges -- at the time of the hearing was about to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, replacing John Kerry who was in line to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Menendez has denied any wrongdoing.
A previous release of emails from a separate FOIA action showed that on the night of the attack, Clinton told her daughter, who used the email pseudonym Diane Reynolds on clintonemail.com, that the attacks were the work of an "Al Qaeda-like group" – with no mention of an obscure anti-Islam video Clinton publicly linked to the 2012 terrorist attack. Chelsea Clinton uses the same pseudonym in the Menendez email.
Reines is a founding member of the Clinton-aligned consulting group Beacon Global Strategies. The online bios for its founders and managing director suggest no group knows more about the Benghazi terrorist attack and the Obama administration's response.
One of its senior counselors is former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell, who heavily edited the controversial Benghazi talking points, which helped establish the administration’s initial flawed narrative about the attack. Morell recently endorsed Clinton to the New York Times, but later was criticized for not fully disclosing his relationship to Beacon.
In a follow up Q-and-A with the Times, Morell wrote: "Among the many things I do in my post-government life -- teaching and writing, serving on corporate boards, speaking publicly on national security issues -- is work with Beacon Global Strategies, a firm that has prioritized nonpartisanship. The firm’s advisory board -- composed of appointees of both Republican and Democratic presidents, as well as career military officers -- make that priority clear. It all stems from a strong and shared belief that our national security is paramount and needs to be devoid of partisan politics."
HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE: DID HILLARY CLINTON OR STAFF DESTROY EMAIL EVIDENCE UNDER SUBPOENNA?
https://youtu.be/hOi4ZyqOX-0
“In reviewing those files, the Committee identified a sequence of events that may amount to obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence by Secretary Clinton and her employees and contractors, including her attorneys, employees of Platte River Networks, and employees of Clinton Executive Services Corporation," a letter sent Tuesday to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia by House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz states.
“In light of this information, the Department should investigate and determine whether Secretary Clinton or her employees and contractors violated statutes that prohibit destruction of records, obstruction of congressional inquiries, and concealment or cover up of evidence material to a congressional investigation.”
Essentially, Chaffetz is asking if evidence was deleted under subpoena.
The letter includes a timeline of document requests and subpoenas from the Oversight Committee, the Benghazi Select Committee and the response from Clinton and her staff.
A letter was also sent to Platte River Networks, the company responsible for hosting Clinton's private email servers.
“In brief, the summaries of the FBI’s interviews with a PRN engineer show that within days of a conference call with Secretary Clinton’s lawyers, the engineer deleted archives of Secretary Clinton’s emails, despite knowing those records were covered by preservation orders and a subpoena from Congress," a separate letter from the Committee states. "The sequence of events leading up to the destruction of Secretary Clinton’s emails… raises questions about whether Secretary Clinton, acting through her attorneys, instructed PRN to destroy records relevant to the then-ongoing congressional investigations.”
Byron York points out that based on the evidence presented in the FBI report and the timeline of events with Clinton's email deletion, it is likely staffer deleted emails while under subpoena from Congress. The letter from Chaffetz officially makes that inquiry.
The incomplete records of the Hillary Clinton email investigation released by the FBI raise questions about the conduct not only of Clinton but of her top aides and the staffers working under their direction. Perhaps the most serious is whether the Clinton team destroyed evidence which they were under legal order to save and produce to congressional investigators.
Even with the fragments now public — the Clinton 302, the overview report, but none of the many other witness interviews — it seems fair to conclude that staff on the Clinton team destroyed material that was under subpoena. Whether that was unwitting, or whether it was something else, is not known, at least publicly.
In recent weeks, the Committee also asked the USADC to look into why Clinton attorneys, who sorted through her emails, were handling classified information when they didn't have proper security clearance to do so.
ANALYSIS: SEVEN EMAIL SCANDAL REVELATIONS IN THE FBI’S HOLIDAY WEEKEND DOCUMENT DUMP!
Friday's document release has only fueled criticism of the decision not to recommend charges against Clinton, as new revelations illustrate how reckless, dishonest, and ultimately calculating she and her team have been throughout the entire lifespan of this controversy. Her defenders have reflexively claimed that these papers produced no new information. This is patently untrue. Let's examine some of the most important freshly-discovered facts contained in the FBI's notes:
1. Based on a clarified timeline, it appears clear that Mrs. Clinton's team began its work to permanently scrub and destroy her email archives -- elements of which were under Congressional subpoena at the time (read more here) -- after the New York Times first reported the existence of her improper and unsecure server. Mrs. Clinton tweeted in early March that she wanted the State Department to make all of her emails public.
