"People should and do trust me" - Hillary Clinton

[41chevy]

I think we should start up NASA programs to get back to the moon, and put Hilary on it on a one way rocket!

Ambassador based in Benghazi would be better. Paul

[other dog]

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[Marcel67]

Should be Hillnokio

[41chevy]

On the Liberals side . . . .

[Bullheaded]

I'll trade you a Hilary for that little pole smoker the idiots in my country voted in for Prime Minister.

If your Trump gets in, get him to take over our country too.

When he starts kicking everyone out, we have a lot of population that needs to get purged too.

[41chevy]

bush bumper verses pole smoker...not much of a difference there.

[41chevy]

So in New Hampshire today Slick Willie at a Hillary Fund Raiser said that "nobody has the experience, knowledge or truthfulness than Hillary to be President" .

[kscarbel2]

A glimpse of how the aristocracy remains in power and wealth.

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Hillary's chief of staff gave Clinton crony access to bilateral talks with China to promote his car dealerships there

Associated Press / January 4, 2016

A former top aide to Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state arranged for crucial access to Chinese officials so Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff could promote his private car dealership business to China.

Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff at the State Department, arranged the visit between a Chinese delegation and Bill Clinton’s chief of staff Thomas 'Mack' McLarty at a State Department dinner.

McLarty had asked for an invitation to the dinner, which occurred in the spring of 2011, because of 'our substantial family investment in the automotive sector.

The revelation comes to light from just released emails from whene Clinton was secretary of state over the 2009 to 2013 period.

McLarty followed up with an email thanking Mills, and said the dinner allowed him to connect with both Hillary Clinton and Chinese officials. The thank-you email was forwarded to Hillary Clinton.

Clinton has been criticized on the campaign trail by Republicans who accuse her of cronyism and opportunism at the State Department, but the former secretary of state remains the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

McLarty is now a prominent Democratic fund-raiser and donor, having contributed at least $400,000 to Democratic political action committees as well as Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaigns as well as her 2008 and 2016 presidential bids

McLarty says using connections in government was 'pretty standard' to promote his private business interests, and noted that he has also reached out to George W. Bush and Barack Obama's administrations.

'I know the Clintons — I know them — and Secretary Clinton was secretary of state, so it was a normal thing to reach out,' he said.

'I was simply making our interests — my interest — aware to the proper officials in the government, that we would like to participate if it were appropriate … and I’m sure there were a lot of other business people there.'

Both Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and Mills' lawyer refused to comment.

News of McLarty's access was included in 5,552 pages of emails the State Department released on New Year's Eve as part of its compliance with a federal court order. Past emails have painted a similar portrait of Mills as an aide with powerful connections and access.

McLarty owns a variety of car dealerships in foreign countries. His son Mark was running the family's Beijing company at the time of the Chinese dinner. The McLarty's later sold their Chinese dealerships for $305 million in 2012.

McLarty approached Mills at a time when car business in China was booming, as sales in the country had grown by 30 percent in 2010.

He emailed Mills on May 7, 2011 to inquire about a Strategic and Economic Dialogue event with the Chinese leaders scheduled for May 9 and May 10.

'If there is a reception or part of the SED meeting that appropriately includes members from the private sector, I would like to be appropriately considered,' McLarty wrote.

Mills responded the next morning, inviting him instead to a separate SED dinner hosted by Clinton on the conference's opening night.

'I checked into our events on China. While I am given to understand we do not have any particular event that is engaging those from the private sector, the Secretary is hosting a dinner tomorrow evening at State that we would welcome you attending if that works with your schedule,' she wrote.

Related reading - http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-cheryl-mills-mack-mclarty-217305

[kscarbel2]

Between Hillary Clinton and the Republican candidates, not a single person qualified to hold the office of President.

Such was the case in 2000 with Bush and Gore, neither man qualified to be more than a state governor.

The Republican clan starred a 71-year-old McCain in 2008, shockingly supported by a controversial Sarah Palin (At age 79, McCain is still in congress.......the aristocracy doesn't allow term limits).

There actually was a proper candidate in 2012, for the first time in decades........Jon Huntsman. But the masses obediently remained tuned to the mainstream stars.

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[gearhead204]

am I missing something? what special knowhow did Ronald have to qualify him?

just my 2 cents worth. all it takes is, want too, a spine, brass balls, morals, and honesty! your cabinet positions are what make up the rest of the job. so its not so much the person as its the persons ability to place competent people in the right places

[41chevy]

Remember, Hillary made a statement that the candidate with a campaign closest to a reality show will win all the needed votes.

