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Newly Published WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Campaign Communicated With State Department (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: A State Department official appeared to coordinate with Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign hours before the former secretary of state's exclusive use of private emails was first detailed in a news account last year, newly released hacked emails show. Emails from the files of Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta show that the department official provided Clinton aides with the agency's official response to a New York Times reporter in advance of the newspaper's March 2015 report that Clinton had used a private email account to conduct all of her work-related business as secretary. The stolen emails were released Wednesday by WikiLeaks, part of a massive trove of emails released by the document-leaking group on a daily basis since last month. WikiLeaks has indicated it intends to leak emails stolen from Podesta's account every day through the election. In a March 1, 2015 email, State Department press aide Lauren Hickey told Clinton's spokesman Nick Merrill and two other advisers that then-State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki had "just cleared" a reply to the Times. Hickey provided the agency's response to the Clinton aides and also appeared to agree to a change requested by the campaign, saying: "Yes on your point re records -- done below." It is not clear what specific change was requested and made. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday that the department would not comment on alleged leaked documents. But he said the department's effort to "provide accurate information to the media" about Clinton's tenure at the agency has "at times required communicating with her representatives to ensure accuracy."
We didn't need another leak to let us know how corrupt the Clintons are.
They promise equality, deliver an oligarchy of media, government and business elites.
Everyone but them ends up poor.
The society descends into third-world status.
Maybe, just maybe, we should stop basing politics on feelings/desires and focus on what works.
But then we would be Rightist.
Alternative Right.
Not really clear that there's anything here. A news organization always checks with the subject of an article before running the article-- this is standard procedure, and it's also standard procedure to correct errors of fact that are pointed out-- it is desirable to do this BEFORE an article runs.
I think they're stretching on this.
this Email Says: Weiner
- The DOJ warned her ahead of interviews
- The DOJ has obstructed the FBI at every turn in its investigations
- The State Department massaged the messages to the media in collaboration with Clinton's help
- The State Department made deals with the FBI to declassify classified Clinton emails
- CNN provided Clinton with the primary debate questions ahead of time (but not Bernie, of course)
- The DNC favored Clinton to the detriment of Bernie at every opportunity, including paying consultants to cause violence at Trump rallies but put the blame on Bernie supporters.
Yes, these are all proven facts.
Hard to believe that the State Department would actually coordinate with the former head of the State Department about State Department issues.
So much crap is going down right now.... where to even start.
There's a straw donor program that just got busted as well as a voter fraud ring in Indiana.
We have the DOJ giving the heads up which you can read here. This was forwarded by one Peter Kadzik, who you might remember as being put in charge of the reopened investigation. Conflict of interest much? Podesta says he's a "Fantastic lawyer. Kept me out of jail." His son wants to help Hillary's campaign. Plenty of other emails of them having lunch, parties, etc. together too, incidentally.
An African-American church was burned down and people are raising money to repair it.
Not really clear that there's anything here. A news organization always checks with the subject of an article before running the article-- this is standard procedure, and it's also standard procedure to correct errors of fact that are pointed out-- it is desirable to do this BEFORE an article runs.
I think they're stretching on this.
While that's certainly true, it's also misdirection. A news organization checking the subject of an article isn't the point.
It's that the government agency fielding the request gave the campaign a heads up, and took direction from the campaign about the response.
That's collusion between government and the Clinton campaign.
Are you comfortable with government agencies checking with a campaign (of their choosing) during an election?
I'm not.
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Not really clear that there's anything here. A news organization always checks with the subject of an article before running the article-- this is standard procedure, and it's also standard procedure to correct errors of fact that are pointed out-- it is desirable to do this BEFORE an article runs.
I think they're stretching on this.
While that's certainly true, it's also misdirection. A news organization checking the subject of an article isn't the point.
It's that the government agency fielding the request gave the campaign a heads up, and took direction from the campaign about the response.
That's collusion between government and the Clinton campaign.
Are you comfortable with government agencies checking with a campaign (of their choosing) during an election?
I'm not.
And just to be clear, according to the Wikileaks document, this happened *after* she had left the state department and was running her campaign.
She was, at the time, a citizen with no government authority or privilege.
King Abdullah is a benevolent dictator and is doing much better than the elected socialists in the rest of the world.
I get that Slashdot has an anti-Clinton agenda, but come on. Just because a thing was in an email doesn't make it news for nerds.
Comey was made an offer he couldn't refuse. Podesta is the Consigliere. Anyone else that did what she did would be serving serious time.
