30 Americans Killed Including 22 SEALs When Afghan Insurgents Shoot Down Helicopter
By Martha Raddatz
Luis Martinez
MIKE BOETTCHER
Aug. 6, 2011
ABCNEWS.com
WATCH Afghanistan Navy SEAL Crash: New Details Emerge
A helicopter was shot down today by Afghan insurgents
as it was rushing to aid troops in a firefight, killing 30 Americans,
including 22 Navy SEALs, most of whom belonged to Team 6, the unit whose
members were involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, U.S.
officials said.
The Chinook helicopter was carrying a quick-reaction force to provide
back-up to the troops on the ground in the eastern Afghan province of
Wardak, a U.S. official said. After the crash, the forces that were
involved in the firefight "broke contact" with the enemy so they could
go provide perimeter security for the crash site, the official said.
Additional forces were then sent to secure the crash site.
It's unclear how far away the helicopter was from the initial firefight
when it went down and unclear how the troops in the firefight got to the
crash location, the official said.
In addition to the 30 Americans, the official said there were seven Afghan army soldiers and an interpreter on the helicopter.
Although the Taliban have claimed to have shot the helicopter down, U.S.
officials have only identified the attackers as insurgents.
On July 25, a Chinook was hit by a rocket propelled grenade fired by the
Taliban. It launched in the belly of the aircraft which made a hard
landing and only two soldiers were injured in that attack but this time
all on board were killed.
Saturday's deaths bring the total number of coalition troops killed in
Afghanistan to 334 this year, according to the Associated Press.
The last worst one-day U.S. casuality record in Afghanistan was on June
28, 2005 when 16 U.S. soldiers were killed in Kunar province after a
helicopter was shot down by Taliban insurgents.
Afghan President Karzai's office released a statement on the incident.
"A NATO helicopter crashed last night in Wardak province," Karzai said
in the statement. "President Karzai expressed his deep condolences
because of this incident and expressed his sympathy to Barack Obama."
President Obama offered his thoughts and prayers to those killed in the crash.
"Their deaths are a reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices made by the
men and women of our military and their families, including all who
have served in Afghanistan," Obama said in a statement. "We will draw
inspiration from their lives, and continue the work of securing our
country and standing up for the values that they embodied. We also mourn
the Afghans who died alongside our troops in pursuit of a more peaceful
and hopeful future for their country. At this difficult hour, all
Americans are united in support of our men and women in uniform who
serve so that we can live in freedom and security."
BREAKING: ASSANGE LANDS FINAL BLOW ON HILLARY AFTER FBI CASE REOPENED
by Martin Walsh
Assange Steps Forward To Deliver Final Blow To The Clinton Campaign
FBI Director James Comey made the announcement in a letter Friday
afternoon that the bureau will be reopening the investigation into
Hillary Clinton’s illegal use of a private email server.
“In a previous congressional testimony, I referred to the fact that
the FBI had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s
personal email server,” reads the letter. “Due to recent developments, I
am writing to supplement my previous testimony.”
Director Comey indicated that his team came across new informationconcerning the emails late Thursday evening. The director says he “agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps.”
The emails did not randomly appear out of nowhere and into the FBI’s headquarters.
It is being reported that the FBI received the emails from the
hacking group Anonymous. About a month ago, the group released a
statement on 4CHAN, indicating that they had a major surprise coming towards the end of October.
Here is their chat discussing what we can expect from them:
4CHAN Document From Hackers
Now, many things on this list have yet to occur, but these hackers
have delivered on their promises so far. The hackers are arguing that we
will receive the emails by November 1, which makes sense.
The hacking group Anonymous leaked these emails to the FBI in order
to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private
email server.
The goal would be to then release more information to the FBI now
that they have an open investigation. The group also indicates that they
have ownership of Hillary’s 33,000 deleted emails and will be releasing
those soon, as well.
As the hacker states in the above chat, “we are purposely holding
them back so that the Democratic Party does not have time to replace
Hillary Clinton.”
It is also being reported that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have been playing a major role in this, as well.
As we know, WikiLeaks has been releasing emails from Hillary’s
campaign chairman, John Podesta, for weeks now. Rumors on online forums
have indicated that Anonymous hackers released thousands of emails to
both WikiLeaks and the FBI in order to use a multifaceted approach to
fully exposing Hillary Clinton.
Hackers are leaking everything they have on Hillary Clinton now so
that all of the new information is fresh on the minds of voters that
will cast their ballots in less than two weeks.
The attack has worked because it has forced the liberal media to cover all of this, too.
Freedom is never free. We are free to speak as long as we have
nothing important to say. Julian Assange is the perfect example of this.
If Assange was lying, why are Democrats trying so hard to silence
him? A guy hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy is doing more for the truth
this election than all of the American press, and rumors are swirling
that his time may have expired.
People like Julian Assange have given up their lives to expose
corruption in government and allowing Hillary Clinton to win this
election makes all of his sacrifices meaningless.
He has offered us a chance to revolt against our tyrannical
government. Chances likes this do not occur often, and if we do not
seize the opportunity, we will suffer another four years of
suppression from our corrupt leaders.
Vote Trump, so that we can save America and he can pardon Julian Assange.
Laptop may contain thousands of messages sent to or from Mrs. Clinton’s private server
As Hillary Clinton reaches the home stretch of the election well
ahead in polling over Donald Trump, new revelations from the FBI's
reopening of the investigation into the Democratic candidate's emails
has shifted the race. WSJ's Gerald F. Seib discusses how the information
could impact both candidates. Photo: AP
Devlin Barrett
The surprise disclosure that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation are taking a new look at Hillary Clinton’s
email use lays bare, just days before the election, tensions inside the
bureau and the Justice Department over how to investigate the
Democratic presidential nominee.
Investigators found 650,000
emails on a laptop that they believe was used by former Rep. Anthony
Weiner and his estranged wife Huma Abedin, a close Clinton aide,
and underlying metadata suggests thousands of those messages could have
been sent to or from the private server that Mrs. Clinton used while
she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the
matter.