As for her State Department improprieties pick the answer that fits best: my aides took care of those things

the fog of war hides what happens

I'm a woman and was taken advantage of

what does it matter now

Bush did it

[kscarbel2]

Inspector General says State Department covered up Hillary's private email server for years even though senior officials knew

Associated Press / January 7, 2016

The U.S. State Department told a watchdog group in 2013 that it didn't have any information about former secretary Hillary Clinton's emails, even though dozens of senior officials knew she was using a private server for all her electronic communications.

A report released Thursday by the agency's inspector general described a cavalier culture about transparency inside Clinton's agency, saying that 177 requests for documents about Clinton are still 'pending' nearly three years after she left office.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires federal agencies to respond to requests for information within 20 business days.

The botched FOIA request, filed in December 2012 just before Clinton left office, specifically asked whether or not Clinton used an email account other than one hosted at state.gov.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) was reacting to news that former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lisa Jackson had used an alias – 'Richard Windsor' – to send and receive emails in a way that couldn't be tied to her when FOIA requests came in.

In May 2013 the State Department responded to CREW's request, saying it had 'no records' related to what the group asked for.

By then, Clinton had spent four years emailing department employees from her private home-brew account, but had never turned the messages over to the State Department.

That CREW request was filed in December 2012, just before Mrs. Clinton left office, and specifically asked whether Mrs. Clinton used a non-State.gov email account for government business.

'At the time the request was received, dozens of senior officials throughout the Department, including members of Secretary Clinton's immediate staff, exchanged emails with the Secretary using the personal accounts she used to conduct official business,' the Office of Inspector General (OIG) concluded.

'OIG found evidence that the Secretary's then-Chief of Staff was informed of the request at the time it was received and subsequently tasked staff to follow up. However, OIG found no evidence to indicate that any of these senior officials reviewed the search results or approved the response to CREW.'

The employees responsible for searching the State Department's records, the report says, never 'searched any email records, even though the request clearly encompassed emails.'

State has received an unprecedented number of requests for Clinton-related documents – 240 in all, a number bigger than those related to secretaries Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and John Kerry combined.

But the inspector general found that the agency cut the number of people processing those FOIA requests as they poured in.

Clinton's emails sat on her private server for years until the State Department asked her in 2014 to turn them over. She deleted more than half of the messages, calling them 'personal' in nature, before complying.

In the meantime, however, her emails were out of reach when federal employees searched for records that might satisfy FOIA requests.

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) said Thursday that 'the FOIA process at the State Department is broken, and has been for several years.'

The agency's breakdowns in performance, he said, 'are particularly troubling in light of the report’s revelation that former Secretary Clinton’s exclusive use of a non-government email server was known to senior staff at the department, but unknown to the FOIA office, thus causing the FOIA office to provide false information about the Secretary’s use of email.'

The FOIA law, first enacted in 1966 before the advent of personal computers, 'neither authorizes nor requires agencies to search for Federal records in personal email accounts maintained on private servers or through commercial providers,' the inspector general report explained.

State Department employees have 'no way to independently locate Federal records from such accounts unless employees take steps to preserve official emails in Department recordkeeping systems.'

Current law requires State Department employees to forward work-related personal emails to their official accounts within 20 days of sending or receiving them, so the agency has a record of them.

But Clinton never had a 'state.gov' account where her emails could be sent.

A federal judge ultimately ordered the State Department to collect her emails, vet them for classified material, and release them on a monthly schedule.

So far intelligence officials have had to block the release of portions of more than 1,200 emails because they contained classified information.

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[GA_Dave]

Say "NO!" to the Hildebeast!!!

[41chevy]

CHELSEA’S DIRTY TRICKS

By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann on January 13, 2016

Acting as her mother’s attack dog in New Hampshire, Chelsea Clinton debuted in the Hillary Clinton campaign by deliberately misrepresenting Bernie Sanders’ position on ObamaCare and falsely claiming that he would “strip millions and millions of people of their health insurance.”

The sanctimonious — and scripted — Ms. Clinton announced that she didn’t “want to live in a country that has an unequal healthcare system again.”

Hillary is getting more and more desperate. Trotting the clueless Chelsea out with a hatchet in her hand is a sign that Hillary is panicking. She’s crashing in the polls and will do or say anything to knock Sanders. That’s typical Hillary.