Weeks later,
following what an aide described as the "oh sh*t" moment of the
server's discovery, Team Hillary set about using BleachBit technology to purge
vast numbers of emails -- thousands of which we now know were work-related,
including dozens of highly classified chains.
2. Mrs. Clinton's initial publicly-stated rationale for setting up her national security-endangering private server in the first place was that it facilitated the "convenience" of using a single mobile device. This excuse was quickly debunked by both public records and Clinton's own public statements about using several such devices concurrently. On Friday, the public learned that Hillary used at least 13 mobile devices during her tenure at State. Why so many? She lost an unspecified number of these Blackberry phones. Ultimately, "the FBI was unable to acquire or forensically examine any of these 13 mobile devices,” according to the documents, although they managed to determine that when the whereabouts of her old devices did not "become unknown," one of her staffers would beat them with a hammer. Hillary Clinton was personally warned by State Department security officials on two separate occasions that using non-secure, private mobile devices for official business posed a risk to state secrets.
Remember, she wasn't supposed to be sending or receiving any classified material on an unsecure system in the first place. Despite these explicit admonitions, she continued her conduct anyway -- then misplaced an unknown number of these unauthorized devices, packed with sensitive intelligence, on multiple occasions. Mind-boggling.
3. James Comey stated in his press conference and in Congressional testimony that it was very likely that outside actors were able to penetrate Clinton's unsecure server. The Clinton campaign seized on his phrasing and framing in order to claim that the feds had produced no 'direct evidence' definitively proving that the server had been compromised. This talking point was always a desperate, non-credible stretch. Now it's dead: An unknown individual using the encrypted privacy tool Tor to hide their tracks accessed an email account on a Clinton family server, the FBI revealed Friday. The incident appears to be the first confirmed intrusion into a piece of hardware associated with Hillary Clinton’s private email system, which originated with a server established for her husband, former President Bill Clinton. The FBI disclosed the event in its newly released report on the former secretary of state’s handling of classified information. According to the bureau’s review of server logs, someone accessed an email account on Jan. 5, 2013, using three IP addresses known to serve as Tor “exit nodes” — jumping-off points from the anonymity network to the public internet. The owner of the account, whose name is redacted in the report, said she was “not familiar with nor [had] she ever used Tor software.” Clinton left the State Department less than a month after the intrusion. In all likelihood -- based on Comey's judgment, the reasoning of several top administration and intelligence officials, and the sophistication of our adversaries -- this breach was one of many.
4. One potential method of recovering thousands of improperly-destroyed Clinton emails would involve accessing key hard drives that hadn't yet been wiped clean. As Katie mentioned over the weekend, one such hard drive magically disappeared in the mail: "Someone whose name was redacted in the FBI report told the agency that he later deleted the e-mails from the laptop but didn’t wipe its hard drive. A computer technician can often recover such e-mails that have been deleted but not permanently erased from a laptop’s memory. The FBI sought the laptop as part of its investigation, but it’s whereabouts remain unknown, the bureau said: The last time the laptop was seen was when it was put in the mail,"
5. Among the many, many things Mrs. Clinton claimed she "could not recall" during her FBI interview -- at which several potential co-conspirators were shockingly permitted to be present, acting as her lawyers -- was whether she ever received mandatory training on the proper handling of classified materials and the archiving of public records under federal law. But public documents show that she swore in a binding 2009 nondisclosure agreement that she had done so. Recall that her nondisclosure forms also proved that she was aware that it was her duty to protect secrets regardless of whether or not they were formally "marked classified," undercutting yet another piece of Clinton email spin.
6. Lying to the FBI is a crime. Will this inconsistency be waved away as just another instance of Mrs. Clinton's inability to recall things accurately? Were there privately-owned computers and devices (improperly) located inside the secure areas of her personal residences, or not?
