Horray!

What took the Trump administration so long? See: Who lost their security clearances?

If I Were a Senator ...

... here are some of the questions I would have asked James Comey in his recent Senate hearing:

- You say that your memos to the files where written contemporaneously after your conversations with Trump. Have you gone back and revised in any way these memos since your first drafts?

- After Loretta Lynch met with Bill Clinton on the tarmac in Arizona and then told you to call the Hillary Clinton investigation a "matter" did you start to memorialize your conversations with her?

- Why did you allow Hillary's aide, Cheryl Mills to destroy her laptop computer after her testimony at the FBI? Why did you allow her to act as Hillary's attorney during her testimony when she clearly wasn't?

- Hillary Clinton had her e-mail server, her cell phones, her PDAs, and 30,000 e-mails destroyed. Was this obstruction of justice?

- The purpose of your media leaks was to get a Special Counsel appointed. This has now occurred with Robert Mueller being so named. Now Mr. Mueller is a long-time friend and mentor of yours. Have you had any private conversation with him wherein you have attempted to steer his Trump investigation?

- It is now becoming increasingly clear that there was no collusion between at least the Trump inner circle and Russia. How can there be a cover-up if there was no crime or even misdeeds?

- Mr. Comey, have you ever lied in this matter? Last Fall you testified under oath that there were "hundreds of thousands" of Hillary's e-mails found on Anthony Weiner's computer ... the reason you used for reopening the investigation into her case right before the election. Now we know it was but a few dozen e-mails. Why did you wait until recently to correct this serious and consequential  misstatement?

- You have previously testified under oath that you neither leaked FBI info to the media nor authorized anyone to do so. How does this comport to your recent admission that you did leak, through your professor friend, one or more of your memos that memorized your meetings with President Trump?

- You have called President Trump a liar. What objective facts or tangible proof, other than your subjective opinion, do you have to support this contention?

- Why are you such a snake in the grass?

What if Trump Loses?

Since I recently penned a blog on the possibility of Trump winning, I have to be fair and offer suggestions in case he loses ... and his opponent, I think it is Hellary Clinton, wins:

- Everyone will be required to learn to speak Spanish

- The Clinton Foundation will absorb the Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations

- Donald Trump will lose his IRS audit to the tune of $5 billion

- Michelle Obama, Cheryl Mills and Loretta Lynch will be named to the Supreme Court

- The Koran will replace the Gideon Bible in most hotel rooms

- Bernie Sanders will "buy" a villa on Lago Como

- John Podesta will head the State Dept., Sid Blumenthal, the CIA

- Most drug stocks will tank

- George Soros will buy Philip Morris and make cannabis-only cigarettes

- Mar a Largo will be shuttered for numerous sanitary violations

- The Summer White House will be located  next to the NY Presbyterian Hospital

- Paul Ryan will switch parties

- Bill Clinton will be put out to stud

- BB guns will be the only ones allowed ... but they can't be scary looking

Homey Comey

Sandy Burgler

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave ..." It seems that Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, the Clinton Crime Family, Sandy Burgler and other actors in this recent political Kabuki play ... all have previous Washington connections ... see: WND Article. In keeping with my more recent practice, I will here quote a few salient passages from this article for those of you who don't follow hyperlinks:

In 2004, Comey, then serving as a deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, apparently limited the scope of the criminal investigation of Sandy Berger, which left out former Clinton administration officials who may have coordinated with Berger in his removal and destruction of classified records from the National Archives. The documents were relevant to accusations that the Clinton administration was negligent in the build-up to the 9/11 terrorist attack. 

Curiously, Berger, Lynch and Cheryl Mills [Hellery's Chief of Staff] all worked as partners in the Washington law firm Hogan & Hartson, which prepared tax returns for the Clintons and did patent work for a software firm that played a role in the private email server Hillary Clinton used when she was secretary of state. 