But sending out Chelsea to do the dirty work and try and scare people was a stupid strategy. Her charges are easily disproved and she’s not a credible messenger. Fortunately for Bernie, no one takes Chelsea seriously. She’s an opportunist who has used her family name to worm her way into jobs and positions that she’s not qualified for and would not have received if she had a different last name. As for Bernie, the Clinton attacks led to $1.4 million in new donations on that day.

The attacks were patently false. Chelsea charged that Sanders wanted to dismantle ObamaCare, Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP, but she neglected to add that he wanted to replace them with one all-inclusive health care program for ALL Americans. Sanders was a sponsor of ObamaCare and helped write the legislation. He has always been an outspoken proponent of a health care plan that would go way beyond ObamaCare (Just like Hillary was when she tried to pass health care).

To say that Sanders is dismantling these programs while he is replacing them with something much bigger, much better, and much more costly is a dirty trick. It’s like accusing Bernie of demolishing an old house when he is planning to replace it with a mansion and then wondering if your favorite kitchen appliances will be installed.

It is beyond cynical for Chelsea to make an attack on Sanders over the issue of health care and the elderly. It is creating a fiction of the basest sort and putting it out there for Clinton operatives to use to scare people.

Chelsea should go back to taking about baby care. Maybe she does know something about that. Her invention of nonexistent negatives show that, in the case of Chelsea and Hillary, the apple did not fall far from the tree.

The facts.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/14/chelsea-clinton/chelsea-clinton-mischaracterizes-bernie-sanders-he/

[Outbehindthebarn]

Did you guys see Phoenix Sundown endorse her?

[carlotpilot]

Did you guys see Phoenix Sundown endorse her?

who or what the hell is that?

[Apple dog]

Read an article today that said the Inspector General released a report stating that the witch had top secret emails on her private server. That would mean she perjury herself to congress. Perjury is a felony and felons can't hold the office of President.

[Outbehindthebarn]

who or what the hell is that?

This guy:

http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/01/19/man-who-sent-porn-to-girl-from-dance-moms-sentenced/

[kscarbel2]

Hillary Clinton’s historical problem with honesty

The Washington Post / January 26, 2016

The first question to Hillary Clinton from an audience member during Monday night’s Democratic town hall in Iowa must have been a blow from one so young — a potential new voter — this close to the caucuses.

The query came from a fellow who asked what her response is to his friends who say she’s dishonest. There was no beating around any bushes, so to speak, on that one. Flinching slightly, Clinton rested her expression somewhere between sadness and weariness.

Ever the pro, she rallied: “I’ve been around a long time. People have thrown all kinds of things at me,” she said. “They throw all this stuff at me, and I’m still standing.”

Clinton offered a similar response when asked about Benghazi: “I understand that they will try to make this an issue — I will continue to answer, and my defense is the truth.”

“They” presumably are Republicans and others who for decades have pointed out discrepancies between Clinton’s version of the truth and reality as checked against facts. She has, indeed, been around a long time, probably before her first questioner was born.

In one of her political ads, Clinton is shown repeatedly giving more or less the same speech about helping children realize their full potential — beginning in her college days through her various iterations to the present day. Her efforts on behalf of women and children are consistent, admirable and irrefutable. Yet one can’t help thinking upon seeing this ad, Boy, she’s been around a long time.

If you’re 22 or younger, your parents hadn’t brought you forth in time for Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration. If you’re at least 30ish, you probably heard grown-ups talking on TV about oral sex in the White House while your parents scrambled for the remote. I f you’re a baby boomer, you remember all of it and, if you’re not a member of the Clinton club, your memories are probably not fond.

Questions about Hillary Clinton’s honesty did not start with Benghazi or with emails and a private server, but began ages ago with any number of fabricated — or at least exaggerated — stories. Many may remember what New York Times columnist William Safire wrote about Clinton in 1996:

“Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar,” he said. “Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.”

There “they” go again?

Safire’s concerns at the time — Whitewater, Travelgate, “lost” records — may seem remote and trivial to some, but the drip-drip he identified didn’t stop with the White House years. Subsequent to the various “-gates” were, for example, the story of coming under fire on a tarmac in Bosnia or about her having been named for the explorer Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, despite her having been born about six years before his history-making climb.

These are such trivial stories to invent that one wonders why she bothered. The answer can’t be easily divined except as Safire suggested. Or, is it that she is reflexively prone to dissemble? Would this be a matter of habit, or something else? An innate need to inflate one’s status — even when it isn’t needed?

