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2016 The truth will set you free
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liar-Hillary Clinton Short-Circuited?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Vindication for Voter ID
This week featured mostly good news on the voter ID front. We begin with Texas, where last month the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals criticized the state's voter ID requirements — which they viewed as prejudice against minorities — and ordered a lower court to revise and remedy the law. On Wednesday, a compromise was reached. The words "soften" and "weaken" were almost universally reported in newspaper headlines — an accurate description, to be sure. But it's equally important to note, as Heritage Foundation fellow Hans von Spakovsky does, that this "is probably about the best deal Texas could expect to get given the circumstances and personalities in the case." He explains:
"[T]he parties have agreed that Texas voters who don't have one of the acceptable photo IDs under the statute will still be able to vote if they: 'present a valid voter registration certificate, a certified birth certificate, a current utility bill, a bank statement, a government check, a paycheck, or any other government document that displays the voter's name and an address and complete and sign a reasonable impediment declaration.' ... Texas actually managed to get better terms than either North or South Carolina since, in addition to completing a 'reasonable impediment' declaration, the voter will have to show some kind of document such as a utility bill or bank statement with his name and address."
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a ruling by District Court Judge Lynn Adelman, who objected to and subsequently nullified that state's voter ID mandate. The appeals court declared: "We conclude both that the district court's decision is likely to be reversed on appeal and that disruption of the state's electoral system in the interim will cause irreparable injury." This case is independent of a similar one involving District Court Judge James Peterson, but let's hope Peterson is similarly berated.
Finally, for those wondering why we need voting laws, consider the case of Olivia Lee Reynolds of Dothan, Alabama, who along with two other people conspired to rig a municipal election by falsely tallying votes. A jury found Reynolds culpable last year and she was ultimately sentenced to probation. Despite pleading guilty, Reynolds went through the appeals court seeking to have her sentencing overturned. Last week, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals denied her request.
Keep in mind, it's almost impossible to convict of voter fraud. Prosecutors just happened to find one needle in a haystack. Last August, Barack nObama asserted, "[A]lmost nobody wakes up saying, 'I'm going to go vote in somebody else's name.' Doesn't happen. So the only reason to pass [voter ID] law[s], despite the reasonableness of how it sounds, is to make it harder for folks to vote." Actually, it's to prevent folks like Reynolds from rigging elections. ~The Patriot Post
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The U.S. Department of Clinton Foundation
Michael Swartz: Political favors are nothing new, so the allegation that liar-Hillary Clinton greased the skids for a number of shady characters and hangers-on while she was running the State Department should not be surprising. (She is a liar-Clinton, after all.) So when we learned that Judicial Watch uncovered more emails that provide hard evidence liar-Hillary was engaged in buying and selling political favors as secretary of state — messages somehow missed when she insisted all of her private server emails were accounted for — well, it's par for the course.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton says the emails reveal "the State Department and the liar-Clinton Foundation worked hand in hand in terms of policy and donor effort." And nObama's Justice Department is happy to look the other way. Three FBI field offices sought an investigation earlier this year, but were rebuffed because of a preliminary finding last year. Then again, other reports are that there are multiple ongoing investigations, at least one based in New York City...
Of course, Americans already find liar-Hillary to be untrustworthy, so the additional charge that the DOJ blocked a probe into the workings of the liar-Clinton Foundation isn't going to improve or worsen the perception of "Crooked liar-Hillary."
CNN's Jake Tapper knows this. "This [email release] does feed into the narrative out there that the liar-Clintons in general don't think that the rules apply to them, and can't understand why anybody would ever question their ethics or their integrity," said Tapper. "This is exactly what the nObama transition team in 2008 wanted to avoid. They wanted a clear delineation between the foundation and the State Department."
In fact, these emails prove an ongoing "pay-to-play" pattern at the liar-Clinton Foundation State Department. The most recently revealed group of emails came from liar-Hillary's longtime associate Huma Abedin, and they showed that those who had access to the liar-Clinton Foundation were quick to ask for assistance in a number of areas: securing employment for an associate of liar-Clinton Foundation official Doug Band as someone who is "important to take care of," as well as for a friend of Lana Moresky, who is described as a "major liar-Clinton fundraiser"; arranging meetings between a high-dollar Nigerian donor named Gilbert Chagoury and former ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman to advance Chagoury's business interests; or helping to shape our policy with China to benefit the Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley, thanks to its Asian Chairman Stephen Roach, another major donor. While liar-Hillary couldn't come up with a proper "reset" button for the Russians, it appears she did have time to set up those connected with the liar-Clinton Foundation — and keep her husband busy in a very lucrative manner.