It will take weeks, at a minimum, to determine whether
those messages are work-related from the time Ms. Abedin served with
Mrs. Clinton at the State Department; how many are duplicates of emails
already reviewed by the FBI; and whether they include either classified
information or important new evidence in the Clinton email probe.
Officials had to await a court order to begin reviewing the
emails—which they received over the weekend, according to a person
familiar with the matter—because they were uncovered in an unrelated
probe of Mr. Weiner.
The new investigative effort, disclosed by
FBI Director James Comey on Friday, shows a bureau at times in sharp
internal disagreement over matters related to the Clintons, and how to handle those matters fairly
and carefully in the middle of a national election campaign. Even as
the probe of Mrs. Clinton’s email use wound down in July, internal
disagreements within the bureau and the Justice Department surrounding
the Clintons’ family philanthropy heated up, according to people
familiar with the matter.
The latest development began in early
October when New York-based FBI officials notified Andrew McCabe, the
bureau’s second-in-command, that while investigating Mr. Weiner for possibly sending sexually charged messages to a teenage minor,
they had recovered a laptop. Many of the 650,000 emails on the
computer, they said, were from the accounts of Ms. Abedin, according to
people familiar with the matter.
ENLARGE
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets a crowd in Pompano Beach, Fla., on Sunday.
Photo:
jewel samad/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Those emails stretched back years, these people said, and were on a
laptop that hadn’t previously come up in the Clinton email probe. Ms.
Abedin said in late August that the couple were separating.
The
FBI had searched the computer while looking for child pornography,
people familiar with the matter said, but the warrant they used didn’t
give them authority to search for matters related to Mrs. Clinton’s
email arrangement at the State Department. Mr. Weiner has denied sending
explicit or indecent messages to the minor.
In their initial
review of the laptop, the metadata showed many messages, apparently in
the thousands, that were either sent to or from the private email server
at Mrs. Clinton’s home that had been the focus of so much investigative
effort for the FBI. Senior FBI officials decided to let the Weiner
investigators proceed with a closer examination of the metadata on the
computer, and report back to them.
At a meeting early last week
of senior Justice Department and FBI officials, a member of the
department’s senior national-security staff asked for an update on the
Weiner laptop, the people familiar with the matter said. At that point,
officials realized that no one had acted to obtain a warrant, these
people said.
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Presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump addressed the FBI’s new email inquiry on Monday.
Mr. McCabe then instructed the email investigators to talk to the
Weiner investigators and see whether the laptop’s contents could be
relevant to the Clinton email probe, these people said. After the
investigators spoke, the agents agreed it was potentially relevant.
Mr. Comey was given an update, decided to go forward with the case and notified Congress
on Friday, with explosive results. Senior Justice Department officials
had warned the FBI that telling Congress would violate policies against
overt actions that could affect an election, and some within the FBI
have been unhappy at Mr. Comey’s repeated public statements on the
probe, going back to his press conference on the subject in July.
The
back-and-forth reflects how the bureau is probing several matters
related, directly or indirectly, to Mrs. Clinton and her inner circle.
New
details show that senior law-enforcement officials repeatedly voiced
skepticism of the strength of the evidence in a bureau investigation of
the Clinton Foundation, sought to condense what was at times a sprawling
cross-country effort, and, according to some people familiar with the
matter, told agents to limit their pursuit of the case. The probe of the
foundation began more than a year ago to determine whether financial
crimes or influence peddling occurred related to the charity.
New York mayoral
candidate Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, attended a news
conference in New York in 2013. Mr. Weiner had attempted to revive his
career with a bid for New York City mayor, but that effort was doomed
after a website published lewd photos that he had evidently sent to
another woman.
Photo:
eric thayer/Reuters
Some investigators grew frustrated, viewing FBI leadership as
uninterested in probing the charity, these people said. Others involved
disagreed sharply, defending FBI bosses and saying Mr. McCabe in
particular was caught between an increasingly acrimonious fight for
control between the Justice Department and FBI agents pursuing the
Clinton Foundation case.
It isn’t unusual for field agents to
favor a more aggressive approach than supervisors and prosecutors think
is merited. But the internal debates about the Clinton Foundation show the high stakes when such disagreements occur surrounding someone who is running for president.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week
that Mr. McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, received $467,500 in campaign
funds in late 2015 from the political-action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime ally of the Clintons and, until he was elected governor in November 2013, a Clinton Foundation board member.
Mr.
McAuliffe had supported Dr. McCabe in the hopes she and a handful of
other Democrats might help win a majority in the state Senate. Dr.
McCabe lost her race last November, and Democrats failed to win their
majority.
A spokesman for the governor has said that “any
insinuation that his support was tied to anything other than his desire
to elect candidates who would help pass his agenda is ridiculous.”
Dr. McCabe told the Journal, “Once I decided to run, my husband had no formal role in my campaign other than to be” supportive.
In
February of this year, Mr. McCabe ascended from the No. 3 position at
the FBI to the deputy director post. When he assumed that role,
officials say, he started overseeing the probe into Mrs. Clinton’s use
of a private email server for government work when she was secretary of
state.
FBI officials have said Mr. McCabe had no role in the
Clinton email probe until he became deputy director, and by then his
wife’s campaign was over.
But other Clinton-related investigations were under way within the
FBI, and they have been the subject of internal debate for months,
according to people familiar with the matter.
Early this year,
four FBI field offices—New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Little
Rock, Ark.—were collecting information about the Clinton Foundation to
see if there was evidence of financial crimes or influence-peddling,
according to people familiar with the matter.
Los Angeles agents
had picked up information about the Clinton Foundation from an unrelated
public-corruption case and had issued some subpoenas for bank records
related to the foundation, these people said.
The Washington
field office was probing financial relationships involving Mr. McAuliffe
before he became a Clinton Foundation board member, these people said.
