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@JoeBiden @HillaryClinton Why did the FBI redact Amy Saharia and 3 DOJ names from FBI Notes? Who was present?
.@RepCummings: These kinds of blatantly political attacks undermines integrity of our Committee&Constitutional rights that protect citizens
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@OversightDems @RepCummings Why were Amy Saharia and 3 DOJ names redacted from FBI Notes? Saharia? Who was there?
Clinton aide subpoenaed over server won’t appear before Congress http://bloom.bg/2ctbhmY via @bpolitics
@OversightDems @bpolitics Why was Amy Sharia’s name redacted in FBI Notes? Where are Kendall’s email thumb drives?
The following is a blog post, I originally posted October 16, 2013. I’ve done some slight editing to break up my mile long paragraphs (a bad habit of mine). Considering the worsening state of America’s partisan divides, we definitely need to learn how to “march under one flag” again, in fact, the divides have deepened and the wounds to our national soul fester, to the point our national character is on life support. The remedy isn’t a more liberal America or a more conservative America, it’s building a belief in one AMERICA, where every American citizen believes in The Constiution and that we are all equal under the law.
Legends on the rise and fall of great societies permeate history with certain threads, like the demise of the common culture leading the list as one of the prime harbingers of “doom”. Yes, that word “doom” comes to mind quite frequently, presaging our presumed ineluctable fated demise. Warning signs, both large and small, abound, blaring out endless streams of our culture and Judeo-Christian value system in full retreat to the relentless moral relativist message.
Some retreat for public relations reasons, like Wal-mart this past weekend (story here). The EBT system failed last Saturday in 17 states, leading to EBT recipients debit cards showing no limits. News reports indicate that in several states Wal-mart stores were crammed with customers filling slews of shopping carts with groceries and “checking out”, swiping their EBT card, which they knew did not have the funds to cover the amount of groceries “purchased” (stolen). The corollary would be long ago when people used personal checks more often and supposing you wrote a check for your purchases knowing you did not have money to cover the purchase.
There’s no difference besides the fact that media handlers will guide Wal-mart and the image of Wal-mart tracking down “poor people” for criminal prosecution over this blatant thievery might look like the giant retailer is picking on the little people. Wal-mart will likely end up eating this loss and due to American social conditioning, way too many people will use moral relativism to guide their moral reasoning in the matter – saying things like “Wal-mart can afford it” or “Wal-mart screws over the little guy all the time so turn around is fair play”. Sure, in this case some Wal-mart management in the affected states made the call to let the sales go through rather than stop the theft and they failed to follow the proper procedure in place to call Xerox when EBT cards aren’t working properly.
In this same above-mentioned scenario the more disturbing behavior is that of the crowds of people who flooded Wal-mart stores to steal food in broad daylight, with no moral hesitation. The problem with government hand-outs is the people start beginning to believe these programs really are “entitlements” and thus they never spend a moment’s notice wondering about taking other people’s money as their own, nor do they worry about stealing food from Wal-mart.
Taking stuff that is not yours is stealing, no matter the twisted semantics used to rationalize it. To delve further into this moral relativist hellish enslavement of the mind I urge you to read the article Justin linked in a comment here yesterday, “Contemporary Liberal Doublethink: Welfare = Self-Reliance”. The thieves in this scenario won’t bother to “think or reason” about their thievery, no, these are pack animals – used to being led, with no will to think for themselves nor will they ponder things like civic duty, aspiring to become better human beings or much beyond their instant gratification.
PJ Media offered this truly excellent piece written by a writer who pens under the pseudonym, Bookworm, titled “The Surprising Reason Americans Are Vulnerable to Moral Relativism”, which although lengthy, definitely rates the time. This writer posits that our American embrace of Anne Frank’s idealistic belief: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”, creates a syllogism as described in this passage:
“Thanks to those words, Americans accept that “people are truly good at heart.” This belief creates a syllogism, one that sees Americans claiming that it must be a lie when someone dares to claim that another group doesn’t meet certain moral absolutes. How can there be moral absolutes when all “people are truly good at heart”?”
The author goes on to explain why Anne Frank’s simple idealistic belief was not only wrong in her own personal life, where she perished in the Holocaust, but it is simply wrong for mankind, in general. People aren’t truly good at heart – that part takes a great deal of civilizing effort, both in the home and in society in general, hence we used to call it “civil society”.
