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November 3, 2015 · 7:08 pm

Some loose foreign policy threads

The mainstream media does a terrible job at gathering the back story required to make sense out of many stories that burst upon the national conscientiousness. Partisan political interests cast deep, dark shadows on the truth and as time passes, public interest wanes and the media moves on, unaware of their failure to ever report the full truth.

Let’s start with the oh so glorious Arab Spring, the media couldn’t talk enough about a few years ago. What happened to the Arab Spring? Where has “democracy” or “freedom” flourished in the Mid-East?

Libya stands as a western intervention where reporting failed to flesh out even the basics. Who exactly were the Libyan rebels facing “genocide” as Hillary Clinton states? Which European leaders were pushing to oust Gadaffi and who vetted the intelligence, which the Obama administration used in making the decision to intervene? To this day, details remain sketchy at best. Then Benghazi in the messy aftermath and still more questions persist. Hillary Clinton stated weapons were being gathered up by the US in a security effort, but what happened to those weapons? Where were they being sent? What exactly was the CIA mission in Benghazi? After that hearing where the Democrats declared everything had already been covered in previous investigations, well, I wonder why was ambassador Stevens meeting with a rebel leader from an Al Qaeda affiliate? Congressman Pompeo showed that photo and Secretary Clinton stated she had no idea, but doesn’t that information seem important in light of the attack on the US facility later that day by Al Qaeda-like rebels?

Syria also remains awash in myths and outright lies, so let’s start with the assertion that we should have intervened sooner in Syria? What justification was there for the US to intervene in a civil uprising in Syria at the outset? Of course, as time wore on the Obama administration played the genocide/gross human rights violations card and pushed intervening on the Samantha Power “responsibility to protect” mantra, but truly who were these “moderate Syrian rebels”? The entire reasoning process used with the regime change proponents seems very flawed, so can anyone explain this in simple terms?

The recent dramatic increase of refugees seems like an orchestrated event to destabilize Europe. Who is behind it and who is funding the effort? All of the photos and videos show people with Western-style clothes, coats, hats, shoes, etc. Who is providing the humanitarian assistance? Who is helping these refugees along the path to Europe? Obviously many aren’t Syrian refugees, but there’s a storyline that Assad is depopulating areas of Syria? Is this true? Today, the British Daily Mail has stories of Syrian rebels fighting Assad using Alawite women and children as human shields – packing them into metal cages and transporting them on the backs of pick-up trucks and tractor trailers, to dissuade Russian and Syrian army bombings. Are these the rebels McCain and the “Syrian moderate” proponents are supporting?

Does anyone else have questions about these US foreign policy issues?

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November 2, 2015 · 3:54 pm

Presidential politics… it’s a laugh

The Legal Insurrection blog has these Bad Lip Reading videos from the political debates posted:

First up, the First Democratic Debate;

Next the First Republican Debate:

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October 30, 2015 · 11:47 am

Mutually assured destruction?

Here’s a response to a poster, Schmutzli, at the American Thinker this morning. The piece is by Steve McCann, “Behind the Benghazi Curtain”, in which he lays out the Clinton/Obama pact:

“If Hillary were to come clean and state that she was forced by Obama to go along with the Benghazi story as concocted by Obama and his staff for political expediency, then his long term legacy would rival that of Richard Nixon. Obama’s ego would never stand for that scenario. On the other hand, if the White House were to cooperate in throwing Hillary under the bus by pointing the finger of blame at her or undermining her bid for the Democratic nomination, her reputation would be in tatters for the rest of her life. Thus Benghazi is in effect a mutually assured destruction pact between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

So at this juncture in American political history the question must be asked: How much has the potential mutual blackmail scenario played into Hillary’s run for President?”

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I responded to a comment and included what happened to me in 1998. I keep mentioning it in hopes that someone might actually listen to me and investigate. Here’s my comment:

susanholly Friday, October 30, 2015 10:40 AM

Yet, both Hillary Clinton and Obama will use The Constitution, if pushed, and it seems likely, with the Biden Rose Garden declaration, that the secret pact is a done deal – Obama has the power to pardon Hillary Clinton. I doubt it will reach that point, because it seems likely that if the FBI finds compelling evidence of criminal conduct, the Obama Justice Department will do another Lois Lerner.

