Top DoJ official no longer tops in officialdom

A senior Justice Department official was quietly demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with an opposition research team responsible for the anti-Trump "dossier." This information was given and confirmed by Fox News.

Bruce G. Ohr held two positions at the Justice Department: associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), "the centerpiece of the attorney general's drug strategy," according to the department's description.

Those positions were stripped from him on Wednesday morning.

While he will keep his OCDETF title, his higher post was taken from him--he was ousted from his fourth floor office of "Main Justice."

At first, senior department officials couldn't give the reason for his demotion, but it was later learned that evidence collected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), shows that Ohr met during the 2016 campaign with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the "dossier."

The DOJ later told Fox News, "It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats as he has done recently. This person is going to go back to a single focus--director of our organized crime and drug enforcement unit. As you know, combatting transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking is a top priority for the Attorney General."

It was also discovered that Ohr met shortly after the election with the founder of Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson. This is the opposition research firm that hired Steele to compile the anti-Trump dossier with funds supplied by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, a known crime organization specializing in fraud and sexual misconduct.

By this point, the dossier had been in the possession of the FBI for five months, and the surveillance on Page had begun more than two months prior. The FBI, of course, exists under the auspices of the DOJ.

Former FBI Director James Comey, testified before the House in March and described the dossier as a compendium of "salacious and unverified" allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump and his associates.

Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' panel has been investigating whether DOJ, under then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, used the dossier to justify a foreign surveillance warrant against Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser. If so, this puts the dossier and FBI in a bad light.

Contacts between Ohr and Steele, and Ohr and Simpson, have not been publicly disclosed nor shared with HPSCI staff to avoid embarrassment. 

The panel has issued many subpoenas for documents and witnesses related to the dossier but say the DOJ and FBI have "stonewalled," and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) agreed to that assessment publicly in October.

The agencies claim that they've cooperated extensively with Nunes and his team, but it was only last weekend they agreed to make available to the committee for questioning Peter Strzok (pronounced "Strzhzhokztlmfk") the high-ranking FBI official who seemed to be the guy involved in all the interviews involving political scandals and texted his mistress with anti-Trump messages and how he promises to one day leave his wife for her etc.

Strzok was removed from the staff of Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is probing allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Strzok was demoted to the FBI's position of Urinal Cake Installer.

Ohr's demotion marks the second one with a few months where the DOJ and FBI disciplined staff for misconduct.

At least it wasn't sexual misconduct . . . that we know of.


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FBI outed by Judicial Watch re: famous 'tarmac meeting'

The CEO of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton has discovered new documents that reveal the FBI covered up for Hillary Clinton in the probe regarding her private server and emails containing highly classified information.

The meeting between Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the tarmac of the Phoenix Airport on June 27, 2016, was "engineered" by former President Clinton--it was no accident and it wasn't about yoga and grandkids. The fact that the FBI was looking into Hillary's emails wasn't just coincidental to that meeting.

Fitton questions whether it was coincidental that just a few days later, the director of the FBI who served under Lynch, James Comey,  would not recommend prosecuting Hillary Clinton for her illegal email server, in spite of the obvious evidence that he should have gone forward with that recommendation.

What Fitton learned, however, that "a frantic scramble erupted in the halls of the FBI to cover up this meeting. In fact, the FBI turned its sharp light not on the scandalous meeting between the attorney general and Bill Clinton--but rather on one of the whistleblowers who got the word out."

Judicial Watch, using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on July 7, 2016,  requested the FBI provide them "for any records that might pertain to the infamous tarmac meeting." The request was ignored by the FBI and Judicial Watch had to sue them.

The FBI then lied saying they couldn't find any records, but JW knew it wasn't true because in responding to another FOIA lawsuits, the DOJ gave them heavily redacted documents that showed there were additional documents over at FBI headquarters.

Since this was revealed in other JW lawsuits, somehow the FBI "reopened" their FOIA request and allegedly found about 30 pages of information that took them six weeks to review.

JW just received them last Thursday.

The documents JW received, show that FBI officials were concerned "solely about the leaking of details of the tarmac meeting. None of the documents show top agency officials cared one whit about the propriety of the meeting itself, but only about who blew the whistle on the covert tête-à-tête."

One email JW received said "we need to find that guy." The Phoenix FBI office was contacted, it was learned, "in an attempt to stem any further damage."

It took Judicial Watch to catch the FBI in an attempted cover-up. Our tax dollars at work for a jerk who lost to Donald Trump.



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Judge orders investigation of 3 Clinton lawyers

Annapolis, MD -- An investigation was ordered by a Maryland judge of three shyster lawyers who helped former secretary of state and "computer illiterate" Hillary Clinton delete her emails on an illegal private server.

Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. said the complaints against Clinton's lawyers, Cheryl Mills, David E. Kendall and Heather Samuelson were egregious and the state bar could not dismiss them as frivolous.

"There are allegations of destroying evidence," Harris said Monday and pointed out that the state's rules require investigation by the bar no matter who raises the complaint. In other words, one cannot brush aside accusations simply because they voted for Hillary Clinton for president and cannot tolerate her loss to a television personality.

The announcement by Judge Harris came one day before Clinton released her latest book of excuses for her second presidential loss titled "What Happened." Apparently her lack of insight in how the public is repulsed by her was the inspiration for the book's title.