7. Last but not least, Mrs. Clinton told investigators that she didn't realize that "(C)" markings on some emails stood for "confidential" -- a classification designation that she had repeatedly claimed did not exist on any of the emails housed on her server (an irrelevant distinction, for reasons already established). Her explanation for this alleged misunderstanding is an insultingly stupid howler. This is a woman who has operated at the highest levels of government for decades, and she's serving up this nonsensical drivel? The 'alphabetical order' line is ludicrous on its face. Paragraphs of memos aren't listed alphabetically, and even if they were, where were parts (A), (B), (D), etc.? Did FBI interviewers press her on this point at all? Furthermore, Clinton also stated she "did not pay attention" to levels of classification in handling sensitive information, and asserted that it did not occur to her that discussions of drone strikes under a secret program operating in the sovereign territory of a nominal US ally might qualify as classified communications.
Yes, really! Clinton has been hailed by supporters as the most qualified human being ever to seek the office of the presidency. Yet her central defense at this stage of the email scandal, now that her endless parade of lies are collapsing, amounts to, "I had no idea how any of this was supposed to work." You see, she's just a clueless, doddering grandmother who couldn't grasp classification rules or records retention, and who just can't quite remember anything relevant about any of these details.
Their best argument is that she's inept, naive, out-of-touch, and forgetful. Given her established intelligence, many years operating at the most elite levels of the federal government, and ever-shifting story, Occam's Razor offers a simpler explanation: She's a liar who has deliberately distorted the truth at every turn, in order to cover up and explain away her breathtakingly reckless email scheme -- which was originally designed and implemented to cater to her paranoid obsession with wielding self-serving control.
I'll leave you with my discussion of Friday's developments on Fox News, during which Clinton supporter Alan Colmes adopted a sarcastic "nothing to see here" posture in response to the new information I summarized.
OBAMA PROPOSES RULE PROHIBITING STATES FROM DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD!
Pro-abortion President Barack Obama has proposed a new rule that would essentially prohibit states from defunding the Planned Parenthood abortion business and a leading pro-life member of Congress is not happy about it.
The proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could prevent states from blocking Title X funding (federal dollars for family planning services) to abortion companies like Planned Parenthood.
“This latest stunt from President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services should surprise absolutely no one,” Rep. Diane Black told LifeNews.com
“We’ve known all along that the Obama Administration will go to untold lengths to protect its friends in the big abortion industry. After all, this Administration has previously used backdoor maneuvers to line Planned Parenthood’s pockets with Obamacare navigator grants and praised the abortion provider’s ‘high ethical standard’ even after it was caught trafficking in baby body parts,” Black said.
She continued: “Now, they have taken the unprecedented step of thwarting states’ rights with a shady proposed rule change that prevents states from funding the providers who will best serve their citizens. In the coming days, I intend to lead a letter expressing the deep concerns of Members of Congress on this proposal, but we won’t stop there. We must use the full force of Congress and the grassroots strength of the national pro-life movement to defeat this absurd rule and prevent the Obama Administration from acting unilaterally to carry out political favors and prop up a scandal-ridden abortion provider.”
Here’s an example of how Obama’s proposed rule would prevent states from revoking taxpayer funding for the abortion company Planned Parenthood.
Under current state law, the state of Tennessee doles out Title X funding provided by HHS to county health departments, who then determine appropriate sub-grantees. All 95 counties have identified community health centers and other providers aside from Planned Parenthood who meet all Title X eligibility criteria to receive this funding, effectively cutting off Planned Parenthood’s access to Title X funds in the state of Tennessee.
The proposed rule from HHS cites other examples of states such as Florida and Texas enacting or attempting to enact similar measures. The rule would attempt to undermine such state laws, explaining that it “precludes project recipients [states] from using criteria in their selection of sub recipients that are unrelated to the ability to deliver services to program beneficiaries in an effective manner.”
AGAIN: Trump will, no matter where they come from, put together the best Administration in the last 100 years! The Trump Administration will consist of only three strings by our Founding Fathers,' our Constitution, and the ‘Will’ of the American People! I don’t know about you, but I can more than live with that!!!
IS OBAMA PROTECTING HILLARY TO PROTECT HIS OWN LEGACY?
What a debacle, what a conundrum, what a joke! With this late Labor Day Friday’s document ‘dump’ of the facts that this Administration continues to hide from the American People, and the letter of the law, should make every American cringe!!
I think we as Americans should use this opportunity to unite the country behind this outsider, and use this attempted overthrow our founding father’s Constitutional Republics version of Democracy to Socialism! There is no way if you have any common sense at all that Hillary Clinton can only win the election if voter fraud, like in Obama's win in 2012, is part of the game plan!!