Lynch and Comey both served as U.S. attorney in New York, Lynch for the Eastern District of New York, and Comey for the Southern District of New York. They crossed paths in the investigation of HSBC bank, which avoided criminal charges in a massive money-laundering scandal for which the bank paid a $1.9 billion fine. 

There is no evidence Comey’s investigation for the Justice Department made any attempt to determine if anyone affiliated with the Clinton White House prompted Berger or coordinated with him in the decision to remove the classified documents. 

Messages found stored on Clinton’s private email server show that Berger – a convicted thief of classified documents – had been advising Clinton while she served as secretary of state and had access to emails containing classified information. 

For example, in an email dated Sept. 22, 2009, Berger advised Clinton how she could leverage information to make Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more cooperative in discussions with the Obama administration over a settlement freeze.

Sandy Burgler has since passed away ...

Question?

Why would all four of Hellery Clinton's State Department aides (Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, Heather Samuelson and Philippe Reines) who are to be questioned by the FBI, be hiring the very same counsel, Beth Wilkinson, Esq., a former Justice Department lawyer? See: Newsmax Story.

I can think of four possible reasons for this development:

1) This lawyer can be paid for and directed by Hellery (or maybe paid by the Clinton Foundation either directly or indirectly)
2) These aides will then be obliged to Hellery and are very unlikely to throw her under the bus ... even at their own legal jeopardy
3) This lawyer, with her Justice Department background, may well have a conduit as to what incriminating evidence that the FBI has on Hellery and these aides, and
 4) Most importantly, this lawyer can insure that these four don't offer conflicting testimony.

Those Clinton's ... they're always four steps ahead!

Hip Hip Horray

This is the best news I have heard in a long long while ... it seems that a grand jury may have been empaneled to weigh in on Hellary Clinton's possible felonious use of a private e-mail server while she was Secretary of State. It is also thought that the FBI has broadened this investigation to include political corruption involving her possible illegal activities related to the Clinton Foundation's dealings with the State Department ... see: Daily Caller Story ... and the FBI apparently has 150 to 200 agents working on these possibilities.

It is said that Joseph diGenova, the source of these notions and a former federal attorney for the District of Columbia, seems to have some idea of what may be going on inside the FBI and the Department of Justice. If this be the case, this is a very dramatic development and belies Hellery's fatuous claim that the FBI is just performing a "security review." Boy, I sure hope diGenova is right! The only rubs may be that these investigations may be only focused on Hellery's aides, Huma Abadin and Cheryl Mills. ... or that Attorney General Loretta Lynch may squelch things at the last minute. I daily pray that this evil woman, Hellery, gets her due in due time.

Where are my pompoms?

Rogues Gallery

The Clinton Posse

Huma Abedin

Cheryl Mills

Harold Ickes

Mandy Grunwald

Ira Magaziner

John Podesta

James Carville

Paul Begala

George Stephanopoulos

Philippe Reines

Terry McAuliffe

Ann Lewis

And many, many, many more ... here are just some of the Clinton Foundation players ... see: Leadership Team.

Afterward:

Sid Blumenthal

David Kendall

The Players

Here are the major participants (so far) surrounding the September 11^th, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya:

Christopher Stevens, Ambassador to Libya, was killed in the September 11th attack in Benghazi.  Was in Benghazi at the behest of Hillary Clinton although this fact was curiously omitted from the Accountability Revue Board’s findings … even though it was testified to there by Greg Hicks.

Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith, and Glen Doherty, three other American defenders who were killed in Benghazi  by Islamic terrorists.

President Obama, was informed of the Benghazi attack-in-progress at about 5 PM on 9/11/12.  Supposedly told Leon Panetta, to “do whatever can be done to assist and protect Americans in harm’s way.”  After this, he was not heard from again for over 12 hours.  That next day he flew to Las Vegas to attend a campaign fund raiser.

Leon Panetta, Defense Secretary, testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that no military assets were deployed to assist those under attack in Benghazi and that he had had no further communication with President Obama about this matter that night.

