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  • “Follow the Money.”

    We’ve all heard about the latest Clintoon email revelations.  Everyone’s probably also heard by now that the FBI has reopened their Clintoon email investigation due to a Weiner-related discovery.  (smile)

    But for Clintoon, that’s likely not her only potential major legal issue.  You see, it seems that the FBI has also been quietly pursuing its investigation of the Clintoon Foundation’s finances over the past year also – even though there appears to have been substantial pressure from the Department of Justice to either “slow-roll” or squash it.

    Indeed, the FBI’s investigation of the Clintoon Foundation is reportedly now “high priority”.  One media outlet has gone so far to cite FBI internal sources as saying that a pay-for-pay indictment regarding the Clintoon Foundation is now “likely”, “barring obstruction in some way” by the Justice Department.

    The FBI apparently isn’t the only agency investigating the Clintoon Foundation, either.  Turns out the IRS also is investigating the Clintoon Foundation – with focus on its tax status.

    Follow the money, indeed.

    Oh, and FBI sources also say with high confidence that Clintoon’s email server appears to have been hacked by at least five (!) Foreign Intelligence Services.  So it’s a virtual certainty that anything that was stored on that server is now in the possession of multiple foreign nations.  Nice.

    And while we’re discussing Clintoon email issues: it also seems as if both Justice Department and State Department officials were in contact with Clintoon campaign officials concerning the matter. State department officials appear to have coordinated with the Clintoon campaign concerning the department’s position on her use of “private” email before the matter was revealed to the public.

    Specifically, it appears as if the Clintoon campaign was provided an advance copy of a State department statement or press release on the matter – and both requested and got at least one change to the draft release before it was made public. It also appears that at least one senior Justice department official later tipped John Podesta, her campaign manager, that another senior Justice department official would be testifying before Congress shortly and was “(l)ikely to get questions on State Department emails.”

    Stay tuned.  The next few days – along with the weeks afterwards – could end up being one helluva bumpy ride.

  • Yeah, Looks Like the POTUS Lied. Again. Surprised?

    Last March, the POTUS was asked when he learned about the Clintoon “private” email server.

    His response?  “The same time everybody else learned it through news reports.”

    Well, it looks like the man either is monumentally dense – or he       shamelessly lied through his teeth       “misspoke” here.  Because here’s a quote from an email written by Cheryl Mills, a close Clintoon confident, late that night.  The email was written after Mills had learned of the POTUS’s statement.

    “We need to clean this up – he has emails from her – they do not say state.gov.”

    Oopsie.

    Yeah, it certainly seems the POTUS lied.  Again.

    So . . . what else is new?

    . . .

    Let’s recap the Clintoon email matter.  Here are my “Top 10 Hits” from the whole matter.

    1. While SECSTATE, Clintoon used an unauthorized, “private” and abysmally-badly secured email server to conduct government business.  This is against US government policy, and arguably violates Federal law.

    2.  As the second link above also shows, Clintoon had the State department change IT policy so she could use her “private” Blackberry and that unauthorized “private” email account from within secure DoS areas.

    3.  The POTUS received email from Clintoon originating at her “private”, unauthorized email address.  Given Mills’ concern, obviously at least some of that email to the POTUS from Clintoon’s unauthorized “private” email server was both official business and was sent while Clintoon was SECSTATE.

    4.  The POTUS thus knew that Clintoon was using a private email address for official government business prior to 7 March 2015.  (Well, either that or he’s a totally clueless fool – take your pick.  A “.com” email address isn’t one provided by the US government.)  But when asked point-blank when and how he learned Clintoon was using an unauthorized private address for government business, he publicly lied about when he learned that fact.

    5.  Multiple instances of highly classified material were later found to have been stored on Clintoon’s unauthorized, poorly-secured “private” server – including both SCI and Special Access Program material.  Some of it was marked properly; much of the more sensitive material should have been blindingly obvious as classified to someone with Clintoon’s experience and security indoctrinations, whether marked or not.

    6.  None of those classified spills were reported by Clintoon (or anyone else) when discovered, as is required by Federal law.  Intentional failure to report such unauthorized storage of classified information is a Federal felony.

    7.  Once the matter became public, Clintoon’s unauthorized, unsecured “private” email server was wiped.  It appears to have been wiped well after the Federal government had begun investigating the matter.  Sophisticated tools were used to wipe it. The administrator of Clintoon’s unauthorized “private” email server apparently also sought advice on how to sanitize “VIP identities” from email archives on Reddit – also after the Federal government had begun investigating the matter.

    8.  It’s a shoe-in that Clintoon’s p!ss-poorly secured server was penetrated by foreign intelligence services.  It likely was penetrated by more than one such foreign intelligence service.