Mr. McAuliffe has denied any wrongdoing, and his lawyer has said the
probe is focused on whether he failed to register as an agent of a
foreign entity.
Clinton Foundation officials have long denied any wrongdoing, saying it is a well-run charity that has done immense good.
The
FBI field office in New York had done the most work on the Clinton
Foundation case and received help from the FBI field office in Little
Rock, the people familiar with the matter said.
In February, FBI
officials made a presentation to the Justice Department, according to
these people. By all accounts, the meeting didn’t go well.
Some
said that is because the FBI didn’t present compelling evidence to
justify more aggressive pursuit of the Clinton Foundation, and that the
career anticorruption prosecutors in the room simply believed it wasn’t a
very strong case. Others said that from the start, the Justice
Department officials were stern, icy and dismissive of the case.
“That
was one of the weirdest meetings I’ve ever been to,” one participant
told others afterward, according to people familiar with the matter.
Anticorruption
prosecutors at the Justice Department told the FBI at the meeting they
wouldn’t authorize more aggressive investigative techniques, such as
subpoenas, formal witness interviews, or grand-jury activity. But the
FBI officials believed they were well within their authority to pursue
the leads and methods already under way, these people said.
About
a week after Mr. Comey’s July announcement that he was recommending
against any prosecution in the Clinton email case, the FBI sought to
refocus the Clinton Foundation probe, with Mr. McCabe deciding the FBI’s
New York office would take the lead, with assistance from Little Rock.
Director James Comey
testified before the House Judiciary Committee in September on a variety
of subjects including the investigation into former U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's email server.
Photo:
Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe Washington field office, FBI officials decided, would focus on a
separate matter involving Mr. McAuliffe. Mr. McCabe had decided earlier
in the spring that he would continue to recuse himself from that probe,
given the governor’s contributions to his wife’s former political
campaign.
Within the FBI, the decision was viewed with skepticism
by some, who felt the probe would be stronger if the foundation and
McAuliffe matters were combined. Others, particularly Justice Department
anticorruption prosecutors, felt that both probes were weak, based
largely on publicly available information, and had found little that
would merit expanded investigative authority.
According to a
person familiar with the probes, on Aug. 12, a senior Justice Department
official called Mr. McCabe to voice his displeasure at finding that New
York FBI agents were still openly pursuing the Clinton Foundation probe
during the election season. Mr. McCabe said agents still had the
authority to pursue the issue as long as they didn’t use overt methods
requiring Justice Department approvals.
The Justice Department
official was “very pissed off,” according to one person close to Mr.
McCabe, and pressed him to explain why the FBI was still chasing a
matter the department considered dormant. Others said the Justice
Department was simply trying to make sure FBI agents were following
longstanding policy not to make overt investigative moves that could be
seen as trying to influence an election. Those rules discourage
investigators from making any such moves before a primary or general
election, and, at a minimum, checking with anticorruption prosecutors
before doing so.
“Are you telling me that I need to shut down a
validly predicated investigation?” Mr. McCabe asked, according to people
familiar with the conversation. After a pause, the official replied,
“Of course not,” these people said.
For Mr. McCabe’s defenders,
the exchange showed how he was stuck between an FBI office eager to pour
more resources into a case and Justice Department prosecutors who
didn’t think much of the case, one person said. Those people said that
following the call, Mr. McCabe reiterated past instructions to FBI
agents that they were to keep pursuing the work within the authority
they had.
Others further down the FBI chain of command, however,
said agents were given a much starker instruction on the case: “Stand
down.” When agents questioned why they weren’t allowed to take more
aggressive steps, they said they were told the order had come from the
deputy director—Mr. McCabe.
Others familiar with the matter deny Mr. McCabe or any other senior FBI official gave such a stand-down instruction.
For
agents who already felt uneasy about FBI leadership’s handling of the
Clinton Foundation case, the moment only deepened their concerns, these
people said. For those who felt the probe hadn’t yet found significant
evidence of criminal conduct, the leadership’s approach was the right
response.
In September, agents on the foundation case asked to
see the emails contained on nongovernment laptops that had been searched
as part of the Clinton email case, but that request was rejected by
prosecutors at the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn. Those
emails were given to the FBI based on grants of partial immunity and
limited-use agreements, meaning agents could only use them for the
purpose of investigating possible mishandling of classified information.
Some
FBI agents were dissatisfied with that answer, and asked for permission
to make a similar request to federal prosecutors in Manhattan,
according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. McCabe, these people
said, told them no and added that they couldn’t “go
prosecutor-shopping.”
Not long after that discussion, FBI agents
informed the bureau’s leaders about the Weiner laptop, prompting Mr.
Comey’s disclosure to Congress and setting off the furor that promises
to consume the final days of a tumultuous campaign.
The 2016 Presidential election is 11 days away, and the FBI just announced that they are reopening their investigation into Hillary Clinton‘s
private email system. With the Democratic candidate once again the
subject of a criminal investigation, it raises many questions as to what
happens if she is indicted or relinquishes her candidacy before the
election, or even after. The law is hazy in some of these situations, so
let’s tackle them one by one. 1. If Clinton is indicted before the election
The FBI merely said that they are reopening their investigation to
examine new emails that came to light. They have yet to even determine
whether the emails are actually evidence of criminal activity, let alone
decide whether or not to prosecute. Therefore, it’s highly unlikely
that an indictment would come before November 8. If it did, the
indictment itself wouldn’t mean that Clinton could no longer run, as an
indictment is only an accusation, not a conviction. As my colleague Elura Nanoswrote earlier this year,
Clinton could theoretically hope that voters hate Trump enough that
they still vote for her (and hope that she isn’t convicted before taking
office).Of course, even if she wins on November 8, the nature of our
electoral system makes it so that the members of the Electoral College
could theoretically go rogue and not vote for Clinton, even if their
states tell them to. George Washington University law professor John Banzhafwrote recently that
only 30 states have laws on the books prohibiting this from happening,
and that those laws have never been enforced and might bee
unconstitutional.
