A few guys we all “know and love” keep trying to find me. So I thought I’d help them out.
Here’s where I’m hanging my hat (so to speak) for a while, “guys”. Come on by and say, “Hi.”
And as they might say here: “Hé DRG – aller forniquer vous-mêmes, connards!” (For a rough translation, see this definitely NSFW clip.)
We now have a couple more news items related to the Clintoon email scandal. And as usual, for “the ‘Wonder Woman’ of Benghazi” (e.g., you wonder what in the hell she’s been smoking every time she talks about Benghazi), the news isn’t at all good.
First: it seems the State Department IG will shortly release its investigative report concerning the Clintoon email issue. It says that Clintoon (1) knowingly disregarded DoS email policy while serving as SECSTATE by using a private email server for public business without proper authority; (2) that her private email server was effectively unsecured and was attacked on at least one occasion; and (3) failed to turn over official records to the government as required by law on departing office.
In short, it says pretty much exactly what I’ve been saying here previously – less the potential criminal aspect of the conduct. However, there’s a good reason the State Department didn’t cover that part. That aspect is doubtless being examined in detail as part of the FBI’s ongoing and parallel investigation into the same issue.
But don’t take my – or the media’s – word for it. Read the DoS IG report for yourself here.
Second: in a separate but related matter, the hacker “Guccifer” pleaded guilty in Federal court the other day to two counts of computer crime. This is the same guy who claimed that he’d broken into Clintoon’s effectively unsecured email server – the same server later determined to have stored over 2,000 classified items, some at the TS/SAP and/or TS/compartmented level.
This also isn’t exactly good news for Ms. Clintoon. Why? Because apparently Guccifer made a plea deal which requires him to cooperate with Federal LE authorities concerning his hacking activities. I’m guessing that hearing about that deal did not exactly “make her (Clintoon’s) day”.
Hmm. Wonder how Ms. Clintoon looks in black & white stripes? Or an international orange jumpsuit?
One of the claims often made by Clintoon camp is that “the ‘Nice Lady’ of Benghazi” would put her husband in charge of economic matters. After all: he “knows how to fix the economy”. Just look at how good things were while he was in office!
Well, as they might say where I’m writing this article: quelle merde. The folks over at FiveThirtyEight.Com did an article the other day which thoroughly debunks that bogus claim.
BLUF: Willie “Intern and Cigar Connoisseur” Clintoon simply got lucky. His Administration had very little to do with the good economic times during the 1990s. Further, policies begun under his Administration are at least partly responsible (if not the major cause) for the mid-2000s real estate “bubble burst” and the late 2000s recession.
The article is IMO worthwhile reading. And the info it contains might well be useful if you want to throw a bucket of cold-water reality on any overheated Clintoon supporter who brings up that “he knows how to fix the economy” canard.
The Afghan Taliban have announced their new leader. This was due to last week’s death of their former leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in a US RPA strike.
That new leader is Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, formerly one of Mansour’s deputies.
Akhundzada is considered a “hawk” and a fundamentalist. His selection is probably a signal that the Taliban has no intent of reconciliation with the existing Afghan central government.
But cheer up: we have things well in hand in Afghanistan today. I guess the current gang of fools running US foreign policy Administration were 100% correct to limit the 2009 Afghan surge to half the forces requested by the Pentagon.
Yeah, right. And I’m the rightful heir to Persia’s Peacock Throne, too.
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing members of the US military.
From World War II
• CPT Elwood J. Euart , HQ 103rd Field Artillery Battalion, 43rd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 26 October 1942 in Vanuatu. He was accounted for on 11 May 2016.
• 1st Lt. Donald L. Beals, 494th Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force, US Army Air Forces, was lost on 17 April 1945. The location of 1st Lt. Beals’ loss was not provided by DPAA; however, the 9th Air Force was assigned to the European Theater of Operations during World War II. He was accounted for on 10 May 2016.
Welcome home, elder brothers-in-arms.
Rest easy. You’re home now.
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Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). Comparison of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from recovered remains against mtDNA from a matrilineal descendant can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.
DPAA’s web site now has what appears to be a decent “Contact Us” page. The page doesn’t have instructions concerning who can and cannot submit a mtDNA sample or how to submit one, but the POCs listed there may be able to refer you to someone who can answer that question – or may be able to answer the question themselves. If you think you might possibly qualify, please contact one of those POCs for further information.
If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified – as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.
Everybody deserves a proper burial. That’s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.
