According to some reports Hillary Clinton’s most trusted aide, Huma Abedin, used the former Secretary of State’s personal email server and if this story is true we may now know why.
According to Charles Grassley an Inspector General report has found she might have used her position to benefit the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Strategies–both of whom she was working for.
Here is more:
Ben Carson calls out hypocrites on Planned Parenthood’s policy of selling aborted baby body parts
Presidential hopeful Doctor Ben Carson spoke at a defund Planned Parenthood rally and he called out the leftist hypocrites who claim a fetus is nothing but a clump of cells but are looking to buy the dead baby organs for research. Here is what he had to say:
“Well isn’t it funny that these same people who say that it’s a meaningless clump of cells are trying to get livers and lungs and kidneys, because how could you have such organs from a meaningless clump of cells,” Carson said. “They’re obviously being hypocritical”
Back in May of this year Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi opened fire outside of a “draw Muhammad” event in Garland, Texas and now some new questions have come to light about Nadir Soofi. It turns out that during Operation Fast and Furious he was allowed to purchase a handgun through the Lone Wolf Trading Co. even though authorities were concerned enough to slap a seven day waiting period on the transaction.
It has been a long time since we have had a Fast and Furious update but you might remember that the Lone Wolf Trading Co. was working with the Federal government in the gunrunning program.
Here is more about this latest development:
Open thread for Sunday, August 2nd: ‘Home Again’
Here is the open thread for Sunday, August 2nd. 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.
I spent last week working in Virginia so we only covered 4 stories but did you miss any of them? If so there is an easy way to make sure it does not happen again. I understand that all of you are busy and cannot always find the time to check the blog for updates so why not subscribe to America’s Watchtower and receive email updates whenever I write a new post? That is the easiest way to follow the blog to ensure you never miss another post.
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After working a few hours in the morning we packed up the van and headed home on an 11 hour drive but here I am and hey it’s good to be back home again.
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders spoke at an event held by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and he had something very interesting to say about illegal immigration. Of course he backs amnesty and a pathway to citizenship; that goes without saying and is not what I found to be interesting.
What I found to be interesting was this:
“Should we have a completely open border so that anyone can come in the United States of America?” Sanders replied, after MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald asked the Senator about his position. “If that were to happen, which I strongly disagree with, there is no question in my mind that that would substantially lower wages in this country.”
“When you have 36-percent of Hispanic kids in this country who can’t find jobs and you bring a lot of unskilled workers in the country what do you think happens to that 36-percent of kids of today who are unemployed? 51% of African-American kids?” he said.
A new–and possibly the last due to a court decision today–video showing a Planned Parenthood official discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts with a person she thought was in the business of buying fetal tissue has come to light and it is disgusting to put it mildly.
In this video the official talks about how the different Planned Parenthood affiliates need to coordinate so that they are on the same page if they are “called out.” They all need to have the same story and they have lawyers to make sure they create layers so that they cannot be “called out” for selling fetal parts across state lines.
It is interesting that she used the term called out rather than the term accused because these two words have vastly different meanings…
Federal Judge threatens to hold IRS Commissioner in contempt of court over IRS targeting scandal
Maybe, just maybe, things are starting to get real regarding the IRS targeting scandal and Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drives because today a Federal Judge, Emmet Sullivan, threatened to hold IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and some Department of Injustice lawyers in contempt of court for failing to comply with a court order.
Here is more:
Judicial Watch announced that U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys in contempt of court after the IRS failed to produce status reports and newly recovered emails of Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS, as he had ordered on July 1, 2015.
During the a status hearing today, Sullivan warned that the failure to follow his order was serious and the IRS and Justice Department’s excuses for not following his July 1 order were “indefensible, ridiculous, and absurd.” He asked the IRS’ Justice Department lawyer Geoffrey Klimas, “Why didn’t the IRS comply” with his court order and “why shouldn’t the Court hold the Commissioner of the IRS in contempt.” Judge Sullivan referenced his contempt findings against Justice Department prosecutors in the prosecution of late Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and reminded the Justice Department attorney he had the ability to detain him for contempt. Warning he would tolerate no further disregard of his orders, Judge Sullivan said, “I will haul into court the IRS Commissioner to hold him personally into contempt.”
