""Barack Obama's spokesman described the FBI's probe into Hillary Clinton's classified email scandal as a 'criminal investigation""

That's is why he endorsed her as the most qualified for POTUS. A criminal.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
The witch should burn But this seems more like a Coronation.

The other side of my split personality thinks- This could be like obamas declaration "ISIS is a JV Team" and "ISIS Is Contained". Short lived miscalculations on his part.

However it ends, this “investigation” will end before the Democrat convention. It won’t hang fire for much longer.

Im still flummoxed at what El Zippo is doing here. There MUST be another moving part to this whole thing...what it is????

I read today that Warren may be HRCs VP pick. If so, what are the rules on having the Squaw move up the ticket to the head slot after the convention???

Bernie gets his full commie, the dems get a fresh candidate that hasnt been vetted, and the media has a new queen... Just thinkin'.

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I'm still hopeful.

Hope springs eternal in the hearts of men.

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Originally posted by entropy:

Im still flummoxed at what El Zippo is doing here.

It's not that complicated:

1. Zero doesn't think she's done anything wrong and has stated it publicly
2. He doesn't want his legacy dismantled by Trump
3. He knows Hillary will give the USA the third and fourth terms of Barack Obama

BREAKING: ANONYMOUS HACKERS Video To HILLARY: “We Are About To EXPOSE EVERYTHING”

They can do what Zippy has tried to stop.

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Originally posted by Zecpull:
BREAKING: ANONYMOUS HACKERS Video To HILLARY: “We Are About To EXPOSE EVERYTHING”

They can do what Zippy has tried to stop.

That video is from over a month ago and nothing new since. I think their just attention whores.

Google is manipulating search results to cover for Hillary.

http://www.washingtontimes.com...-hillary-clinton-st/

Google accused of manipulating searches, burying negative stories about Hillary Clinton

An explosive report released Thursday suggests that Google manipulated its search engine to boost Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton by burying unflattering stories about her.

A video posted by SourceFed, a news and pop-culture website, accused Google of attempting to boost secretly Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy.

“Thanks to the help of our editor Spencer Reed, SourceFed has discovered that Google has been actively altering search recommendations in favor of Hillary Clinton’s campaign so quietly that we were unable to see it for what it was until today,” said SourceFed’s Matt Lieberman in the video.

For example, when typing “Hillary Clinton cri,” Google’s auto-complete function brings up as its top choice “Hillary Clinton crime reform,” even though competing search engines Bing and Yahoo show the most popular search topics are “Hillary Clinton criminal charges” and “Hillary Clinton crime.”

While that could reflect legitimate differences in the engines’ algorithms, Mr. Lieberman said that a search of “Hillary Clinton crime reform” on Google trends showed that “there weren’t even enough searches of term to build a graph on the site.”

“Which begs the question, why on Earth is it the first potential result?” he said, adding, “Apparently far more people are searching for ‘Hillary Clinton crimes’ than ‘Hillary Clinton crime reform.’ Google just doesn’t want you to know or ask.”

SourceFed found a similar result when typing in, “Hillary Clinton ind,” which yielded “Hillary Clinton Indiana” and “Hillary Clinton India” on Google, but “Hillary Clinton indictment” on the other search engines.
“The intention is clear. Google is burying potential searches for terms that could have hurt Hillary Clinton in the primary elections over the past several months by manipulating recommendations on their site,” Mr. Lieberman said.

There was no difference between Google and other search engines when SourceFed searched for unflattering terms associated with Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump.
In the video, Mr. Lieberman emphasized that SourceFed was not accusing Google of any crimes, calling the manipulation “deeply unethical and wrong but not illegal,” and adding that there is no evidence to suggest collusion between the Clinton campaign and Google.

On the other hand, Mr. Lieberman did say that “there are a stunning number of links between Google and her campaign,” starting with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, an active Clinton backer who runs a Clinton campaign data-analysis contracting firm.

Google did not return immediately Thursday evening a request for comment.

The allegations by SourceFed, whose YouTube page shows 1.7 million subscribers, come on the heels of an Internet scandal involving allegations that Facebook manipulated its “trending topics” section to omit conservative-friendly stories.

Google may be covering for her, but ABC seems to have found something interesting - the usual Clinton selling favors...


How Clinton Donor Got on Sensitive Intelligence Board

Newly released State Department emails help reveal how a major Clinton Foundation donor was placed on a sensitive government intelligence advisory board even though he had no obvious experience in the field, a decision that appeared to baffle the department’s professional staff.

The emails further reveal how, after inquiries from ABC News, the Clinton staff sought to “protect the name” of the Secretary, “stall” the ABC News reporter and ultimately accept the resignation of the donor just two days later.