The Maryland bar complaint was given by Ty Clevenger, an attorney who has attempted to achieve sanctions against Clinton and her legal team in several venues. He also pressed the FBI to release details of its investigation into Hillary's illegal activities that so far have most politicos looking at the squirrel hiding its nuts.

Federal courts as well as bars in D.C. and Arkansas, have poo-pooed Clevenger's requests. He is seeking to have Clinton's lawyers either suspended or disbarred. (Some of you might even hope for incarceration of the attorneys in a cell next to Hillary.) 

Judge Harris, however, said Mr. Clevenger's request seems to have merit and that Maryland will need to at least launch an investigation and demand a response from the three legal eagles.

The FOIA request Clevenger issued for the FBI to release information into Clinton's case was denied at first because it was judged that there wasn't enough "public interest" in the case to continue its pursuit. But alas, that has been reversed as the Justice Department agreed the case met the threshold of intense public interest. (You're reading this, right?)

Clinton's use of a secret [illegal] email server she kept in her New York home was used to conduct official State Department business. Over 100 emails were listed as classified--it only takes one classified email to violate the Espionage Act. 

The FBI agreed with common sense that the email setup risked national security and it's highly probable the classified emails were hacked by foreign entities. 

According to USLegal.com:

The Espionage Act is a federal legislature enacted in 1917. The act criminalizes and punishes espionage, spying and related crimes. The Act prohibits not only spying but also various other activities, including certain kinds of expression. The Act Pursuant to 18 USCS § 793, provides that a person will be punished with fine or imprisonment not more than ten years if s/he copies, takes, makes, or obtains, or attempts to copy, take, make, or obtain any sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, document, writing, or note of anything connected with the national defense. The Act deems any person a criminal if s/he is found obtaining information with respect to the national defense with a reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the U.S.

Hillary's defense was that she's computer illiterate--just a poor, stupid woman who thinks the term "wiping a computer" is done with a cloth. 

So the former, fired FBI director James Comey did not recommend charges against Clinton because she was too inept to understand the risks she was running.

However, having your head up inside your nether regions isn't a requirement to absolve Clinton of indictment, and it wasn't Comey's call to make in the first place--it was the Department of Justice's call.

The former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, recused herself after secretly meeting with Bill Clinton for 30 minutes before the case was to be decided. She claimed they spoke about grandchildren and personal garbage, but the public didn't buy the lie. 

But the DoJ could have assigned the Deputy AG to handle the case rather than allow Comey, whose job it was to simply investigate the case and present his findings to the DoJ.

When it was discovered she had a private secret server, Clinton belatedly returned thousands of emails to the government but deleted the rest, claiming they were personal. However, the FBI probe found thousands of emails that were work-related and weren't turned over to the government. 

That alone should have been enough to indict her.

Clinton had her lawyers scour her account--that's what landed them in potential jeopardy.

Let's hope justice prevails--just don't hold your breath.


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Loretta Lynch, aka Elizabeth Carlisle

Lynch and Carlisle (not  the granny)

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, alias Elizabeth Carlisle, used her alias to write about the controversial and inappropriate tarmac meeting she had with the controversial and inappropriate former President Bill "Oral Office" Clinton.

Top federal officials using email aliases is not illegal nor uncommon. Barack Obama's alias was "Caitlyn Jender;" Hillary Clinton's was "Marilyn Manson;" Huma Abedin's was "Ayisha N. Muhammad;" Josh Earnest was "Notso Earnest;" and Jay Carney's was simply "Blarney Stone."

Others in the Obama administration had less flamboyant names. Eric Holder, for example, used as his alias "Lew Alcindor," the former name of retired NBA star Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Holder didn't want to use Jabbar's Islamic name because he's Islamophobic, a condition that normally exists in conservative white men as defined by the left.

Critics of the practice of using aliases argue that they can result in some requested emails to and from officials going undetected, but those who use aliases explained that this is precisely why they use them and believe they should have anonymity from the law.

The Lynch-Carlisle emails used the alias to help craft responses to media requests about the meeting, the documents show, which indicates the level to which she would stoop to fool the American public. It also suggests that the meeting with Bill Clinton was not only optically inappropriate, but it was likely illegal and should have been an immediate trigger for Lynch's recusal, which never came.

Even former IRS official liar Lois Lerner used the alias "Toby Miles" to throw suspicion away from her as she targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Of course, like the case with most top officials in government, she is above the law and all we can do is commiserate with Sean Hannity every night at 10:00 p.m. as he goes through the same talking points all week.

But at least with Hannity, we've developed a new drinking game: every time he says "You, the American people," you must down everything in your glass. When he says, "the deep state," you must take a full swig from your glass.

The name Elizabeth Carlisle is the birth name of Loretta Lynch's maternal grandmother. It is also the name of an actress who played hot, sexy roles including "prostitute" and "tipsy."

A source who wished to remain anonymous because they are afraid for their safety said that she admired the actress and wasn't aware of her granny's maiden name.

The Lynch-Carlisle documents were given to the groups in connection with lawsuits seeking information into the June 27, 2016 meeting on the tarmac at a Phoenix airport between Lynch and Bill Clinton. This happened amid a Comey/FBI non-investigation into Hillary Clinton's illegal server with its classified information that she even sent to Huma Abedin's (aka Ayisha N. Muhammed) private computer that got into the hands of Anthony Weiner (aka Carlos Danger).