The court order in question required the IRS to begin handing over emails related to the Tea Party targeting scandal to Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act but we know how the IRS feels about the law because the agency would not have been in this position in the first place if it did not have a complete lack of respect for the law so it should come as no surprise that the agency did not comply.
The question is; will John Koskinen really be willing to take the bullet for Lois Lerner? I find it hard to believe he will be willing so it will be interesting to see what the next move is–if anything come from this at all, after all there is not even a smidgen of corruption here…
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
Last week two Inspectors General called for an investigation of Hillary Clinton and her use of a personal email server while conducting official State business in order to avoid FOIA requests and Congressional oversight. These two Inspectors General stated that Hillary Clinton had classified emails on her personal server and this is a claim that the former Secretary of State has denied…sort of.
Hillary Clinton’s defense goes something like this: sure there were classified emails on my personal server but at the time I wrote them they were not classified–the reclassification came later.
“I am confident that I never sent or received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received. What I think you’re seeing here is a very typical kind of discussion, to some extent disagreement among various parts of the government, over what should or should not be publicly released,” Clinton said, according to the Associated Press.
“I think there’s so much confusion around this that I understand why reporters and the public are asking questions, but the facts are pretty clear. I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time,”
That is what Hillary Clinton would like us to believe, however these two Inspectors General have quite a different take on the matter.
They are now contradicting Hillary Clinton and are claiming these emails have always been classified and never should have been sent from a personal email server. Here is more:
“These emails were not retroactively classified by the State Department; rather, these emails contained classified information when they were generated and, according to IC classification officials, that information remains classified today,” the inspectors general said.
“This classified information should never have been transmitted via an unclassified personal system,”
And keep in mind that this is just the beginning because these Inspectors General have only been allowed to see 40 out of the 30,000 emails Hillary Clinton turned over to the State Department. There is no telling what might be in the emails they have not been allowed to see…
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
Open thread for Saturday, July 25th: ‘Rebel Yell’
Here is the open thread for Saturday, July 25th. 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.
As you all know, I have been in Virginia all this week and for the next week as well so we only covered 5 stories but did you miss any of them? If so there is an easy way to make sure it does not happen again. I understand that all of you are busy and cannot always find the time to check the blog for updates so why not subscribe to America’s Watchtower and receive email updates whenever I write a new post? That is the easiest way to follow the blog to ensure you never miss another post.
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While I knew I was going to be in Virginia for two weeks I did not realize that I was going to be in the Shenandoah Valley and I have to say it is unbelievably beautiful. I am a big Civil War buff and Stonewall Jackson’s infamous Valley campaign came right through here. The Stars and Bars are still flying here and so I thought this week I would give you Billy Idol singing ‘Rebel Yell.’
I am posting the open thread on Saturday because I am planning on visiting the Chancellorsville Battlefield tomorrow (my one day off) and it is about an hour and a half away. In case you do not know, it was at Chancellorsville that Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by friendly fire prompting General Lee to state “General Jackson has lost his left arm and I have lost my right.”
I visited Gettysburg with my family a few years ago and it was quite powerful and moving to stand on the place where so much history happened and I am looking forward to seeing this battlefield, I just wish my family was here with me.
Inspector General claims Hillary Clinton copied 30,000 emails to a thumb drive and gave them to her lawyer
Two Inspectors General have now asked the Department of Injustice to open up a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server to conduct all State Department business out of the reach of Congressional oversight and FOIA requests. But now we are learning a little bit more and according to this story there may be hundreds of classified emails which were on Hillary Clinton’s personal email server. This is of course something she has been denying all along but the latest revelation is even more stunning:
Additionally, McCullough said, “we were informed by State FOIA officials that there are potentially hundreds of classified emails within the approximately 30,000 provided by former Secretary Clinton” and that these 30,00 emails “are purported to have been copied to a thumb drive in the possession of former Secretary Clinton’s personal counsel, Williams and Connelly attorney David Kendall.”
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