State Dept. Price a no-show day after he got his butt handed to him by a reporter

The day after State Department mouthpiece, Ned Price, got his butt handed to him by Matt Lee of the Associated Press, he failed to show up for a press briefing. Price is the State Department press secretary and press briefings is his game, so what gives?

On Thursday Price was questioned by Lee who didn't let up with pursuing an answer to his probing about the existence of any evidence to back up Price's claim that the US suspects that Russia might release a fake propaganda video showing Ukraine attacking them and to which they need to respond. The evidence, according to Price, is the fact that Price is telling the press about the suspicion.  

So we are to believe Price because he said so, and if we don't, then somehow we are in bed with the Russians.

Lee wasn't having any of it. He compared Price's statement and lack of data to substantiate his claim akin to "Alex Jones territory."

But even Alex Jones might produce something more than just his words to back up his claims, whether what he produces is real or not, the latter being the case most often.

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Price refused to say whether such a video has already been created nor could he offer any tangible evidence that he would share from the podium because he's obviously doing what Brian Stelter does: making stuff up as he goes along.

So maybe Price had an upset tummy on Friday and couldn't make the presser or maybe he was told to stay away and avoid any possible followup questions on the topic. 

You make the call.

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House Intelligence panel looking at State Dept. over Russia probe

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said Friday that the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee will be examining the State Department and other agencies after the GOP memo was released alleging surveillance abuses.

Nunes told Fox News soon after the release the panel was moving into "phase two" of its investigation over the alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI and the DOJ.

"We are in the middle of what I call phase two of our investigation, which involves other departments, specifically the State Department and some of the involvement that they had in this," Nunes said.

"That investigation is ongoing and we continue work towards finding answers and asking the right questions to try to get to the bottom of what exactly the State Department was up to in terms of this Russia investigation."

The congressman was asked if his panel would be releasing more memos regarding the probe after the White House declassified information allowing the release of a memo alleging that top FBI and DOJ officials abused their powers to spy on members of the Trump campaign.

It isn't known what role, if any, the State Department had in the law enforcement investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collaboration with Russia and its efforts to sway the 2016 presidential election.

Democrats and the FBI voiced concerns over the accuracy of the memo. Even Democrats who hadn't seen the memo said it was inaccurate because they had strong feelings about it misrepresenting their truth.

"If it doesn't ring true, it isn't true," said one Democrat who wished to remain anonymous because he didn't want to be cited for quoting Michael Wolff's logic.



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John Kerry lobbied to get terror group removed from UAE's terrorist list

Former Secretary of State and Vietnam War self-proclaimed hero, John Kerry, secretly lobbied to get the Hamasshole-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) to be removed from the United Arab Emirates' terrorist organization list. These groups were among 83 outed for their connections to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB).

It's public knowledge that the MB has met with Barack Hussein Obama in the White House in spite of their reputation that was easily observed when Egypt's Morsi tried to take total control of Egypt and make it a Sharia-compliant theocracy against the will of the people.

Once CAIR officials were put on the UAE's list, they became incensed and immediately tried getting their terrorist-affiliated organization taken off the list. Their 'go-to guy' turned out to be John Kerry.

Kerry authorized State Department officials to meet regularly with UAE officials in order to lobby on behalf of CAIR and MAS.

CAIR and other Islamic organizations that would like to see Sharia come to our shores, already had Obama's heartstrings, and this included the State Department that had openly legitimized the full spectrum of radical Islamic groups posing as religious or civil rights groups like CAIR and MAS both do. In fact, CAIR touts itself to be "the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization."

But the reality is very different.

Take a few minutes to check out the Brigitte Gabriel vid and see for yourself.


At a daily State Department presser two days after the UAE released its terror organization list, a spokes dhimmie for State said that they don't "consider CAIR or MAS to be terrorist groups" but that it was seeking more information from the UAE about their decision, adding that "as part of our routing engagement with a broad spectrum of faith based organizations, a range of U.S. government officials have met with officials of CAIR and MAS. We at the State Department regularly meet with a wide range of faith based groups to hear their views even if some of their views expressed at times are controversial."

Which means that sometimes they want to destroy Israel and all the world's Jews and Christians, sometimes they just want to pray, depending on the weather.

But really, by State making such a statement affirms the Obama Administration's policy of embracing Islamic extremist groups but calling them "faith based groups."

CAIR, MAS, ISNA and many other groups are all arms of the Muslim Brotherhood. 

Before he was Executive Director for CAIR, Nihad Awad was the public relations director for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), a Hamas propaganda arm in the USA. In a 2001 Immigration and Naturalization Service memo, it documents IAP's support for Hamas and said the "facts strongly suggest" that IAP was "part of Hamas' propaganda apparatus."

IAP was part of the "Palestine Committee," created by the MB to support Hamas both financially and politically. CAIR was added to the Palestine Committee's roster right after its 1994 creation.

The FBI, in a letter to former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) explained that "until we [the FBI] can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner."

