Thursday, January 28, 2016

More vetting of Hillary

TortoiseExpress

Clinton Quietly Building Her Own National Security Council
. . . "But sources close to the campaign told me that Clinton, Sullivan and campaign chairman John Podesta are in regular contact with former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Other former top officials include Michelle Flournoy, who was undersecretary of defense for policy; Kurt Campbell, who was assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific; and Nicholas Burns, who was undersecretary of state for political affairs. One source close to the campaign described the interactions as “studiously informal but regular.' ” . . .
At least she has enough brains to disagree with Sanders' wish to "move as aggressively as we can to normalize relations with Iran."

We are witnessing the end of the House of Clinton  
"1. There is the stench of political death around Hillary, Bill, Chelsea and the entire House of Clinton.
"2. You could feel it when Republican front-runner Donald Trump hit back — hard — over the "penchant for sexism" charge by basically calling Hillary Clinton an enabler in the former president's sexual shenanigans.
"3. When have we ever seen the Clintons back off? But they did." . . .

Susan Sarandon backs Bernie; "What has Hillary done?"
". . . "She also dinged Clinton over the checks she's taken from financial institutions like Goldman Sachs and said Sanders is 'untainted' 

"And she said Clinton is a johnny-come-lately on issues like gay marriage: 'There's a number of issues where she has come around but she very clearly equivocated or was not there in the beginning' "

See more on the Democratic primaries www.dailymail.co.uk/DemPrimary


Clinton, seen here today in Des Moines, Iowa, is a former secretary of state and has more experience in the foreign policy realm than Sanders. 'But what is experience without judgement,' Sarandon said tonight. 'She's had a job but what has she done that we're bragging about. How has she led?'
"Clinton, seen here today in Des Moines, Iowa, is a former secretary of state and has more experience in the foreign policy realm than Sanders. 'But what is experience without judgement,' Sarandon said tonight. 'She's had a job but what has she done that we're bragging about. How has she led?'"



Hillary Decides What’s Top Secret, What’s Not  . . . "An apologia for Clinton’s actions on Media Matters citing various anonymous “government officials” basically attempts to explain why the SAP classified material was not really classified at all, and so nothing to get excited about." . . . 


Political Cartoons by Nate Beeler

Hillary's email scandal now potentially a matter of high treason
. . . "Ken Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, knows the laws regarding classified information firsthand. In his private practice, Cuccinelli defended a Marine lieutenant colonel court martialed on charges of possessing such information outside a secure facility. He says Clinton’s actions in the e-mail scandal clearly satisfy all five requirements necessary to sustain charges of mishandling classified material, and constitute a breach perhaps even more glaring than the one for which General David Petraeus was convicted." . . .

Clinton: The Money to Help Americans Pay Their Bills 'Should Come From Those Who Have It'  . . . "In addition to closing tax "loopholes," Clinton endorsed the "Buffett rule," which says anyone who makes $1 million should have to pay a 30 percent effective tax rate.

" 'And then I want to go further, Clinton said. "I want to impose what I call a fair share surcharge on incomes of $5 million or more. Now, there aren't very many of those, but there's a lot of money there because I want to use that money to make college affordable."
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FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation not letting up  . . . "Former FBI officials said the length of the probe is not unusual and speculated that a decision on whether to file charges against Clinton or her top aides could come later this year, during the heat of the general election campaign.
“ 'I don’t know that there’s any magical cutoff date,” said Ron Hosko, the FBI’s former assistant director of the criminal investigative division and a 30-year veteran of the bureau.
"For Democrats, the extended investigation has become a source of some anxiety, with Republicans gleefully raising the prospect of the Democratic presidential front-runner being indicted." . . .
Via Lucianne

Judge Andrew Napolitano on Hillary Clinton's Nightmare  "Hillary Clinton's nightmare is not the sudden resurgence of Bernie Sanders. It is the fidelity to the rule of law of the FBI.
"The recent revelations of the receipt by Clinton of a Special Access Program email, as well as cut and pasted summaries of state secrets on her server and on her BlackBerry nearly guarantee that the FBI will recommend that the Department of Justice convene a grand jury and seek her indictment for espionage. Here is the backstory." 

"It seems that every week, more information comes to light about Clinton's grave legal woes. Her worries are in two broad categories: One is her well-documented failure to safeguard state secrets and the other is her probable use of her position as secretary of state to advance financially her husband's charitable foundation. The FBI is currently and aggressively investigating both. What I will describe below is in the state secrets category. It is apparently not new to the FBI, but it is new to the public." . . .Keep reading

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