Even though these stories have been well-known at different times, they eventually fade or are dismissed as politically motivated. Politicians can reasonably bank on voters’ ever-shrinking memories, especially in the 140-character era of Twitter and YouTube, when most people would rather watch a leopard stalk and devour a crocodile. Well, I mean, who wouldn’t? It’s a pretty safe bet few enough will care what happened in 1996.

But more recent issues of inaccuracies are both concerning and consequential. We now know with certainty (thanks to an email from Clinton to daughter Chelsea the night of the Benghazi attacks) that the then-secretary of state knew it was a terrorist attack, contrary to official reports, in the days following, about street riots that escalated. We also know from the intelligence community inspector general that her private server contained information ranked beyond top secret, contradicting her assertions to the contrary.

What difference, at this point, does any of it make? When it comes to public trust in a presidential candidate — everything.

[41chevy]

Read an article today that said the Inspector General released a report stating that the witch had top secret emails on her private server. That would mean she perjury herself to congress. Perjury is a felony and felons can't hold the office of President.

Apparently some e mails required the highest level of clearance that even the Inspector General and staff don't have and can not get. They know that Russia, China and Iran hacked her homemade server, yet nothing is done and probably will be delayed until after the election.

[Brocky]

Here is the B**CH at her best

http://www.maniacworld.com/flv/Hillary-Clinton-Talks-About-Her-Concussion.mp4

[41chevy]

Hillary Caught With 22 TOP SECRET Emails

State Department officials also said the agency’s Diplomatic Security and Intelligence and Research bureaus are investigating if any of the information was classified at the time of transmission, going to the heart of Clinton’s defense of her email practices. In other words, even her closest pals in the Obama administration may not be able to help her for much longer.

The department on Friday evening published its latest batch of emails from her time as America’s top diplomat. But that seven email chains will be withheld in full for containing “top secret” information. The 37 pages include messages a key intelligence official recently said concerned “special access programs.” These are highly restricted, classifieds material that could point to confidential sources or clandestine programs. Like drone strikes. Department officials wouldn’t describe the substance of the emails, or say if Clinton sent any herself.

Clinton insists she never sent or received information on her personal email account that was classified at the time. No emails released so far were marked classified. But reviewers previously designated more than 1,000 messages at lower classification levels. Friday’s will be the first at top secret level. Even if Clinton didn’t write or forward the messages, she still would have been required to report any classification slippages she recognized in emails she received.

Department responses for classification infractions could include counseling, warnings or other action, officials said. They wouldn’t say if Clinton or senior aides who’ve since left government could face penalties. The officials weren’t authorized to speak on the matter and demanded anonymity.

The emails have been a Clinton campaign issue since 10 months ago, when her exclusive use (while in office) of a homebrew email server in the basement of her family’s New York home. Clinton first called the decision a matter of convenience, then a mistake. Last March, Clinton and the State Department said no business conducted in the emails included top-secret matters. Both said her account was never hacked or compromised, which security experts assess as unlikely.

Clinton and the State Department also claimed the vast majority of her emails were preserved properly for archiving because she corresponded mainly with government accounts. They’ve backtracked from that claim in recent months. Independent experts say it’s unlikely Clinton will be charged with wrongdoing, based on details that have surfaced so far and the lack of indications she intended to break laws. She’s a Clinton. They’re above the law.

I was always under the impression that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" Paul

[kscarbel2]

Reuters / February 11, 2016

[Apparently conducted behind a veil of secrecy last year so as not to dampen Hillary Clinton’s election bid.......IOU's cashed in]

U.S. State Department investigators last year issued a subpoena to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation seeking documents about projects run by the charity that may have required U.S. government approval when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

A U.S. official said the matter was being investigated by the Inspector General, the State Department's internal watchdog.

The subpoena issued in the fall also asked for records related to senior Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who for six months in 2012 simultaneously worked for several employers including the State Department, the foundation, and Clinton's personal office.

The report follows a Reuters investigation last year that found the Clinton Foundation's flagship health project did not submit new or increased payments from at least seven foreign governments to the State Department for review, in breach of the ethics agreement Clinton signed with the incoming Obama administration in order to become secretary of state.

Clinton has been criticized for using a private email account hosted on a private computer while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, a matter the FBI is investigating.

[m16ty]

I would be really shocked if Hillary ever gets charged with anything, let alone actually be convicted.

I believe she could pull out a gun and kill one of the moderators in tonight's debate and get away scott free. Sure, the republicans would piss and moan about it but wouldn't do a darned thing.

[carlotpilot]

beaten by 20+points in nh and still comes away with 2 more delagates than the winner