Hillary was the so-called Secretary of State at the time, which explains why she never went on trial and then to prison.

A week after the tarmac incident, FBI Director Comey wrongly concluded the case by saying Hillary was "extremely careless" but that no prosecutor would indict her for breaking the law, or something to that effect.

Of course they would have indicted her--she broke the law and the public knew she did. Her server alone was reason to indict . . . but let me calm down a bit . . . 

Comey also said that Lynch directed him to call the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation "a matter," which "confused" him.

He is also confused by rainbows and Caitlyn Jenner.

The incident was whereby Bill Clinton left his private polluting jet and boarded Lynch's polluting jet uninvited. Lynch later said that they talked about grandchildren and yoga moves or some such thing. But of course, they never ever ever discussed the investigation of Bill's wife that was going on as they met.

Lynch later said she "regrets" having allowed the meeting. Republicans still say they "regret she's walking free."


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GOPers call for 2nd special counsel to probe Clinton and others

The Three Stooges

Republicans are calling on the Justice Department to appoint a second special counsel to investigate the barge-load of 2016 campaign controversies involving Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration. They warn that these questions can't "be allowed to die on the vine" as the Russia probe is going on.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert William Goodlatte (R-Va.) and GOP committee colleagues requested in a letter Thursday to Attorney General (for now) Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and Deputy Attorney General Rod Jay Rosenstein.

"The American public has a right to know the facts--all of them--surrounding the election and its aftermath," they said. "We urge you to appoint a second special counsel to ensure these troubling, unanswered questions are not relegated to the dustbin of history."

They want an entirely separate special counsel probe from Robert Mueller's, particularly since Mueller brought along big Hillary Clinton and Democratic donors as part of his team. They argue that many unanswered questions remain from the 2016 campaign cycle that have been swept under the rug amid the intense focus on Russia.

Here is the request:

1. Allegations that former AG Loretta Lynch instructed then-FBI Director James Comey to downplay the nature of the Clinton email probe

2. The FBI and DoJ's decisions in the course of the email probe, including controversial immunity deals with Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and several others

3. The State Department's involvement in which of Clinton's emails to make public

4. Disclosures in WikiLeaks-released emails regarding the Clinton Foundation and, "its potentially unlawful international dealings"

5. Connections between Clinton officials and "foreign entities" that include Russia and Ukraine

6. Revelations in hacked DNC emails about "inappropriate" coordination between the DNC and Clinton campaign against Bernie Sanders' Democratic primary campaign

7. The "unmasking" of Americans in intelligence documents and possibly related "leaks of classified information" 

8. Comey's admitted leak of details of his conversations with President Trump

9. The FBI's "reliance" on controversial firm Fusion GPS, which was involved in the questionable anti-Trump "dossier" 

The lawmakers wrote that "Our call for a special counsel is not made lightly. We have no interest in engendering more bad feelings and less confidence in the process or governmental institutions by the American people. Rather, our call is made on their behalf. It is meant to determine whether the criminal prosecution of any individual is warranted based on the solemn obligation to follow the facts wherever they lead and applying the law to those facts."

The request comes at a time when AG Sessions is under tremendous pressure from Trump (who sees Sessions as his personal attorney) to revisit last year's controversies over Clinton and Democratic officials. Trump has publicly (aka wrongfully) shamed Sessions over his decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe, which eventuated in Mueller's appointment by Rosenstein.

Sessions admitted to Fox News' Tucker Carlson that the criticism was "kind of hurtful" but defended his decision and said he'd stay on the job as long as Trump allows.

Predictably, the Democrats criticized GOP efforts at obtaining justice in the 2016 controversies, saying that Russia's interference in the campaign is more pressing than putting Hillary and her crew in the slammer just because they broke the law and compromised the country.

The Fusion GPS firm came under renewed criticism this week after a Senate hearing witness alleged they were connected to Russia-backed efforts to fight U.S. sanctions on Russia.

House Judiciary Republicans voted to call an investigation into Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe in which she clearly used an illegal private email server which contained high levels of classified documents.

One of the Republicans was Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). "I don't think that the crimes of the prior administration, of Hillary Clinton, the collusion with James Comey and Loretta Lynch should be forgotten just because Hillary Clinton lost the election," he told "Fox & Friends" on Friday, saying too that there seems to be a "double standard in justice."


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Trump slams media and blames Lynch for Russian lawyer situation

It isn't every day that President Trump slams the media--who am I kidding?

Trump lashed out at the media and Obama administration Thursday regarding barrage of criticism for Donald Trump Jr. is getting for the 2016 meeting he took with a Russian lawyer who he was led to believe had damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

Trump addressed this issue at a joint news conference he and French President Emmanuel Macron shared. The first question Trump received asked about this to which he said that the media are making "a very big deal over something that really a lot of people would do."

He then spoke about Obama's AG Loretta "Tarmac" Lynch, saying he'd "heard" Lynch was the one to approve the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya's visa.

This reference was over reports that Lynch signed off on granting Veselnitskaya a special "parole" to be in the United States, since she had previously been denied a visa.

However, it isn't clear whether she had permission to be int the US at the time of the June 2016 meeting.