General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when asked by Senator John McCain why there was no military response to the Benghazi attack said, “We did what our posture and capabilities allowed.” McCain said that this was “one of the most bizarre statements I’ve ever seen in my years here at the [Armed Services] committee.”

Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, testified in late January in front of the Senate and House (but not under oath) that she wasn’t aware of the security problems in Benghazi and that she believed for many days thereafter that the attack in Benghazi was as a result of the YOUTUBE video.  Was famous for saying at these hearings “What difference at this point does it make!?!”

David Petraeus, honored General in Iraq and Afghanistan and former CIA Director, expressed frustration at the scrubbing of the original CIA talking points … particularly since he had traveled to Libya shortly after the Benghazi attack to get first-hand information.  He eventually went along with the White House narrative … but this didn’t save him from being outed for having an extra-marital affair which then led him to lose his military commission and his post at the CIA.

General Carter Ham, head of the African Command, there is a strange story that Leon Panetta relieved General Ham of this command when he refused to order a “stand down” of troops being sent to Benghazi.  This story has been refuted and, effectively, buried.

Thomas Pickering, former Ambassador to the U.N., together with the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullin, lead a State-Department-sponsored panel investigating the Benghazi attack (Accountability Review Board). Although Secretary Clinton never testified to this panel, it did find that the State Department was at fault for not providing additional security to the Benghazi mission.  Hillary Clinton accepted responsibility for this failing.  This review supposedly led to the “resignation of four State Department employees” (a now-disputed point … as they might have just been reassigned.)

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, an Egyptian Coptic Christian  wrote and produced of the controversial anti-Islam YOUTUBE video, "Innocence of Muslims" which was blamed by President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Susan Rice as the reason for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi.  Shortly after the attack he was arrested on a parole violation and is still in prison.

Susan Rice, Ambassador to the U.N., went on five TV talk shows the Sunday after the attack to say that the YOUTUBE video was the reason for the attack and terrorists were not involved.

Darrell Issa, Republican Chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee has been pushing the Benghazi investigation ... and is often accused by the left of playing partisan politics.  Is currently seeking sworn depositions from Pickering and Mullin about their panel's investigation.

Elijah Cummings, ranking Democrat of the House Oversight Committee.  Made a very controversial comment in these Benghazi hearings, "death is part of life."

Greg Hicks, former deputy diplomatic chief of mission in Libya.  Testified at the House Oversight Committee that he called Hillary at 2:00 AM the night of the Benghazi attack and told her that it was terrorists.  Had a scathing phone call from Cheryl Mills after he questioned Susan Rice’s account of the Benghazi attacks as being the result of the YOUTUBE video.

Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant secretary for counter-terrorism, testified in the Oversight Committee that special forces in Tripoli were told to “stand down” and not go to Benghazi to help quell the attack there.  These special forces were furious and their commander, Lt. Col. Gibson, said that it was “the first time in my career that a diplomat has more balls than somebody in the military.”

Eric Nordstrom, the former regional security officer in Libya, blamed, in testimony before the Oversight Committee, the Obama Administration for ignoring calls for more security in Benghazi.

Victoria Nuland, State Department spokesperson who directed the12 revisions to the talking points that Susan Rice then used to go on 5 talk shows the Sunday after the attack.

Beth Jones, Assistant Secretary to Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, called Greg Hicks to warn him to stop questioning the Administration's stance on the Benghazi attack.  Later at a meeting in Washington, she questioned Hick's management style in Libya and said his people were complaining.

Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s long-time chief of staff (and known hatchet person), called Greg Hicks to excoriate him for meeting with a congressman from Utah without a State Dept. lawyer present (due to lack of security clearance for the lawyer).  Hicks believes that this confrontation led to his demotion to a desk job at the State Department.

Philippe Reines, State Department spokesman, said that nobody tried to keep the Utah congressperson from speaking to anyone in Libya.