You could see how Hillary avoided the press from the moment her private email server scandal broke, because the Clintons were caught off-guard with that revelation, and at first, I thought it looked like Hillary was relying mostly on her inner-circle of her girl’s club to cope with the scandal. That includes Abedin, Mills, Chelsea and a few others, but does not include Bill Clinton. As the scandal worsened, I believe that Hillary, in a reverse of their roles, had to turn to Bill Clinton to be the fixer. Since August, her campaign strategy changed dramatically and at this point she’s home free and she knows it – just look at her change from appearing cornered and furtive early in her campaign to now she’s laughing it up on late night TV.

I believe Bill Clinton, ironically, used the old boys club avenues of back room deals, to pave the way for the “first female President”, because she was too inept to fix the mess, she created, on her own. She rode his coattails to power, because he is the political genius in the family, not her.

From the many reports of the Clintons living separate lives since the Lewinsky scandal, to include reports that their staffers communicate and coordinate anything where they have to show up together, I wonder if Bill Clinton was even aware that she did all of her official business on his private server, that he had for the Clinton Foundation. The reports that he doesn’t use email would lead me to believe he might not have had any knowledge about that. Have any emails between Bill and Hillary ever come to light in the email disclosures?

With the Clintons there’s always one more, even more egregious scandal, in the offing. I was writing on the Excite message boards in 1998, during the Lewinsky scandal, under the user name “mhere”. I was attacked in my home. No one in my family would even listen to me, let alone believe my story, but it is the TRUTH. And I intend to expose every last detail of what happened to me. I wrote my story on my blog in 2013 and it is written in a light-hearted, snarky fashion, replete with pseudonyms, but every person in that story exists. Unlike the Clintons, I learned about the importance of what the Army calls “the 7 Ps”, so I have planned, since 1999, how to drag her to justice – following the law! I am a nobody homemaker, but I swore the oath to protect and defend The Constitution, from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, when I was a young soldier (Army journalist) and I will continue to fight to expose an attack on a private citizen (ME), instigated at the highest level of our government. I offered the real names of the “characters”, mentioned in my story, to several reporters over a year ago. No takers. So, I am using the comment sections on a few sites to mention my story and maybe someday, someone will actually investigate. https://libertybellediaries.com/messages-of-mhere/

Please do read about Steve McCann, as Schmutzli mentioned – it’s a story in the archives here at The American Thinker, called “Saved By Christmas”.

I can’t make anyone listen to me or believe me and in truth, FACTS should be what guides us on our path. Why I keep trying to expose what happened to me is not to get attention or some self-serving publicity, it’s because I believe she is unfit to ever serve as Commander-In-Chief of the US Armed Forces. I believe, that much like this current scandal where they’re scrambling for political survival, she came across an annoying poster on the Excite message boards who was mocking and making mincemeat of their ridiculous spin during the Lewinsky scandal. I noticed some of my lines being picked up by actual Republican political pundits, just as parts of my comments are being picked up on now and used by various pundits. The power of the Presidency cannot be used to attack private citizens!

I believe she sent her minions scurrying to find out who I am and I believe, they came across a retired general who hates my guts. I believe her minions fed him lies that I was some sort of threat to the President, which was a total lie. I was just a homemaker writing personal, political opinions on a message board. I have never had so much as a speeding ticket. I am a stickler about following the rules. And my husband and I do not own any firearms. We are law-abiding citizens. Most of my comments on those impeachment boards were about “No one is above the law” and “there’s no acceptable excuse for lying under oath”, but mostly I mocked their stupid arguments and I did refer to President Clinton as BJ Clinton, so assuredly that would anger Clinton “supporters”.

Let me expand on this retired general – he was forced to retire while serving in a foreign locale for President Clinton. The scuttlebutt that my husband, who was still an active duty Army Sergeant Major, heard at work, was that this general had to retire because of sexual misconduct, while serving in that foreign location, so assuredly he would be sympathetic to the President’s Lewinsky scandal. This general in the intervening years has become a reliable shill for the Democratic Party, up to the present, where he publicly offered support for President Obama’s Iran deal. I believe this general used other soldiers in the effort to silence me. We can not allow the Army to be used as a domestic partisan political tool – EVER!

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October 29, 2015 · 3:03 pm

Musings on the 3rd Republican Debate

Assuredly the professional punditry class will dissect last night’s CNBC Republican debate at great length, so here are my amateur viewer observations.

Last night’s debate started off predictably, like the two previous GOP debates, which differ markedly from the one Democratic debate, the quintessential Hillary coronation, where the entire exercise was to airbrush her scandal-ridden, lying image into the feminist icon, “first woman President”.