But the middle of an election campaign isn't the best time to run this through the media grinder, every interesting tidbit end sup looking like a fresh scandal.
Good point. Too bad she lied at every step, deleted evidence at every step, colluded with the DOJ to bury this investigation, and then lied more about it. You are right, it shouldn't be coming up now, but the ONLY person responsible for it still going on is Clinton herself. If the DOJ didn't try and bury the Clinton Foundation investigation, they would be done now. If Clinton didn't have to delete 33,000 emails, there would be no new ones that the FBI is currently looking at.
So, the way I see it Clinton is the only one responsible for it still going on. She refused to testify to Congress for like 18 months because of a "head injury" that she won't answer questions about either. Yep, this would all be 18 months further along if she didn't fake being sick.
I would feel bad, but she lied under oath to Congress, and not under oath to the citizens of the US. She lied to the families of those killed while working for her as well. Someone who can do that doesn't deserve respect.
No and no.
Nerds don't care at this point about all these stories.
They don't matter because this election is going to be the most embarrassing landslide in ordern history in the US.
So please stop putting these on the front page.
Who cares what the full context of a communication is! Just selectively quote, drop insinuations, and move on to the next batch before people realize you were just blowing smoke up their ass. Continue each and every day until the election, just to make sure your target doesn't have an opportunity to mount a fact-based response. For our modern, advertising-driven news cycle, this stuff is gold and much easier to cover than a story that requires investigation, background, and understanding to present a story to the consumer....err, public.
When Wikileaks has actual "whistleblowing" content, major news organizations lined up to get exclusive access to break the story; at this point, they are just putting a couple shovels of their stolen content online each day to keep the piranhas biting.
And make them pay for it.
right here.
Call me a troll all you want, but my God, if this is the worst we can dig up on Hillary after 20 years of non-stop character assassination then she's practically Christ (Obama gets to be God, since we haven't found jack on him).
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Still not worse than Trump.
You suckers. Nothing will change under Trump. He's just out for himself and will say whatever he has to (and flip flip as we have seen) to get there.
Not sure about everyone else but I have fraud fatigue. The daily, new revelations about Clintons fraud, deception and other ill actions that make up the Clinton/DNC scope of universe. I know its normal to get numb after hearing about new revelations non-stop but their deception is on so many levels it is quite worrying. 650,000+ emails means they have basically everything. Every evil bit of information is there.
There must have been absolute bombshells in those emails for a Federal judge to look at the evidence and grant the warrant.
Navy machinist Kristian Saucier took some selfies aboard ship and is in prison for it right now. Saucier didn't send the pictures to anyone. Having the classified information (pictures of the interior of the ship) on a non-secure device is a crime, and Saucier is in prison for that crime.
Clinton instructed her staff on how to send classified information "remove markings and send insecure". She intentionally instructed staff to do what Saucier did (have info on an unsecured device) AND more- also Clinton had it sent over the public internet.
'cause apparently the entire Obama administration has made it a priority to fund, support, and defend the Clinton Crime Family.
First off, Trump is an asshole. Second, if this was a Republican candidate you would be calling for their arrest and commending Wikileaks for their brave whistle blowing. But hey, agenda at all cost, right?
Know a Radio Room officer who went to jail when a TS document found its way into a trash can instead of the burn bag.
HE didn't even handle the damn document. He was just the officer in charge of the space.
So, yes. The rules are quite different depending on who your friends are, who you are and how much financial influence you can wave around.
Folks go to jail for far less than what Hillary has pulled which is the biggest problem with the whole damn thing.
Why the fuck is she treated any different than anyone else ?
just get it over with so I don't have to see Drumpf's face and hear his voice constantly on every goddamn website I go to, including this one.
If Trump wins, I hear that people sometimes go on long voyages on freighters to the South Seas. Some of those ships are completely out of range of common modern communications networks for weeks and weeks. You might book yourself passage on one. They have a limited number of passenger compartments and are working ships, not luxury liners. You might like the isolation.
No. he has irrationally been against her since she published the pictures of him Muslim garb and started the whole birther nonsense.
I remember what happened when someone accidentally emailed a document that was marked Top Secret. It wasn't. It was generated on an unclassified machine. But someone had forgotten to configure the classification level somewhere, so all documents generated had a "TS/SCI" banner stamped on the top. Even though they were just junk test data.