"Somebody said that her visa or her passport to come into the country was approved by Attorney General Lynch, now maybe that's wrong, I just heard that a little while ago . . . [that] she was here because of Lynch."

Sometimes President Trump makes it sound like he gets his information while doing clothes at the Laundromat. 

Like a good father, Trump Sr. defended Trump Jr. against criticism.

"My son is a wonderful young man. He took a meeting with a Russian lawyer, not a government lawyer but a Russian lawyer," Trump said in that extremely very, very redundant way he has. 

"From a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting; it's called opposition research or research into your opponent," he said.

The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley said that Trump Jr. will be called to testify amid Russian meddling investigations over last year's election. 

He said he wants him to testify "pretty soon," and it might be as early as next week. He said that he would be willing to issue a subpoena if he refused to appear, but that isn't likely.


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The plot sickens as Lynch called to respond to "political interference" allegations

Well, well, well, the Senate Judiciary Committee has finally and formally asked former Attorney General Loretta Lynch along with others, to respond to the allegations of "political interference" in the FBI's Hillary Clinton email probe, according to  a letter  released Friday from the office of Chuck Grassley.

The catalyst for the inquiry was, in part, a series of media reports that questioned Lynch's involvement in the investigation into former Secretary of State and two-time loser of the presidential election Hillary Clinton's use of a private, illegal email server.

Former fired FBI Director James Comey suggested in Senate testimony that Lynch had him downplay the investigation and call it a "matter" rather than what it actually was--the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigating. 

Cowardly Comey did as he was told, like a good boy.

But I hold very little hope that justice will be done--Hillary will get away with violating the Espionage Act, and Lynch will get away with colluding with Bill Clinton, just like Obama got away with colluding with Russia as attested to by the open mike with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. 

"The reports come amidst numerous allegations of political inference in controversial and high-profile investigations spanning the current and previous administrations," Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley's office said in a statement.

Big deal--nothing is going to change--it's sickening.




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Lynch needs to go under oath Lindsey Graham says

Top Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says that former Attorney Gen. Loretta Lynch should testify before the Senate now that the fired FBI Director James Comey called into question over how she handled the Hillary Clinton email probe. (Hint: politically.)

"I want to hear from Loretta Lynch," Graham said.

Comey claimed during the Senate committee hearing that when he was investigating Hillary Clinton's illegal private email server, Lynch directed him not to use the term "investigation" but instead call the probe a "matter."

Comey fluttered his eyes during the Senate hearing saying that Lynch's words made him feel "queasy" and nearly gave him the vapors as he took out a huge Japanese hand fan and proceeded to fan himself.

Comey also said that Lynch's directive, along with her unusual [aka sleazy] tarmac meeting in Arizona with Hillary's cheating husband Bill, led Comey to get all flustered and upset, resulting of him falling into a major dither as he asked his heart to be still, which then caused him to make his independent political announcement regarding the email probe last July. "Why, I nearly swooned," Comey said, hand fan going 100 miles an hour.

It ended with Hillary getting off the hook in spite of a clear violation of the Espionage Act. Comey said that no prosecutor would go forward in this case because Hillary didn't mean it.

Graham was asked on CBS News' "Face the Nation" whether he wants Lynch to appear before the judiciary committee on which he sits. He said, "Absolutely."

He is not alone as several GOPers are interested in what she has to say.

Rep. Peter King, (R-NY) is a member of the House Intelligence Committee and he would like to see if Comey kept notes on his conversations with Lynch or if he only did it with Trump because he knew Trump wouldn't stand for a political hack heading up the FBI.

The intelligence committee has asked for Comey's notes or memos he may have and he has bragged that he took extensive notes regarding the conversations he had with President Trump.

But Lynch? Maybe not.

Comey said Lynch's tarmac meeting with Cigar Bill was a "deciding factor" in his decision to update the public on the Clinton probe and protect the bureau's reputation.

"There were other things, significant items," he said softly, citing how "the attorney general directed me not to call it an investigation and call it a matter--which confused me" [and literally gave him gas].

Senate Minority Leader Chuck "Nostrils" Schumer (D-NY) said that he hasn't heard Lynch's side of the story and can't say "whether it rises to the level that she should come and testify."

If we were talking about, say, Ivanka Trump, Schumer would have said, in that wheezy annoying voice, "We need to get to the bottom of this matter and Ms. Trump-Kushner needs to get herself in here and speak under oath."



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Clinton's email probe a problem for Comey and Lynch

(Photo: Reuters)

Can you believe it? FBI Director James Comey reportedly did not trust the trustworthy and honorable Attorney General Loretta Lynch and some other senior Justice Department officials. He speculated they may give Hillary some political cover over the email scandal during the presidential election.

Comey's "go-it-alone strategy" during the Clinton investigation came from his suspicions that Lynch and other Justice Department liberals might try to downplay the email probe and let Clinton off the legal hook, The New York Times reported Sunday.

In 2015, Lynch tried to soften the investigation and told Comey to use the word "matter" instead of "investigation" when discussing the investigation publicly. 

She also wanted Comey not to use the words "traitor," "liar," "incompetent," "Russia," "hacked," "illegal server," and "Benghazi."

