Former Sen. Menendez learns his fate in corruption, bribery case

Former Democratic Senator from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, has finally learned his fate in the bribery and corruption case that had him resigning his seat in disgrace.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As the grand jury charged, between 2018 and 2022, Senator Menendez and his wife engaged in a corrupt relationship with Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes – three New Jersey businessmen who collectively paid hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes, including cash, gold, a Mercedes Benz, and other things of value – in exchange for Senator Menendez agreeing to use his power and influence to protect and enrich those businessmen and to benefit the Government of Egypt. My Office is firmly committed to rooting out corruption, without fear or favor, and without any regard to partisan politics. We will continue to do so.”

In June 2022, the FBI raided the New Jersey home of Menendez and his lovely wife Nadine. During the search, they uncovered evidence of a bribery scheme, which included cash, gold bars, a luxury convertible, and furniture. They found more than $480,000 in cash, a lot of it hidden in envelopes stuffed into clothes, closets, and a safe. Additionally, over $70,000 in cash was discovered in Nadine Menendez's safe deposit box, which was searched under a different warrant. Some envelopes had fingerprints or DNA from Daibes or his driver. Others were tucked inside jackets with Menendez's name on them, hanging in his closet. 

But today is the day of reckoning. Bob Menendez got sentenced to 11 years in prison and his career in public life is in the toilet of time. Boss Bob, as he is known in the Garden State, had evaded accountability for his shady schemes but his past has finally caught up to him.

Did I mention Menendez is a Democrat?

In 2015, the Obama Justice Department tried to convict him regarding his relationship with a Florida-based ophthalmologist and donor, Salomon Melgen. In return for allegedly pushing his business interests, Melgen plied him with expensive gifts. Later, the business man would be found guilty of being involved in a Medicare fraud scheme. And while Menendez was able to skate by the law, the Justice Department kept an eye on him.

In 2023, he was indicted after almost $500,000 in cash was discovered throughout his home, including a horde of gold bars. He earned the moniker “gold bar Bob” over this discovery.

Last July, a jury found him guilty on all counts.

His sentencing came hours after the judge sentenced developer Fred Daibes to seven years behind bars for bribery.

For now, Nadine Menendez hasn't been sentenced. She was charged alongside Bob, a Democrat, but her trial has been indefinitely delayed as she is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Her trial was to start on March 18, 2025, after a previous delay. The judge stated there will be no further extensions.

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Massachusetts US Attorney Rachael Rollins resigns over DOJ probe into Dem fundraiser attendance

U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins will be resigning following an investigation that lasted a month by the Justice Department's inspector general over a Biden fundraiser and other potential ethics violations. 

So another Democrat bites the political dust.

Rollins told The Associated Press that she will be submitting her resignation letter Friday [today] to our so called President Joe Biden. This is not a frequent occurrence and is especially a big deal for a Justice Department run by AG Merrick Garland who tends to bend over backwards for fellow Democrats, regardless of their behavior.

Rollins’ attorney, former Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich, said Rollins would be stepping down by Friday.

"Rachael has been profoundly honored to serve as U.S. Attorney over the past 16 months and is incredibly proud of all her office has accomplished during that limited time, especially in the areas of gun violence and civil rights," Bromwich said, leaving out the unethical parts.

"She is optimistic that the important work she started will continue but understands that her presence has become a distraction. The work of the office and the Department of Justice is far too important to be overshadowed by anything else."

The inspector general's office opened an investigation into Rollins last November, over her appearance at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser featuring first lady and eminent Doctor Jill Biden.

The probe then metastasized into other areas such as Rollins' personal cell phone use to conduct Justice Department business. It also probed into a trip she took to California that was paid for by an outside group, which is an ethics problem as it looks like, and might be, influence peddling as seen with President Biden and his drug addled, whoring son, Hunter.

In a July tweet, Rollins said she "had approval" to meet the eminent Doctor Jill Biden and left the event early to speak at two community events.

Someone familiar with discussions before that event said that Rollins was only given limited permission to meet the eminent Doctor Jill Biden outside the home.

Rollins acknowledged the investigation during a December meeting with reporters, saying she doesn't want her office to be "distracted" by the probe, which is code for "I screwed up and got caught," but at least she didn't claim that she wants to spend more time with her family.

So Rollins falls in lockstep with another Democrat and another Soros-funded St. Louis circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. 

