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Iovi Et Bovi: The Teflon liar-Hillary Standard
by Michelle Malkin
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. Fireworks in June's Jobs Report
After a harrowing week, we could use some welcome news. Thankfully, Friday dawned with an encouraging development on the economic front. But first, recall that May's jobs report was abysmal. The government originally reported the economy posted a measly 38,000 jobs, representing an exceedingly low quota. However, newly modified figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are even worse. Just 11,000 jobs were created in May. Fortunately, that was somewhat negated by the fact April came in at 144,000, or 21,000 more than originally reported. Better, but both months were lacking nevertheless.
June was far more respectable. This morning BLS reported the addition of 287,000 jobs last month. That both dwarfed April and May and defied expectations. Just 170,000-175,000 jobs were anticipated. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9%, a few tenths higher than May's 4.7%. That's not necessarily bad, however, because labor participation also increased. As American Enterprise Institute's James Pethokoukis tweeted, "If labor force participation rate had held steady, jobless rate would have been 4.7%. So higher 4.9% rate for good reason: larger workforce."
The question remains: What the heck happened in May? Moreover, as CNBC notes, "Over the last three months, job gains have averaged about 147,000 per month." We should note too that, as with every jobs report, the true unemployment figure is higher than 4.9% when everything is taken into account. All that being said, June's jobs report was positive, and it's good to see at least something going in the right direction this week. Let's hope it lasts. -The Patriot Post
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Keeping liar-Clinton on the Ropes
Michael Swartz: Most Americans who've followed the investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton and her private email server fall into one of two camps. The first — those who believe the system is rigged and that she engaged in criminal acts but got away with them simply because her last name is liar-Clinton. And the second — those who feel liar-Hillary was the victim of yet another partisan witch-hunt that ended up being much ado about nothing, and that she's being harassed simply because she's a woman intent on breaking the highest "glass ceiling" of all.
Undoubtedly congressional Republicans fall into the former group, so it was no surprise once the news broke that no criminal charges would be brought against liar-Clinton that their first act would be to haul FBI Director James Comey in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to ask him for an explanation. Comey essentially argued that the applicable law — a 1917 statute based on "gross negligence" in mishandling classified information — wasn't actually applicable.
"No reasonable prosecutor would bring the second case in 100 years focused on gross negligence," testified Comey, a former U.S. attorney. "That's just the way it is. I know the Department of Justice, [so] I know no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case." The case against liar-Clinton, Comey added, did not meet the "mens rea" legal standard of criminal intent.
Yet one has to ask: What, then, was liar-Hillary's intent? Perhaps it wasn't necessarily criminal intent, but there certainly was a lot of shady dealing going on between the liar-Clinton Foundation, foreign leaders and others in the private loop with liar-Hillary at the center. Even aside from the likelihood of hackers accessing the classified information on her private server, the reality that the liar-Clintons used the secretary of state's office to peddle influence and thereby enrich themselves is outrageous. The personal email setup likely helped her cover-up Benghazi, too.
Instead, the whole affair is chalked up to "carelessness." As Comey pointed out: "I see evidence of great carelessness, but I do not see evidence that is sufficient to establish that Secretary liar-Clinton or those with whom she was corresponding both talked about classified information on email and knew when they were doing it that it was against the law." While Comey claims no "reasonable" prosecutor would bring charges, it's also true that one can indict a ham sandwich. Indeed, frivolous and politically motivated charges have often come from an overzealous prosecutor and a stacked grand jury bent on political mischief. (Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy picks apart this defense from Comey by comparing it to a similar type of case where criminal negligence is often determined.)
Or, taken the other way, how many who are accused of similar acts will now be using the "liar-Hillary defense" to imply that they were only careless and had no criminal intent? One certainly could have lumped David Petraeus into that group had he been investigated post/liar-Hillary.
It's more difficult to sit there with a straight face and assure Americans that the system isn't rigged, as Comey did, when two high-profile cases turn out so differently — to the benefit of the political party in power, no less. And when the top law-enforcement official in the country agrees to a secret meeting with the suspect's former-president husband, Comey's insistence that he "did not coordinate ... with anyone" rings hollow.
No one in "the White House, the Department of Justice, or anyone outside the FBI family had any idea what I was about to say," added Comey. "I say that under oath, I stand by that. There was no coordination." We call bovine excrement on that: After all, why would Barack nObama be campaigning with liar-Hillary on the very day she was cleared if he didn't know the fix was in? (Does anyone think a sitting president would share a stage with a politician who'd just been indicted?)