Copies of dozens of internal emails were provided to ABC News by the conservative political group Citizens United, which obtained them under the Freedom of Information Act after more the two years of litigation with the government.

A prolific fundraiser for Democratic candidates and contributor to the Clinton Foundation, who later traveled with Bill Clinton on a trip to Africa, Rajiv K. Fernando’s only known qualification for a seat on the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) was his technological know-how. The Chicago securities trader, who specialized in electronic investing, sat alongside an august collection of nuclear scientists, former cabinet secretaries and members of Congress to advise Hillary Clinton on the use of tactical nuclear weapons and on other crucial arms control issues.

“We had no idea who he was,” one board member told ABC News.

Fernando’s lack of any known background in nuclear security caught the attention of several board members, and when ABC News first contacted the State Department in August 2011 seeking a copy of his resume, the emails show that confusion ensued among the career government officials who work with the advisory panel.

“I have spoken to [State Department official and ISAB Executive Director Richard Hartman] privately, and it appears there is much more to this story that we’re unaware of,” wrote Jamie Mannina, the press aide who fielded the ABC News request. “We must protect the Secretary’s and Under Secretary’s name, as well as the integrity of the Board. I think it’s important to get down to the bottom of this before there’s any response.

“As you can see from the attached, it’s natural to ask how he got onto the board when compared to the rest of the esteemed list of members,” Mannina wrote, referring to an attachment that was not included in the recent document release.

Fernando himself would not answer questions from ABC News in 2011 about what qualified him for a seat on the board or led to his appointment. When ABC News finally caught up with Fernando at the 2012 Democratic convention, he became upset and said he was "not at liberty" to speak about it. Security threatened to have the ABC News reporter arrested.

PHOTO: At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, ABC News Brian Ross asks Rajiv Fernando about his 2011 appointment to the State Departments International Security Advisory Board.ABC News
At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, ABC News' Brian Ross asks Rajiv Fernando about his 2011 appointment to the State Department's International Security Advisory Board.more +
Fernando's expertise appeared to be in the arena of high-frequency trading -- a form of computer-generated stock trading. At the time of his appointment, he headed a firm, Chopper Trading, that was a leader in that field.

Fernando's history of campaign giving dated back at least to 2003 and was prolific -- and almost exclusively to Democrats. He was an early supporter of Hillary Clinton's 2008 bid for president, giving maximum contributions to her campaign, and to HillPAC, in 2007 and 2008. He also served as a fundraising bundler for Clinton, gathering more than $100,000 from others for her White House bid. After Barack Obama bested Clinton for the 2008 nomination, Fernando became a major fundraiser for the Obama campaign. Prior to his State Department appointment, Fernando had given between $100,000 and $250,000 to the William J. Clinton Foundation, and another $30,000 to a political advocacy group, WomenCount, that indirectly helped Hillary Clinton retire her lingering 2008 campaign debts by renting her campaign email list.

The appointment qualified Fernando for one of the highest levels of top secret access, the emails show. Among those with whom Fernando served on the International Security Advisory Board was David A. Kay, the former head of the Iraq Survey Group and United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector; Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, a former National Security Advisor to two presidents; two former congressmen; and former Sen. Chuck Robb. William Perry, the former Secretary of Defense, chaired the panel.

“It is certainly a serious, knowledgeable and experienced group of experts,” said Bruce Blair, a Princeton professor whose principal research covers the technical and policy steps on the path toward the verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons. “Much of the focus has been on questions of nuclear stability and the risks of nuclear weapons use by Russia and Pakistan.”

The newly released emails reveal that after ABC News started asking questions in August 2011, a State Department official who worked with the advisory board couldn’t immediately come up with a justification for Fernando serving on the panel. His and other emails make repeated references to “S”; ABC News has been told this is a common way to refer to the Secretary of State.

“The true answer is simply that S staff (Cheryl Mills) added him,” wrote Wade Boese, who was Chief of Staff for the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, in an email to Mannina, the press aide. “Raj was not on the list sent to S; he was added at their insistence.”

Mills, a former deputy White House counsel, was serving as Clinton’s chief of staff at the time, and has been a longtime legal and political advisor.

Four minutes later, Boese wrote to his boss, Richard Hartman, to alert him that Ellen Tauscher, who was then the Undersecretary for State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, would be meeting with Mills to devise a response to the ABC News request.

“Sorry this has become a headache,” he wrote.

Hartman wrote the next morning to say he would “come up and brief you... about where Raj Fernando stands and the ABC News investigative journalist inquiries. You do need to hear about it.” Separately, in an email to another official, Hartman noted that it was "Cheryl Mills, who added Mr. Fernando’s name to the list of ISAB nominees."