So, the questions began last night – personally insulting questions designed to destroy each candidate’s credibility, questions designed to incite attacks between the candidates and sadly, Kasich, Trump, Bush and Rubio played along, until Ted Cruz, the candidate who was passed over quickly in the previous two debates, stepped into the fray and neatly turned the tables on the moderators, who appeared to be left-wing shills.

After that the debate actually got into some interesting policy exchanges and although I doubt, Cruz or Christie can ever garner the GOP nomination, let alone win in a general election, they assuredly are two of the smartest minds in the GOP field.

Trump toned it down somewhat and stayed quiet a good bit of the time, so he walked away unscathed. In fact, the only candidate that seemed to diminish as the debate wore on was Fiorina, whose chances to speak sounded like rehearsed campaign sound bites and boring boiler plate partisan attack lines.

Huckabee had the best line of the night comparing the government to that US Army blimp that tore loose of it’s mooring and reeked havoc tearing down power lines yesterday.

All in all, I thought the GOP candidates finally got a chance to demonstrate why the GOP has much more to offer than Hillary Clinton, with her recycled liberal mantra from 30 years ago. Frankly, her ideas sound almost as old, tired and repetitive as her lies. You’ve got to hand it to her though, the mainstream media remains loyal and it looks like there is no level too low for them to sink to help her campaign.

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October 28, 2015 · 11:07 am

Obama’s turbulent Mid-East magic carpet ride

Since last week’s Benghazi hearing the partisan clamor on the right ended up looking like a witch hunt and truly could there be a more perfect caricature of an evil witch, replete with the cackle, than Hillary Clinton? I think of her as “thatwitch2016”, but there again my feelings are based on what personally happened to me during impeachment (Messages of mhere, tabbed at the top of my home page), but that aside the Republicans, as usual, followed the bread crumb trail laid down by that witch2016 and into the oven went their attempt to expose her. Sure, they scored a few hits, exposing her as callous and mendacious, but she walked away having the last laugh.

The Republicans keep trying to pin the September 11,2012 attack on Hillary Clinton, but the real responsibility for Benghazi resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Benghazi “mission” was not in the State Department facility, but at the CIA facility and that’s where the questions need to be answered – what were we really doing in Benghazi. When that is answered, the timeline moves further back to why did we really oust Gadaffi and who were the sources of this intelligence of impending alleged “genocide” Gadaffi was plotting? Was he really plotting a “genocide”? Who really were the “rebels” in Libya, for whom we instigated regime change to protect? Were they “freedom fighters or radical Islamists and Al Qaeda? Once that Gordian knot is untangled, let’s ask the same questions in Syria. How did “Assad the Reformer” poof into “Assad the genocidal monster”? Who were the sources of the intelligence used to make these assessments?

Yes, whose intelligence does the Obama administration rely on to make foreign policy decisions? That is the central question! With that in mind, a day early, I’m doing a throwback Thursday rerun of my January 25,2015 prognosticative blog post on Obama’s turbulent Mid-East magic carpet ride. Compare my assessment in January to where we are now and along with the questions posed above, ask how the Obama administration went from claiming Yemen a success story in the fight against terrorism, in September 2014, to the collapse of the Yemeni government in January 2015. Supposedly, our counter-terrorism campaign was a stunning success according to the President in September and in January 2015 terrorists, financed and armed largely by Iran, toppled the government. How was the intelligence so lacking or whose intelligence did the Obama administration use to form the September 2014 assessment? Was it flat out false and falsified intelligence or did the administration choose to write their own fairy tale? These are the questions we really need answered – because the blame goes all the way to top on Benghazi and Hillary served as the administration’s fire break line last week. For not exposing the administration’s real activities in Benghazi, it’s likely she earned herself a “get out jail free card” in regards to her email problems. Here’s my big picture view from January 2015:

January 25, 2015

The Yemen “Success” Story In Flames

Malcolm Pollack wrote an excellent post on the Houthi coup in Yemen, “Rock and Roll, Houthi Coup”. Malcolm compiled the pertinent facts on Yemen being another Muslim failed state, clinging to the edge of the cliff – economic despair, a population reliant on government for its basic needs, a water supply imperiled by khat production, and internecine fighting. He states:

“About Yemen, President Obama — who, when it comes to foreign policy and a whole lot more, has been described of late as “King Midas in reverse” — had this to say back in September:

This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.