    9.  Material contained on that unsecured, unauthorized email server was sufficient to identify at least one US intelligence source.  That source was later taken into custody and executed by the nation about which he was providing information to the US.

    10.  The FBI whitewashed the whole matter, and refused to prosecute clear and obvious violations of Federal law.

    Those are just the national security-related “hits”.  I haven’t even touched on the evidence of possible “pay-for-play” corruption, abuse of government resources, and unethical DNC-press collusion the Clintoon emails recovered or made public to date seem to show.

    You or I would be in jail by now.

    I guess it’s good to have serious “top cover”.

  • Yet More Falsehoods

    Remember those claims by Clintoon supporters that you couldn’t believe the Wikileaks emails?  You know, especially those claims by DNC chief Donna Brazile that the Wikileaks emails had been “doctored”?

    Well, looks like it’s indeed time to raise the “bullsh!t” flag.  But the reason is not because the emails have been “doctored”.

    You see, the Clintoon email server “hillaryclinton.com” that processed the email Brazille was specifically questioned about – the email where she stated that she’d been slipped debate questions in advance and was passing one of them on to Clintoon – uses a verification process for outgoing email.  The process it uses is an accepted industry standard called DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM.

    DKIM verifies a given email’s source using a digital signature, ensuring that it actually came from the host that purports to have sent it and isn’t a fake from a spammer.  A side benefit of such a digital signature is that the message’s content is also verified – and any later alterations to that content can be readily detected.

    As noted in this article, the Brazile email in question checks out.  Its DKIM signature validates correctly; that means the email in fact came from the domain in question and has not been altered.

    Oopsie.

    Further:  per this publicly-available tool, the Clintoon email server “hillaryclinton.com” which sent the Brazile email in question uses a 1024-bit RSA key.  (To check that yourself, enter “google” in the selector field and “hillaryclinton.com” for the domain.)  That in turn means it’s not vulnerable to known feasible attacks on shorter RSA keys which might allow alteration without detection.

    Finally, Google hosts the “hillaryclinton.com” email domain.  They know a thing or two about security and key management.  So a “lost private key” claim (which might also allow alteration without detection) is likewise specious.

    In short:  yeah, they’re lying.  Through their teeth.  Yet again.  And the press is aiding and abetting their lies.

    Surprised?

  • Want to See “Single-Payer” Healthcare In Action? Read This.

    Linked story pretty much says it all. You might want to grab a tissue (and a dose of high-blood pressure medicine, if you think you might need it) before reading the link, though.

    ‘This is the saddest photo I have ever taken,’
    woman says of grandparents forced to live apart
     

    A real-world variant of the “golden rule” is operative here: “He who pays the gold makes the rules.” And in Canada, the folks running Canada’s      Socialized      single payer medicine pay the gold – and make these kinds of rules.

    Of course, under US “single payer” medicine it will be an agency of the Federal government effectively making those decisions – just like in Canada. That’s the same folks that have brought us those “wonderful examples of common sense, simplicity, and bureaucratic flexibility” called the IRS, the EPA, the BLM, and HHS.

    But remember: “single payer” will fix American healthcare’s “problems”.

    Just like it has in Canada.

  • Clintoon: “Colin Told Me to Do It.” Powell: “Um, No I Didn’t.”

    Readers by now have probably heard about Clintoon’s claim – in a soon-to-be-published book – that former SECSTATE Colin Powell recommended to her that she use private email for everything except classified communications.

    Well, it seems that there’s a bit of a difference of opinion on that point.

    In the book, Clintoon apparently claims Powell and she had a conversation concerning the matter in which he told her to use private email for unclassified matters.  However, Powell flatly states that he doesn’t recall any such conversation.

    And while Powell did in fact send Clintoon a memo describing how he used email while SECSTATE, that memo was apparently sent to Clintoon over a year after she took office.  She started using private email shortly after taking office as SECSTATE.

    Hmm.  A Clintoon making statements that on investigation turn out not to be true.

    Figures.  Simply more Clintoon “business as usual”.

  • Clintoon Associates . . . and Hypocrisy

    The NY Post today is reporting that Ms. Huma Abedin – protégé of a certain lady not exactly known for espousing conservative political tenets – was formerly assistant editor for a highly conservative Islamic magazine.  That magazine is the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.

    Vogue it’s not.  It’s been described as a “radical Muslim journal” and as “hate filled”.

    Predictably, Abedin today denies having an “active role” with the magazine.

    Yeah, right.  And noted cigar aficionado BJ Willie didn’t inhale, either.