Naturally, those with the most vested interest in a liar-Hillary presidency shrugged this off as a "move on, nothing to see here" moment. liar-Clinton surrogate and onetime Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm told CNN, "I wasn't in the State Department at the time. But I do know that she has abided by the ethics agreement she signed at the beginning, which was not to take any action on the part of the State Department that mixed [liar-Clinton] Foundation business."
Actually, it's pretty clear that liar-Hillary broke her pledge (i.e., she lied). But not to worry; State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau says, "I'd note that former Secretary liar-Clinton's ethics agreement did not preclude other State Department officials from having contact with liar-Clinton Foundation staff." Translation: liar-Clinton's pledge didn't apply to her staff.
Not only was liar-Hillary still involved with the liar-Clinton Foundation, but, while acting as secretary of state, liar-Clinton offered favors to big money foundation donors, effectively making the State Department an extension of her foundation.
More troubling, though, is what may have been revealed by the 30,000 emails liar-Hillary deleted before they could be turned over for the various ongoing probes into her activities. That's right — this smoking gun was either one she and her staff missed in their mass deletions, or it's one they didn't mind being found. (There's also the possibility that the Russians or Chinese possess some of liar-Clinton's email, or other shadowy groups that contribute to the WikiLeaks site.) Those in the know aren't talking, perhaps mindful of the oddly numerous premature deaths among those in line to spill the beans on liar-Hillary.
The fact that liar-Clinton is the odds-on favorite to be our next president despite her history of lies, subterfuge and secrecy with a dose of incompetence is just as damning an indictment on our culture and her incredibly weak opponent as any criminal charges she's so far avoided. Who can be blamed for wanting an electoral mulligan this time around? ~The Patriot Post
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The Russian Nuclear
Threat Grows as America Disarms
by SECURE FREEDOM MINUTE
by SECURE FREEDOM MINUTE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In his last days in office, President nObama reportedly wants to get the UN's Security Council to endorse a ban on underground nuclear testing. It would be a two-fer for Mr. nObama... First, he evidently hopes to encumber his successor from taking steps needed to modernize America's deterrent. And second, he intends once again to undermine the Constitution with its requirement that the U.S. Senate advise and consent to treaties like the Comprehensive Test Ban. But, the Senate voted to reject that treaty seventeen years ago - for good reason. And today's Washington Free Beacon describes multi-billion dollar investments the Kremlin is making in preparing for nuclear war by both comprehensively upgrading Russia's arsenal and the underground bunkers from which its use would be directed. We need a national debate about how best to end our unilateral nuclear disarmament, not more of it.
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Why We Cannot Defeat the Enemy
by EILEEN F. TOPLANSKY
by EILEEN F. TOPLANSKY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On August 3, 2016 I was invited to speak on Sean Hannity Radio (Hour 3) concerning my American Thinker piece about Khizr Khan... The other guest speaker was Richard T. Higgins, who is an outspoken critic about the "faulty strategic assessment that is the basis for current U.S. security" since it is ably enabling our enemies. Higgins has worked with Steve Coughlin, author of Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad, and Dr. Sebastian Gorka who is "an internationally recognized authority on issues of national security, irregular warfare, terrorism and democratization and has testified before Congress." These men have devoted their lives to alerting the American public to the true dangers of Islam. During the Hannity interview, I explained how Khizr Khan was really symptomatic of a much larger issue -- that of hijrah or the deliberate immigration of Muslims to the land of the infidel in order to establish a global caliphate...
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/why-we-cannot-defeat-the-enemy?f=must_reads
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Elected Democrat & liar-Hillary Clinton
Campaign Staffer SENT TO PRISON!