As always, up is down, black is white, etc. Meanwhile, this:

The collapse of the U.S.-backed government of Yemen on Thursday has left America’s counter-terrorism campaign “paralyzed”, two U.S. security officials said, dealing a major setback to Washington’s fight against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a potent wing of the militant network.”

I recommend you read his entire excellent post. Now, along with collapse of the Yemeni government, to the north, Saudi Arabia’s relic of a king passed away. So, we’ve got the “kingdom” of Saudi Arabia passing the crown to a 79 year-old, who reportedly suffers from dementia, while the court swarms with intrigue. Now, this kingdom feels threatened on all fronts – existentially from Shia expansion, from radicalized Sunni/Salafi Islamist groups, and from crashing oil prices. In reaction to these external threats they’re building walls (a defensive posture) to keep foreign dangers at bay and bankrolling President Obama’s half-hearted battle to defeat IS/ISIL/ISIS (a money down the drain effort). John McCreary’s Nightwatch predicts, the new king will likely move toward more conservative domestic postures, which makes sense, to try to preserve power and maintain political stability within the kingdom. Nightwatch’s analysis states:

“Be prepared for policy changes. The instinctive reaction of living systems is to contract during times of internal stress, and even more so during a leadership crisis. Leadership transition is a time of vulnerability. Most systems increase their defensive vigilance during that period.

Applying that to Saudi Arabia, guards will be extra vigilant to protect the new King and the Crown Prince. Restrictions on population movements and border controls usually tighten. Dissidents and miscreants usually go to ground for a while.

The protective and defensive instinct also applies to policies. That instinct ensures the continuation of the bedrock principles of a state, but not necessarily more discretionary initiatives. In Saudi Arabia, the monarchy, Wahhabism, the tribal heritage and oil are four of the bedrock principles. Experiments in modernity are expendable.

The emphasis in a leadership transition always is stability because when a King dies, the Kingdom can be at risk. Abdallah did all that a reigning monarch can do to protect the monarchy. Readers must expect that his policies and programs will be modified, assuming they survive at all.”

Shia powers smell weakness, as do the radicalized bands of Islamist nutcases, emboldening them to embark on ambitious offensive measures to seize more territory in rudderless states, left from the oh so glorious Arab Spring, our ass backwards, leader from behind, championed. Sorry, namby-pamby, narrative writers at the White House, the rest of the world isn’t in the business of selling Obama t-shirts, Obama policies or the Obama “legacy” (#ChickensCameHomeToRoost), so they already wrote Obama off as a weak, unreliable partner.

So, we’ve got bands of drug-crazed, drug-financed Islamists and batshit crazy Shia mullahs fighting to rule swaths of war-ravaged, barren sand pits, swarming with millions of hopeless, starving, illiterate people. Yemen is just one more to add to the list.

Don’t expect the Obama administration to do more than rewrite their “narrative” and send John Kerry bearing love beads, groveling to the Iranians once more, begging for them to cooperate on Peace in the region. “Up in smoke” goes the Obama foreign policy on Yemen, hailed only months ago as a huge “success” – like Somalia, no less (yep, failed state Somalia is a Obama success too, who knew….). To round out President Obama’s capitulation to the threat we can not name – (Islamic Imperialism) , stay tuned, because soon we will see how, the Iranian regime, Terror Central, incorporates nuclear weapons into their OFFENSIVE MILITARY POSTURE. One can only wonder if the Obama administration has chewed too much khat like the Somalis and Yemenis or scarier to consider, perhaps these stellar graduates from some of America’s finest universities really believe their own ~~bullshit~~, oops, “narratives”.

Psst, no, no, no watch and see, it’s those nefarious “right-wing, gun-toting, clinging to their religion Americans” (ostensibly, those dastardly WASPs) who pose the greatest threat to America. Let me sip another cup of tea:-)

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October 27, 2015 · 11:02 pm

All politics is local

This is a must read! Stella Morabito wrote an important piece in The Federalist:

Ask Not Who’s Running For President, Ask Who’s Running For School Board

Morabito explains:

There will be local elections throughout the nation next week. Please, folks, pay attention and vote, because these elections are about the very survival of local self-governance. They are at least as consequential as anything on the national stage, and probably more so.