I'm not entirely certain what happened to the guy who sent the email - I'm not sure if they kept their job - but the entire network was down for the cleanup.
And, again, that was the cleanup involved in something that was merely MARKED Top Secret, despite not BEING Top Secret.
I don't even want to SEE what would happen if someone leaked actual classified information.
Igor you have opened my eyes with your prepping of "sinister" followed by a link to an email so I will see it in sinister light. Our boss will be pleased. I shall now read the email and see the sinister:
OMG, the Crooked Clinton, that is how she found out about the "Oversight Hearing" instead of looking it up in the schedule. OMG! The Crooked Clinton and her Crooked Ways, are so CROOKED! Assange for President 2016! Make America Great Again!
"Fwd: Heads up
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com, bfallon@hillaryclinton.com, cheryl.mills@gmail.com, hsamuelson@cdmillsgroup.com, kschake@hillaryclinton.com, nmerrill@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2015-05-19 11:12
Subject: Fwd: Heads up
Additional chances for mischief.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Peter Kadzik*
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Subject: Heads up
To: John Podesta
There is a HJC oversight hearing today where the head of our Civil Division
will testify. Likely to get questions on State Department emails. Another
filing in the FOIA case went in last night or will go in this am that
indicates it will be awhile (2016) before the State Department posts the
emails."
Do we really want another 4 years of this shit? Then again, is Trump any better? WTF peeps. Don't look at me, I live in California and the nominees were settled long before I had a say.
Story today is they are likely to indite soon.
Podesta said they needed to dump the emails the day the NYT reported on the server, and 30,000 were deleted about a week later.
DOJ contacted Clinton campaign and coordinated the release of information to the the least amount of damage.
Lynch, head of the DOJ, did everything possible to bury and stop the investigation into the Clinton Foundation (or this would have been over)
#2 in FBI, and leading Clinton investigation, got a $675,000 "donation" to his wife's campaign as he took over and failed to recuse himself and prevented any grand jury, warrants, or anything else common in such investigations.
Clintons got a $100 million "donation" when approving sale of uranium to Russia, and FAILED TO REPORT IT, and failed to report it on taxes and had to refile when caught.
Yea, I think you are right, it was just for convenience. Nothing looks out of sort with any of the above, each of which is a felony for the person committing it. But that sounds unreasonable and convenience sounds far more likely.
Why the fuck is she treated any different than anyone else ?
Because she's better than your sorry asses in every way and is having the FEMA camps prepped and is distributing those hundreds of millions of rounds of hollow-point ammo the Feds have been buying up to DHS and other domestic security forces even as we speak. Keep running your mouths against Clinton and you won't make it to the camps alive. Think of your families and STFU.
If Trump wins,
Seriously, if Trump wins, do you really think he's gunna stick to it? Once he sees he can't just bully and bluster his way to get shit done in our political system, I bet money he resigns and let's Pence deal with it. Even if he doesn't publicly resign, behind the curtails, Pence will be running this show. Trump has no clue how to work in government.
Like I said, I don't care. If Trump wins, it'll definitely be as entertaining as this entire election as been.
This is nothing more than a distraction from the election.
Yes Alexi, you have some nicely talking point there. I am impressed that you do your job for so few rubles.
I shall now Google all these people to try to understand the complex plot that you are revealing.... OMG.... My typical American urban black male eyes cannot believe what I am reading. Is it so clear to me that Crooked Clinton should not be elected.
I shall show this damning evidence of crookness to my wife, a normal lesbian woman in 30-50 year old demographic, that she is wrong about The Donald Trump, and that voting for Trump will empower her woman bits.
Also his weird sounds, sound crooked to me!
You are going to blow the narrative!
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I don't believe you've taken a very close look at what's been revealed. Building personal fortunes of $ and power out of access to, and abuse of, strategic controls of OUR government is at the core of Clinton Inc. This is not a new thing for any of us old enough to remember when Bill was Gov of Arkansas. "Slick Willy" goes waaay back.
The FBI director's conclusion was that there was insufficient evidence of intent, not that there was no intent. That infuriated enough of the lower ranks involved that the Weiner laptop was brought into the fray and it now appears that Comey has the evidence of intent he was missing before.
All this is subject to what bombshells drop tomorrow of course...
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And the CIA warned Trump about Russian attacks on Alleppo. Attacking our faction and our guys.
I think that's far more troubling. They shouldn't be giving security briefings to a candidate more loyal to a foreign President than his own countries.