More likely, however, is that she would be pressured — by herself,
the public, or the Democratic party — to give up her candidacy. 2. If Clinton steps down before the election
Should Clinton relinquish her candidacy before the election, the
Democratic National Committee has rules in place for what happens
next. Article 2, Section 7 of the DNC Bylaws says
that if there is a vacancy on the national ticket, a special meeting of
the Committee “shall be held on the call of the Chairperson,” where
they would choose a new candidate. Such meetings make decisions based on
a majority of those in attendance. Since we are exactly 11 days away
from the election, there is one major problem: The ballot deadlines have
passed in nearly every state. For example, in West Virginia, the law says a candidate must withdraw “no later than eighty-four days before the general election.”
So the Democratic leadership would likely have to wage a public
campaign to tell voters that if you vote for Clinton/Kaine, you are
really voting for Biden (or whoever it maybe)/Kaine. Then the electors
would have to change their vote for the new ticket when they meet
on December 19th, 2016. 3. If Clinton wins the election and is indicted before the inauguration
Here’s where it starts getting tricky.
As mentioned earlier, an indictment is far different from a
conviction. An indictment does not disqualify a person from being
eligible for the presidency (neither does a conviction, technically, but
being in jail would probably get in the way). Should Clinton be
indicted after winning the election but before officially taking office,
she could try to play beat-the-clock and hope to take office before her
case concludes. Once a person is in office as President, it gets even
more complicated, as we’ll see later. Should Clinton be indicted and convicted prior to her inauguration, and end up in jail, she may be deemed incapacitated, in which case Section 3 of the 20th Amendment kicks in and the Vice President-Elect, in this case Tim Kaine, would become President. (though that seems unlikely as the wheels of justice do not turn that fast) 4. If Clinton wins the election and steps down before the inauguration
If Clinton becomes President-Elect and decides to step down before
her inauguration, either due to being indicted or out of fear that an
indictment may be imminent, it would be similar to the situation just
described, and Kaine would become President. However in a situation
where a candidate steps down after the general election, but before the
Electoral College chooses the winner, federal law
says the electors would be able to vote for whomever they want,
although states may pass their own laws controlling this situation. 5. If the investigation continues after the election and
Clinton wins and is inaugurated before a decision is made. Could
Clinton be indicted when she becomes President?
The law is unsettled when it comes to this situation, but most
opinions tend to believe Clinton would luck out, due to the philosophy
that Presidents — and only Presidents — are immune from prosecution
while in office.
The Department of Justice addressed this in a memorandum by the
Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in 1973. That memo said that prosecution
of a sitting President would undermine the power of the executive branch
and its ability to function. In 2000, a new memo reviewed that determination and agreed
that a President is immune from indictment and prosecution for the
duration of their time in office. Of course, that memo acknowledged that
no court has ruled on this issue yet. It almost happened during the 1974 Watergate scandal.
Indeed, the issue was argued before the Supreme Court. White House attorney James D. St. Clair
argued that because the Constitution says “The executive power shall be
vested in a President of the United States of America” that includes
federal prosecutions. St. Clair argued that since the President
controls prosecutions, the President isn’t subject to them himself.
However, Special prosecutor Leon Jaworski argued that the executive branch has evolved since 1789 to include the Cabinet and others, so this line of reasoning is faulty.
St. Clair also mentioned that the Constitution says that after an
official is impeached and convicted by the Senate, they are “liable and
subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to
law.” He took that to mean that a President is only able to be
prosecuted after being removed from office. Jaworski argued that this
line applies to all federal officials subject to impeachment, not just
Presidents. Since other officials are subject to prosecution, it cannot
mean that impeachment is the only method of charging a President.
Alas, Chief Justice Warren Burger decided that it
wasn’t necessary to rule on this issue in order to address the matter
that was before the Court. So at this point, we just don’t know if
Clinton could be indicted as a sitting president. The law is still
murky.
So, what about impeachment? Pretty clear here. The House of
Representatives determined in 1873 that Presidents cannot be impeached
for offenses they committed before they took office. Since the
conduct would have taken place prior to her becoming President, she
couldn’t be impeached for it.
On top of all that, as LawNewz‘s Chris White noted,
the Article II of the Constitution says the President “shall have Power
to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States,
except in Cases of Impeachment.” So theoretically, President Hillary
Clinton could pardon herself.
Long story short, the Department of Justice can very well affect who
our next President is. If they move swiftly to indict, or if Clinton
believes she’s in trouble, she could drop out before November 8.
Alternatively, if an indictment comes soon after Clinton wins the
election, she could still feel pressure to step down before she takes
office. It all depends on what the FBI finds in these emails, what they
decide to do about it, and when. But the clock’s ticking.
HAH!!
There are no words…This journalist is such an idiot I can’t stop
chuckling. Sally Kohn from CNN was in such a rage when she made a
comment on Twitter that she forgot to take a few precious minutes to
make sure what she was writing wasn’t completely retarded!
H/T LisaSmith IHTT
Sally defended radical Islam’s Sharia law, calling the belief system “progressive.”.
Wouldn’t a hotshot like Kohn that makes the big bucks be able to see
that supporting Sharia law doesn’t go hand in hand with the liberal
viewpoint? You know, because they toss homosexuals off the roof and all?
You may have guessed, but, the response this dummy CNN anchor
received from Twitter users was a brutal dose of reality to this
lesbian.
The liberal journalist claimed that many peaceful,
“progressive Muslims” believe in Shariah law, the legal code that guides
members of the Islamic faith and is strictly enforced in fundamentalist
Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia.
Many have condemned Shariah as anti-American as it allows for violent
forms of punishment and unequal treatment of women in a court of law.
Few would call it “progressive.”
For example, according to a leading Shariah law manual, Reliance of the
Traveller, the code also demands the killing of apostates, or those who
once were Muslim but left the faith.