This was when Comey became a little suspicious. Lynch explained to him that using the word "investigation" would raise other [legitimate] questions and she argued that the department should maintain its policy of not confirming whether an investigation was ongoing.

After meeting with Comey, Lynch then met with Bill Clinton on June 16th along an airport tarmac at Phoenix airport. They met for a half hour, not for a romantic tryst, as is Bill's wont, but to discuss things out of the public eye, like their grandchildren and other private matters not for public consumption.

However, after the public found out about the private "chat" with the accused's husband, Lynch was called on to recuse herself from the Clinton investigation. 

She refused. Evidently Lynch believed she could be of more help by not recusing herself, just in case she was needed to help Hillary wipe the server with a cloth.

Lynch was forced to say that she would accept any conclusions reached by federal authorities.

However, new problems floated to the surface like a hotel cesspool at a laxative festival.

A separate investigation into former New York congressman Anthony "Carlos Danger" Weiner's emails uncovered a slew of incriminating evidence against Clinton. 

Weiner, who is married to Hillary Clinton's top aide and confidante, Huma Abedin, had emails on his computer that were between Huma and Hillary and some were highly classified State Department emails that should not have been there.

Luckily for Hillary, she is judgment-proof and could quite possibly get away with murder--some people believe she and Bill already have.

Comey wanted to alert Congress about what it found on the Weiner laptop, worried that if he didn't tell them, it would appear the FBI was withholding information before the election.

Lynch, who may have put a lot of money down on Hillary winning the election, didn't want Comey telling anything like that to Congress. But she was wise enough not to order him to not send it, just in case she got outed.

It would make her look dishonest.

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Lynch upset over anti-Muslim, not anti-Semtism

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is very upset with the rise in anti-Islamic sentiment, often spurred by horrific terrorist attacks across the world targeting infidels. She hasn't mentioned the bigger "anti-group" that is twice as common than anti-Muslim hate crimes. I'm talking about anti-Semitism. 

Lynch also didn't mention the high number of alleged anti-Muslim hate crimes that were later found to be faked by Muslims so they can portray themselves in the U.S. as victims, when they aren't. Just today a Muslim college student in New York was arrested for fabricating such a story about being attacked on the NYC subway by drunken Trump supporters.

She lied.

Lynch acknowledged the uptick in what she called "unacceptable" (which, to a liberal, means 'I'm going to tell on you') against Muslim Americans. 

"[A]mid an increase in divisive and fearful rhetoric--we have seen Muslim Americans targeted and demonized simply because of their faith," she said at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center in Sterling, Va.

Yes, FBI statistics show hate crimes against Muslims rose by 67 percent in 2015 going from 154 in 2014 to 257 last year.

She called the numbers "deeply sobering for all Americans." She made an implicit Trump reference saying it's wrong to attack people for their beliefs.

"[T]o impose a blanket stereotype on all members of any faith because of the actions of those who pervert that faith is to go backwards in our thinking and our discourse, and to repudiate the founding ideals of this country," she said. 

I guess the anti-Semitic crime numbers are acceptable to Lynch, but that's because she has to answer to Barack Obama.




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Loretta Lynch 'Pleads Fifth' on Cash Payments Made to Iran

A congressional probe into the payments made to Iran is being blocked by the Obama administration.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is not complying  with an investigation by Congress about the Obama administration's secret efforts to dole out $1.7 billion in cash to Iran earlier in the year. There are now accusations claiming that Lynch has "pleaded the Fifth" Amendment to avoid self-incrimination over the payments, according to lawmakers and exclusive communications obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.  

Lynch was presented with a series of questions by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mark Pompeo (R-KS) about how the cash payment was approved and delivered. 

But in an October 24th response, Asst. Attorney General Peter Kadzik reponded on Lynch's behalf. He refused to answer the questions and told the lawmakers that they are barred from publicly disclosing any details about the cash payment, which we all know was part of a ransom deal to free several American hostages from Iran.

In effect, the response from the attorney general's office is "unacceptable" and is evidence that Lynch has chosen to "essentially plead the fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries regarding [her] role in providing cash to the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism," Rubio and Pompeo wrote in a follow-up to Lynch.

"It is frankly unacceptable that your department refuses to answer straightforward questions from the people's elected representatives in Congress about an important national security issue," the lawmakers wrote. "Your staff failed to address any of our questions, and instead provided a copy of public testimony and a lecture about the sensitivity of information associated with this issue."

"As the United States' chief law enforcement officer, it is outrageous that you would essentially plead the fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries. The actions of your department come at a time when Iran continues to hold Americans hostage and unjustly sentence them to prison."

Pompeo told the Free Beacon that the Obama administration has blocked Congress at every turn in their investigation of the payments made to Iran.

"Who knew that simple questions regarding Attorney General Lynch's approval of billions of dollars in payments to Iran could be so controversial that she would refuse to answer them?" Pompeo said. "This has become the Obama administration's coping mechanism for anything related to the Islamic Republic of Iran--hide information, obfuscate details, and deny answers to Congress and the American people."

Although details of the deal are not classified, they are kept under lock and key, thus treated as if they are. Staffers who have clearance to see the documents must relinquish their cell phones and are barred from taking notes about what they see.

And all this from "the most transparent president in history." Some might call it treason.

Now imagine how much worse it would be if the former Worst Lady wins the election.