I can’t see how anybody who believes in what this country stands for, no matter what your religious, gender, party affiliation, race, or sexual preference, how this Obama/Hillary anti-American agenda is going to change the path of America for our kids and our kid’s kids moving into the future! I also can't believe that college educated voters still favor, according to the 'Paid to Report' Media Polls, Hillary Clinton, and is ahead of Trump by a large number!!!......REALLY!!
Hillary keeps doubling down on her email excuses, her health, her Clinton Foundation, and her personal empty unproven rhetoric of Donald Trump! There is no ‘Law’ that says he has to release his taxes, and with the Obama IRS you know that they are controlling the shots, and as Trump says, when the audit is done he will release them, and also think that when Hillary releases the 33,000 missing emails that he should release his returns immediately!
Trump, as required by law, submitted his financials when he started this campaign, and just because Hillary has nothing to add to her continuation of Obama’s mission of destroying America from within through her mentor Alinsky’s Socialist agenda, has only personal attacks on Trump! Hillary has nothing new on Immigration, Obamacare, Obama’s feckless foreign and economic policies, and like Obama, taking money from George Soros, who’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ is more important than our ‘Vets,’ our poor, our impoverished inner city youth, or the ‘Will’ of the American People!
What Hillary is missing is that Trump is not a politician, but a businessman who delegates responsibility! Don’t you remember that Trump funded his own Primary without the political strings that usually come attached for payback of political favor? Don’t you know that his cabinet appointees come with no strings attached? Don’t you know that he will get rid of Obama’s regulation Czars that Obama/Hillary used to eliminate 83,000 coal worker jobs and shut down some 400 mines?
Trump will, no matter where they come from, put together the best Administration in the last 100 years! The Trump Administration will consist of only three strings attached by our Founding Fathers’, our Constitution, and the ‘Will’ of the American People! I don’t know about you, but I can more than live with that!!!
Because of Comey’s FBI and Lynch’s DOJ under the guidance of the biggest anti-American traitor since Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War general whose betrayal of George Washington became an American legend, the American People are living under a lawless Congress that has abandoned the American people, our founding fathers, and our Constitution!
When are we as one say enough is enough and take back our country? When are we going to get justice for the last 7+ years of illegal immigration overrides of the Constitution and our laws, Obama’s illegal Executive Orders and Presidential Memorandums, rogue leaders of the IRS (Lois Lerner), DOJ (Eric Holder then, and Loretta Lynch now!) who delivered a message of two standards of the law of the land, and let’s not forget, the funded by Obama, the Sanctuary cities that are milking the taxpayer’s dollars (intentionally) to support the illegal immigrant and refugees while using ‘Motor Voter laws’ to stack the deck to win the election through voter fraud! http://whileyouweredozing.blogspot.com/2016/07/its-time-to-prove-that-youre-for-new.html#.V8_rSK-V-74
I just gave you my introduction to just a few things that were included in last Fridays ‘Labor Day Dump’ that this Obama Administration didn’t want you to see! Other things that have popped up is the fact that Hillary and her aides declared 'I don't remember' 327 times when asked about the missing emails, and that the mainstream Media, meaning ABC, NBC, and CBS combined, only mentioned Hillary's coughing jags and health issues only 1 time, and call it a 'Conspiracy Theory!'
‘WE WIRED IT’: EMAILS SUGGEST CLINTON AIDE STAGE-MANAGED BENGHAZI HEARING QUESTIONS!
Newly released emails suggest a senior Hillary Clinton aide stage-managed her first hearing on the Benghazi terrorist attack by feeding specific topics Clinton wanted to address to Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, who at the time was acting chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
"We wired it that Menendez would provide an opportunity to address two topics we needed to debunk (her actions/whereabouts on 9/11, and these email from Chris Stevens about moving locations,)" Clinton media gatekeeper Philippe Reines wrote to Chelsea Clinton the morning of the Jan. 23, 2013 hearing.
Right out of the gate, the first hearing question from Menendez that day covered both topics referenced by Reines.
Menendez asked for Clinton’s “insights on the decision-making process regarding the location of the Mission.” The senator added, “can you also in your response, you touched upon it in your opening statement, but what actions were you and your staff taking the night of September 11 and into September 12?"