Given this, the responses that flooded in after Kohn’s Shariah tweet were not surprising:
This is exactly the kind of stupidity that we have to deal with on
daily bases when liberals open their mouths. Kohn can’t exactly condemn
Sharia because that’s technically intolerant. If she does support them
she supports the anti-gay and sexist movement. What a conundrum…stupid
liberals.
Amb. Stevens was sent to Benghazi post
haste in order to retrieve US-made Stinger missiles supplied to Ansar
al Sharia without Congressional oversight or permission. Hillary
brokered the deal through Stevens and a private arms dealer named Marc
Turi. Then some of the shoulder fired missiles ended up in Afghanistan used
against our own military. It was July 25th, 2012 when a Chinook
helicopter was taken down by one of our own Stingers, but the idiot
Taliban didn’t arm the missile and the Chinook didn’t explode, but had
to land anyway. An ordnance team recovered the serial number off the
missile which led back to a cache of Stingers being kept in Qatar by the CIA.
Obama and Hillary were now in full panic mode and Stevens was
sent in to retrieve the rest of the Stingers. This was a “do-or-die”
mission, which explains the stand down orders given to multiple commando
teams. It was the State Dept, not the CIA that supplied them to our
sworn enemies, because Petraeus wouldn’t supply these deadly weapons due
to their potential use on commercial aircraft. Then, Obama threw Gen.
Petraeus under the bus after he refused to testify that he OK’d the BS
talking points about a spontaneous uprising due to a Youtube video.
Obama and Hillary committed treason…and THIS is what the
investigation is all about, why she had a private server, (in order to
delete the digital evidence), and why Obama, two weeks after the attack,
told the UN that the attack was because of a Youtube video, even though
everyone knew it was not.
Further…the Taliban knew that this
administration aided and abetted the enemy without Congressional
approval when Boehner created the Select Cmte, and the Taliban began
pushing the Obama Administration for the release of 5 Taliban Generals.
Bowe Bergdahl was just a pawn…everyone KNEW he was a traitor.
So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt but
compromised…and a woman who is a serial liar perjured herself multiple
times at the Hearing who is running for POTUS. Only the Dems, with their
hands out, palms up, will support her. Perhaps this is why no military
aircraft was called in…because the administration knew our enemies had
Stingers.
Send this again and again and again until everyone reads this truth. Our
nation depends on people getting the TRUTH, instead of the pack of lies
being fed to us by Corrupt Obama and Clinton and the Corrupt News Media
.
BREAKING – 119 Dead People Voted 229 Times In THIS State – Trump Was RIGHT!
“Clerical errors” are what one city election board spokesman calls the votes of dead people. Critics aren’t buying it. A recent CBS2 report shows that plenty of dead people are still alive enough to vote in Chicago, Illinois.
With Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign under fire
for voicing concerns over voter fraud, the report couldn’t be more
timely. By comparing
Chicago Board of Elections voter histories and the Social Security
Administration’s death master file, the report concludes that at least
119 Chicago residents are still voting long after leaving this world.
One man who died in 1993 has somehow made it into the voting booth
another eleven times. You’re
likely relieved if you don’t live in Chicago, but this alarming issue
is by no means limited to the windy city. The problem is nationwide and
worthy of investigation by both state and federal officials. In
Virginia, more than two dozen dead people registered to vote this year.
In Los Angeles, 182 recently voted from the dead. Worst of all, in
Florida there are concerns that as many as 53,000 dead people are still
active voters. While the
issue can certainly come from either side, most of it is from the left,
“Dead people generally vote democrat” said former New York City Mayor
Rudy Giuliani. As the
recent James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas reports have shown, the Democrats
have committed extensive voter fraud. His undercover investigation
caught instigators red-handed. “We
manipulated the vote with money and action, not with laws,” Democrat
operative Scott Foval said “Well, you know what? We’ve been busing
people in to deal with you (obscenities) for fifty years, and we’re not
going to stop now,” he added. Some
argue that this voter fraud can’t be on a large enough scale to
influence the outcome of any race. But, the numbers tell another story.
Polls are showing that the race is incredibly tight in many swing
states. Those committing
the fraud certainly believe they are making a difference. As Foval
admitted, they are affecting the outcome of this election with money and
action. They see that they’re losing and are laboring vigorously to
change the election result. Sounds
like Trump is spot-on in his concerns of voter fraud. Republicans
should use these alarming discoveries to rally the pro-Trump support
this week.
ELECTION IS OVER! Wikileaks Just Revealed The Diabolical Details Of How Hillary RIGGED Every Single Thing Against Trump
Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) have just revealed new material that
will make Hillary panic in a whole other level. This could easily be
one of the most significant releases so far and could be a decisive
factor in the November election.
VIA USA Newsflash
Hillary Clinton Campaign just got caught posting a sexist “Trump Job Ad” on Craigslist to make him look like a sexual predator!
Yes… You read that right…Hillary’s campaign FAKED a Craigslist ad to try and trick the mainstream media.
This was a diabolical plot to further this BS media narrative that Trump is sexist
The ad literally says, “Like it or not, he may greet you with a kiss on the lips or grope you under the meeting table”
Of course, this “ad” is to try and paint him as a misogynist pig, but it actually does the opposite.
When we thought that Hillary has done all the vile and corrupt things she could do, but I guess WikiLeas proved us wrong.
It’s getting harder and harder to deny that voter fraud exists when we keep finding it everywhere.
In Chicago, investigators have recently uncovered 119 dead residents who have voted a total of 229 times – after their burial.
Many Chicagoans are never officially removed from the voter rolls, so
if someone casts a ballot for them they can continue to vote.
