COLLECTIVE MADNESS


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Saturday, November 05, 2016

Pat Buchanan Checks In

Hillary’s High Crimes & Misdemeanors


If Hillary Clinton is elected president on Tuesday, and if what Bret Baier is reporting from FBI sources on Fox News is true, America is headed for a constitutional crisis.

Indeed, it would seem imperative that FBI Director James Comey, even if it violates protocol and costs him his job, should state publicly whether what Baier’s FBI sources are telling him is false or true.

The people have a right to know — before Tuesday.

For, if true, Clinton could face charges in 2017 and impeachment and removal from office in 2018.

According to Baier, FBI agents have found new emails, believed to have originated on Clinton’s server, on the computer jointly used by close aide Huma Abedin and her disgraced husband, Anthony Weiner.

Abed in’s failure to turn this computer over to the State Department on leaving State appears to be a violation of U.S. law.

Moreover, the laptops of close Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, thought destroyed by the FBI, were apparently retained and are “being exploited” by the National Security division.

And here is the salient point. His FBI sources told Baier, “with 99 percent” certitude, that Clinton’s Chappaqua server “had been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence services…”

If this is so, Hillary Clinton as security risk ranks right up there with Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White, though they acted out of treasonous ideology and she out of Clintonian hubris. What do these foreign intelligence agencies know about Clinton that the voters do not?

The second revelation from Baier is that the Clinton Foundation has been under active investigation by the white-collar crime division of the FBI for a year and is a “very high priority.”

Specifically, the FBI is looking into published allegations of “pay-to-play.” This is the charge that the Clinton State Department traded access, influence and policy decisions to foreign regimes and to big donors who gave hundreds of millions to the Clinton Foundation, along with 15 years of six-figure speaking fees for Bill and Hillary.

According to Baier’s sources, FBI agents are “actively and aggressively” pursuing this case, have interviewed and re-interviewed multiple persons, and are now being inundated in an “avalanche of new information” from WikiLeaks documents and new emails.

The FBI told Baier that they anticipate indictments.

Indeed, with the sums involved, and the intimate ties between high officials of Bill’s foundation, and Hillary and her close aides at State, it strains credulity to believe that deals were not discussed and cut.

Books have been written alleging and detailing them.

Also, not only Fox News but also The Wall Street Journal and other news sources are reporting on what appears a rebellion inside the FBI against strictures on their investigations imposed by higher ups in the Department of Justice of Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Director Comey has come under fire from left and right — first for refusing to recommend the prosecution of Clinton, then for last week’s statement about the discovery of new and “pertinent” emails on the Abedin-Weiner computer — but retains a reputation for integrity.

And he knows better than any other high official the answer to a critical question that needs answering before Tuesday: Has Baier been fed exaggerated or false information by FBI agents hostile to Clinton?

Or has Baier been told the truth?
In the latter case, we are facing a constitutional crisis if Clinton is elected. And the American people surely have a right to know that before they go to the polls on Tuesday.

What is predictable ahead?

Attorney General Lynch, whether she stays or goes, will be hauled before Congress to explain whether she or top aides impeded the FBI investigations of the Clinton scandals. And witnesses from within her Justice department and FBI will also be called to testify.

Moreover, Senate Republicans would block confirmation of any new attorney general who did not first promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the email and pay-to-play scandals, and any pressure from Lynch’s Justice Department on the FBI.

Even Democrats would concede that a Department of Justice, staffed by Hillary Clinton appointees, could not credibly be entrusted with investigating alleged high crimes and misdemeanors by former Secretary of State Clinton and confidants like Abedin and Mills.

An independent counsel, a special prosecutor, appears inevitable.
And such individuals usually mark their success or failure by how many and how high are the indictments and convictions they rack up.

However, these processes proceed at a torpid pace.

First comes the setting up of the office and the hirings, then the investigations, then the grand jury appearances, then the indictments, then the prosecutions, then the horse-trading for the testimony of the accused and the convicted in return for immunity or leniency.

Steadily, it moves up the food chain. And when a head of state is involved, it is a process deeply debilitating to the nation.

We have gone through this before, twice.

Do we really want to go through it again?

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9 comments:

  1. READ THIS - TURN OFF YOUR IRONY BLOCKER

    Three US troops were killed in a shooting attack outside a Jordanian training facility on Friday, a US official said, following earlier reports that one or two US personnel were dead.

    "A total of three US service members died today in the incident in Jordan," the official said. "Initial reports were that one was killed, two injured. The two injured service members were transported to a hospital in Amman, where they died."

    "The service members were in vehicles approaching the gate of a Jordanian military training facility, where they came under small arms fire," the official added.

    "We are working with the Jordanian government to gather additional details about what happened."

    The shooting took place at the gate of the Prince Faisal airbase in al-Jafr, southern Jordan, when the car carrying the US trainers failed to stop, the Jordanian army said, adding that a Jordanian officer was also wounded.

    READ MORE: Gunman kills five at Jordan police training centre

    Jordan, a key US ally in the Middle East, is a member of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in neighbouring Syria and Iraq.

    US forces have trained a small group of vetted Syrian rebels in Jordan, and American instructors have trained Iraqi and Palestinian security forces in Jordan as well over the past few years.

    Now folks, Let’s ask our military, CIA and State Department geniuses how well vetted were the “vetted Syrian rebels” that wasted the three US servicemen.

    The incident itself indicates the absurdity of our fifteen year crusade in the Middle East and our so-called and claimed ability to pick sides and allies while we meddle in places and events that are none of our business and of which we know next to nothing.

    During our crusade in Iraq, half of all US casualties were caused by IEDs blowing up US vehicles on patrol over Iraqi wars?

    Take your pick: INSANITY or STUPIDITY

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    1. Exactly! Trump or Clinton - stupidity or insanity.


      There is another option

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    2. See here, Smirk:

      FOR QUIRK

      Voting Third-Party Is Not Morally Superior. It’s Just Escapism

      The president-elect will soon be either Hillary Clinton or Donald J. Trump. It is time for Americans to accept this and deliberate on how they will fulfill their political duty.
      Juan Davalos By Juan Davalos
      NOVEMBER 4, 2016


      http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/04/voting-third-party-not-morally-superior-just-escapism/

      You two twins just wish to waltz around with your noses in the air

      If you are not voting for Hillary, Ash, I do admit you have made some progress.

      Now, get off you high horse, get serious, and cast a meaningful vote for Trump.

      Drain the Swamp !
      Clean the Cess Pool !

      Vote Trump !!

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    3. Even you two Snicker Bars must admit The Donald's proposals about revamping Government have a lot to recommend.

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  2. Four beautiful does were in the yard eating the last of our tomato plants, and the cherries from our small tree, just now, when I got back from the 10 point night.

    Wonderful. So tame they almost let me approach them !

    They scooted across the street. They will be back !

    To hell with politics.

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  3. Word from Homeland Security is watch out for some "Q"Nits at polling places Tuesday.

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  4. Sorry to post right over this one, but the Pillger interview with Julian Assange is a must.

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