The then-secretary of state had an answer on both fronts! She told the committee that "[Ambassador] Chris [Stevens] was committed to not only being in Benghazi but to the location," and that on the night of the attack, "I was notified of the attack shortly after 4:00 p.m. Over the following hours, we were in continuous meetings and conversations both within the department with our team in Tripoli, with the interagency and internationally."
The emails were obtained by the group Citizens United as part of its ongoing Freedom of Information Act request to the State Department for emails from Chelsea Clinton and Hillary Clinton's closest aides.
“This email chain provides a rare behind the scenes look at which Benghazi-related issues the Clinton camp had concerns about going into Secretary Clinton’s January 2013 testimony on Capitol Hill, and what they had apparently plotted out beforehand with a Democrat committee member to deal with those concerns,” Citizens United said in a statement. “Citizens United will continue to release all new Benghazi emails we receive through our FOIA lawsuits as they come in -- the American people have a right to know the full picture.”
Fox News asked the Clinton campaign as well as Menendez's office if they coordinated before the 2013 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing; what was meant by the term "wired;" and how the email exchange was consistent with the principle of independent congressional oversight. There was no immediate response from either.
In 2013, the New Jersey senator -- who is now facing federal public corruption charges -- at the time of the hearing was about to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, replacing John Kerry who was in line to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Menendez has denied any wrongdoing.
A previous release of emails from a separate FOIA action showed that on the night of the attack, Clinton told her daughter, who used the email pseudonym Diane Reynolds on clintonemail.com, that the attacks were the work of an "Al Qaeda-like group" – with no mention of an obscure anti-Islam video Clinton publicly linked to the 2012 terrorist attack. Chelsea Clinton uses the same pseudonym in the Menendez email.
Reines is a founding member of the Clinton-aligned consulting group Beacon Global Strategies. The online bios for its founders and managing director suggest no group knows more about the Benghazi terrorist attack and the Obama administration's response.
One of its senior counselors is former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell, who heavily edited the controversial Benghazi talking points, which helped establish the administration’s initial flawed narrative about the attack. Morell recently endorsed Clinton to the New York Times, but later was criticized for not fully disclosing his relationship to Beacon.
In a follow up Q-and-A with the Times, Morell wrote: "Among the many things I do in my post-government life -- teaching and writing, serving on corporate boards, speaking publicly on national security issues -- is work with Beacon Global Strategies, a firm that has prioritized nonpartisanship. The firm’s advisory board -- composed of appointees of both Republican and Democratic presidents, as well as career military officers -- make that priority clear. It all stems from a strong and shared belief that our national security is paramount and needs to be devoid of partisan politics."
HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE: DID HILLARY CLINTON OR STAFF DESTROY EMAIL EVIDENCE UNDER SUBPOENNA?
https://youtu.be/hOi4ZyqOX-0
“In reviewing those files, the Committee identified a sequence of events that may amount to obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence by Secretary Clinton and her employees and contractors, including her attorneys, employees of Platte River Networks, and employees of Clinton Executive Services Corporation," a letter sent Tuesday to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia by House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz states.
“In light of this information, the Department should investigate and determine whether Secretary Clinton or her employees and contractors violated statutes that prohibit destruction of records, obstruction of congressional inquiries, and concealment or cover up of evidence material to a congressional investigation.”
Essentially, Chaffetz is asking if evidence was deleted under subpoena.
The letter includes a timeline of document requests and subpoenas from the Oversight Committee, the Benghazi Select Committee and the response from Clinton and her staff.
A letter was also sent to Platte River Networks, the company responsible for hosting Clinton's private email servers.
“In brief, the summaries of the FBI’s interviews with a PRN engineer show that within days of a conference call with Secretary Clinton’s lawyers, the engineer deleted archives of Secretary Clinton’s emails, despite knowing those records were covered by preservation orders and a subpoena from Congress," a separate letter from the Committee states. "The sequence of events leading up to the destruction of Secretary Clinton’s emails… raises questions about whether Secretary Clinton, acting through her attorneys, instructed PRN to destroy records relevant to the then-ongoing congressional investigations.”
Byron York points out that based on the evidence presented in the FBI report and the timeline of events with Clinton's email deletion, it is likely staffer deleted emails while under subpoena from Congress. The letter from Chaffetz officially makes that inquiry.
The incomplete records of the Hillary Clinton email investigation released by the FBI raise questions about the conduct not only of Clinton but of her top aides and the staffers working under their direction. Perhaps the most serious is whether the Clinton team destroyed evidence which they were under legal order to save and produce to congressional investigators.