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Did Hillary and Loretta work together?

Is it possible that Hillary Clinton and Department of Justice head Loretta Lynch work together in "collusion" in which the Clinton clan was warned by the DOJ about one of Clinton's court cases? Gosh, that would make Hillary Clinton a liar. 

A WikiLeaks document dump shows this to be the case.

The email in May 2015 from Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said, "DOJ folks inform me there is a status hearing in this case this morning, so we could have a window into the judge's thinking about this proposed production schedule as quickly as today."

The email probably pertained to one of the lawsuits seeking the production of her emails while acting as secretary of state and not doing such a great job of it.

A status hearing would be public information in any case, but it isn't clear as to whether or not there was further contact between the Clinton campaign and the DOJ.  

But discussions about the Clinton emails (which are really our property) with the DOJ is improper and a strong conflict in terms of the role of the DOJ. But in today's climate where everything has been politicized, we shouldn't be surprised that a liberal heading the DOJ would give a heads up to a liberal who had legal difficulties. 

Heck, even James Comey knows that.

"Today's report that Clinton's campaign was in communication with the Obama Department of Justice on the email investigation shows a level of collusion which calls into question the entire investigation into her private server," Jason Miller, Donald Trump's campaign spokesman said in a statement.

The RNC even discussed the tarmac meeting that Lynch had with Bill Clinton just before the FBI's director James Comey and DOJ decided to let Hillary off the hook, in spite of how others have been sent to prison for less.

Clinton's minions accused WikiLeaks of working on behalf of the Russian to boost Trump's chances of winning the presidential election, but in spite of that, they refuse to produce the documents the imply are not telling the truth.

That suggests that Hillary Clinton and the truth do not have a close relationship.




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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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The FBI screws up again

"First you say you do, and then you don't. And then you say you will, and then you won't. You're undecided now, so what are you gonna do?" --Sydney Robin & Charles Shavers, "Undecided" lyrics

First the FBI determined that Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen needed to be on the terror watch list due to his ties to radical Islam. This was in 2013 after he had traveled to the Middle East in 2011 and again in 2012 and he admitted to having ties to terrorist groups. 

In 2014 a fellow scumcrumpet at his mosque blew himself up for Allah in Syria.

Then the FBI in their infinite wisdom, as demonstrated in the Hillary Clinton decision not to recommend she be indicted in spite of indictable evidence, they took Mateen off the terror watch list.

So if it isn't J. Edgar Hoover dressing up like an old schoolmarm, it's James Comey's FBI doing their best to be politically correct by having Mateen removed from the Terrorist Screening Data Base (TSDB). 

And if it had nothing to do with being PC, then what was the reason?

In a letter to the Department of Justice's internal watchdog, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (a name that brings to mind Bill Clinton) asked for a full examination as to what led the agency's "decision to add--and, later to remove" the terrorist from the TSDB. 

This was how the terrorist was able to legally purchase the weapons he used.

Mateen killed 49 and wounded 53 infidels inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12th. He pledged allegiance to ISIS during the attack.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) who heads the committee wrote, "It is unclear how the FBI made the decision to remove Mateen from the TSDB despite the concerns that had been raised." He cited the multiple red flags linking Mateen to terrorism in the years leading up to the attack.

It will be interesting how the FBI tries to explain their screwup.

Perhaps Comey will call in a marker and defer to Loretta Lynch.


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Will Donald call her "Dodging Lynch"?

Capitol Hill -- Loretta Lynch was called before congress to discuss her decision not to indict Hillary Clinton on charges that she used a private email server. What happened at the committee hearing was appalling.

Lynch said she would accept the decision made by James Comey, basically because she apparently didn't want to take responsibility to squash Clinton's run for the presidency and also has her own secret agenda. 

During the hearing, Lynch dodged and deflected straight forward questions like a Clinton in a sexual misconduct impeachment hearing. Rather than voice an opinion, she referred them back to James Comey, the politically savvy FBI Director.

Democrats didn't really ask questions as much as they made speeches now that they knew they'd be on national TV. And of course, the speeches had absolutely nothing to do with the purpose of the hearing. They spoke about gun control and violence, but left the issue of espionage alone--it wasn't important to them.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said that Lynch's "lack of clarity is bad for the republic." 

But it's really just another example of how the Clintons are made of Teflon and all charges seem to roll off.

House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) asked about the legality of sharing classified information outside the proper channels. Lynch said it would be unfair to give a blanket answer. 

In other words, sometimes sharing classified information outside proper channels isn't such a terrible thing--you just need to know who did it. If it's Hillary Clinton, it isn't an issue.

Chaffetz responded to that sentiment by saying: "I think you're sending a terrible message to the world. The lack of clarity that you give to this body . . . is pretty stunning."

One thing that I got out of the hearing is how transparent Lynch's politics is--she's in the bag for the Clintons. Anyone who isn't surprised if she gets to keep her AG position if Hillary wins the election is as naive as a lamb to the slaughter.

Every answer that Lynch gave was calculated not to get her in trouble with the law. That's what crooked lawyers do.

Suddenly, it all makes sense when Donald Trump dubs a sobriquet on people like "Crooked" Hillary. I wonder what he's going to call Loretta Lynch.