by Kosar
by Kosar
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane – the state’s top law enforcment official – has been sent to prison. In 2007, she had a position on liar-Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign... She was found guilty of 9 criminal charges, including perjury, criminal conspiracy, leaking grand jury information then lying about it. She is a criminal! Ms. Kane was caught up in a web of scandal and counter scandal, threaded with lewd emails, political rivalries and alleged leaks. It has cost other state officials, including two State Supreme Court justices, their jobs and Ms. Kane her law license, although she has remained on the job as attorney general... http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/breaking-top-law-enforcement-official-hillary-clinton-campaign-staffer-sent-prison/?utm_source=SailThru%26utm_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TPI%20Newsletter%2008-16-16%20Curated/Horizon%20Tier%201&utm_term=Tier%201
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The FBI Just Gave liar-Hillary Clinton
Horrible News! BREAKING
by Kosar
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign team are bracing for the release of the official notes from the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ (FBI) interview of liar-Hillary regarding the illegal use of a personal email server... Media outlets are reporting that the FBI will release these notes to Congress as early as today. While there is not a complete transcript of liar-Hillary Clinton’s under-oath testimony, liar-Hillary Clinton spoke to FBI agents for more than 3 hours about her use of an email server which was used to illegally transmit classified documents. This will give Republicans new ammunition to use against liar-Hillary Clinton, as she continues to coverup the truth about the corruption that took place during her term as President nObama’s Secretary of State. This is the worst news liar-Hillary Clinton could hear this week:... http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/hillary-clinton-fbi-horrible-news-breaking/?utm_source=SailThru%26utm_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TPI%20Newsletter%2008-16-16%20Curated/Horizon%20Tier%201&utm_term=Tier%201
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Lawmakers slam 'reckless' Gitmo release
as nObama speeds up transfer
by FoxNews.com
{foxnews.com} ~ The nObama administration is facing renewed accusations from Republican lawmakers of putting national security at risk following the release of 15 more Guantanamo Bay detainees... including former Usama bin Laden bodyguards and Al Qaeda bomb experts -- as the Pentagon works to fulfill the president’s vow to shutter the camp by the end of his term. “It is reckless for the administration to continue to release terrorists like these to fulfill a misguided campaign promise to empty and close Guantanamo," Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said in a statement on Tuesday. The newly announced transfer of 15 detainees – 12 Yemenis and three Afghans – to the United Arab Emirates marks the single largest release under the nObama administration...
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Dobbs – Trump The Leader We Desperately Need,
Are Americans Worthy, Willing To Stand?
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs proclaims that Donald Trump “has almost single handedly led a shift in American presidential politics, a shift that is as profound as it is permanent.”... He describes the years the American middle class has languished, “waiting for someone, anyone, to come along and take down the culture of corruption in Washington, to drain the rancid swamp that our nation’s capital has become.” Dobbs notes that over time the inhabitants of that swamp have become a federally protected species, “with only one person having the guts to stand up and take on the vicious, selfish, greedy, powerful denizens of that swamp, who long ago took our government from the people and turned it over to the special interests, the wealthy, the partisans and of course, the liar-Clinton cartel, amidst the foulest stench of all.” Dobbs continues noting the liar-Clinton cartel as “Producing by far the most corrupt, dishonest candidate, and in my opinion the most dangerous presidential nominee ever nominated by either party. She’s crooked alright, Trump says it straight out.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-trump-leader-desperately-need/
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Germany’s Secret Night Refugee Flights:
Is Merkel Lying Again?
by William F. Jasper
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government surreptitiously flying massive numbers of Muslim “refugees” into German airports and military airbases on secret night flights?... That is the charge in a sensational story by German writer Markus Mahler last week in the German publication Kopp Verlag. Spokesmen for the German government are denying the stories, stating that they are completely false. However, Chancellor Merkel’s credibility on this issue is almost nonexistent, as she has been caught repeatedly in lies, coverups, and deception on migration and refugee matters. “Officially,” writes Mahler, “the refugee crisis in Germany is slowing down: less and less of them are walking on the Balkan route; one sees hardly any special trains or buses. No wonder: Apparently they travel by plane. Neither seen nor known about, one charter flight after another is landing at German airports.”...It sounds like what nObama is doing or is he?