Aristotle offered his definition, “a shared set of norms and ethos, in which free citizens on an equal footing lived under the rule of law”, which puts us on firmer footing than most of the opining from American academics in recent decades. We need that shared set of norms and ethos as the glue to hold our splintering, divided country together. Cutting through the leftist doublethink presents a daunting challenge, but unless we commit to “winning the hearts and minds” of Americans on the importance of being “good citizens”, where “rights” rest right next to “civic duty”, we’ll continue to drift, creating an ever-widening no man’s land, rather than to use a military metaphor and which I use as my gravatar, “march under one flag”.
We must become a country under one flag again – we must become American citizens first, political partisans second.
Who knows, I might end up like Donald Trump and his tweeting. Posted this comment a little while ago:
The pervasive paranoia of Hillary Clinton strikes again http://wapo.st/2cqdwLc
@washingtonpost @TheFix Why was Amy Saharia’s name redacted in FBI interview/ where are Kendall thumb drives? https://t.co/AcKjYwVY8W
I never knew I followed so many doctors on Twitter
@chucktodd never knew there were so many Clinton spinners masquerading as journalists.
Hillary collapsed getting into a van, after leaving a 9/11 memorial event early today. Her campaign kept reporters away and in the dark for 90 minutes. Then the campaign released the story that Hillary Clinton got overheated and did not feel well. She was taken to Chelsea’s apartment, NOT to a hospital.
Hours later, Hillary Clinton’s doctor released a statement, stating that she diagnosed Hillary with pneumonia on Friday, prescribed antibiotics and advised her to rest and modify her schedule. On Friday, she and her campaign insisted she was fine and just suffering from allergies.
As usual, even if this statement is true, the dodgy way the Clinton camp handled this obvious medical problem will fuel endless conspiracy theories and THAT is exactly why they do it. They throw out all this stuff, that begs any rational person to look askance about the truthfulness, and then Hillary can play the martyr of the “vast, right-wing conspiracy” again.
Even better for her, is this doctor’s note gets her out of being so accessible to the media again – a win/win for the Clinton camp, while they wait for Donald Trump to overplay her health situation.
The thing everyone should be focusing on is that her handlers kept the media away and did not tell them anything until 90 minutes later. It was only a citizen (he says he is a Hillary-supporter btw), who caught her collapsing on video and posted it on Twitter, that FORCED the Clinton camp to say more. THAT is what we should be talking about – they were almost able to cover this up completely. There’s a second video on Twitter too, shot from another angle – so two citizens “reported” it. If all we had to rely on is the media, we would still be getting the “the cough is just allergies and she overheated today” story.
The liberal media was all over Twitter trying to talk down that she collapsed and that she has a more serious health problem – they were trying to cover-up for her AGAIN. Chuck Todd’s leaked email correspondence with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, about spinning in the Dem. primary, makes me discount him as a “journalist”. He also was prepared to spread the “Nuremberg rally imagery” meme bit, after that Trump pledge rally, so I strongly suspect there are plenty more email connections between him and Clinton political operatives.
“Journalism”…. yeah right!
A couple years ago, Gladius recommended that I start a Twitter account. Well, I set one up under my libertybelle name and I’m libertybelle@october601 on Twitter.
I thought Twitter was stupid and a waste of time, so after a few dozen tweets, I hadn’t bothered with it, but in the past week, I decided to start posting some tweets and commenting. Yes, yes, so lame, but I am going to paste a few of my comments here. I apologize for the really bad photos, but being technologically-challenged, I tried to do the screenshot thing on my PC, but couldn’t figure out how to crop photos or upload them to my blog. So, I snapped photos of my PC screen and uploaded them from my phone to my blog. Whatever, these are just meant to be a blog record…. of sorts.
September 7, 2016: Posted a comment on a tweet by Jason Chaffetz and I also sent an email comment to Sharyl Attkisson about trying to find out who all was present for Hillary’s FBI interview.
September 8, 2016: Posted comments on tweets by Andrew McCarthy, Jason Chaffetz and Trey Gowdy. Busy comment day for me, but I’ve got a ways to go to catch up to Donald Trump….
September 10, 2016: I emailed some information to Trey Gowdy, that I didn’t want to post on my blog. I posted a comment on his tweet, hoping that someone in his office might see my comment and look for my email. I did provide my real name and address on this email.
Think, I’ve gotten the hang of tweeting, but I still think it’s pretty lame;-)
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Trying to sort through so many lies from the Clintons, from their lying lawyers and from their sycophantic spinners can make your head spin. The facts get buried in the avalanche of lies. That is the point of their mass media saturation strategy – to inundate the public with so much loud noise and so many obfuscations that you can’t keep track of the facts.