FBI Sources Believe Clinton Foundation Case Moving Towards "Likely an Indictment"
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
To get your own 'Crooked Heads up of super secret crook Clinton crook meetings...."
erm,
Simply go here and add the calendar to your Google one. It's public published information.
https://judiciary.house.gov/calendar/
But hey, SUPER CROOK CLINTON ATE MY BABIES!
Trump should make Julian Assange vice President. He's trying harder to elect Trump than Mike Pence.
With what? Food stamps?
lucm, indeed.
That "raped a 13 year old" claim filed against Trump was during the Primaries against a certain Jeb Bush (and his backer Turd Blossom). It sounds an awful lot like the one filed against Clinton, which had lots of similar things.
Yep, its Karl Rove turd blossom's handiwork I think. Filing it in the Primaries when Jeb still had a chance pretty much gives it away.
I see you lot want to pretend its Clinton, but the similarities are tooo close.
I mean except all normal Americans. We will either end up with a Douche or the Turd Sandwich. Both are dirty lying greedy spotlight whores. Hillary is Stalin and Trump is Hitler. One's in the pocket of the Russians and the other is Owned by the Chinese. The American people can get nothing good out of this train-wreck of an election. I feel sorry for us all.
Know a Radio Room officer who went to jail when a TS document found its way into a trash can instead of the burn bag.
HE didn't even handle the damn document. He was just the officer in charge of the space.
So, yes. The rules are quite different depending on who your friends are, who you are and how much financial influence you can wave around.
Folks go to jail for far less than what Hillary has pulled which is the biggest problem with the whole damn thing.
Why the fuck is she treated any different than anyone else ?
Because she was Secretary Of State and had the authority to classify / declassify information originating in the state department. Whether you agree with her handling of info or not, at least get the facts straight.
Navy machinist Kristian Saucier took some selfies aboard ship and is in prison for it right now. Saucier didn't send the pictures to anyone. Having the classified information (pictures of the interior of the ship) on a non-secure device is a crime, and Saucier is in prison for that crime.
Clinton instructed her staff on how to send classified information "remove markings and send insecure". She intentionally instructed staff to do what Saucier did (have info on an unsecured device) AND more- also Clinton had it sent over the public internet.
She had the authority to declassify info originating in the state dept. Stupid? Yes. Illegal? Nope. When she told them to remove the markings she was defacto declassifying it. It's not even close to the same situation as the guy who took selfies of classified military hardware. That's why the FBI has no case. All they can really do is make her look bad, which is not their job.
The FBI has the devices of most people currently under investigation. Weiner's cache of 650,000 emails is most likely a full dump of every Clinton email received given the number. If you don't understand the reason for holding those you have no sense of being part of a criminal conspiracy and the need to protect yourself from other party members.
There are plenty of facts to be had to indict not just Clinton, but a large number of people from the Democratic Party, numerous PACs, the DOJ, the State Department, and possibly members of the executive staff. The fact that the DOJ has been actively suppressing information is being undermined by Wikileaks, and pressed by the members of Intelligence agencies who have integrity.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I know this won't be popular, but I hate Trump will all of my heart. He is the least honorable politician I have ever witnessed in my life, worse even than Nixon.
Trump is a useless spoiled rotten rich kid who has always gotten his way. Everyone is trying to placate him so he and his people doesn't start a insurrection. I say, vote your consequence, and let the chips fall where they may.
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To elect the next USA president. But if they so very much wanted this to happen, why didn't they act before and presented the republicans with a least groping candidate? For the next election, I'd would be nice to have candidates that are a better fit for the world's largest economic power on Earth -if we are still here.
Yours is the first visible comment that I would classify as sane. Maybe my memory is shot, but I seem to remember rational political discussions not so many years ago, and in general Slashdot had more than most other venues. This time around, Slashdot is FAR crazier than average.
Right now I think there are two hypotheses: (1) Computer-induced insanity, and (2) Hacker attack.
The first hypotheses is based on my old suspicion that too much computer use could be bad for mental hygiene. Actually expressed that theory at least 30 years ago, but the evidence looks more and more clear. Perhaps mostly related to the propensity of people to believe what they want to believe, but now the "personalized" searches make it possible to get infinite amounts of evidence for any insane thing you like. However, my next book is The Shallows , which (per secondhand reports) is taking a different approach to the problem.
The second hypothesis would involve capture of dormant accounts, and Slashdot might have become a favored target precisely because of the technical bias. Great test site for state-sponsored hackers, and yes, I am thinking of the Russians in particular.