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Jim Comey illegally used private email account

Fired FBI director James Comey used his private Gmail account HUNDREDS OF TIMES to conduct sensitive government business. At least seven of those email messages were deemed so freaking sensitive by the Justice Department, they declined to release them.

Comey, who is capable of acting incredibly sincere while lying through his teeth repeatedly claimed in that sincere "Lordy, Lordy" way he has, that he only used his private account for "incidental" purposes and never for any classified information.

Dear Vladimir,
Those diagrams I promised you on the F-35 will be in tomorrow's email. Peace, brother--Love, Jimmy.

The Justice Department acknowledged in response to a FOIA request that Comey and his chief of staff spoke about business on about 1,200 pages of messages, 156 of which were obtained by The Post, and 1,200 obtained by Russia, North Korea and China.

The Cause of Action Institute, a conservative watchdog group, filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit for Comey's Gmail emails involving his FBI work.

The Justice Department nearly had a cow when they discovered that there were 1,200 pages of messages for Comey and his chief of staff that fell into that category.

Justice handed over the 156 but refused the release of the seven because they would "disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions."

Another 363 emails were withheld as they discussed privileged agency communications or out of personal privacy concerns.

The CEO fo Causeof Action slammed Comey for minimizing how he used his Gmail account. "Using private email to conduct official government business endangers transparency and accountability, and that is why we sued the Department of Justice," said John Vecchione.

"We're deeply concerned that the FBI withheld numerous emails citing FOIA's law enforcement exemptions. This runs counter to Comey's statements that his use of email was incidental and never involved any sensitive matters."

Great point--if Comey was telling the truth, why try to withhold the emails in the first place?

Ironically, on Oct. 7, 2015, Comey recognizes his hypocrisy of his agency investigating Hillary Clinton's email practices while he's exchanging FBI information on his own private account because his government account was down.

Two days after his "mobile is not sending emails," Comey asked an aide that the testimony he was to deliver to the Senate be sent on his private account, noting that it was an "embarrassing" situation.

"He [the aide] will need to send to personal email I suppose," Comey wrote. "Embarrassing for us."

Lisa Rosenberg, executive director of Open the Government, a nonpartisan coalition advocating for government transparency, said that Comey's practice of using personal email while investigating Clinton reeks of a double standard.

"It's just so transparently hypocritical to have one standard for a person you are investigating and an entirely different standard for yourself when you are the one who's enforcing the law," she said.

But that's like telling Jim Acosta to put the mic down.

The fact that Comey lied to the inspector general at Justice, and thumbed his nose at the public, should justify Justice seeking justice in this case.

Comey is not the Boy Scout he pretends to be. He is a full-blown liar and hypocrite. If he skates past these concerns, then there is a separate justice for those at the top.

More email release is expected soon.


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Will Judge Jeanine replace Jeff Sessions?

The rumor mill is working overtime in the Trump administration. The latest scuttlebutt is that Judge Jeanine Pirro of the Fox News Network is looking to return to jurisprudence but not in any courtroom, in the role of attorney general replacing Jeff "I Recuse Myself" Sessions.

According to a report by Politico released Thursday, Pirro, a former Westchester County, New York district attorney and judge wants to replace Sessions who heads the Justice Department. The report states that she has repeatedly told President Trump's aides and advisers for the past year and a half that she is interested in taking over as the country's top law enforcement official, as stated by four people familiar with the conversations.

"Trump has dangled the possibility of giving her a top appointment. During a November meeting in the Oval Office, the president raised the possibility of nominating Pirro to a federal judgeship, according to a former administration official, though this person added that Trump was more likely engaging in flattery than seriously considering putting  Pirro on the bench."

Her colleagues at Fox evidently "laughed" at the idea of her getting a senior position within the Trump administration, but the way the president appears to operate, I wouldn't put it past him.

Even Politico mentioned that Trump has "demonstrated a penchant for bringing cable news stars into his administration--most recently tapping CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow to be his top economic adviser."

And let's not forget that Trump used Kim Kardashian West as his prison reform adviser.

Trump has been publicly critical of Sessions over his recusal with the Russia investigation and being the catalyst for the Mueller clown car act. Most recently, Trump made it once again clear that he wouldn't have chosen Sessions if he had known about his meetings with then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.

Who are we kidding--Trump loves theater and Jeanine Pirro would be an added attraction to his administration. So don't count her out, in spite of the blowback Trump may get from many Republicans.

Remember, Sessions was a staunch Trump supporter due to his immigration stance, and he gave up his seat in the Senate to join his administration. A seat he would have likely held until retirement but which fell to the Democrats in the Roy Moore washout.