I’ve noted facts from the FBI notes in previous posts, but there’s one thing about evidence they received from the Clinton lawyers or from other sources, I did not notice in the FBI notes. What is the disposition of the thumb drives of the server information, which none other than David E. Kendall, the infamous Clinton cover-up expert, was reported to have in his possession?
July , 30, 2015 – Politico reported:
“Hillary Clinton’s private lawyer has a thumb drive containing classified information from as many as five U.S. intelligence agencies — but the State Department told POLITICO the law firm is taking “appropriate measures” to secure the files.
The agency declined to detail steps made to protect the sensitive information in attorney David Kendall’s possession, but the issue is raising concern among Republicans on Capitol Hill who’ve criticized Clinton’s handling of the email controversy. The thumb drive has copies of emails Clinton kept on a private server while she served as secretary of state, a trove now known to contain classified documents.
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The agency told POLITICO that Clinton “does have counsel with clearance.” Kendall, a prominent Williams & Connolly attorney who defended former CIA director David Petraeus against charges of mishandling classified information, declined to comment.
Clinton’s campaign echoed the State Department.”Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-email-thumbdrive-security-120833#ixzz4JmQOgOTh
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August 5, 2015 – The Blaze reported:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has taken possession of thumb drives containing Hillary Clinton’s emails, some of which have been deemed to contain highly sensitive classified information, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter.
The official was not authorized to be quoted publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.”
Further in this story:
“The U.S. official said the FBI recovered at least two thumb drives containing the emails from Kendall. The drives contain around 30,000 emails that Clinton deemed work-related and turned over to the State Department. She destroyed thousands of others that she said were not work-related.”
Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, turned over the emails after the FBI determined that he could not remain in possession of the classified information, the official said. The State Department previously had said it was comfortable with Kendall keeping the emails at his Washington law office.”
August 12, 2015 – the Washington Post reported:
“The e-mail server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton when she served as secretary of state was turned over to the FBI late Wednesday afternoon from a private data center in New Jersey, according to an attorney familiar with the transfer.
“It was picked up about 4 p.m.,” said Barbara J. Wells, a Denver lawyer who represents Platte River Networks Inc., a small computer services firm that has managed the Clintons’ private e-mail system since mid-2013.
Wells said her client was contacted by the FBI, which expressed interest in obtaining the old server. The FBI did not have a search warrant or subpoena and did not interview her clients, she said.”
Further in this story:
In addition to obtaining the old server, the FBI recently obtained a thumb drive in the possession of Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, that contained copies of work e-mails kept on the server.
Before it was taken to the data center in New Jersey, the server had been in the basement of the Clintons’ private home in Chappaqua, N.Y., during the time she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the Clintons’ e-mail network.
August 25, 2015 – In a CBS News article, Kendall claimed to have a top secret clearance, but claimed it wasn’t for Hillary’s emails:
“Obtaining top secret clearance “was unrelated to the 30,490 e-mails provided to the State Department on December 5, 2014; none of those e-mails was classified,” Kendall wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. “As I am sure you are aware, it was not until nearly six months later that the first email in this group was retroactively classified as ‘Secret.'”
Kendall wrote that he received top secret clearance in November 2014; additionally, his law partner Katherine Turner obtained top secret clearance from the State Department in December 2014.
Kendall was in possession of a thumb drive that held copies of Clinton’s emails, but the attorney said the State Department gave him guidance for keeping the information secure, and “even provided physical equipment necessary to safeguard the thumb drive at issue.”
Grassley responded that even with his top secret clearance, Kendall did not have the level of authority necessary to possess the sensitive information in the emails in question.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clintons-lawyer-explains-his-top-secret-clearance/
September 9, 2016 – I missed some of the House Oversight Committee hearing yesterday, so I was just listening to the beginning part. At minute 35:52, Committee Chairman, Jason Chaffetz asks Patrick Kennedy, the Undersecretary for Management at the State Department, states that to the best of his knowledge, the FBI took possession of all the electronic information Mr. Kendall had.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?414934-1/state-department-officials-testify-foia-requests
I don’t recall reading about the thumb drive(s) the FBI received in these FBI notes. Did I miss the part about a thumb drive(s) David Kendall turned over to the FBI? And was it one thumb drive or “at least two thumb drives”, as reported by unnamed sources?
The Clintons and their lawyers are playing us again.
They are banking on the liberal media burying this story and prodding us that “it’s time to move on”, while claiming Hillary is the poor victim of another “vast, right-wing witch hunt”.