Only Obama and his administration did.



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WikiLeaks docs show how aides tried to get Hillary to go legit

Another load of emails by the State Department show how Hillary Clinton's aides tried to get her to go legit and get herself onto a State Department email account instead of using her illegal private server. 

In November of 2010, Huma Abedin, Hillary's top aide and soon-to-be ex-wife of Anthony "Carlos Danger" Weiner, were talking about the fact that Hillary's emails weren't being received by staff.

"I emailed back yes but ops told me they didn't hear from you so didn't make call which I just ordered them to do. Also [deputy chief of staff and Director of Policy Planning] Jake [Sullivan] said he'd been trying to reach me and ops said they had called you about that too. This is not a good system," Clinton said in an email to Abedin on November 13th. 

Since other emails never made it to Hillary's staff, Huma suggested she get onto the legal system of the State Department. But going legit is rarely an option for the Clintons.

"We should talk about putting you on State email or releasing your email address to the department so you are not going to spam. It's not the phone message system, it's the device delay," Abedin wrote to Clinton.

A report in May 2016 by the State Department's Inspector General noted "various staff and senior officials throughout the Department had discussions" about Clinton's use of 'non-departmental systems' (aka illegal private server that FBI Director Comey felt she didn't use to cause a problem with national security, and therefore should be allowed to run the country).

Abedin and others tried to help the possibly brain injured Hillary find alternatives to her use of mobile devices and her desired request to take her unsecured BlackBerry into secure areas. Senior staff discussed setting up a stand-alone computer with Internet connection which was intended "to enable her to check her emails from her desk."

It never happened.

So Hillary never had to go legit and all was well in the Clinton household.



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DCCC computers hacked, Clinton: "What, like with a saw?"

No, the Clinton campaign computers were not hacked by "What, like with a saw?" They were hacked by hackers who may have also hacked Hillary's private server. 

We don't know for certain that Clinton's private server was hacked when she was the incompetent secretary of state, but there is little reason to believe it wasn't. It had less security than a simple Google email account, according to experts.

Anyway, Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton revealed the information about the hacking on Friday, stating that the cyber breach was part of a larger cyber attack on the DNC. The information was made public this week. 

The violation occurred in a DNC data program used by the Clinton campaign and "a number of other entities," Merrill said, cryptically.  He also said that security experts hired by the Clinton campaign  found "no evidence" that the campaign's internal systems were hacked, either with a hacksaw or by any other means.

The Clinton-supporting FBI is "investigating" the breach as well as another attack on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). 

Reuters was first to report the investigation and said the Justice Department's national security division was trying to determine whether the cyberattacks were a national threat.

While the FBI didn't mention the Clinton campaign by name, they said it was aware of reporting "on cyber intrusions involving multiple political entities, and is working to determine the accuracy, nature and scope of these matters."

The hacking report comes the same day the cyberattack on the DCCC (an organization that raises money for Democratic congressional candidates, like the Clinton Foundation raises money for the Clintons political ambitions) was made public. The DCCC hack is very similar to the DNC files breach.

So-called President Barack Hussein Obama said Russia was almost certainly responsible for the DNC hack, (with the blessings of Donald J. Trump, he implied) and experts agree. In fact, two cybersecurity firms said they found evidence pointing to the Russians that involve the DNC hack attack when they analyzed the methods that were used--put that in your borscht and eat it, Vladimir.

The hacker groups, identified as Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, used sophisticated techniques to break into the DNC database to attempt avoiding detection. Most of the emails seem to have been hacked since May 25th.

The DNC breach resulted in about 19,000 internal emails being made public by WikiLeaks. And while the Obama-Clinton folks would like to see Julian Assange dead, the GOP would like to buy him a beer and talk about stuff.

The DNC leak led to Debbie Wasserman Schultz to step down from her role as Hillary Advocate against Bernie, but that was just a smokescreen as she now is Hillary's 'go-to girl' for the campaign to make America socialist.

One private sector cybersecurity firm, FireEye, told Fox News that after analyzing the malware used for the hacking, it was carried out by a Russian government aligned hacking group called "Tsar Team (APT28)." 

This group is notorious for hacking foreign targets on behalf of Putin. The group's slogan is: "Reset Button, Schmeset Button. Ha." They've even choreographed a dance to go along with it.

The hacking situation and indications of Russian involvement has made a political issue in the U.S. presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Trump asked Russia to find and release over 30,000 additional missing emails that Clinton deleted when she was an incompetent secretary of state. The Democrats accused Trump of trying to get Russia, a foreign adversary, to commit espionage that could affect the November election.

Trump said he was kidding. He said it was merely sarcasm. He shrugged. 

The fact is, Hillary deleted those thousands of emails from her non-secure private server, using the excuse that the emails were private. She never handed them over to the State Department as she was required to do. But because she is a Clinton, and unimpeachable, and would keep Loretta Lynch on as Attorney General if she wins the election, nothing at all was done about it and the FBI Director, James Comey, let it slide.


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