    In fact, Abedin appears to have been listed as co-editor for that magazine for a period of roughly 12 years – from 1996 to 2008.  Her mother apparently is still the magazine’s editor-in-chief today.

    Dunno about you, but I believe 2008 is the year Ms. Abedin’s mentor first tried to con the US public into electing her POTUS.   But like that recent      ransom payment to spring hostages      return of seized assets to Iran, I’m sure the timing there was “mere coincidence”.

    The magazine Abedin co-edited from 1996 to 2008 promoted anti-feminist views, and endorsed strict interpretations of Islamic law.   In 1996 articles, it took issues with the current Clintoon presidential candidate’s positions on women’s empowerment and rights, saying that they were against Islam.

    Indeed, while assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Abedin herself publishedarticles in another Saudi publication in 1996.  Those articles – like the magazine for which she was assistant editor – took issue with Clintoon’s positions on women’s rights.  Indeed, some have called Abedin’s 1996 articles a point-by-point rebuttal of her now-mentor’s positions concerning women’s rights.

    Oh, and did I mention that she wrote those articles in 1996 – while she was also working for Clintoon as a (presumably) non-beret-wearing White House Intern?  Well, if I didn’t make that clear before . . . I guess I just did.

    Hypocrisy?  You betcha.

    But then again, we should expect nothing else.  We are talking about the Clintoons and those close to them.  We should know full well what to expect from that crowd by now:  hypocrisy, bullsh!t, and a shove to the left.

    Oh, and if you’re wondering why this matters . . . wanna guess who’s the “smart money” bet as likely White House Chief of Staff if Clintoon is elected POTUS?

  • #NeverHillary

    I just finished watching “13 Hours” for the hundredth time, so this post reflects the feelings I have after every time I watch it.

    I really don’t know what I’m going to do on Election Day, but I do know that I’ll never vote for Hillary Clinton. I’m not a single-issue voter, but, honestly, if I care about National Security and the way the troops and veterans get treated by the government that we all faithfully served, a vote for Hillary Clinton would reflect that I don’t care about national security, or the troops, or veterans.

    Her husband balanced the year-over-year budget on the backs of veterans and national security. He drew down the force to dangerous levels without backing off from their deployments. There was money for “meals on wheels” missions, but nothing for training to fight our nation’s enemies. He tossed elderly vets off of Tricare and threw them on to Medicare to save a buck. Obama has done a good job of that already, she doesn’t have much room to move in that endeavor, but she still can screw vets.

    Hillary has no respect for veterans – remember her story about trying to join the Marine Corps? She comes off as being a patriot trying to serve her country and some nebulous Marine Corps recruiter comes off as a sexist jerk. You and I both know that the story was a self-serving lie. She wouldn’t have put on a uniform with a gun to her head during the mid-70s.

    Then there was the story about the sniper fire at an airport in Bosnia. You know, like it was nothing to her, another day at her dangerous job for the American people. If she had ever dodged sniper fire, there would have been a long list of aids and confidants who would have been fired for the incident. And some poor Joe would have had to carry the sow to cover, she could never move those fat ankles fast enough to dodge sniper fire. And what self-respecting sniper could miss a target that prominent, anyway?

    And then there was Benghazi – she hung good Americans out to die and suffer, while she told Americans that our Constitution was at fault for allowing a video to be made that angered Muslims. All the while, the CIA was running guns out of her embassy. She created the circumstances, but didn’t have the gumption to own up to it or protect or rescue the people who were working at her direction. It was easier to lie than to do the right thing — like it always is in life.

    Things are horrible for veterans, but they won’t get better with Clinton as President. Will Trump do better? I don’t know, but I know he can’t do worse. At this point, all I can concern myself with is having a measure of influence in Congress that will negate any damage that the Executive can accomplish. The Congressional GOP didn’t want to do anything that would get them called “racist” so Obama had a free hand with them – I expect the same thing when they face Hillary. The little marshmallows. There won’t be anything politically correct involved if they oppose Trump in any way.

    Like I said, I’m not sure what I’m going to do on Election Day, but, no one who cares about the troops or cares about veterans can, in good conscience, pull the lever for Hillary Clinton.

  • Flags at the DNC

    Flags at the DNC

    The Daily Caller noticed that there were no American flags waving at the Democrat National Convention the first night. Our buddy, Tania found a North Korean flag;

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    Some Che stuff with the Bolivian colors (where Che’s last revolution ended);

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    Someone even found a Palestinian flag;

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    We should probably be thankful that there are no ISIS flags.

    You’ll be happy to know that after it was pointed out to them, they brought some flags out for the second night, according to Daily Caller. You, know, they had to be told.