Filed under Hillary's Email Scandal, Politics, Public Corruption, ThatWitch2016, The Media
FBI Director, James Comey, caved to Clinton/Obama pressure to bury Hillary’s email server scandal and now he’s stuck trying to salvage his reputation and at the same time trying to avoid questions about his decision. He is now part of the Clinton, “Time to move on” choir and will do whatever it takes to bury this email server scandal. The Hill reports:
“Republicans on the House Oversight Committee asked officials from the FBI and three other agencies for a classified briefing on Wednesday regarding redactions in the report on Hillary Clinton’s email server — but were denied.
In response to the refusal, the committee has now scheduled a hearing for Monday morning at which the same four agencies — the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice and State departments — will be asked to testify.”
The Clinton WALL of obstruction is stronger and higher than any wall Donald Trump could ever dream of building.
The Clinton spin continues apace – blaming Colin Powell again. Rep Elijah Cummings released a Powell email acquired from the State Department, according to a Politico report. So, once again Cummings is going to carry more water for the Clintons and try to use Powell as the scapegoat, to deflect blame from Hillary Clinton. Politico reports:
“This email exchange shows that Secretary Powell advised Secretary Clinton with a detailed blueprint on how to skirt security rules and bypass requirements to preserve federal records, although Secretary Clinton has made clear that she did not rely on this advice,” Cummings said in a statement. “This email exchange also illustrates the longstanding problem that no Secretary of State ever used an official unclassified email account until the current Secretary of State. The Republican obsession with Secretary Clinton has reached a fever pitch, and they have been using taxpayer resources to single her out in a desperate and abusive attempt to hurt her presidential campaign.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-hillary-clinton-emails-227861#ixzz4JceHOTjZ
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The Clintons will stop at nothing to strong-arm their way back into the White House. The problem for Cummings is Hillary had THOUSANDS of classified documents on, not only a private email account, she had them on her unsecured home-brew server and her aides, the recipients or senders of these classified emails, also have these classified emails on whatever email system they were using. She had them on 13 mobile devices, which she never turned over to the FBI and she had them on 5 ipads, which only 3 were turned over to the FBI.
And the entire time she was using all these devices, heck in the FBI notes one aide to Bill Clinton mentioned that he often say Hillary using a flip phone to talk on and using a blackberry in her hands – so much for the only wanted to use one device for convenience LIE….
Clinton had over 904 emails recovered by the FBI from her gmail account according to these FBI Notes. 56 of those were classified . Those emails were NOT included in the emails her attorneys returned to the State Department AND not on her home-brew server. The FBI uncovered those emails in their investigations.
Cummings is once again trying to deflect and deceive, in his usual rabid partisan fashion.
I am sure he and his fellow Democrats already have their brain-dead talking points prepared and distributed, ready for tomorrow’s congressional hearing.
They will relentlessly repeat these talking points and refuse to even listen to, or consider, any evidence or testimony that reflects negatively on Hillary. The goal is repeat these talking points continuously , so that these talking points are what is remembered and also repeated by the liberal media. It’s the same old vile mass media saturation brainwashing technique they rely on.
Their friends in the liberal media will aid and abet them in every way they can – repeating their talking points and repeating the claim that it’s another “vast, right-wing witch hunt” to hurt Hillary.
SHE is the one who decided to use this UNSECURED server and she is the one who allowed classified information to be relayed on her email system. No Republicans made her do this.
She is UNFIT to ever be trusted with sensitive information.
Retired general Michael Hayden, in the Washington Times, writes:
“Mrs. Clinton’s defense — that many of the discussed strikes never occurred — is also stunning. It’s not quite as bad as saying that it would have been OK for Marshall and Eisenhower in early 1944 to debate over an open line whether to land in Europe at Normandy or Pas de Calais because, after all, we ultimately didn’t land at Pas de Calais. Not quite as bad, but still hard to fathom. Uncertain and unclassified are two different things.
I signed a letter last month with 49 other officials who have served in Republican administrations. We all said Donald Trump was unfit for the presidency. He still is. But many of us also insisted in the letter that this not be read as an endorsement of Mrs. Clinton.
Recently in this space I said that even though I could not vote for him, I would not vote for her. That still holds. In fact, the revelations of the past week make that latter position even more certain.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/6/the-302-makes-it-more-certain-hillary-clinton-isnt/
I agree with him completely.