Even with the fragments now public — the Clinton 302, the overview report, but none of the many other witness interviews — it seems fair to conclude that staff on the Clinton team destroyed material that was under subpoena. Whether that was unwitting, or whether it was something else, is not known, at least publicly.
In recent weeks, the Committee also asked the USADC to look into why Clinton attorneys, who sorted through her emails, were handling classified information when they didn't have proper security clearance to do so.
ANALYSIS: SEVEN EMAIL SCANDAL REVELATIONS IN THE FBI’S HOLIDAY WEEKEND DOCUMENT DUMP!
Friday's document release has only fueled criticism of the decision not to recommend charges against Clinton, as new revelations illustrate how reckless, dishonest, and ultimately calculating she and her team have been throughout the entire lifespan of this controversy. Her defenders have reflexively claimed that these papers produced no new information. This is patently untrue. Let's examine some of the most important freshly-discovered facts contained in the FBI's notes:
1. Based on a clarified timeline, it appears clear that Mrs. Clinton's team began its work to permanently scrub and destroy her email archives -- elements of which were under Congressional subpoena at the time (read more here) -- after the New York Times first reported the existence of her improper and unsecure server. Mrs. Clinton tweeted in early March that she wanted the State Department to make all of her emails public.
2. Mrs. Clinton's initial publicly-stated rationale for setting up her national security-endangering private server in the first place was that it facilitated the "convenience" of using a single mobile device. This excuse was quickly debunked by both public records and Clinton's own public statements about using several such devices concurrently. On Friday, the public learned that Hillary used at least 13 mobile devices during her tenure at State. Why so many? She lost an unspecified number of these Blackberry phones. Ultimately, "the FBI was unable to acquire or forensically examine any of these 13 mobile devices,” according to the documents, although they managed to determine that when the whereabouts of her old devices did not "become unknown," one of her staffers would beat them with a hammer. Hillary Clinton was personally warned by State Department security officials on two separate occasions that using non-secure, private mobile devices for official business posed a risk to state secrets.
Remember, she wasn't supposed to be sending or receiving any classified material on an unsecure system in the first place. Despite these explicit admonitions, she continued her conduct anyway -- then misplaced an unknown number of these unauthorized devices, packed with sensitive intelligence, on multiple occasions. Mind-boggling.
3. James Comey stated in his press conference and in Congressional testimony that it was very likely that outside actors were able to penetrate Clinton's unsecure server. The Clinton campaign seized on his phrasing and framing in order to claim that the feds had produced no 'direct evidence' definitively proving that the server had been compromised. This talking point was always a desperate, non-credible stretch. Now it's dead: An unknown individual using the encrypted privacy tool Tor to hide their tracks accessed an email account on a Clinton family server, the FBI revealed Friday. The incident appears to be the first confirmed intrusion into a piece of hardware associated with Hillary Clinton’s private email system, which originated with a server established for her husband, former President Bill Clinton. The FBI disclosed the event in its newly released report on the former secretary of state’s handling of classified information. According to the bureau’s review of server logs, someone accessed an email account on Jan. 5, 2013, using three IP addresses known to serve as Tor “exit nodes” — jumping-off points from the anonymity network to the public internet. The owner of the account, whose name is redacted in the report, said she was “not familiar with nor [had] she ever used Tor software.” Clinton left the State Department less than a month after the intrusion. In all likelihood -- based on Comey's judgment, the reasoning of several top administration and intelligence officials, and the sophistication of our adversaries -- this breach was one of many.
4. One potential method of recovering thousands of improperly-destroyed Clinton emails would involve accessing key hard drives that hadn't yet been wiped clean. As Katie mentioned over the weekend, one such hard drive magically disappeared in the mail: "Someone whose name was redacted in the FBI report told the agency that he later deleted the e-mails from the laptop but didn’t wipe its hard drive. A computer technician can often recover such e-mails that have been deleted but not permanently erased from a laptop’s memory. The FBI sought the laptop as part of its investigation, but it’s whereabouts remain unknown, the bureau said: The last time the laptop was seen was when it was put in the mail,"
5. Among the many, many things Mrs. Clinton claimed she "could not recall" during her FBI interview -- at which several potential co-conspirators were shockingly permitted to be present, acting as her lawyers -- was whether she ever received mandatory training on the proper handling of classified materials and the archiving of public records under federal law. But public documents show that she swore in a binding 2009 nondisclosure agreement that she had done so. Recall that her nondisclosure forms also proved that she was aware that it was her duty to protect secrets regardless of whether or not they were formally "marked classified," undercutting yet another piece of Clinton email spin.