When ABC News sent a follow-up inquiry about the qualifications of another board appointee, Massachusetts state Rep. Harold P. Naughton, Jr., Boese wrote to Hartman to say the department would have a far easier time explaining Naughton’s credentials. “The case for Rep. Naughton is an easy one. We are on solid ground,” he said.

By this point, Fernando himself had been looped into the discussion. He and Hartman exchanged emails, but the entire text of Fernando’s letter was redacted by the State Department prior to its release.

Twice, Mannina was instructed to stall with ABC News, before Mills sent a public statement. It announced Fernando’s abrupt decision to step down.

“Mr. Fernando chose to resign from the Board earlier this month citing additional time needed to devote to his business,” it reads, noting that membership on the board was required to be “fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented and the functions to be performed by the advisory committee.”

“As President and CEO of Chopper Trading, Mr. Fernando brought a unique perspective to ISAB. He has years of experience in the private sector in implementing sophisticated risk management tools, information technology and international finance,” the statement says.

The statement was emailed to ABC News two days after Fernando’s resignation and four days after the initial ABC News inquiry.

Fernando’s letter of resignation to Clinton says he “intended to devote a substantial amount of time to the work of ISAB in furtherance of its objectives. However, the unique, unexpected, and excessive volatility in the international markets these last few weeks and months require[d him] to focus [his] energy on the operations of [his] company.”

Additional emails collected from Hillary Clinton’s personal server only hint at her possible involvement in Fernando’s selection to the board. The records request for documents about Fernando’s appointment produced a chain of correspondence from 2010 with the subject line “ISAB” -- or International Security Advisory Board. In those, Mills writes, “The secretary had two other names she wanted looked at.” The names are redacted. Mills then forwarded the response to “H,” which is the designation for Clinton’s personal account. Three minutes later Clinton forwards the email chain to another State official and says simply, “Pls print.”

The Clinton campaign declined requests from ABC News to make Mills available for an interview. Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill deferred to the U.S. State Department, which issued a statement saying the board’s charter specifically calls for a membership that reflects “a balance of backgrounds and points of view. Furthermore, it is not unusual for the State Department Chief of Staff to be involved in personnel matters.”

Cheryl Mills, former State Department chief of staff under former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, attends a House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing in Washington, Oct. 22, 2015. more +
Fernando did not respond to messages left by ABC News at home and mobile numbers listed for Fernando, nor to a letter left at the office of his current business.

As is customary with a new administration, the make-up of the board changed substantially when Clinton took over the State Department, according to Amb. James Woolsey, who served on the panel from 2006 to 2009. But the seriousness of its mission remained the same.

He said the board’s primary purpose was to gather an array of experts on nuclear weapons and arms control to constantly assess and update the nation’s nuclear strategy.

“Most things that involve nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy are dealt with at a pretty sensitive basis -- top secret,” he said, noting that participants meet in a secure facility and are restricted in what materials they can discuss.

That is not typically the realm of political donors, Woolsey said. Though, he added, it would not be impossible for someone lacking a security background to make a contribution to the panel. “It would depend on how smart and dedicated this person was... I would think you would have to devote some real time to getting up to speed,” he said.

Fernando is now a board member of a private group called the American Security Project, which describes itself as “a nonpartisan organization created to educate the American public and the world about the changing nature of national security in the 21st Century.” He also identifies himself online as a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and says he's involved with a Washington think tank.

And he continued to donate to Democrats, and to Clinton. He emerged as one of the first “bundlers” to raise money for Clinton’s 2016 bid. And in July 2015, he hosted a fundraiser for Clinton at his Chicago home. Fernando has also continued to donate to the Clinton Foundation. He now is listed on the charity’s website as having given between $1 million and $5 million.

About six months after Fernando resigned from the State Department advisory board, he was invited to attend a White House State Dinner, honoring the British Prime Minister. And this summer Fernando will serve as a super delegate at the Democratic National Convention. According to Chicago media reports, he has committed to supporting Clinton.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...rd/story?id=39710624

More testimony to Judicial Watch destroys Clinton's defense.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...c84a2c8e4_story.html

The State Dept people who handled FOIA request didn't know Clinton had a private account.

A State Department official produced to answer questions in a civil lawsuit probing Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server said no officials responsible for handling public records requests knew of her private email account while she was secretary, but was instructed not to answer whether the department’s top legal office knew, according to a transcript released Thursday.

Judicial Watch’s lawsuit concerns a 2013 request for public records information about Clinton aide Huma C. Abedin’s employment arrangement.

Lang, a career employee who in July 2015 became director of the Executive Secretariat staff, which is responsible for records management, said that while a unit responsible for FOIA requests was told that Clinton had no government email account when she took office in January 2009, no one in the unit ever asked whether she used a personal account to conduct business before she stepped down in 2013.