Update: 9/8/16, The House Oversight Committee is meeting, as I type. I’ve learned that the Democrats on this committee requested this Powell email FIVE days ago and the State Department could cough it up. Numerous email requests, from Republicans on more than one House committee, have NOT been responded to in YEARS. The State Department officials, especially Undersecretary for Management, Patrick Kennedy’s answers, rank as nothing short of parsing bullshit and massive obfuscations.
Above is the first paragraph of the FBI Interview Notes. It lists Hillary Clinton’s attorneys present for this interview. One name is redacted and one can only wonder why?
On July 2, 2016, the New York Times reported:
Accompanying Mrs. Clinton into the meeting were her lawyer David E. Kendall; Cheryl D. Mills and Heather Samuelson, longtime aides who are also lawyers; and two lawyers from Mr. Kendall’s firm, Williams & Connolly, Katherine Turner and Amy Saharia.
Eight officials from the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice conducted the interview, according to a person who was familiar with the substance of the session but declined to be named because the meeting was private. This person characterized the meeting as “civil” and “businesslike.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-emails.html?_r=1
So, was the other attorney Amy Saharia, as the New York Times reported back in July, or was it someone else? Why on earth redact the name, if it was Saharia???
There are several redactions on who was present from the DOJ. The FBI Notes list two people from the DOJ/FBI side and have three names redacted, which comes to 5 names, although the NY Times story says there were 8 DOJ/FBI people present, so who are 3 redacted names + 3 others mentioned in the NY Times story??? Even if that one long block of redaction, after David Laufman’s name is more than one name, we are still left with knowing only 2 names of who was present from the FBI/DOJ and leaves SIX unknowns. Something is very wrong when you compare the NY Times report to the FBI Notes.
Andrew McCarthy and others have explained why Cheryl Mills should not have been present. McCarthy writes:
“Readers may recall that I suggested back in May that “the fix” was in in the investigation of the Clinton emails. The reason was that the Justice Department was allowing Cheryl Mills – a witness, if not a subject, of the investigation – to invoke attorney-client privilege on behalf of Mrs. Clinton in order to thwart the FBI’s attempt to inquire into the procedure used to produce Clinton’s emails to the State Department. Mills was a participant in that procedure – and it is the procedure in which, we now know, well over 30,000 emails were attempted to be destroyed, including several thousand that contained government-related business.
When she worked for Clinton at State, Mills was not acting in the capacity of a lawyer – not for then-Secretary Clinton and not for the State Department. Moreover, as Clinton’s chief-of-staff, Mills was intimately involved in issues related to Clinton’s private email set up, the discussions about getting her a secure BlackBerry similar to President Obama’s, and questions that were raised (including in FOIA requests) about Clinton’s communications.
That is to say, Mills was an actor in the facts that were under criminal investigation by the FBI. Put aside that she was not Mrs. Clinton’s lawyer while working for the State Department; as I explained in the May column, Mills, after leaving the State Department, was barred by ethical rules from acting as Mrs. Clinton’s lawyer “in connection with a matter in which the lawyer participated personally and substantially as a public officer or employee.”
There is no way Mills should have been permitted to participate as a lawyer in the process of producing Clinton’s emails to the State Department nearly two years after they’d both left. I thought it was astonishing that the Justice Department indulged her attorney-client privilege claim, which frustrated the FBI’s ability to question her on a key aspect of the investigation. But it is simply unbelievable to find her turning up at Mrs. Clinton’s interview – participating in the capacity of a lawyer under circumstances where Clinton was being investigated over matters in which Mills participated as a non-lawyer government official.
According to the FBI’s report, Mrs. Clinton had four other attorneys (one whose name is deleted from the report for some reason) representing her at the interview. She clearly did not need another lawyer. And it is Criminal Investigations 101 that law enforcement never interviews witnesses together – the point is to learn the truth, not provide witnesses/suspects with an opportunity to keep their story straight, which undermines the search for truth. Why on earth was Cheryl Mills permitted to sit in on Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview?
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/439676/clintons-fbi-interview-what-was-cheryl-mills-doing-there
Something smells very wrong here. I wonder if perhaps Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch were present to oversee this interview and assure it led nowhere? Would that even be possible?
We deserve an answer as to who all was present for this kangaroo proceeding!!!
And lest we forget, James Comey folded his cards on an indictment on July 5, 2016, as President Obama was en route to a campaign stop in Charlotte, NC, with Hillary on board Air Force One with him.
Afterthought:
Perhaps the FBI Notes release is a SOS from the FBI to let the American people know the rule of law has been hijacked by the Clintons and Obama.
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