Perhaps Slashdot will recover after the election, but it's sad to see things in such a state.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
If Vladimir Putin wanted to influence American politics, why didn't he just make a donation to the Clinton Foundation?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I don't agree. I think it's always good to have the specifics to hand. It's helpful to be able to point out salient details and understand more about context regarding why powerful people make the decisions they do. Historically, it will be more valuable in ways we don't yet know just as having old newspapers scanned and OCRed turns out to be helpful. If Clinton becomes the next US President, I suspect people will continue to find interesting connections to (then current) policy choices and something she told the banks but wouldn't tell the public (like how a lot of Syrians are going to die in her Syrian "no-fly zone"). It's already been helpful to put her alleged support for women into proper context by showing how she's the more dangerous of the two major party candidates with regard to women. Trump will use ugly language and he may grope women in arms reach (as he is alleged to have done to about a dozen women that we know of), and this is certainly bad for those women and their families. But it's not murder. Clinton will kill many more women halfway around the world (possibly including Americans like Obama did in the drone war against the al-Awlaki father and son pair of men). That's objectively worse.
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Right, because Russia doesn't have real assets in place to get their hands on security briefings and have to rely on manipulating a (notoriously unpredictable) candidate for President into funneling them secrets in the middle of the most scrutinized election in American history?
Makes perfect sense.
Even the New York Times which openly opposes Trump admits the FBI has looked into Russia-Putin-Trump ties and found NOTHING.
This is the same sort of big bold lie that the Democrats spread last election cycle about Romney being a tax cheat, which after the election Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) admitted was a lie but successfully helped torpedo Romney. Reid had told that lie on the Senate floor where he knew that the press would run with it but the Constitution would prevent him being prosecuted for libel or slander (he knew most Americans were too de-educated to know that he was gaming the system to fool them).
The Democrats are far better at being evil in election cycles than the feckless GOP. Every damn election cycle, Gloria Allred calls press conferences and announces that she is representing some poor young female "victim" (often multiple "victims") of a Republican and then after the election *POOF* they all scurry away never to be seen again (remember all the women she trotted out as "victims" of Herman Cain?). Keep voting for the dirtbags that the dirtbag propagandists tell you to vote for! It's been working really well, hasn't it?
I suspect there's a reason why all the super-rich in both parties and on Wall St who've been getting fat-and-happy are backing team Hillary with their money, their votes, and their activism - and there's NOTHING in it for the declining middle class or the stagnant lower class.
The Bushes are good friends with the Clintons, (Bush Sr has said he thinks of Billl and Hill as "family") and the Bushes will be voting Clinton.
The Republicans in the Senate always seem just too incompetent to hold any Democrat president accountable
The Democrats in the Senate always seem just too incompetent to hold most Republican presidents accountable
The dirty little secret is that every senator thinks he/she's looking at a future president when looking into a mirror, and none wants to do something that sets the precedent that would be used against THEM in their future presidency. It's a big fat happy corrupto-club of people who move to Washington to "represent the people" while actually forgetting the people and getting fabulously rich while earning a $200K annual salary.
If Hillary gets elected, the precedent will be set that nearly unlimited political corruption over decades on the way to the White House will be REWARDED
Trump's the world's most imperfect candidate, but he may be the last chance to scuttle the bi-partisan toxic political machine of the WashingtonDC-NewYorkCity corridor. The elites of DC and NYC despise him and he'll be lucky if he gets elected and they don't impeach him; they NEED to convince the population that there is no hope of actual reform and what better way then to eliminate the only viable person to get this far in a century while opposed by the power brokers.
hmmm so you use Nixon as your marker for evil and corruption, then rate Trump (who has done NOTHING Nixon-like) worse than Nixon...
and are thus apparently willing to either actively or passively support Hillary (who has done much worse than Nixon) rising to power...
even now that you know she's been aided by corruption at the State Department, the FBI, the IRS, etc.
--WOW--
The really disturbing thing here is this:
In Nixon's Watergate there were a bunch of government employees who came clean or who quit rather than participate in the corruption. In the current situation however, State Dept officials were colluding with Justice Dept and FBI officials and communicating with ALL the mainstream journalist outlets about this stuff WITH NO APPARENT FEAR OF BEING EXPOSED OR PUNISHED. People at State should have been too scared of prosecution to pick up the phone and attempt to bribe the FBI. People in the DNC and Hillary campaign and State Dept should have been too scared that if they exchanged ideas about all this stuff with the press, SOMEBODY in the press would out them. Entire institutions have clearly become completely corrupt to such an extent that this stuff is all now the new normal and THAT should scare EVERY sane person.