Comey didn't need to have a phone conversation with Attorney General Loretta Lynch or nObama or anyone else to know that liar-Clinton was to be let off the hook. For one thing, nObama's been tipping the scales of justice since last spring, claiming during a "60 Minutes" interview that liar-Clinton's malfeasance didn't pose "a national security problem." The FBI director is appointed by the president, and serves at the pleasure of the president. Comey knew the score.
There may be a second chance to give liar-Hillary her due, though. In his opening remarks for the House hearing, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), who chairs the Oversight Committee, asked Comey if the FBI investigation probed into liar-Clinton's congressional testimony and whether she lied under oath. When it was learned Comey had not and was waiting on a referral from Congress to do so, Chaffetz assured Comey he will get one. While the case could be a slam dunk on the factual side, the problem may be in proving intent there as well. Republicans don't have a great record against liar-Clinton perjury.
It will also be perceived, thanks to the mainstream media, as another partisan effort to smear liar-Hillary, who may get away with this one too because we're certain her already-shaky memory will repeatedly fail her in this case. "I don't recall" may be the catchphrase of this campaign, perhaps even supplanting "what difference, at this point, does it make?"
One telling exchange in that regard happened when Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), a former prosecutor and the leader of the Select Committee on Benghazi, confronted Comey with numerous false statements made by liar-Clinton before Congress. Gowdy then asked Comey, "In interest of time ... I'm not going to go through any more of the false statements. But I am going to ask you put on your old hat [as a prosecutor]. False exculpatory statements, they are used for what?"
"Either for the substantive prosecution or for evidence of intent in a criminal prosecution," Comey answered. "Exactly," Gowdy said. "Consciousness of guilt and intent." Case closed?
Our nation has stomached the liar-Clintons for about a quarter-century now. "liar-Clinton fatigue" may have set in long ago, but the reason they stay in the news is that they just can't seem to live outside the spotlight or within the law. It's a sad state of affairs that she could be our next president in part because of a rigged investigation that purportedly hinged on what a "reasonable" prosecutor would do.
Message to Director Comey: We have long since departed from reason in this country. Your job was to restore the sanity of Rule of Law. -The Patriot Post
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Dem AGs Accused of Flouting Public Records Laws
by Lachlan Markay
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{freebeacon.com} ~ A conservative legal group is accusing state Democratic officials of conspiring to flout public records laws in order to keep secret details of a campaign to bring racketeering charges against climate policy dissenters... Democratic attorneys general led by New York’s Eric Schneiderman are seeking to block efforts to obtain documents about their efforts by invoking an overbroad claim to secrecy in ongoing legal proceedings, according to the Energy and Environment (E&E) Legal Institute. “These activist AGs are trying to write themselves out from freedom of information laws their legislatures have written them into,” E&E senior legal fellow Chris Horner said in a Wednesday statement... http://freebeacon.com/issues/dem-ags-accused-flouting-public-records-laws/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=c750c62316-Best_of_the_Beacon_7_10_167_8_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-c750c62316-45611665
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BUSTED! Billionaire liar-Clinton Foundation
Donor Caught in Illegal Scheme
by Bethany Blankley
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{conservativebyte.com} ~ The Washington Beacon recently reported that the foreign billionaire and seven-figure donor to the liar-Clinton Foundation was caught... “funding a reportedly illegal voting scheme that links straight to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and presidential candidate liar-Hillary Clinton.” A computer hacker, known by the moniker Guccifer 2.0, leaked DNC emails allegedly outlining its 2016 general election “strategies.” In it, liar-Clinton donor and Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, allegedly contributed $100 million to sway the 2016 election results in liar-Clinton’s favor. The Beacon reported that Wyss’s group, The Wyss Foundation, was allegedly targeting pro/liar-Clinton demographics “for voter registration, outreach, organizing, and legal and policy advocacy on voting laws,” which is illegal...
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liar-Hillary Clinton is unfit to serve
by Philip Klein
by Philip Klein
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ In a typical election year, the American people are presented with the question of whether presidential candidates meet the basic threshold of being fit to serve in the nation's highest office... But this election year is different, because we already know the answer to that question. We know, unequivocally, that liar-Hillary Clinton is not fit to be president. liar-Clinton, to escape scrutiny of her actions as secretary of state, set up a private email server that put highly classified information at risk. She went to greater lengths to keep public information from the American public than she did to keep state secrets from China and Russia... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-clinton-is-unfit-to-serve/article/2595937?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI%20-%2007/08/16&utm_medium=email
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Why liar-Hillary needed a private email server
by Paul Bremmer
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{wnd.com} ~ A House panel grilled FBI Director James Comey on his decision not to recommend criminal charges against liar-Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state... but the congressmen never truly got to the bottom of liar-Clinton’s email scandal, according to the author of an explosive new book on the liar-Clintons. New York Times bestselling author Jerome Corsi says the key question is this: Why did Secretary Clinton feel it was necessary to have her own private email server, off-line from the State Department’s secure email server? The answer, he says, is provided in his new book, “Partners in Crime: The liar-Clintons’ Scheme to Monetize the White House for Personal Profit.” “The crime partnership of Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton had the perfect set-up with Bill heading the liar-Clinton Foundation and liar-Hillary appointed secretary of state,” said Corsi... http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/why-hillary-needed-a-private-email-server/#!