In a way, I hope Pirro stays put--Trump has more important things on his Big Mac.


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Judge orders feds to release the hounds on Clinton's emails

"I'll get you, my pretty--and your little
dog too!"

A federal judge ordered the FBI to disclose more details regarding how they [mis]handled their investigation into Hillary Clinton's illegal, secret email account, known to have contained Special Access Program (SAP) documents, top secret and other classified emails. 

SAP documents are even more highly classified than top secret and contain names of operatives in the field--compromising these SAP documents clearly puts those lives in danger.

People have gone to prison for much lesser offenses, but Hillary Clinton continues to breathe the air of a free traitor.

U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said court papers describing the grand jury subpoenas the FBI received to compel information from Clinton's internet service providers can be made public. He overruled objections by the TRUMP administration that insisted making the information public would violate grand jury secrecy rules.

"After reviewing the document in camera, the court concludes that it largely rehashes information already made public, thus obviating any need for secrecy," Boasberg said.

Conservative advocacy groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action Institute, have been pushing the government for more information about Clinton's emails and they applauded the judge's ruling.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, said he didn't understand why the Trump administration was still backing the Obama administration's fight against transparency in this case.

Was Trump merely kidding about putting Hillary Clinton in prison?

"President Trump ought to be outraged his appointees are protecting Hillary Clinton," Fitton said. "The State Department should initiate action with the Justice Department--and both agencies should finally take the necessary steps to recover all the government emails Hillary Clinton unlawfully removed." 

Clinton said she included all of her work-related emails when returning them to the department, then wiped the secret server,which she kept in her home. 

She cleaned the server with BleachBit, not with a "cloth" as she told Fox News' Ed Henry,  feigning stupidity of the process to likely hide her guilt. She said the emails she wiped were her daughter's wedding plans and some yoga lessons.

Top Secret Yoga move

Yes, top secret yoga lessons.

However, the FBI was able to obtain some work-related emails that Crooked Hillary didn't turn over, which raises the question of what else did she hide from the American people.

The FBI also refused a Freedom of Information Act request this week from a New York lawyer seeking the file on its investigation into Hillary Clinton. They claimed there was too little public interest in the case [even though they never actually polled the public in that regard] to outweigh Clinton's privacy interests.

In Hillary Clinton's case, it isn't about privacy interests--it's about secrecy needs.


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The "Mooch" scream-tweets "felony" leak

President Trump's second in command (apparently) and Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci, tweeted a promise to contact the FBI over what he termed a "felony" leak of his financial information. The "Mooch" has since deleted his tweet, but it created speculation that the message was intended for Chief of [some] Staff Reince Priebus.

The deleted tweet read:

"In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony, I will be contacting @FBI and the @JusticeDept #swamp @Reince45."

Scaramucci tweeted this after a Politico report on his financial holdings was published, showing he earned $4.9 million from his ownership stake in SkyBridge and over $5 million in salary between Jan. 1, 2016 and the end of June when he joined the Export-Import Bank.

The fact that he included Priebus' twitter handle gave the impression he was suspicious of him and was asking the FBI to probe Priebus. However, Scaramucci denied this after deleting the tweet and tweeting:

"Wrong! Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. @Reince45."

In an interview with Fox News' Hannity, 'for you, the American people,'  on Wednesday, Scaramucci said "we're going to let people go if we have to."

"One of the big problems that I'm discovering is that senior people are really the guys doing the leaking and they ask junior people to leak for them," he told Hannity, a guy who has nothing negative ever to say about President Trump and would gladly take a bullet for him.

Following Scaramucci's appearance, Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores issued a statement vowing to pursue these cases:

"We have seen an astonishing increase in the number of leaks of classified national security information in recent months. We agree with Anthony that these staggering number of leaks are undermining the ability of our government to function and to protect this country. Like the Attorney General has said, 'whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail,' and we will aggressively pursue leak cases wherever they may lead."

Although Scaramucci called his leaked financial information a felony, it's likely not, because the information is publicly available.


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POTUS full frontal attack tweeting

President Trump went on a free-associative Twitter rant Saturday morning. He attacked Hillary Clinton, the New York Times, and good old Hillary Clinton as well as others he likes to attack.

Trump first tweeted about the Washington Post story where anonymous sources alleged Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke to a Russian ambassador during the 2016 presidential campaign about policy issues and other things. 

