Oh for crying out loud. Another Clinton “scandal” that calls into question Hillary’s trustworthiness. Here’s what happened: Attorney General Loretta Lynch faced continuing questions Thursday related to an awkward encounter with former president Bill Clinton after the two crossed paths Monday at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport. Lynch, who will ultimately determine the outcome of an ongoing investigation into Hillary … Read More
Breaking: Trump Issues Statement On Trump U
Interestingly, he reiterates much of what he says before, although he blames the media for “misconstruing” his earlier comments. It is hard to tell what exactly he is saying was “misconstrued.” But more importantly, I believe, is the last paragraph, where he says he will no longer answer questions or talk about the Trump U case. Hmmmmm. We’ll see. The … Read More
Yawn Of The Week: IG Report On Clinton Emails Tells Us Nothing
The State Department’s inspector general has finally issued his report on email preservation and retention practices within the department, and he has little to say. Let’s start with the fact that it is not unusual practice. OIG identified multiple email and other electronic records management issues during the course of this evaluation….Insufficient Oversight of the Recordkeeping Process….Print and File Requirements … Read More
NC Senator A Member of The KKK?
Anonymous is at it again. The hacking group claimed last month to have hacked multiple KKK Twitter accounts, and obtained some membership rosters of the KKK. This list includes a number of other prominent politicians across the country. Anonymous said it would be unmasking Klan members around the anniversary of the Ferguson protests. Here is the full listing of political … Read More
Benghazi Committee/Clinton Testimony Wrap-up
Well, to watch to Fox News last night, you would think Hillary got pilloried by the committee. Not surprising, but I wondered if they heard the same things I did. The common theme was that “Hillary lied” about Benghazi, although I listened really hard (on Sirius radio) in the hopes that someone would explain exactly what she lied about. And on … Read More
Hillary Clinton vs. Benghazi Committee
Before I get into this, if you’re not up to speed on what the whole Benghazi controversy is about, Vox has a really great primer on the issue. As the primer states, the number of investigations and hearings into the Benghazi incident is unprecedented. Check out these graphs: Today, Hillary Clinton is appearing before the House Benghazi Committee to testify, … Read More
Benghazi Committee Gets Laughable
The House Benghazi investigation committee was supposed to be Hillary’s downfall, but it’s just turned out to be a huge ugly albatross around the GOP and the neck of the committee’s chair, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC). Here’s the latest screw-up: Benghazi committee Chair Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is now returning $6,000 in political donations that are indirectly tied to a PAC that … Read More
The Problem With Trump-Bush-9/11 And Clinton-Benghazi-9/11
I know I’m not the first to bring it up, but there is a huge disconnect going on right now when you tie together to seemingly separate stories. Trump is saying that since 9/11 happened during Bush 43’s watch, Bush 43 bears some culpability. This makes Jeb Bush act all defensive, because (he seems to argue) the President cannot micromanage … Read More
Benghazi Committee Now Deciding What Is Classified (Hint: Only Things That Hurt Clinton)
The letter speaks for itself (but I will highlight for emphasis): Dear Mr. Chairman: On October 7, 2015, you sent me a 13-page letter making a grave new accusation against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Specifically, you accused her of compromising national security and endangering lives. The problem with your accusation—as with so many others during this investigation—is that you … Read More
Shut Down The Benghazi Committee
The normally-unfriendly-to-Hillary New York Times has had enough of the Benghazi thing. That’s pretty surprising since The New York Times has run one phony exclusive after another. First, her famous emails were illegal, except they’re not. Then they were contrary to regulations enacted, oops, 18 months after she left office. Next Hillary was the subject of an FBI criminal probe. … Read More
Worse Than Watergate
The Benghazi investigation has been the longest in special congressional investigative history: The House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks is now the longest congressional investigation in history, committee Democrats announced today. As of Monday, the House Select Committee on Benghazi, has been active for 72 weeks — surpassing the record previously held by the Watergate Committee in the 1970’s. Of course, … Read More
Hillary Clinton Apologizes For…. Something
ABC News: Hillary Clinton on Tuesday told ABC News’ David Muir that using a personal email account while Secretary of State was a “mistake” and that she is “sorry” for it. “I do think I could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier. I really didn’t perhaps appreciate the need to do that,” the democratic presidential … Read More
I Doubt This Is True….
… but this is already the strangest political cycle and Trump is already the strangest political candidate. In any other year, with any other candidate, I wouldn’t even give this story the time of day. But…. well…. I don’t know…. According to four sources with knowledge of the situation, editors and writers at the outlet have privately complained since at … Read More
Hastert Indicted
The Justice Department has charged former House Speaker Dennis Hastert with lying to FBI agents and trying to hide financial transactions intended to keep prior misconduct secret, prosecutors alleged. The 73-year-old Hastert, a top Republican on Capitol Hill before he left Congress in 2007, agreed five years ago to pay an unidentified person $3.5 million “to compensate for and conceal” prior … Read More
Schock Out
It wasn’t the Dowton Abbey-themed office, or the private jets to the Taylor Swift concerts, or the $5k custom-made “Presidential” lectern that finally sent Rep. Schock scrambling for the exit — it was a classic sales grift. According to Politico: … Schock billed the federal government and his campaign for logging roughly 170,000 miles on his personal car from January 2010 … Read More