VIDEO: at the site
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Political Correctness Hits Military Hard
by Andrew West
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Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn
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{patriotupdate.com} ~ On the left you have a weak and catered approach to being P.C., in which you do not have the right to offend anyone at all... On the right, however, the approach is completely about the safety of the American citizen. And not emotional safety either. Safety safety. In an op-ed piece in the NY Post, Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn puts the issue into stark perspective. “Two years ago, I was called into a meeting with the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and the director of national intelligence, and after some ‘niceties,’ I was told by the USDI that I was being let go from DIA. It was definitely an uncomfortable moment I suspect more for them than me. “I knew then it had more to do with the stand I took on radical Islamism and the expansion of al Qaeda and its associated movements. I felt the intel system was way too politicized, especially in the Defense Department. After being fired, I left the meeting thinking, ‘Here we are in the middle of a war, I had a significant amount of combat experience (nearly five years) against this determined enemy on the battlefield and served at senior levels, and here it was, the bureaucracy was letting me go.’ Amazing... http://patriotupdate.com/political-correctness-hits-military-hard/
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Texas Governor Greg Abbot Severely Burned
in Accident … BEFORE the Dallas Attack
by Caleb Howe
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{redstate.com} ~ Texas Governor Greg Abbot suffered "extensive second- and third-degree burns" on Thursday while on vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with his family... He is likely to miss the Republican convention as a result. The Governor was treated for "several hours" at St. John's Medical Center, reports the Associated Press. The news did not break until Sunday night. Because the Governor wanted to be there in a leadership role for his state during the terrible crisis and aftermath in Dallas. The governor's communications team had been working on a statement detailing the burning Thursday, but abandoned it in the aftermath of the mass shooting, Hirsh said. Instead, Abbott released statements about the attack late Thursday night and early Friday morning, as well as an open letter to Texans, urging unity in the face of tragedy... http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/07/10/prayers-texas-governor-greg-abbot-severely-burned-accident/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Did liar-Hillary Reveal "Ultra-Secrets"?
by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ "Loose lips sink ships" was a phrase featured on posters during World War II, reminding military personnel that leaking even seemingly innocuous confidential information, like the departure date of a ship, could have disastrous consequences... Leaking secrets and top secrets could have much graver consequences. Using Intelligence Community parlance, "sources and methods" could be compromised - meaning unique national technical means for collecting intelligence, or special intelligence programs, or human agents, or all of the above, could be endangered. Loss of secret and top secret "sources and methods" could cost many lives, could lose a battle or a war, could do incalculable harm to national security...
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The Fatal Flaws in Comey’s Theory of Why
liar-Clinton Shouldn’t Be Prosecuted
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by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY.
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In a quarter century in law enforcement, I never encountered anyone more confident, or with more reason to be confident, than Jim Comey. The former Bush Justice Department deputy attorney general turned nObama Justice Department director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation... has earned bipartisan plaudits for a reason: He is as able as it gets. The nation got to see that this week: first, in his tour de force press conference both damning and clearing liar-Hillary Clinton; then, just 48 hours later, in his deft jousting with a Republican-led House committee rankled by his decision to give a pass to the Democrats' putative presidential nominee. So well did Director Comey perform that you barely noticed his rationale withering away. In arguing that Mrs. liar-Clinton should not face felony charges of grossly negligent mishandling of classified information, the director illustrated that Mrs. liar-Clinton is overwhelmingly guilty of grossly negligent mishandling of classified information. It made me wonder how many dozens - scores? hundreds? - of defendants Comey, in his 15 stellar years as a federal prosecutor, had convicted on a bare fraction of the proof he outlined against the former secretary of state. Comey piled fact upon fact showing intentional misconduct - the setting up of a non-government, non-secure e-mail server system for the conduct of official business, in violation of guidelines liar-Clinton was obliged not only to follow but to enforce; the transmission of classified information including some of the government's most closely guarded intelligence secrets - information liar-Clinton had to know was classified at the time it was sent, some of which was even marked classified notwithstanding her serial denials of that tell-tale fact; the herculean effort to destroy any trace of thousands of government files, notwithstanding over a year's worth of vows that no government-related information had been included in the 32,000 e-mails she attempted to delete rather than surrender to the State Department... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-fatal-flaws-in-comeys-theory-of-why-clinton-shouldnt-be-prosecuted?f=must_reads