My source, who goes by the pseudonym Vinny Boombots, said that the Post's source is Hillary Clinton and that she admitted to him that she made the whole thing up because she's angry over her loss to a television personality.

Trump tweeted:

"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!"

The Post wrote, based on unnamed current and former U.S. officials, that Sessions, a then-Trump adviser, had "substantive" discussions about policy and other issues with Servey Kislyak, the Russian Ambassador.

Mr. Boombots explained that Hillary was the unnamed current and former U.S. official(s) but said she would deny it if asked.

Follow-up Trump tweet:

"So many people are asking why isn't the A.G. or Special Council looking at the many Hillary Clinton or Comey crimes. 33,000 e-mails deleted?"

Trump was apparently upset over the myriad investigations into whether his associates colluded with Russia to win the presidential election over Clinton rather than looking into Clinton's obvious relationship with Russia when she was Secretary of State and her husband got paid $500,000 for a speech he gave to Russia's Renaissance Bank, which was to be sanctioned for human-rights abuses, but was spared sanctioning after Bill's speech.

Hmm.

So Trump tweeted about that:

"What about all of the Clinton ties to Russia, including Podesta Company, Uranium deal, Russian Reset, big dollar speeches etc."

Like a good dad, Trump sent out a defense tweet for Donald Jr. who's in the middle of the Russia meddling-collusion debacle after he and other Trump associates met with a Russian lawyer in June 2016. She promised Jr. some dirt on Hillary.

Trump tweeted:

"My son Donald openly gave his e-mails to the media & authorities whereas Crooked Hillary Clinton deleted (& acid washed) her 33,000 e-mails!"

On Friday, Trump named Anthony Scaramucci as his new White House communications director and demoted Sean Spicer from the post. Spicer honorably resigned. 

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has now officially become the new White House Press Secretary. Her job is one of the toughest in the Trump administration.

Another Trump tweet attacked The New York Times and its "sick agenda" regarding national security and that it "foiled" a U.S. strike on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

"The Failing New York Times foiled U.S. attempt to kill the single most wanted terrorist, Al-Baghdadi. Their sick agenda over National Security."

The specific attack Trump was referring to and why he attacked The Times was unclear.

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said on Friday that he still believes Baghdadi is still alive. Knowing Mattis, I wouldn't rule it out.

Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores responded to The Washington Post story Friday regarding the Sessions piece and said, "Obviously I cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the Washington Post has not seen and that has not been provided to me.

Vinny Boombots

"But the Attorney General stands by his testimony from just last month before the Senate Intelligence Committee when he specifically addressed this and said that he 'never met with or had any conversations with any Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election.'"

Vinny Boombots agrees with Ms. Flores adding that "The only person I know of who would spread vicious rumors about Jeff Sessions would be Eric Holder or maybe Kamala Harris. Holder onnaconna he's jealous Sessions has his job, and  Kamala Harris  onnaconna she wants to make Trump's administration look bad when she plans to run for president in 2020. 

"Six on one hand . . . half a dozen on the other. You know what I'm sayin'?"


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Leaker Nabbed!

They finally made some headway in the Russian hacking efforts. A federal contractor was arrested over the weekend--she is accused of leaking a top secret intelligence report on Russian hacking efforts during the presidential campaign last year.

Reality Leigh Winner, 25, appeared in federal court in Augusta, GA. She is facing the reality of one charge of removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, the Justice Department said.

Winner's arrest was announced soon after the Intercept website published a story on Russian hackers attempting to penetrate computers belonging to over 100 local election sites. The story cites an NSA report that claims the hacking efforts were masterminded by Russia's military intelligence unit known as the GRU.

Although the DoJ didn't specify that Winner was being charged in connection with the Intercept's report, the site noted that the NSA report cited in its story was dated May 5 while the affidavit supporting Winner's arrest stated that the report was dated "on or about" May 5. 

Coincidence? Not likely.

According to The Washington Examiner Winner worked for Pluribus International Corporation assigned to a U.S. government facility in Georgia. (The Georgia down south in the U.S.A., not Russia's Georgia.)

She held a top-secret classified security clearance, which goes to show us that they're as easy to get as an Obama phone.

Then there's always the usual suspects like WikiLeaks' Julian Assange who said that must be supported. "She is a young woman accused of courage in trying to help us know," Assange stupidly said.

No, she is a young woman accused of violating the Espionage Act and being a traitor, and not all information should be made public for national security purposes, you freaking idiot.