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ISIS, Saudi Arabia, suicide bomber and love

Dubai, UAE -- While Americans were celebrating the Fourth of July with fireworks, a suicide holiday bomber used his own fireworks to blow himself up near the U.S. diplomatic site in Jiddah, a western Saudi city, the Interior Ministry reported.

The ministry said the Muslim jihadist pulled the detonator on his suicide vest when he was approached by security guards in the parking lot of a hospital. The Islamic bomber died from religious causes and two security guards were injured with minor cuts and bruises.

Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. General Mansour al-Turki stated that the attacker caught the attention of the security guards as they noticed him acting suspiciously at an intersection by the Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital by the corner of the gunned-to-the-teeth U.S. Consulate in Jiddah.

Most of the consulate staff have moved to a new location.

The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia confirmed there were no injuries or casualties among the consular staff and the embassy is staying in contact with Saudi authorities as they investigate which sura in the Quran could have led the suicide bomber to go all to pieces.

Nobody claimed responsibility but the bomber gave a 'shout-out' to Allah when he let it rip. The ministry didn't say whether there was evidence the bomber was planning to target the U.S. diplomatic compound, but the smart money is on that possibility.

You can also bet that President Barack Hussein Obama is going to have a few harsh words of condemnation of the attack and that should make a Saudi feel safe when cuddling up to his four wives.

"We condemn these acts of violence in the strongest possible terms," the administration might say, adding "and our thoughts and prayers go out to all the families of the victims and to those who survived."

Saudi Arabia has recently been targeted by the Islamic State and dozens of 'not-Muslim-enough' Muslims have been killed. ISIS views the Western alliance of the Saudi monarchy and government as heretics. ISIS views everyone who is not a member of ISIS as heretics, including their own mothers.

Due to the anemic theocratic ideology of Islam, nobody is allowed to question it. If you dare to question why so much of the Koran sounds like a cartoon version of "A Boy and His Camel," you will be killed. If you say something bad about Muhammad, such as that he was a pedophile, slave-owner, anti-Semitic thief and murderer, you will be killed. 

If you dare to claim that Islam is not a religion of peace, you will be killed.

Last month, the Interior Ministry reported 26 terror attacks had transpired in Saudi Arabia over the last 2 years. Shi'ites, a different sect from the Sunnis, were targeted because they fall into the category of "Not Religious Enough and Heretical."

Monday's attack comes just a few days before Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month (LOL) of Ramadan. That is the month whereby religious Muslims fast daily from dawn to sundown and easily get pissed off from hunger pangs.


The U.S. Embassy often issues advisory messages for U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia. On Sunday they issued one after the attack, figuratively closing the barn door before the camels escaped. The message urged Americans foolish enough to be in Arabia to "remain aware of their surroundings, and take extra precautions when traveling throughout the country." They also advised citizens to "carefully consider the risks of traveling to Saudi Arabia."

Gee, you think?

Department of Justice Attorney General  Loretta Lynch said that it was unfortunate the suicide bomber never got to know how much she loved him.




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UPDATE: Attack at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul

The moment the blast went off

UPDATE: The death toll from the jihadist attack at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey has risen to at least 36. Some sources put the death toll "nearing 50."  

President Obama has not addressed the attack as yet due to the lack of facts about the responsible party. He no longer has referred to ISIS as the JV team, but it is not yet clear if ISIS is responsible for it. All the earmarks point to the terror group, however.

Hillary Clinton referred to the attackers as "radical jihadists." The whole notion of jihad is 'radical' in the sense that it calls for war against infidels. A more accurate term would be 'Islamic terrorists.'

Donald Trump has said that "something is going on that is really, really bad." It's a good thing he reminded us that it's bad, but neither he nor Hillary have been specific about the problem. 

We need solutions, not a template whenever these attacks occur.


BREAKING: The latest information is that 3 suicide bombers have detonated their explosive vests at Ataturk Airport, killing at least 28 and wounding 60 others, 6 of whom are in critical condition.

So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, and based upon the weapons used it is likely the American left will not discuss the attack as it fails to fit their anti Second Amendment agenda.

Vasip Sahin, Istanbul's provincial governor, confirmed the death toll to NTV, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency.

Initial reports said that there were two suicide bombers but later changed to three. Sahin's statement could not immediately be reconciled. 

"According to the information I was given, a terrorist at the international terminal entrance first opened fire with a Kalashnikov and then blew himself up.," Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told the news agency.

Kalashnikov rifles are considered weapons of war in the United States, as are suicide vests, so nothing like that can ever happen here.

One official said that the attacker blew themselves to small, bite-size pieces once police began shooting at them. Another official said the bombers detonated their vests before passing through the X-ray security checkpoint.

Police sealed the terminal and no flights were able to take off or land at that time. Some flights bound for Ataturk were re-routed. Roads around the airport were also sealed off after the attack.

President Obama was briefed about the attack by his Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor Lisa Monaco in Arizona. 

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she was "awaiting a briefing" on the attacks and is preparing to send love notes and Happy Ramadan cards if the Islamic State claims responsibility. Ms. Lynch believes that "all you need is love." Ms. Lynch added that she "certainly we will be looking into it."

That's so reassuring to hear. i hope they get the nice cards before they plan another attack. They need to know we care about their feelings. And if we're lucky, we can help some of them find jobs.