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Weeks After Initial Payment and Prisoner Release, U.S. Sent Iran Another $1.3 Billion
by Jeryl Bier
by Jeryl Bier
{weeklystandard.com} ~ Less than two months after Iran received $400 million in foreign currency in January, the world's top state sponsor of terror acquired another $1.3 billion in cash from the United States, based on statements of U.S. government officials... A State Department official confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the payment occurred before March 17, and President nObama, while addressing the initial $400 million payment, acknowledged on August 4 that payments to Iran must be made in cash because "we don't have a banking relationships with Iran...We could not wire the money." Until last week, the nObama administration would not even confirm that the $1.3 billion balance had been paid. However, once the Wall Street Journal reported the initial $400 million cash payment had coincided with the release of five American detainees by Iran, more details were revealed. But the State Department continued to decline to provide the "tick-tock" on the payment schedule... http://www.weeklystandard.com/weeks-after-initial-payment-and-prisoner-release-u.s.-sent-iran-another-1.3-billion/article/2003850
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America to hand off Internet
in under two months
by Rudy Takala
{washingtonexaminer} ~ The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months, officials have confirmed... The department will finalize the transition effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling wrote on Tuesday, barring what he called "any significant impediment." The move means the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which is responsible for interpreting numerical addresses on the Web to a readable language, will move from U.S. control to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a multistakeholder body based in Los Angeles that includes countries such as China and Russia... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/america-to-hand-off-internet-in-under-two-months/article/2599521
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liar-Hillary Clinton Short-Circuited?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ When former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton was asked last week if she has misled the American people on the issue of her failure to safeguard state secrets contained in her emails, she told my Fox News colleague, Chris Wallace, that the FBI had exonerated her. When pressed by Wallace, she argued that FBI Director James Comey said that her answers to the American people were truthful.
After liar-Clinton recognized that even her strongest supporters doubted her statement, she attempted to walk it back. In doing so, she repeatedly lied again, but offered as an excuse a bizarre claim that she had "short-circuited" her answer.
Who knows what that means? She claimed that she and Wallace were talking over each other and her answer had been misunderstood and misconstrued. Yet, liar-Clinton said that Comey exonerated her as being "truthful" to the public when in fact he stated that she had been truthful during her three-hour, closed-door, unrecorded interview with the FBI.
liar-Clinton told a group of largely pro/liar-Clinton journalists that she had short-circuited her remarks. Then, she acknowledged that Comey had only referred to whatever she told the FBI as being truthful. Then, she lied again, by insisting that she told the FBI the same things she has told the press and the public since this scandal erupted in March 2015.
But that cannot be so, because she has issued a litany of lies to the press and to the public, which the FBI would have caught. In her so-called clarifying remarks, she again told journalists her oft-stated lie about returning all work-related emails to the State Department. She could not have told that to the FBI because Director Comey revealed in July that the FBI found "thousands" of unreturned work-related emails on her servers, some of which she attempted to destroy.
On the state secrets issue, she has told the public countless times that she never sent or received anything marked classified. She could not have said that to the FBI, because even a novice FBI agent would have recognized such a statement as a trick answer. Nothing is marked "classified." The markings used by the federal government are "confidential" or "secret" or "top secret." When Director Comey announced last month that the FBI was recommending against indictment, he revealed nevertheless that his agents found 110 emails in 52 email threads containing materials that were confidential, secret or top secret.
The agents also found seven email chains on her servers that were select access privilege, or SAP. SAP emails cannot be received, opened or sent without knowing what they are, as a special alphanumeric code, one that changes continually, must be requested and employed in order to do so. SAP is so secret that the FBI agents investigating liar-Clinton lacked access to the code.
Could liar-Clinton have legally received, opened, stored or sent a secret or top secret email without knowing it, as she has claimed? In a word: NO.
That's because, on her first day in office, liar-Clinton swore under oath that she recognized her legal obligation to recognize state secrets and treat them according to law -- that is, to keep them in a secure government venue -- whether they are marked as secrets or not.
This past weekend, we learned how deadly the consequences of liar-Clinton's failure to secure secrets can be.
Last Sunday, Iran executed a scientist who sold Iranian nuclear secrets to the U.S. The secrets were eventually passed on to Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry for his use during the negotiations that led to the recent U.S.-Iran nuclear accord. But the sale of the secrets and the U.S.'s payments for them (several million dollars) were consummated under then-Secretary liar-Clinton's watch. The scientist was lured back to Iran, fearing harm to his family. Upon his return, he was arrested, tried and convicted of treason.
One email sent to liar-Clinton, from Richard Morningstar, a former State Department special envoy for Eurasian energy, referred to this scientist as "our friend." The fact that liar-Clinton's aides referenced this spying scientist as "our friend" shows a conscious awareness of their duty to hide and secure state secrets -- his name and what he had done for the U.S. Yet, at the same time, liar-Clinton put these state secrets at risk by having them sent to her via her nonsecure home servers. This "our friend" email was a top-secret email, which liar-Clinton failed to keep secure. It was either one of the 110 that the FBI found on her servers or one of the work-related emails she did surrender.