The station CBS2 Chicago reviewed voter rolls and compared them with
Social Security death records and found more than 100 examples of dead
city residents who have voted for years after
they passed away. One man who passed away 26 years ago has voted 11
times since his death, and another man who died in 1994 has voted six
times since he died.
image: http://www.barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/John-Shakespeare-collection.jpg The
1964 Shakespeare-Schlumpf transaction is the grandest used-car deal in
recorded history. After Volkswagen AG took over control of Bugatti in
1998, executives at the peoples’ car company thought it might be nice to
own one of the six Type 41 Royales that Ettore Bugatti created as “the
car for kings.” Purchasing a Royale Coupe de Ville cost VW an estimated
$17 million, a shrewd investment given the estimated worth of Royales
today. But contrast VW’s deal to one Fritz Schlumpf—in his day, the most
ruthless carmonger on Earth—pulled off in 1964: $85,000 for one Park
Ward Royale limousine and twenty-nine other Bugattis extracted from a
dusty barn near St. Louis, freight to France included.
Fritz
Schlumpf, who died in 1989, was a shady character. Born poor, he and
his older brother Hans earned a fortune in the textile business. In the
1950s, the two owned four woolen mills, a villa, and most of the homes
in the village of Malmerspach, France, in the Alsace region. Their
family motto—Acquire, Possess, Dominate—didn’t mince words concerning
their attitudes toward wealth and workers. During the German occupation
in World War II, the Schlumpf factories supplied the wool for Wermacht
uniforms.
Upon the passing of his mother in 1957, Fritz was moved
to ponder her legacy as well as his own. He concluded that a monument to
automobiles in general and to the cars that Ettore Bugatti constructed
nearby would be an appropriate tribute to his mother and to the family’s
region (his mother’s passion for cars is unknown; the son’s is
legendary). A fifth mill was purchased in Mulhouse to serve as the
repository for Schlumpf’s car collection. Mechanics, carpenters, and
upholsterers were hired to refurbish the vehicles. By 1965, a staff of
forty workers were on hand toiling over seventy Bugattis and 130 other
cars Fritz had acquired.
Many of the Bugattis came Schlumpf’s way
shortly after noted historian and marque enthusiast Hugh Conway compiled
a worldwide registry listing every known Bugatti owner in 1962. That
served as a convenient mailing list to Schlumpf, who dispatched a
solicitation letter to every Bugatti owner listed.
John
Shakespeare of Centralia, Illinois, received Schlumpf’s missive and
mentioned to a fellow car enthusiast that he might consider selling his
collection of thirty Bugattis for $105,000, the money he had invested in
the lot. He also told a newspaper reporter, “It’s awful easy to get too
many hobbies. Right now, I’m more interested in sports that I can
actively participate in like waterskiing and sky diving.”
With
near-Internet speed, Shakespeare’s conversation reached Conway, who
quickly forwarded the scuttlebutt to Schlumpf. He responded with rabid
enthusiasm. “Your communication surprised me as much as it gave me
pleasure. Mr. Shakespeare’s collection interests me and we are going to
try to make this deal,” Schlumpf noted.
The deal, according to Schlumpf, was worth $70,000 for thirty cars in impeccable condition, freight included.
image: http://www.barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Disassembled-Bugattis.jpg Shakespeare’s
golden spoon upbringing was on the opposite side of the tracks from
Schlumpf’s bootstrap roots. His father, William Shakespeare, invented
two key fishing gear advancements: the level wind reel and the backlash
brake. The company he formed at the end of the nineteenth century
introduced both monofilament fishing line and fiberglass rods.
Following
studies at Harvard graduate school, John settled in Centralia,
Illinois, in 1950 to oversee various car dealership and oil business
interests. His car enthusiasm began with a Porsche 356 and quickly
escalated to Ferraris. He and Luigi Chinetti co-drove a Ferrari 375MM to
a sixth-overall finish in the 1954 La Carrera Panamericana road race. A
year later, when Briggs Cunningham closed his shop in Palm Beach,
Florida, Shakespeare moved in with vague plans to produce his own
low-volume sports car.
In 1956, while shopping for cars,
Shakespeare discovered the Bugatti legend and promptly purchased a 1932
Type 55 supercharged sports roadster. Mere months later, a St. Louis
newspaper headline proclaimed: “Centralia Man Buys Biggest, Costliest,
and Rarest Car in the World.” In this instance, “costliest” was about
$10,000 for a 1933 Bugatti Royale with limousine coachwork by Park Ward
and Company of London. Shakespeare drove his prize home, noting that the
mechanical brakes didn’t slow the 7,000-pound car very well on his
250-mile journey.
Schlumpf had no interest in dealing directly
with the seller. Instead, he told Conway, “I’d like to inspect
Shakespeare’s collection, but don’t have the time. Can you go in my
place? If not, we’ll have to send someone in whom we have complete
confidence. There are a lot of bandits in this field of car salesmen.”
Conway delivered Schlumpf’s $70,000 contingency offer to Shakespeare and
convinced Robert Shaw, the Bugatti Club member living closest to the
collection, to conduct a thorough inspection of the goods. Shaw, the
only survivor of this epic transaction, not only remembers many details,
but also he preserved the correspondence and kindly shared it with me,
shedding light on one of the shadiest used-car deals in history.
image: http://www.barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Bugatti-spares.jpg After
acknowledging that five of his cars were disassembled for restoration,
Shakespeare invited Shaw to inspect the collection, and he expressed
willingness to let it go for less than his asking price— as long as the
cars were destined for a suitable new home.
Shaw’s first report to
home base was disparaging to say the least. “The Shakespeare collection
is housed in a facility formerly used as a foundry. Most of the cars
are in a dirt-floored building. The roof leaks, windows are broken, and
birds are nesting inside. The better cars are in a heated,
concrete-floored shop. Practically every car is in some state of
disassembly; none has run in eighteen months,” he noted.
“The
Royale, the Type 56 electric inspection vehicle, the Type 55 roadster,
and the Type 13 three-place light car are in presentable condition. It
appears that Mr. Shakespeare was taken advantage of when he purchased
others sight unseen. The Type 50 LeMans is a replica of some sort.
Another car is made of Buick parts.”