Consider the following. When the school board of Fairfax County, Virginia, was set to vote on promoting the ideology of transgenderism in the schools last May, parents and citizens showed up in droves. They loudly protested the predictable outcomes of the move, which masqueraded as an anti-discrimination policy.

Such outcomes include abolishing children’s privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms and abolishing girls’ sports, which would be open to any male who claims to perceive himself as female. So the Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) policy also violates both the letter and spirit of Title IX. It also serves to divide and conquer families because it requires all students to openly reject anything they learned from their parents about human sexuality and human dignity that school bureaucrats deem in conflict with the policy.

The Fairfax school board imposed a transgender policy, by sleight of hand maneuvering, using local political cronies. Morabito continues:

It was a total ambush. The board voted 10-1 with one abstention to shove the policy down the throats of startled parents. There was no discussion and no consideration given to the concerns expressed. Instead, the parents were in effect smeared as intolerant bigots.

The ten board members voting in compliance with this federal harassment behaved like a bunch of cronies who seemed most interested in securing their places of privilege in a coming nomenklatura by regurgitating Orwellian-style talking points about “equality” and “non-discrimination.”

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October 25, 2015 · 7:40 pm

Another lie?

Hillary keeps repeating the mantra that she never sent nor received classified information that was marked classified. Reading through the comments on Andrew McCarthy’s piece, mentioned in my previous post, a comment caught my attention. Of course, in this case Hillary sent a personal email, containing information that one would think was automatically classified – marked or not and the recipient does not have a security clearance. Here’s the comment and please fill me in where this reasoning is incorrect:

Douglas • a day ago

A question no one addressed at the hearing or in the aftermath. The fact that the immediate reports out of Libya that the Mission had been attacked by jihadis must have been classified communications.

Yet, Hillary immediately shared that info with her daughter who has no security clearance whatsoever and is, or was, an employee of NBC News.

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October 24, 2015 · 10:52 am

Another cry from the wilderness

Wrote another comment on National Review this morning, “Hillary’s Breathtaking Mendacity” – just another cry from the wilderness:

susanholly Saturday, October 24, 2015 9:45 AM

This will sound like a conspiracy theory and it is, but Hillary getting through this hearing sets her on course to win in 2016. The Clintons are masters of obstructing justice, obfuscation and mass media manipulation (propaganda). The Clintons don’t leave things to chance and personally, I believe Bill Clinton, a bona fide political genius, has masterminded and implemented one of the most brilliant political strategies this time around. I’ll call my theory “Scorched Earth 2016”. That email server revelation threw them off course a bit in March, but they’ve weathered that.

Bill Clinton’s winning strategy is triangulation, it’s how he won the White House. As Sanders took off in the polls, that gave the Clintons their far-left kook, but they needed one on the right – enter Trump. Now, imagine Bill Clinton hears rumors that Trump is thinking of entering the race and Clinton knows Trump, heck they’ve golfed together many times at Trump’s course, Trump National Golf Club ( http://www.unz.com/isteve/why-… ) and he even attended Trump’s wedding. So, being the political genius, Bill Clinton comes up with a plan. He calls Trump and chats with him and in a friendly tone he tells Trump he’ll need to hire some political consultants, but the best ones are Carville and Begala. Trump thinks of hiring political consulting help as just business. Imagine Trump decides if he enters this race, he wants the best. Imagine if he talks to them, but they tell him they are radioactive among the GOP, so their work for him would have to be kept top secret. The entire set-up could have been done in the guise of “friendly business advice” by Bill Clinton and Trump would not ever suspect it.

Trump starts campaigning where every other word is about his poll numbers and how popular he is – this is vintage Carville/Begala – it creates mass delusion – people believe he is winning and therefore more people begin to take his candidacy seriously. Trump needs some campaign issues and the very first one he picks, with their advice, is illegal immigration, which resonates with the GOP base (along with the racist, xenophobe and bigot bottom-feeders of the party – who jump on board). That alienates Hispanic voters a vital part of the electorate the GOP needs in the general. Next the Megyn Kelly flap – there goes a large segment of women (another vital part of the electorate to the GOP and he compounded the damage with his comments on Fiorina’s looks). Along with this, Trump monopolizes the race with his attacks, antics and keeps the media transfixed on him, making it almost impossible for other GOP candidates to gain traction – this is a Carville/Begala media tactic trademark – it’s how they got Bill Clinton through impeachment. I liken this tactic to the military tactic of swarming – none of the others can break through, because he keeps the race in disarray.