Lang said that the director of the FOIA unit once grew curious about the email arrangement “when Mrs. Clinton’s photo appeared in the media with her using, appearing to use some sort of a mobile device.”

Lang, accompanied by four lawyers for the State and Justice departments, was instructed not to answer whether the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser was aware of Clinton’s server, or whether its FOIA process or searches in the Judicial Watch case were adequate.

Such queries violated attorney-client privilege or were a legal judgment, the lawyers with Lang said in objecting.

In her deposition last month, Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department said there had “absolutely not” been an effort to thwart FOIA by using a private email account. Cheryl D. Mills, the former chief of staff, also said she did not recall any discussion about the availability of Clinton’s emails under FOIA before leaving office.

Mills said she was aware that Clinton was continuing a practice she began as a senator by using a personal email account and that Mills thought Clinton’s emails would be subject to the public records law because they would be retained by recipients who used official government addresses. Mills said she regretted that she “didn’t think” about the public-records implications of emails that were sent to non-government addresses.

In her deposition, Lang, who defended the searches in Judicial Watch’s Abedin request as having been sufficient, said Mills’s belief that scouring recipients emails — rather than a sender’s — to reply to a FOIA request was unfounded and unworkable in practice.

“It would not be possible to do that [search for emails from Clinton] except by searching individual . . . by individual, which would not be reasonably possible,” Lang said, explaining: “The department has 70,000 employees worldwide.”

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so Clinton's claim that her emails were documented and available because she sent email to govt email addresses, was a lie. Her emails were still "invisible" to FOIA requests.

Read of the Clintons:

http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...-to-benghazi/396182/

RMD

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Originally posted by sdy:
The State Dept people who handled FOIA request didn't know Clinton had a private account.

A State Department official produced to answer questions in a civil lawsuit probing Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server said no officials responsible for handling public records requests knew of her private email account while she was secretary...

This is either...

1 - A bald faced lie, or,
2 - A group of people so incompetent they should never handle anything more important than lunch orders.

My money's on option 1.

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In her deposition last month, Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department said there had “absolutely not” been an effort to thwart FOIA by using a private email account.

Now that right there is most assuredly a textbook example of a bald faced lie.

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So Clinton's claim that her emails were documented and available because she sent email to govt email addresses, was a lie. Her emails were still "invisible" to FOIA requests.

Not necessarily invisible as there are still some means to get at them, but it would be a rather difficult and imprecise approach. Ultimately it doesn't really matter given it was Clinton's responsibility, under current State Department policy, to safeguard the records, and trying to pawn off that responsibility to others doesn't fly.

That rotten stinks of fish from the head down.

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Originally posted by entropy:
Im still flummoxed at what El Zippo is doing here. There MUST be another moving part to this whole thing...what it is????

He needs Bernie to stop fighting and withdraw before she goes down. If he's still in he'll be the default. If he's out they can then insert Uncle Joe.

It is my deepest hope that if he does not allow Justice to indict her that the FBI blows this up like a bomb. Comey's appointment is for ten years and he just might have the stones to tell Obama to pound sand.

RMD

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...ssified-marking.html

HILLARY LIED, but I repeat myself.

We, the voting public, can not expect nor should we expect her to be indicted by the Justice Dept. The President and his Justice Department will not indict her, in my humble opinion. ( I hope that I am wrong.) We have to make certain that everyone we know gets out and votes in the upcoming Presidential election. Regardless what anyone thinks of Trump, a vote not cast for Trump will certainly benefit the Democrats and they will remain in control over the White House for four more miserable years, adding to the eight years this country has already suffered under BHO. Who ever wins the WH will also decide on the make up of the Supreme Court as well!

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Originally posted by rduckwor:
It is my deepest hope that if he does not allow Justice to indict her that the FBI blows this up like a bomb. Comey's appointment is for ten years and he just might have the stones to tell Obama to pound sand.

RMD

Sadly, this will most likely be the case and we loose Comey who has been one of the better heads of the FBI so Obama gets to name his replacement and you can guarantee he won't appoint anyone nominally close to center and we'll get someone from BLM appointed and they get the spot for 10 years.

Elizabeth Warren visited Clinton at Clinton's DC home.

Warren endorsed Clinton on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show and toward the end of the interview, Maddow asked Warren if she believed she could be a Vice-President, meaning did she feel prepared to be Commander-in-Chief. Warren replied, “Yes, I do.”

http://hotair.com/archives/201...ren-at-her-d-c-home/

What an incredibly terrible pair that would be :

Clinton/Warren

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comment about Comey - Why would he quit ?

We are in the last months of Obama. Comey would be more effective staying in his position.

Hmmm...two women on the ticket?

Not real sure how that will play out but my gut is telling me that it may not play well with the independents and the conservative democrat voters.