Know a Radio Room officer who went to jail when a TS document found its way into a trash can instead of the burn bag. HE didn't even handle the damn document. He was just the officer in charge of the space.
Smells like bullshit to me, frankly.
Fuckups happen which classified information. Everyone who works around it knows this. People have lost their jobs if the fuckups are serious enough but generally, they're sent to extra training because the people in charge of the rules aren't total fucking morons. If you make the consequences for screwing up too severe then people will attempt to hide things which only makes it worse.
Maybe rules are different in the military from civilian life, but I doubt they're that different.
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So, yes. The rules are quite different depending on who your friends are, who you are and how much financial influence you can wave around.
All these 'low level flunkie sent to prison for the same thing' anecdotes that people trot out to compare to clinton... most of their fates were sealed because they confessed to committing a crime when they were questioned.
As they say, rule 1 for talking to the police is don't talk to the police. The biggest predictor for the outcome in a lot of these cases is that they talked to the police and made a confession to a crime before they even spoke to a lawyer.
There is obviously a correlation between wealth and legal representation. But the *causal* element, and primary predictor is legal advice not wealth -- keep your damn mouth shut and get a lawyer even if you aren't rich... and suddenly the so called "special rules that apply to clinton and keep her out of jail when lesser fools end up in jail" largely apply to you too.
If the police have to prosecute one case based on complicated technical evidence, and another based on the fact that the defendant confessed to the crime ... well guess which lawsuit is more likely to prevail? Guess which one is more likely to even proceed.
If you hand the prosecution your conviction on a silver platter, you'll be prosecuted and convicted. It's that simple.
Hello USA, tech support here. It appears that your political system has hanged itself. Both of your candidates (and thanks to the broken two-party system, none of the others have a chance) are total crap and they both belong behind bars, not into the White House.
Try to find the reset button and press it.
Seriously, can't you just jail those bastards and restart the whole election process? Keep Obama for one more year while you elect someone who is not a clear and proven criminal?
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You are correct that she has no say as the classifying and declassifying information not owned by State. (Which generally means produced by State, but not exactly multiple departments frequently produce documents or other artifacts containing the same information.
You're talking to people who know a little bit about the topic, so making shit up only makes you look foolish. There's a well-defined process for declassifying information, involving multiple people. Emailing it to your buddies is not how that process works.
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I heard that several of the campaigns had to be taken down/changed or whatever to satisfy the gofundme people.
Sweden is not in the NATO, dumbass.
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Deus Ex isn't an instruction manual, but damn if at times thing's don't get ... weird.
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Mohammed: Did you see Mohammed at the meeting today?
Mohammed: No, but his brother Mohammed showed up.
Mohammed: What did Mohammed talk about?
Mohammed: Mohammed introduced us to Mohammed who is also a mason!
Mohammed: A mason? No shit? How long has he been one?
Mohammed: About five years. He was referred to the local lodge by Mohammed.
Mohammed: Ah, yes, Mohammed. He has a shit ton of connections around town!
Mohammed: Yes, and our brothers, police be upon them, Mohammed and Mohammed from Egypt came, too.
Mohammed: I've been thinking of becoming a clown.
Mohammed: A clown, Mohammed, why?
Mohammed: So I can film myself being gay.
Mohammed: Oh, you.
Mohammed: So anyway, is Mohammed, Mohammed, and Mohammed coming to the next party?
Mohammed: Indeed. Mohammed was so funny last time.
Mohammed: Well it wouldn't be a party without Mohammed.
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Apparently some have not gotten the message yet
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Who cares? Get used to sayin "Madame President" you limp little shits.
Again. This is nothing. She and her aides WERE the State Department at the time. Of course her input was needed. It's amazing how people make so much about boring everyday shit with the Hillary but completely ignore the horrible or completely stupid things every other Presidential candidate has said. She gets shit on for doing her job, or being a politician, or being upset she was cheated on. All normal shit. None of the other candidates know shit about foreign policy in a very delicate time internationally. Trump is a narcissistic sexual assault machine who makes the average bro blush. Johnson is an airhead that looks like a deer in headlights whenever he is interviewed. Jill Stein is an anti-vaxxer, need I say more? How is this even a decision to be made? One person running for President is qualified. I'm sorry you don't lover her but the others are just a complete disaster.
