It is becoming more and more obvious to me that Hillary Clinton used the State Department for her own personal gain. The State Department and the Clinton Foundation seem to have been intertwined, if you want favors from the former the best way to make sure you get them is to make donations to the latter. What better way to meet with the most influential people in the world than to do so under the guise of official business while getting taxpayer funded transportation?
But of course the official State Department calendar might lead people to ask questions if they saw her meeting with donors and Clinton Foundation contributors too many times so why go through the hassle of writing everything down when you can just meet in secrecy and avoid all questions about the possibility you are using the State Department for profit? That is what Hillary Clinton seems to have decided because according to this story the former Secretary of State omitted 75 meetings from the State Department calendar. Here is more:
Hillary Clinton failed to turn over email related to security concerns about her private email server
Yesterday we learned that there was a security issue for a brief period of time in relation to Hillary Clinton’s decision to conduct all State Department business on her personal email server. This concern led the State Department to disable security features on the government’s server while the problem was worked out. You can read more about that story here.
Now we are learning, according to this story, that Hillary Clinton failed to turn over an email related to this issue, here is more:
Bryan Pagliano pleads the Fifth over 125 times during Judicial Watch’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal
After a brief delay the man who set up and maintained Hillary Clinton’s personal email server, Bryan Pagliano, “testified” during the Judicial Watch inquiry into the email scandal today. I put the word testified in scare quotes because it was not much of a testimony at all, in fact he plead the Fifth more than 125 times while his lawyers blocked several other questions from even being asked even though he had previously been granted immunity.
Here is more:
A former computer technology aide to Hillary Clinton repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment Wednesday during a court-ordered deposition in a lawsuit related to Clinton’s private email set-up, according a conservative group pressing the legal case.
Tech specialist Bryan Pagliano asserted his constitutional right against self-incrimination “more than 125 times” during the testimony, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in an interview.
In addition to refusing to answer questions based on the Fifth Amendment, Pagliano’s attorneys repeatedly stepped in to block answers to other queries they said went beyond the scope of topics allowed by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, Fitton said.
“On many of the key issues, he took the Fifth,” Fitton said. “He took the Fifth even on questions about his resume. They had a very narrow definition of what discovery” was permitted, the Judicial Watch official said.
Asked what questions Pagliano did answer, Fitton said he believed the tech aide acknowledged that he had read documents shown him by attorneys at the deposition.
Pagliano’s lead attorney, Mark MacDougall, declined to comment Wednesday.
Firewall with Bill Whittle: ‘Guns, Islam, and Orlando’
Bill Whittle is back with a new Firewall video which is entitled “Guns, Islam, and Orlando” and as usual it is a must see so without further ado here it is:
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Out of all the amendments to the Constitution in the Bill of Rights the Second Amendment is the most clear in my opinion because it clearly states the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed–PERIOD. I find the Second Amendment to be far more clear than the First Amendment because the First Amendment states “the CONGRESS shall make no law” when it comes to establishing a religion or denying the free exercise of religion, or of free speech, or the right to peacefully assemble, or to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The wording of the First Amendment leaves open the possibility that the States can in fact regulate it and that is something which can be debated, whereas the Second Amendment removes all doubt with its wording. Nobody can infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms and that is a distinction in wording that I believe has been lost on the majority of the American people, but it is a distinction which should not be ignored.
Yet the left seems to have a problem with the wording of the Second Amendment due to the militia being mentioned in the descriptive clause of the amendment. They feel as if the mention of the militia in the Second Amendment muddies the waters when it comes to who has the right to keep and bear arms and it all comes down (in their minds) to that comma which separates the descriptive clause from the active clause in the amendment.
Here is a video which is just over one minute long where Penn & Teller explain the Second Amendment, and that comma, in just over one minute. There is an F-Bomb in the video put it just helps to drive the point home.
Enjoy:
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The FBI to release redacted Orlando terrorist 911 tapes without references to terrorism
The reaction of both the left and the right in the wake of the Orlando terrorist attack in a gay nightclub last week was as predictable as it was disgusting: the right used this tragedy in an attempt to exploit Barack Obama’s ineptitude and seemingly unwillingness to confront a scenario which is likely to become more commonplace as the weeks go on while the left took advantage of this horrible act to push gun control.
In my opinion this was disrespectful to the dead, their families, and their friends and I purposely avoided getting sucked into the debate last week because I found it to be unseemly to use such a tragedy to promote a political agenda in the guise of doing it to honor the dead–on both sides.
The reaction was agenda driven and had nothing to do with anything else and the agenda is still being driven with the news that the FBI is going to release the 911 transcripts…sort of.
Judge Andrew Napolitano video: ‘The Lying Class’
It can be argued that at times lying is acceptable and in some cases could be morally justified. A case of morally justified lying is stated by Andrew Napolitano in the video I am about to share when he asks if it was okay for a ship caption who was transporting slaves to freedom and was stopped on the seas by the government who enslaved his passengers if it was okay for him to lie about the identities of his passengers. The answer is obvious to me!
He then goes on to cite the case of Martha Stewart as an example of the government being able to lie with impunity: an FBI agent lied to Martha Stewart and then she lied to the FBI agent. She went to jail and the FBI agent kept his job. He then asks: “What is it about the government, its agencies, and its employees that they can lie to us with impunity but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?”
We have come to the point in American politics where the vast majority of the people have come to expect the government to lie to them, in fact it has gotten to the point where the American people are willing to excuse the lies because it just seems to be politics as usual and that is a dangerous place to be as a people.
As Judge Napolitano states in this video the difference between a lie and the truth depends on whether “one is in the governing class or the governed class.” This is brilliant in my opinion and it should cause everyone to think.
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Sunday, June 19th open thread: ‘Let’s Go To Bed’
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there!
Here is the open thread for Sunday, June 19th. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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As America’s Watchtower warriors know, The Cure is my favorite band of all time, and last Thursday they played in Boston. This was their first tour of the United States in 8 years and I had to pay a heavy price to see them because most of the tickets seemed to have been bought up by scalpers but it was well worth it.
The Cure is known for their heavy, dark, brooding music and lyrics but they have a diverse catalog of music and I have decided to share one of their more upbeat songs because the set they played was surprisingly upbeat after the first hour of a 2 1/2 hour show.
Here is The Cure performing “Let’s Go To Bed” from last Thursday night in Boston and if you look real close you might actually see Robert Smith try to dance.
Enjoy:
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In this video Judge Jeanine explains why Hillary Clinton is so confident that an indictment will not be handed down in the FBI’s criminal investigation into her email scandal. Basically the former Secretary of State has sent a veiled threat to the President of the United States and hundreds of members of the Federal Government because they all knew she was using a private email server, therefor they are complicit in the scandal.
Here is the video which explains it all:
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Leaked Democratic National Committee documents prove that Bernie Sanders was right when he claimed the system was rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. This, of course, is not exactly earth-shattering news because anyone watching the way the Democratic Party used the superdelegates could see the fix is in.
However these documents do show us how the DNC was working with the mainstream media both to ensure Hillary Clinton was the nominee and to make sure the mainstream media knew how to deal with the Republican contenders.
Here is more:
The document shows that Clinton and the DNC have been working in together against Sanders from at least the spring of 2015.
The document, dated May 26, 2015, shows that the DNC had already chosen Clinton as the party’s expected nominee and was going to work with reporters from mainstream outlets to downplay Clinton’s negatives and to highlight her positives throughout the course of the primary.
The document was created on same day that Sanders announce his candidacy.
The document also shows the DNC working against former Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb—who all launched candidacies of their own—and also against Vice President Joe Biden, who was considering his own candidacy.
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