6. Lying to the FBI is a crime. Will this inconsistency be waved away as just another instance of Mrs. Clinton's inability to recall things accurately? Were there privately-owned computers and devices (improperly) located inside the secure areas of her personal residences, or not?
7. Last but not least, Mrs. Clinton told investigators that she didn't realize that "(C)" markings on some emails stood for "confidential" -- a classification designation that she had repeatedly claimed did not exist on any of the emails housed on her server (an irrelevant distinction, for reasons already established). Her explanation for this alleged misunderstanding is an insultingly stupid howler. This is a woman who has operated at the highest levels of government for decades, and she's serving up this nonsensical drivel? The 'alphabetical order' line is ludicrous on its face. Paragraphs of memos aren't listed alphabetically, and even if they were, where were parts (A), (B), (D), etc.? Did FBI interviewers press her on this point at all? Furthermore, Clinton also stated she "did not pay attention" to levels of classification in handling sensitive information, and asserted that it did not occur to her that discussions of drone strikes under a secret program operating in the sovereign territory of a nominal US ally might qualify as classified communications.
Yes, really! Clinton has been hailed by supporters as the most qualified human being ever to seek the office of the presidency. Yet her central defense at this stage of the email scandal, now that her endless parade of lies are collapsing, amounts to, "I had no idea how any of this was supposed to work." You see, she's just a clueless, doddering grandmother who couldn't grasp classification rules or records retention, and who just can't quite remember anything relevant about any of these details.
Their best argument is that she's inept, naive, out-of-touch, and forgetful. Given her established intelligence, many years operating at the most elite levels of the federal government, and ever-shifting story, Occam's Razor offers a simpler explanation: She's a liar who has deliberately distorted the truth at every turn, in order to cover up and explain away her breathtakingly reckless email scheme -- which was originally designed and implemented to cater to her paranoid obsession with wielding self-serving control.
I'll leave you with my discussion of Friday's developments on Fox News, during which Clinton supporter Alan Colmes adopted a sarcastic "nothing to see here" posture in response to the new information I summarized.
OBAMA PROPOSES RULE PROHIBITING STATES FROM DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD!
Pro-abortion President Barack Obama has proposed a new rule that would essentially prohibit states from defunding the Planned Parenthood abortion business and a leading pro-life member of Congress is not happy about it.
The proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could prevent states from blocking Title X funding (federal dollars for family planning services) to abortion companies like Planned Parenthood.
“This latest stunt from President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services should surprise absolutely no one,” Rep. Diane Black told LifeNews.com
“We’ve known all along that the Obama Administration will go to untold lengths to protect its friends in the big abortion industry. After all, this Administration has previously used backdoor maneuvers to line Planned Parenthood’s pockets with Obamacare navigator grants and praised the abortion provider’s ‘high ethical standard’ even after it was caught trafficking in baby body parts,” Black said.
She continued: “Now, they have taken the unprecedented step of thwarting states’ rights with a shady proposed rule change that prevents states from funding the providers who will best serve their citizens. In the coming days, I intend to lead a letter expressing the deep concerns of Members of Congress on this proposal, but we won’t stop there. We must use the full force of Congress and the grassroots strength of the national pro-life movement to defeat this absurd rule and prevent the Obama Administration from acting unilaterally to carry out political favors and prop up a scandal-ridden abortion provider.”
Here’s an example of how Obama’s proposed rule would prevent states from revoking taxpayer funding for the abortion company Planned Parenthood.
Under current state law, the state of Tennessee doles out Title X funding provided by HHS to county health departments, who then determine appropriate sub-grantees. All 95 counties have identified community health centers and other providers aside from Planned Parenthood who meet all Title X eligibility criteria to receive this funding, effectively cutting off Planned Parenthood’s access to Title X funds in the state of Tennessee.
The proposed rule from HHS cites other examples of states such as Florida and Texas enacting or attempting to enact similar measures. The rule would attempt to undermine such state laws, explaining that it “precludes project recipients [states] from using criteria in their selection of sub recipients that are unrelated to the ability to deliver services to program beneficiaries in an effective manner.”
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