Could this email have been used as evidence in the treason trial of the now-executed scientist?
That is not an academic question. Most of the intelligence community seriously mistrusts liar-Clinton, as her recklessness has jeopardized their work. Some feared that many of their undercover colleagues were compromised or even killed due to liar-Clinton's emails.
liar-Hillary Rodham Clinton has established a clear and unambiguous record of deception. Her deceptions are not about the time of day or the day of the week; they are about matters material to her former job as Secretary of State and material to national security.
Do you know any rational person who continues to trust her?
After liar-Clinton recognized that even her strongest supporters doubted her statement, she attempted to walk it back. In doing so, she repeatedly lied again, but offered as an excuse a bizarre claim that she had "short-circuited" her answer.
Who knows what that means? She claimed that she and Wallace were talking over each other and her answer had been misunderstood and misconstrued. Yet, liar-Clinton said that Comey exonerated her as being "truthful" to the public when in fact he stated that she had been truthful during her three-hour, closed-door, unrecorded interview with the FBI.
liar-Clinton told a group of largely pro/liar-Clinton journalists that she had short-circuited her remarks. Then, she acknowledged that Comey had only referred to whatever she told the FBI as being truthful. Then, she lied again, by insisting that she told the FBI the same things she has told the press and the public since this scandal erupted in March 2015.
But that cannot be so, because she has issued a litany of lies to the press and to the public, which the FBI would have caught. In her so-called clarifying remarks, she again told journalists her oft-stated lie about returning all work-related emails to the State Department. She could not have told that to the FBI because Director Comey revealed in July that the FBI found "thousands" of unreturned work-related emails on her servers, some of which she attempted to destroy.
On the state secrets issue, she has told the public countless times that she never sent or received anything marked classified. She could not have said that to the FBI, because even a novice FBI agent would have recognized such a statement as a trick answer. Nothing is marked "classified." The markings used by the federal government are "confidential" or "secret" or "top secret." When Director Comey announced last month that the FBI was recommending against indictment, he revealed nevertheless that his agents found 110 emails in 52 email threads containing materials that were confidential, secret or top secret.
The agents also found seven email chains on her servers that were select access privilege, or SAP. SAP emails cannot be received, opened or sent without knowing what they are, as a special alphanumeric code, one that changes continually, must be requested and employed in order to do so. SAP is so secret that the FBI agents investigating liar-Clinton lacked access to the code.
Could liar-Clinton have legally received, opened, stored or sent a secret or top secret email without knowing it, as she has claimed? In a word: NO.
That's because, on her first day in office, liar-Clinton swore under oath that she recognized her legal obligation to recognize state secrets and treat them according to law -- that is, to keep them in a secure government venue -- whether they are marked as secrets or not.
This past weekend, we learned how deadly the consequences of liar-Clinton's failure to secure secrets can be.
Last Sunday, Iran executed a scientist who sold Iranian nuclear secrets to the U.S. The secrets were eventually passed on to Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry for his use during the negotiations that led to the recent U.S.-Iran nuclear accord. But the sale of the secrets and the U.S.'s payments for them (several million dollars) were consummated under then-Secretary liar-Clinton's watch. The scientist was lured back to Iran, fearing harm to his family. Upon his return, he was arrested, tried and convicted of treason.
One email sent to liar-Clinton, from Richard Morningstar, a former State Department special envoy for Eurasian energy, referred to this scientist as "our friend." The fact that liar-Clinton's aides referenced this spying scientist as "our friend" shows a conscious awareness of their duty to hide and secure state secrets -- his name and what he had done for the U.S. Yet, at the same time, liar-Clinton put these state secrets at risk by having them sent to her via her nonsecure home servers. This "our friend" email was a top-secret email, which liar-Clinton failed to keep secure. It was either one of the 110 that the FBI found on her servers or one of the work-related emails she did surrender.
Could this email have been used as evidence in the treason trial of the now-executed scientist?
That is not an academic question. Most of the intelligence community seriously mistrusts liar-Clinton, as her recklessness has jeopardized their work. Some feared that many of their undercover colleagues were compromised or even killed due to liar-Clinton's emails.
liar-Hillary Rodham Clinton has established a clear and unambiguous record of deception. Her deceptions are not about the time of day or the day of the week; they are about matters material to her former job as Secretary of State and material to national security.
Do you know any rational person who continues to trust her?
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