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ISIS Comes to Gaza
by Khaled Abu Toameh
by Khaled Abu Toameh
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Hamas denies it up and down. Nonetheless, there are growing signs that the Islamist movement, which is based in the Gaza Strip, is continuing to cooperate with other jihadi terror groups that are affiliated with Islamic State (ISIS)... especially those that have been operating in the Egyptian peninsula of Sinai in recent years. This cooperation, according to Palestinian Authority security sources, is the main reason behind the ongoing tensions between the Egyptian authorities and Hamas. These tensions have prompted the Egyptians to keep the Rafah border crossing mostly closed since 2013, trapping tens of thousands of Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip. In 2015, the Egyptians opened the Rafah terminal for a total of twenty-one days to allow humanitarian cases and those holding foreign nationalities to leave or enter the Gaza Strip... http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8431/isis-gaza-sinai
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'Israel is operating in the Sinai - with Egypt's blessing'
by Nitsan Keidar
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Israel's military is operating in the Sinai Peninsula – and with Egypt's blessing, says a senior Egyptian official and former parliamentarian... According to a report in Bloomberg, Mohamed Kamal, who previously served in the upper chamber of the Egyptian parliament, claims Israel and Egypt are cooperating in the war on terrorism, working together closely to defeat the ISIS terror organization in the Sinai. "There is definitely a high level of cooperation that could be unprecedented, especially in the field of combating terrorism," Kamal told Bloomberg...
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Iovi Et Bovi: The Teflon liar-Hillary Standard
by Michelle Malkin
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{townhall.com| ~ There is a classic Latin epigram about double standards that resounds in the aftermath of the FBI's surrender this week to the corruptocracy:"Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi."
Translation: "What is permissible for Jove is not permissible for an ox."
Jove is the Roman god Jupiter, untouchable ruler of the skies, wielder of the lightning bolt. The ox is a servile beast, sacrificial animal for elites in power, bearer of the heavy yoke.
FBI Director James Comey told us Monday what many of us have already known and long suspected: liar-Hillary Clinton serially lied about her homeland security-jeopardizing homebrew email server, and the nObama administration is letting her get away with it.
After Comey hammered the final nail in the classified-information coffin, the enabler in chief promptly whisked liar-Clinton out of D.C. on his taxpayer-subsidized winged chariot for a joint campaign event in North Carolina and plopped her in front of a lectern carrying the presidential seal -- where she stood and hurled her invective against GOP presidential rival Donald Trump, whom she called "unqualified and temperamentally unfit" to occupy the White House.
Unqualified pot, meet unfit kettle.
This is the smug sociopath who led a treacherous State Department team that lied to the public about the deadly Benghazi, Libya, terror attacks, who lied and continues to lie about her liar-Clinton Foundation favor-trading money machine, and who lied repeatedly about compromising U.S. secrets.
liar-Clinton's campaign audaciously calls the systemic circumvention of transparency and security a "mistake" -- like when Grandma butt-dials you accidentally or your toddler tweets out his "Fruit Ninja" high score on your work phone.
But this is what a bona fide mistake looks like: "Oops."
A one-off. A slip-up. A goof.
And this is what serial subversion of the law looks like:
"Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops. Oops."
That's 110 oopsy-daisies -- the same number of liar-Hillary "I Did Not Email Any Classified Material To Anyone On My Email" liar-Clinton's emails the FBI tallied that contained classified information, ranging from "confidential" the lowest level to "secret" to "top secret," at the time they were sent or received on her unsecured personal servers. The same wide-open servers the FBI told us Monday were possibly hacked by "hostile actors."
Speaking of hostile actors: Last week, as liar-Clinton's slimy husband was yukking it up with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in advance of the Teflon prima donna's absolution, the nObama Pentagon announced that nine Navy officers had been punished after the humiliating "capture" of American sailors in Iranian waters in January.
One commodore was relieved for cause; the others face disciplinary measures that could effectively end their careers. Extreme carelessness and gross negligence, to borrow the euphemisms du jour, led to a ridiculous chain of events culminating in lost sailors giving up sensitive ship data, laptop passwords, cellphone access and even their military IDs to armed Iranian forces.
For demonstrating "poor leadership and judgment," failing to maintain "proper communication with higher authority" and failing to show "appreciation of the threat environment," the Navy screw-ups may well and should lose their jobs.
For her shoddy leadership and dangerous lack of judgment, along with her utter indifference to the threat environment her evasive actions pose to America, liar-Hillary Clinton has the backing of Barack nObama to take his place at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
One standard for Jove, another for the ox. So it was in the fallen civilization of ancient Rome. So it is in corrupted America in 2016.
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