There was a photo a while back of Bill Clinton and Obama golfing on vacation at Martha’s Vineyard ( http://abcnews.go.com/Politics… ). Look at Bill Clinton’s facial expression. I believe that conversation was about burying the email server, but Obama held out. Biden’s Rose Garden speech the other day was Obama surrendering to the Clintons and this hearing was just the last hurdle. Bill Clinton has his triangulation set-up – Sanders the kook on the left, Trump the kook on the right and Hillary prances down the middle to the White House. Notice how confident she is – she knows his strategy is working and she knows there will be no prosecution over her email scandal.

Of course, this is just my theory and I am just a homemaker who wrote about the Clintons on the Excite message boards in 1998, under the user name “mhere”. I know how far that political machine will go to silence people – it happened to me. Of course, I ended up locked up in a mental facility for 18 days and was almost locked up in a state mental hospital – permanently back then – so, no one will ever take me seriously and no one will listen to me. What happened to me is something you’d expect in a communist country, not America, and that is why I am writing this and why I write my blog. I wrote about what happened in a light-hearted fashion – but it’s the truth and every character is a real person. I offered to give the real names to several journalists over a year ago and none of them ever responded. You can file this comment under Forlorn Hope, because I know justice does not exist in America – http://libertybellediaries.com…

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October 23, 2015 · 8:51 am

My bitter morning after pill

So many Republicans went to bed believing Hillary had to be thoroughly discredited after yesterday, but I believe their optimism is sadly misplaced. Here’s my bitter morning after pill, in comments, at the American Thinker already: “Ambassador Stevens is Dead, Hillary is Alive, and the Truth is on the Run” By Patricia McCarthy

susanholly Friday, October 23, 2015 8:20 AM

She sailed through that hearing and the Dems on the committee never wavered from their talking points: “this hearing is a right-wing witch hunt” and “this is costing the American taxpayers $4.7 million.” A few of those Dems, to include Congressman Cummings, groveled so shamelessly, that’s it’s obvious they wanted to secure enough Clinton brownie points to merit consideration for cabinet posts in her administration

She knows the Obama Justice Dept. is not going to indict her. Bill Clinton must have done some really nasty backroom brawling to get Biden to come out and make that Rose Garden speech – Obama has surrendered to the Clintons. With Biden dropping out and the GOP field kept in constant disarray by Trump, sadly, the path is clear for Hillary.

Expect the Dems and their aiders and abettors in the press to talk about the wondrous Thomas Pickering and this ARB committee (Accountability Review Board) for several days to help bury this Benghazi hearing. That committee did not keep any written or videotaped record of any of its work – there are no transcripts or video of witnesses that appeared before this committee and as you heard yesterday one member (retired Admiral Mike Mullen) tried to tamper with having a witness testify to Congress . That witness was Charlene Lamb – the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, who denied a request from the top diplomatic security officer in Libya to retain a 16-man military team for diplomat security – ( http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/14/sen-boxers-latest-take-on-benghazi-mirror-mirror-who-cut-the-funding-for-diplomatic-security/comment-page-1/ ). – that’s your fair and impartial ARB Hillary and the Dems mentioned over and over and over. It is also Mullen who described that the ARB committee kept no record of its proceedings – just went off of personal notes to produce its report (pages 21-22): http://oversight.house.gov/wp-…

I can’t prove this, but after watching the Trump campaign for months, I believe he is following the Carville/Begala media plan, identical to how the Clinton spin machine saved Bill Clinton throughout impeachment – the endless repetition of his poll numbers and the slash and burn of opponents in an endless barrage in the media, where the opposition stays blocked out. Trump immediately alienated Hispanics and next women – two key demographics for the GOP in the general election. It reminds me of the military tactic of swarming. Now, we know Bill Clinton called Donald Trump weeks before Trump entered the race ( https://www.washingtonpost.com… )- did he recommend campaign consultants – like Carville and Begala?

The email server scandal threw Hillary off-base, but by her performance yesterday you can tell she’s confident and glided in like she is the Queen. This entire race is looking to me like the Clintons decided they weren’t taking any chances this time and launched a scorched earth strategy – Trump will keep the GOP race in disarray and if he is the nominee – Bill Clinton’s triangulation is masterfully set up – Bernie the kook on the left, Trump the kook on the right and the Queen prances up the middle to the Presidency.

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October 22, 2015 · 5:50 pm