Shaw’s recommendation to Schlumpf: Do not buy the collection.
That
suggestion was ignored. Conway wrote Shakespeare: “Mr. Schlumpf is keen
and has the workmen to put these cars back in order. He has offered to
stand by his price subject to the Royale being roadworthy.”
A
month later, Schlumpf raised his bid to $85,000. While prepping the cars
for shipment, Shakespeare made this disheartening discovery: the
Royale’s engine block was cracked. Schlumpf’s response was to have a
mechanic repair the 238-pound lump with arc welding.
Shakespeare
was so disgusted by that suggestion and the deal in general that he
washed his hands of the sale and left for Florida on vacation.
Shaw,
skeptical the transaction would ever take place, was dispatched to save
the day. He found that the southern respite had brightened
Shakespeare’s mood. Annoyed when he learned that Schlumpf already owned
several Bugattis, Shakespeare nonetheless resumed assembling pieces—two
of his cars were in Florida—and preparing (probably bogus) invoices
according to Schlumpf’s instructions.
Unfortunately, Shakespeare’s
efforts were too deliberate for Schlumpf. After his request for a
shipping date was ignored, Schlumpf pressed, “I wrote you nicely and
prettily without animosity. But you must not confound or translate my
prettiness with weakness.” The French industrialist threatened to lodge
formal complaints through ten institutions ranging from “the American
tribunal and court of justice” to “all Bugatti clubs and automobile
reviews [magazines] in the world.” He set a deadline of four months for
shipment and threatened to claim damages of $500 per day if Shakespeare
didn’t comply.
Shakespeare responded with two months of silence,
followed by the hint that his collection might be broken up “to
perpetuate the great Bugatti tradition.” Soon thereafter, Schlumpf
characterized a letter he received from Shakespeare’s attorney as
blackmail. From the sidelines, Shaw silently cheered Shakespeare for not
caving in.
Late in 1963, the quixotic Shakespeare resumed a
friendly dialogue as if no harsh words had ever been traded. His
progress report to Schlumpf advised that the Florida cars had been moved
to Illinois, but he was having difficulty finding new tires for the
Royale. Unfortunately, no space was available for shipping the cars
until the following spring.
In February 1964, after fourteen
months of dickering, Shakespeare told Schlumpf, “Your cars are ready. I
am eager to have this transaction completed and when I get the money, I
will ship the cars.”
image: http://www.barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Steering-wheel-covers.jpg Shortly
thereafter, three Southern Railway freight cars were backed onto a
siding that ran within yards of Shakespeare’s storage building. While a
mechanic steered, railway workers heaved Ettore Bugatti’s personal
inspection runabout to a top berth. The car made its final journey on
U.S. soil at the end of a chain towed by a Jeep.
David Gulick,
then a staff photographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Sunday
Pictures magazine, was present to document the loading process. He
coaxed a smile from Shakespeare as the eccentric collector removed the
Royale’s Brogue chronometer and prancing elephant radiator mascot for
separate packing. All the cars were shipped with no protection from
damage beyond steering wheel wrappers. At the end of a long loading day,
the thirty Bugattis left Illinois en route to New Orleans. There they
were transferred to a Dutch freighter bound for Havre, France.
image: http://www.barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Loaded-on-the-train.jpg Upon
arrival in Mulhouse, “His Highness” Fritz Schlumpf stood armed with a
whip to shoo away the curious. There were plenty of onlookers, including
journalists who had been pestering the despot for access to his horde
after hearing about the Shakespeare cars and fourteen other significant
Bugattis he had purchased from Hispano-Suiza.
Two years before,
Schlumpf initially denied Conway’s wife Eva admission to his collection.
When Automobile Quarterly editor L. Scott Bailey repeatedly asked for a
visit, Schlumpf told him that he was contemplating a press event of
epic proportions; on the condition that no journalist ever request a
return visit, each car would be wheeled into the sunlight for fifteen
minutes.
Schlumpf treated his employees with equal disdain. Their
grievances about working conditions and the diversion of company
resources were ignored. In 1972, the rise of socialism prompted bitter
strikes. Locked out of their mills and barricaded from their villa, the
Schlumpf brothers seized refuge in the mill that had been lavishly
refurbished as a car museum. While business conditions deteriorated with
rampant inflation, worker unrest, and rising competition from
synthetics, the Schlumpfs poured their wealth and energy into their car
collection.
By 1976, the museum was ready for its public opening.
Since the mills were writhing in debt, the brothers magnanimously
offered to sell all their holdings—except the museum—for one franc. That
prompted embezzlement charges and threats of bodily harm. The brothers
fled to Switzerland and the workers seized control of both the factories
and the museum.
Imagine their amazement when the Schlumpf
shrine—three football fields in size—was raided in 1977. There were 122
Bugattis and 305 other pristine automobiles parked on carefully laid
beds of white gravel. Another 150 cars in storage awaited restoration.
Ornate Venice Grand Canal candelabras sparkled from eight hundred roof
pillars. Three restaurants stood ready to host twelve hundred diners.
The washrooms were lavishly decorated with giltedged mirrors.
Tried
in absentia for tax evasion, falsified accounting, abuse of assets, and
gross mismanagement, Fritz Schlumpf was sentenced to a four-year prison
term and fined $10,000. His brother received the same fine with a
two-year term. Neither served a minute behind bars.
The museum was
liquidated by the courts to pay the Schlumpf’s debts. The new owners
christened the facility Muse National De L’Automobile in 1982. After the
Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, it’s one of France’s most popular tourist
attractions. Most of the collection is still on display today, including
some of the Shakespeare cars. But you won’t find the Royale’s elephant
mascot or its chronometer. Suspicions are that the Schlumpfs carried
that booty to exile.
This story does not end happily for the
protagonists. In 1975, Shakespeare was found dead in the basement of his
home. The sixty-nine-year-old bachelor had been handcuffed, gagged, and
shot once in the head. Police interrogated suspects in ten states and
at least three foreign countries but no charges were filed and no
arrests were made.