Time makes more converts than reason
It's not entertaining anymore. Trump is a one-trick pony and his trick has worn thin at this point. Narcissistic man-child is only entertaining in small doses and we ODed a long time ago.
Time makes more converts than reason
Here in the US, most political positions are package deals. If you're for universal healthcare, you're also for amnesty and vice versa. God forbid we accept one and reject the other.
This is why Trump is pretty important. He's rejecting certain traditional positions and accepting others.
This!!! Absolutely this! While I'm generally on the Right (forget neocon/alt-right/whatever other brand there is), there are some Democrat positions that I'm willing to not just consider, but also support. Like on Trade Deals, I'm w/ Trump, but his policy was anathema to the GOP until last year - only Pat Buchanan ever had that position. On abortion, I'm for it being legal in the first trimester, no questions asked (as long as both parents approve) but it being outlawed in the third. While that violates the NARAL orthodoxy, it also violates those pro-Lifers like Walker, Cruz, Rubio and Huckabee, who believe that it begins at conception and wouldn't allow even rape/incest exceptions. On Foreign Policy, I'm for withdrawing from the Middle East and banning Muslims. The first part is more compatible w/ the Democrat position, while the latter is not Republican - it's just Trump's position (supported by the base, but opposed by the party pooh baahs, who don't risk getting killed at random places like San Bernardino, Chattanooga, Orlando, Boston, et al)
The best example of the opposite of what you mentioned is Cruz. I understand his principles on his foreign policy, his opposition to amnesty, et al, but he then goes ahead to do a blanket embrace of all the party signature issues to make himself a purist. Like there was no reason for him to oppose the Commerce Department losing its oversight of ICANN (particularly given that he would abolish the department itself if he had his way). But there he is, opposing ICANN going 'international' just b'cos the 'US loses control of the internet' - something it doesn't have.
To use a food analogy, it's like going to a food court and picking out any combination of things you like, and going to the table. Contrast this w/ getting an assorted plate, where you get something like 6 different items, of which you may not like 2 or 3. It would be nice if we could in politics select candidates who have different viewpoints on different topics, and we then get to support the one whose combination most matches our own.
If you have a small enough population in a large, resource rich country, it will work pretty well, no matter what. For the same reason that Libya worked pretty well under Gadaffi, despite having a command economy
Hmm... that doesn't sound like a bad idea. One could even circle the globe that way. Get away from all this shit for just under 80 days. Maybe write a novel or something.
No, no, no. All of you are approaching this wrong. They are not "camps" they are Federal Safe Spaces. They will put themselves there. Then, make them pay for it through their student loan money, youtube, and patreon proceeds.
It has already begun. Those Federal Safe Spaces are called Liberal Arts colleges.
Superman will not be happy about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Clinton instructed her staff on how to send classified information "remove markings and send insecure". She intentionally instructed staff to do what Saucier did (have info on an unsecured device) AND more- also Clinton had it sent over the public internet.
When will this stupid myth die?
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/01/10/hillary-clinton-says-nonpaper-email-a-nonissue/
Can confirm what you say. Fuckups happen.
But remember this is hillary and all that matters is that she's a bitch.
So of course she committed treason. That's just the facts after all.
Not just confessed, there was evidence of intent. Like the Saucier guy who deliberately went back and deleted the photos from devices the investigators had just asked him about in the interview.
But details don't matter. We all know hillary is a bitch. So whenever she does anything, that's unequivocal proof of criminality.
Keep you irrelevant comments to yourself, asshole. Talk civil or fuck off.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
You mean the same FEMA camps that were alleged to be used by Obama on people who were registered gun owners? Grow up and quit sucking Alex Jones' tit of conspiracy propoganda.
It is relevant, but apparently an expat from the European Zimbabwe is too stupid to understand it.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Why does that even matter?
On the other side you have an awful businessman, an awful man, and a really shitty plan that will bankrupt your country and only serve to make the rich not pay a bit of taxes (if they bother to pay taxes at all).
This is presented as if it's some big surprise. Did you know: everything Hilary did that she's being reamed for is something her colleagues had told her to do, and that they had done themselves in the past?
NO? Well now you do.