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Prosecutors said the young Loser admitted to printing off a copy of the NSA report and sending it to an "online news outlet." The outlet contacted federal authorities and it was determined the information had been illicitly leaked.

Winner (her name is an oxymoron) was identified as the leaker after investigators determined that she was one of six people to print the report off her computer (not very bright) and the only one of the six to have contact with the news outlet.


The alleged violator of the Espionage Act was home when questioned Saturday. She admitted that she was aware of the contents of the report and that "the contents of the reporting could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation.

It looks like Reality needs a reality check and a change of her last name.




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AG Sessions warns 'dangerous' sanctuary cities

Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke at the White House briefing today and launched into the issue of sanctuary cities. He told reporters the noncooperation of sanctuary cities with immigration authorities is "dangerous" and will cost them in federal funding.

This is the Trump administration's strongest warning thus far as Sessions made it clear that federal law allows withholding of federal money to sanctuary cities and the administration will take that step.

"Such policies cannot continues," Session said. "They make our nation less safe by putting dangerous criminals back on the street."

Although the term 'sanctuary cities' is not technically true, it refers to communities that refuse to work in conjunction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials after detaining illegal immigrants who have broken the law. Federal law requires communities to inform the federal authorities when they have an illegal alien in custody, even if not convicted of a crime.

Liberal cities run by politicians who are not personally affected by illegal immigrant crime, such as New York, LA, and Chicago, along with a host of smaller counties, cities and towns, also refuse to notify ICE, who can then take custody of the illegal immigrant and possibly deport him or her back to the country of their origin.

"The American people know that when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe," Sessions said, and gave Kate Steinle, the young woman killed by an illegal alien when walking with her father. The illegal alien had been deported five times with seven felonies. He was released from custody by local authorities just eleven weeks before shooting Ms. Steinle to death.

Sessions said that communities applying for DoJ grants will be required to show they are following immigration law.

Gee, that's a novel idea.


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Some conspiracy theories might be true

I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am not a big fan of Alex Jones because he makes everything sound like a conspiracy--like Jesus had help moving the stone away from in front of the cave he was placed in after being taken off the cross.

But there is something about the $400 million in ransom money the Obama administration paid Iran for the release of four hostages.

Yes, I called it ransom money because anyone with an IQ about room temperature knows that a 37 year old debt being paid the same day as a hostage release is proof the Democrats think the American people are stupid. They're only half right and it's the left who are that believe them.

However, the Justice Department is saying that they didn't want the money released to Iran on the same day the hostages were to be set free because it was bad optics and the public would see the money as ransom cash.

Now here's my conspiracy theory: what if (all conspiracy theories should begin with a "what if" beginning) the Justice Department was told to communicate their concerns about the optics of the transaction to the State Department as a way of legitimizing the deal? 

In other words, by the DoJ saying sending the money the same day looks bad, that in itself makes the deal sound legitimate. Then ,when the State Department responds to the DoJ with a "hell no, it's a go," it makes it seem as if the State Department just messed up and the deal was kosher. 

After all, it isn't a stretch that the State Department messes up--they hired Marie Harf, John Kirby and Lurch Kerry.

"Oh gee, Department of Justice--you were right this time--we should have waited to send the money."

But it was ransom money--let's not lose sight of that.

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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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Why the NY Times Sucks Eggs

It must be wonderful being a liberal. 

If you're a liberal leftist president, you get to go on the Daily Show and have Jon Stewart fawn all over you, perhaps giggling like a schoolgirl invited to the prom by the High School quarterback.

If you're a liberal leftist presidential campaigner, you get the New York Times to change their lede on you regarding two inspector generals who have called for an investigation as to whether you mishandled classified information on your secret private email server.

Instead of the lede reading: 

Washington--Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.

The cleverly rewritten lede read:

Washington--Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.

The change was done after the Clinton campaign requested it,  Politico reports. The so-called reporter for the "paper of record," the "Gray Lady" or "The Leftist Rag," as I like to call them, Michael Schmidt, said "It was a response to complaints we received from the Clinton camp that we thought were reasonable, and we made them."

What wusses.

Hillary misspells "Nuclear"

The original lede was captured by NewsDiffs, an organization that tracks changes to news stories.

As you can see, the original lede pointed out the accusation that Hillary was the reason for the investigation and subject involved as she "mishandled" classified information.

If she is elected President of the United States, I have no doubts that she will mishandle the job as she has consistently done in the past (see the Watergate trials, for example).

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