John Kerry spoke in Aspen, CO saying that Daesh is losing and they are desperate. He failed to address the ideology behind the "why" someone would be willing to martyr him- or herself up for jihad.

This administration clown car is almost out of gas, unless Clinton wins the election.




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The FBI will protect the sensitivities of liberals

Only partial transcripts of the 911 calls made by Omar Mateen, the Orlando terrorist will be released to the public by the FBI, according to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, speaking on an NBC interview.

Luckily, the only thing that will be omitted will be the Islamic part of the shooter's ideology--his motive for killing infidels, in this case, gays. The are not omitting the fact that he used an evil weapon of war to kill these innocent people. A weapon of war that should be punished for killing so indiscriminately. 

The transcripts discussing how Mateen pledge allegiance to the Islamic State may be too disturbing for liberals to hear, and if they did, they would not see how that can be relevant to forming a strategy to deal with gun violence such as this.

Punish the weapons of war.

The FBI will not release that part of the transcripts that discuss Mateen's Islamic grievances of American foreign policy in Muslim countries. 

Liberals cannot allow such horrible dialogue to fall upon their sensitive ears. It's racist, and besides, they know the real problem is the fact that weapons of war are the real problem.

Punish the weapons of war.

In order to justify the withholding of the truth from the American public, Lynch says that it will further terrorist propaganda, as if they need our help to further their religious quest of a caliphate.

"What we're not going to do is further proclaim this man's pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda," she said. "We are not going to hear him make his assertions of allegiance [to the Islamic State]." 

No, but we're going to see his selfie and his smug smile over and over again in the media. His "I'm as cool as the Tsarnaev brothers and one dude got his mug on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. 

How cool is that?

You want to talk about recruitment? The fact that we refuse to discuss who our enemy is, and pretend our enemy is the instrument rather than the user, is a recruitment tool. The jihadists look at us and laugh. 

Another recruitment tool is, as mentioned, the media. If "cool" photos and names are not used, but rather use the photos of the dead terrorists, that might be a reality call for future jihadist wannabes. 

I know, I know, I used his photo above. I needed it to illustrate my point. But that's it--if I can get my hands on his cold, dead body in Pulse nightclub, I would, but Loretta Lynch and James Comey won't allow that to happen.

But no, liberals just want to punish the weapons of war. How insane is that?

And have you noticed how the focus on Hillary's emails is now out of focus?


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Poor Hillary gets GOP'd . . . again

Hillary Clinton is once again being used as a target by the GOP just because she used a private email server with some Top Secret and ultra-Top Secret information on it. In fact, she sees the whole damn thing like she sees Benghazi: "What difference, at this point, does it make?"

The former First Lady of Two-Time-Plus, told ABC that the email scandal "is very much like Benghazi . . . the Republicans are going to continue to use it, beat up on me."

And who can blame her for pointing the finger?

After all, the first Select Senate Committee on Benghazi was led by Daryl Issa, a Republican. And the second one is now being led by Trey Gowdy, another GOP-er.

The email "scandal" which only came into the light of day when Trey Gowdy requested the emails from Clinton's private Colorado bathroom-based server, is being investigated by another GOP organization, the FBI. Politico reports the story in nice detail.

But wait, that isn't right. 

FBI Director James Comey was officially nominated in 2013 by Democratic president Barack Obama to replace outgoing director Robert Mueller. So, if it's an FBI investigation led by a Democratic appointee, how is it that "Republicans are going to continue to use it, beat up on" Hillary?

Because Hillary Clinton's default position is to blame the GOP, or, at the very least, blame someone else, like she blamed the women victims of her husband's philandering. 

Some of the emails on her server are so highly classified they cannot even be shown after being redacted. 

Hillary Clinton claims she used a private server for her "convenience." I don't believe that's a viable excuse to keep her from being indicted and convicted. 

Will the Department of Justice AG Loretta Lynch actually indict Hillary Clinton if the FBI recommends it?

What do you think?



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Emails so secret, only our enemies likely saw them

Fox News has just learned exclusively that the intelligence community has categorized Hillary Clinton's emails as "too damaging" to national security to release under any circumstances. This was reported to them by a U.S. government official close to the review and corroborated by another source.

The fact that the government refuses to release even redacted emails flies in the face of Clinton's claim that none of them were classified when they reached her private server. These emails include "special access programs" (SAP) which are more highly classified than "Top Secret."

SAP information includes ongoing intelligence operations in the field, where agents would be compromised and in danger if the emails were hacked by an enemy government. 

But the chances of that actually happening are only about 95%.

Earlier this month, intelligence community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III wrote a letter notifying senior intelligence and foreign relations committee leaders that "several dozen emails containing classified information" were categorized "at the CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, AND TOP SECRET/SAP levels."

Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III was appointed by Barack Obama, so how politically motivated against Clinton could it be?

Of course, even the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cannot allow highly classified material to be made public, for national security purposes, of course, and the DoJ FOIA website points this out in exemption B3, where it addresses the exemption of "operational files." The kind of information that can get our people killed.

Hillary Clinton obviously lying and the mere fact that she used a private server at all should be enough to indict her. But will it actually happen? Will Loretta Lynch, Obama's hand-picked DoJ head, really do what's right?

Please feel free to comment and let me know what you believe.


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