"Colluding with a foreign nation against the interests of America (Saudi Arabia/Qatar)"
So is that the next target for Putin? Destabilize the middle east oil supply? I know you lot don't get to see the big plan, but you'll be given a list of astroturf from the Kremlin
WHAT. THE. FUCK. Are you seriously saying that Saudi Arabia does not work against US interests? Have you seen their promotion of Wahhabism and Salafism, responsible for much of the jihaddi violence throughout the world? It's no coincidence that the majority of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. The Crown Prince seems friendly the US, but most of the country is in the hands of ultra-conservative nutjobs. I trust Iran more than Saudi Arabia.
Lol. "Defending against Putin." Defending a Russian naval facility from Russian planes trying to keep it secure while a civil war goes on. We'd totally let it slide if Russia shot down our planes over Cuba while we tried to protect our interest in Guantanamo Bay in the event of a Cuban civil war (we wouldn't.) The woman has also unequivocally stated she would bring us to war with Iran. You're off your fucking rocker if you think she's "defending" anything. Bitch is a fucking warmonger.
and it now appears that Comey has the evidence of intent he was missing before.
And you have evidence of this intent, all the sudden? I take it you have personal access to Comey or the laptop and e-mails that are in the FBI's hands, then?
Even they don't know what is/was in the e-mails, as they didn't have a warrant. How in the hell do you know that they magically have intent?
So incorrect and false that it's laughable.
Most of the right's accusations are based on half truths. When one digs deeper, usually one finds more nuance.
For example, often people would come up to the Clintons and state, "We gave a donation to your foundation. By the way, could you please look into doing/changing X for us?"
It would be rude to say "no". One wouldn't get anywhere in life beyond a cubicle if they blew people off like that. Thus, the Clintons gave the same response as any non-autistic person would: "Sure, we cannot make any promises, but we'll look into it."
The Right finds that in leaked messages and shout, "Look! Collusion! Evil!"
SpinJob
Table-ized A.I.
"Bitch is a fucking warmonger"
Not really. It takes more than the President to prosecute a war. The President has a 90 day period to get Congress to support his actions as Commander in Chief. No Congressional support means no funding. And what you call warmongering is simply putting US national interests at the top of the list and using force when some one threatens those interests. And if that pisses of some one that's too fucking bad. Russia and Iran are walking a tight rope by antagonizing US forces. Sooner or later the US will splash a couple of Russian fighter jets and sink any Iranian speed boats who think speeding towards a US battle group and ignoring warnings to break off is a good idea. The last time the US military actually engaged the Iranians was in 1980 when the US destroyed almost all of the Iranian offshore oil infrastructure. They were lucky the US didn't flatten a couple of their cities to thank them for holding US hostages. Let them try that whole hostage taking again and the US public would accept losing 52 people as long as Tehran was turned onto a pile of rubble. If anything the US has shown remarkable patience in putting up with that type of non-sense. Russia is trying to show the world that they are a power to reckon with but they are not. Their military is a shadow of what it once was and they have no financial clout. It's the amount of global financial power that defines a true power. And a true financial power needs to have a military capable of defending that power. California has a larger GDP than Russia and the California National Guard has more military assets than Russia. Keeping in mind that there are nuclear missiles stored in the state.
That's not how the human psyche works. You DO have a preference regardless of what you say and it's evidenced in your writings. You can't shut the hell up about how shitty Hillary is and only mention trump when forced to along with your "disclaimer". You cared enough to post multiple times so you can't claim you just don't give a damn. And that last sentence...ugh, what useless attempt at humor.
Fuck off, huesos.
Is that how you were able to get a ticket to the USA?
By the way, I am from Germany, dumbass.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Sweden is not in the NATO, dumbass.
Doesn't matter if it was or not. NATO would have gone absolutely ape-shit if the USSR had invaded.
Hell, the US funded a violent, bloody war in Afghanistan despite no one caring about that country.
Burning man 2.0.
Pay no attention to the ashes and the fact nobody ever leaves.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
No. Their fates were sealed by mishandling classified evidence, which we know for a fact Hillary did as SOS, over and over and over and over again. Intent doesn't matter, the story presented by your defense attorney doesn't matter. All the government has to prove in court is that you were responsible for classified information, and you mishandled it.
If Hillary Clinton were Hillary Johnson, a low level official at the State Department that set up an unsecured, unauthorized server and proceeded to send top secret materials through it - she might get released from prison before she died behind bars of old age.
Wait, you're linking to a "Hillary says she's innocent" piece and treating it credibly? Nixon said he wasn't a crook, so he must not have done anything with that Watergate fiasco.
Oh! I just got a BINGO on my government conspiracy scorecard!