Hans Schlumpf died in 1989. Fritz was allowed only a brief visit to his collection before his death in 1992.
Those
who visit the Schlumpfs’ museum should keep an eye peeled for one very
special car on display. The Type 38 two-place roadster, lovingly
“rebodied by Shaw of America,” was donated to the collection by the
Robert Shaw who preserved this Bugattis-in the-barn story.
Read more at http://barnfinds.com/the-robber-barons-bugatti-boondoggle/#p3Oepd6YmwRG8EJy.99
EXCLUSIVE: Resignation letters piling up from
disaffected FBI agents, his wife urging him to admit he was wrong: Why
Director Comey jumped at the chance to reopen Hillary investigation
James Comey revived the investigation of Clinton's email server as he could no longer resist mounting pressure by mutinous agents, sources say
The
atmosphere at the FBI has been toxic ever since Jim announced last July
that he wouldn't recommend an indictment against Hillary
He told his wife that he was depressed by the stack of resignation letters piling up on his desk from disaffected agents
Comes
was also worried that Republicans would accuse him of granting Hillary
political favoritism after the presidential election
When
new emails allegedly linked to Hillary's personal server turned up in
Abedin and Anthony Weiner's computer, Comey jumped at the excuse
Published:
06:47 EST, 30 October 2016
| Updated:
13:15 EST, 30 October 2016
New York Times bestselling author Ed Klein has just published his fourth book about the Clintons since 2005, Guilty as Sin.
Klein
had told how Bill Clinton enjoyed foot rubs, massages and romps in his
presidential library with female interns and has described new details
about Hillary's medical crises. Guilty as Sin is available in bookstores
and for order from Amazon.
James
Comey's decision to revive the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email
server and her handling of classified material came after he could no
longer resist mounting pressure by mutinous agents in the FBI, including
some of his top deputies, according to a source close to the embattled
FBI director.
+6
James Comey has
revived the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server and her
handling of classified material (Clinton at a campaign rally on October
29, 2016 in Daytona Beach, Florida)
+6
Comey's decision came as he could no
longer resist mounting pressure by mutinous agents in the FBI, including
some of his top deputies, according to a source
'The
atmosphere at the FBI has been toxic ever since Jim announced last July
that he wouldn't recommend an indictment against Hillary,' said the
source, a close friend who has known Comey for nearly two decades,
shares family outings with him, and accompanies him to Catholic mass
every week.
'Some
people, including department heads, stopped talking to Jim, and even
ignored his greetings when they passed him in the hall,' said the
source. 'They felt that he betrayed them and brought disgrace on the
bureau by letting Hillary off with a slap on the wrist.'
According to the source, Comey fretted over the problem for months and discussed it at great length with his wife, Patrice.
He
told his wife that he was depressed by the stack of resignation letters
piling up on his desk from disaffected agents. The letters reminded him
every day that morale in the FBI had hit rock bottom.
+6
Comey's decision to reopen the case
was more than an effort to heal the wound he inflicted on the FBI. He
was also worried that after the presidential election, Republicans in
Congress would mount a probe of how he had granted Hillary political
favoritism
'He's been ignoring the resignation letters in the hope that he could find a way of remedying the situation,' said the source.
'When
new emails that appeared to be related to Hillary's personal email
server turned up in a computer used [her close aide] Huma Abedin and
[Abedin's disgraced husband,] Anthony Weiner, Comey jumped at the excuse
to reopen the investigation.
'The
people he trusts the most have been the angriest at him,' the source
continued. 'And that includes his wife, Pat. She kept urging him to
admit that he had been wrong when he refused to press charges against
the former secretary of state.
+6
+6
When new
emails that appeared to be related to Hillary's personal email server
turned up in a computer used by Huma Abedin (left) and Anthony Weiner
(right) Comey jumped at the excuse to reopen the investigation, sources
say
'He
talks about the damage that he's done to himself and the institution
[of the FBI], and how he's been shunned by the men and women who he
admires and work for him. It's taken a tremendous toll on him.
'It shattered his ego. He looks like he's aged 10 years in the past four months.'
+6
New York Times bestselling author Ed Klein has just published his fourth book about the Clintons since 2005, Guilty as Sin
But Comey's decision to reopen the case was more than an effort to heal the wound he inflicted on the FBI.
He
was also worried that after the presidential election, Republicans in
Congress would mount a probe of how he had granted Hillary political
favoritism.
His
announcement about the revived investigation, which came just 11 days
before the presidential election, was greeted with shock and dismay by
Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the prosecutors at the Justice
Department.
'Jim told me that Lynch and Obama are furious with him,' the source said.
As I revealed in my latest New York Times bestseller Guilty As Sin Obama said that appointing Comey as FBI direct was 'my worst mistake as president.'
'Lynch
and Obama haven't contacted Jim directly,' said the source, 'but
they've made it crystal clear through third parties that they disapprove
of his effort to save face.'
Hillary and Bill Clinton are asking for a third term in the White
House, and voters who want to know what this portends should examine
the 12-page memo written by a Clinton insider that was hacked and
published Wednesday by WikiLeaks. This is the cold, hard reality of the
Clinton political-business model.
Longtime Clinton aide Doug Band
wrote the memo in 2011 to justify himself to lawyers at Simpson,
Thacher & Bartlett who were reviewing his role and conducting a
governance review of the Clinton Foundation at the insistence of Chelsea Clinton.
In an email two weeks earlier, also published on WikiLeaks, Ms. Clinton
said her father had been told that Mr. Band’s firm Teneo was “hustling”
business at the Clinton Global Initiative, a regular gathering of the
wealthy and powerful that is ostensibly about charitable activity.
Poor innocent Chelsea. Bill and Hillary must never have told her
what business they’re in. If she had known, she would never have hired a
blue-chip law firm to sweep through the hallways of the Clinton
Foundation searching for conflicts of interest. Instead of questioning
Mr. