Elizabeth Warren won’t commit to running for reelection in 2018, refuses to endorse Hillary Clinton for President
Before she held a secret meeting with Vice President Joe Biden to discuss his possible likely Presidential run she conducted an interview and she had some interesting things to say. Namely, she would not commit to running for reelection to the Senate in 2018 and she refused to endorse Hillary Clinton for President in 2016.
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Asked by WBZ-TV’s Jon Keller whether she would promise to seek another term by running in 2018, the liberal firebrand senator from Massachusetts said it is “too early to talk about that.”
What I will say is, I’m committed to getting up every single day and fighting for the families who sent me,” the freshman Democrat said.
Keller pressed on, asking again if Warren was not sure about a second term.
“What I’m doing is I’m fighting for the families who are there in Massachusetts, the families who sent me,” she said.
“So you don’t want to answer that question?” the host asked.
“I don’t want to answer that question,” Warren responded.
When asked about Hillary Clinton she said this:
The EPA knew about the potential for a blowout at Colorado mine but went ahead with the inspection
One week before the EPA accidentally spilled millions of gallons of contaminated water from the Gold King Mine into the Animas River it was predicted this would happen by a retired geologist who even predicted what the EPA would use for an excuse once it did happen. He also claimed this would lead to the EPA calling for more funding and between this story and the report that the EPA was trying to cheat Navajo Indians out of future claims and the rumors about this being no accident began to surface.
Last week the EPA had a classic Friday document dump and it was learned that the EPA knew about the danger of a blowout which could contaminate the river but went ahead anyway. Here is more:
Open thread for Sunday, August 23rd: ‘Shake It’
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There has been talk which had been confined to right-wing circles until Dick Morris came along and lent credence to the theory: Barack Obama, or somebody within his regime, is responsible for the leaks and the negative stories concerning Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Dick Morris believes this is the case and he claims that Hillary Clinton believes this to be true as well.
But the question is why? There are a couple of theories that I have about this: first; there is still bad blood between Barack and Michelle Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton left over from the 2008 campaign, and second; Barack Obama would rather see a candidate emerge from the Democratic primary who he believes is more in tune with his agenda.
I felt that Bernie Sanders was the logical candidate of choice for Barack Obama however there is now talk that if the President, or one of his minions, is behind the sabotaging of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign it is being done in order to set up Joe Biden as the new front-runner. This, according to the theory, is why Joe Biden is holding out when it comes to making a decision to run for President. Again according to the theory, Joe Biden cannot beat Hillary Clinton until and unless she is damaged goods but Barack Obama feels as if Joe Biden is the best person to continue his agenda seeing as how he has been in the regime for the full term. Because of this the campaign to take down Hillary Clinton is actually a vast left-wing conspiracy with the end game of setting up Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee.
Since the time we have learned that Hillary Clinton did in fact, despite her claims to the contrary, receive classified emails on her personal server she–and the State Department–have defended it by stating that these emails have been retroactively stamped classified but were not classified at the time they were originated.
Recently the former Secretary of State has tweaked her message during campaign stops by stating none of the emails were “marked” classified. An interesting qualification don’t you think? I am of the opinion that even if an email is not “marked” classified that Hillary Clinton should instinctively understand which information is sensitive and which is not. In fact I would state her job description required it.
While Hillary Clinton is playing this little game of semantics with state secrets and trying to fool the American people into believing she is only guilty of incompetence and not of criminal activity it turns out, if this story is true, that United States rules do state that some information is considered classified when it is generated even if it is not “marked” as such at the time.
Judge says Hillary Clinton’s emails violated policy, orders State Department to communicate with the FBI
Today a Federal judge, Emmet Sullivan, said that Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server to conduct all State Department business was a violation of policy.
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A federal judge has added fresh fuel to the incendiary controversy over Hillary Clinton’s email, asserting during a hearing Thursday that she violated government policy by storing official messages on a private server when she worked as secretary of state.
“We wouldn’t be here today if this employee had followed government policy,” said U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, apparently referring to Clinton, during a hearing on one of the many Freedom of Information act lawsuits seeking access to her records as secretary of state.
Of course this is not surprising, in fact it is basic common sense to understand that if you are a high-ranking government official you should be using a government account to conduct government business. Judge Sullivan went on to order the State Department to communicate with the FBI in the ongoing investigation.
The State Department did nothing to secure Hillary Clinton’s email server after 2013 hack
Back in 2013 Sidney Blumenthal’s emails, which included correspondence with Hillary Clinton, was hacked and the emails were posted online yet the State Department never followed up and did nothing to ensure Hillary Clinton’s email server was protected according to a new report. (You may remember that Mr. Blumenthal was a secret adviser to the former Secretary of State because Barack Obama made it perfectly clear he did not want him in Hillary Clinton’s cabinet.)
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The State Department likely destroyed Hillary Clinton’s top aides’ Blackberry devices
The State Department is now admitting that it cannot find the Blackberry devices used by two of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, during their tenures at the State Department and most likely they have either been destroyed or sold.
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State Department BlackBerry devices issued to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin have likely been destroyed or sold off, the department said in a court filing on Wednesday.
Mills and Abedin “were each issued BlackBerry devices,” department Executive Secretary Joseph Macmanus wrote in the filing.
The department, however, “has not located any such device,” and believes that they would have been destroyed or removed from the department’s control.
“Because the devices issues to Ms. Mills and Ms. Abedin would have been outdated models, in accordance with standard operating procedures those devices would have been destroyed or excessed,” Macmanus added.State Department spokesman John Kirby confirmed later on Wednesday afternoon that the two former officials’ devices were returned to the department after they left office.
“They belong to the United States government, and when you leave an agency you just turn it in,” Kirby said. “So yes, they were turned in. Where they are now I couldn’t begin to tell you.
“It’s also likely, because this was a while ago, that those devices may have been destroyed,” he added. “I don’t have the records of it because they were old and outmoded and often times we purchase new devices” in those circumstances.
There is no word on whether or not the information on those devices was backed up before they were destroyed but I think I know the answer to that question.
Isn’t this just a little too coincidental? It is beginning to look quite a bit like the IRS targeting scandal…
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
Side deal allows Iran to inspect its own nuclear sites
When John Kerry and Barack Obama finalized the much ballyhooed Iran nuclear deal the President sent it to the United Nations for approval before the Senate had a chance to vote on it. In addition to sending the deal to the United Nations before it was properly ratified the Senate was informed that they would not be allowed to see the two side deals the two regimes struck in regards to nuclear site inspections–they were simply told the deal would require Iran’s nuclear sites to be inspected–and John Kerry went to far as to say the American people could not be allowed to see the deals until after they were ratified.
And now, if this story is true, may may know the reason why they regime feels the need to be so nontransparent. It turns out, get this, that Iran is going to be allowed to inspect its own nuclear sites…you cannot make this shit up!
Is Barack Obama behind the Hillary Clinton email scandal leaks? Hillary Clinton thinks so…
When asked about Hillary Clinton’s email problems in the past Barack Obama has deferred to the State Department while being quite reluctant to come to the defense of his former Secretary of State. This, coupled with the bad-blood that still seems to exist between the Obama’s and the Clinton’s, has led many people, myself included, to question whether or not the leaks in the email scandal are coming from Barack Obama or somebody (Valarie Jarrett?) close to him.
According to Dick Morris this speculation is not limited to the right-leaning blogoshere either: he is now claiming that Hillary Clinton, despite her public claims that this is part of a vast right-wing conspiracy, is also convinced the White House is behind all of her current problems.
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