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Sarandon, who supports Bernie Sanders for president, said Trump's ideas are too implausible to be dangerous.

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Originally posted by rburg:
So I just blindly assume this Pagliano guy is just a IT guy. I know the type, having worked at that for most of the last 45 years. As I view the issue, he's working for a salary which probably isn't too high (except for the $140,000 Hillary gave him). So its got to be costing a fortune for the legal team assembled to make sure he says nothing. I wonder who is paying for that? And I guess his silence may be because he supports the real culprit or he knows too much and doesn't want to end up like Vince Foster.

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Like the deal with the devil, though, there is a price, and risks he couldn't possibly foresee as a computer geek.
Now, the repayment is coming due.

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he's working for a salary which probably isn't too high

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Originally posted by sdy:

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he's working for a salary which probably isn't too high

Hillary had Pagliano hired into the State Dept during her 2009 - 2013 time as Sec State.

Pagliano was hired in at the top of the GS scale as a GS15.


That means his salary was in the top 3 % of all federal workers.

He wasn't a low pay IT person when the taxpayers were paying him (to set up a server that violated national security)

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by navyshooter:

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I think are only three Registered Republicans left in CA now that jallen has moved to Texas.

Mrs. Navyshooter and myself are 2 of them......I wonder who the 3rd one is.

I think there was some guy out in Mariposa County.

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International Business Times

State Department Blocks Release Of Hillary Clinton-Era TPP Emails Until After The Election

By David Sirota @davidsirota On 06/06/16 AT 7:38 AM

Trade is a hot issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. But correspondence from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department aides about a controversial 12-nation trade deal will not be available for public review — at least not until after the election. The Obama administration abruptly blocked the release of Clinton’s State Department correspondence about the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after first saying it expected to produce the emails this spring.

The decision came in response to International Business Times' open records request for correspondence between Clinton’s State Department office and the United States Trade Representative. The request, which was submitted in July 2015, specifically asked for all such correspondence that made reference to the TPP.

The State Department originally said it estimated the request would be completed by April 2016. Last week the agency said it had completed the search process for the correspondence but also said it was delaying the completion of the request until late November 2016 — weeks after the presidential election. The delay was issued in the same week the Obama administration filed a court motion to try to kill a lawsuit aimed at forcing the federal government to more quickly comply with open records requests for Clinton-era State Department documents.

Clinton’s shifting positions on the TPP have been a source of controversy during the campaign: She repeatedly promoted the deal as secretary of state but then in 2015 said, "I did not work on TPP," even though some leaked State Department cables show that her agency was involved in diplomatic discussions about the pact. Under pressure from her Democratic primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, Clinton announced in October that she now opposes the deal — and has disputed that she ever fully backed it in the first place.

While some TPP-related emails have been released by the State Department as part of other open records requests, IBT’s request was designed to provide a comprehensive view of how involved Clinton and her top aides were in shaping the trade agreement, and whether her agency had a hand in crafting any particular provisions in the pact. Unions, environmental organizations and consumer groups say the agreement will help corporations undermine domestic labor, conservation and other public interest laws.

If IBT's open records request is fulfilled on the last day of November, as the State Department now estimates, it will have taken 489 days for the request to be fulfilled. According to Justice Department statistics, the average wait time for a State Department request is 111 days on a simple request — the longest of any federal agency the department's report analyzed. Requests classified as complex by the State Department can take years.

Earlier this year, the State Department’s inspector general issued a report slamming the agency’s handling of open records requests for documents from the Office of the Secretary. Searches of emails “do not consistently meet statutory and regulatory requirements for completeness and rarely meet requirements for timeliness,” the inspector general concluded.

Last year, a Government Accountability Office report found that at the agencies it surveyed, there was not political interference in responding to open records requests. However, last month, a conservative group filed a lawsuit alleging that an Obama administration directive has deliberately slowed the response to open records requests that deal with politically sensitive material.

Nate Jones of the National Security Archive told IBT that whether or not the State Department’s move to delay the release of TPP-related correspondence is politically motivated, it reflects a systemic problem at the agency.

“In my opinion it is more incompetence than maliciousness, but either way, it is a gross error by FOIA processors to not get these documents out before the election,” said Jones, whose group helps journalists obtain government records. “Their inefficiency is doing great harm to the democratic process.”

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Originally posted by RichardC:
When will something definitive happen?

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Monday, according to CNN's delegate and superdelegate count, and will become the first woman in the 240-year history of the United States to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party.

A strong showing in Puerto Rico's Democratic primary on Sunday and additional support from superdelegates put Clinton, 68, over the top to become the presumptive nominee. She has secured 1,812 pledged delegates and 572 superdelegates for a total of 2,384 delegates -- one more than needed for the nomination.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/...tion-2016/index.html

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Ask Bernie Sanders if he gives a s--t.

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Originally posted by PASig:
She hemmed and hawed and stammered and then launched right back into her standard response YET AGAIN.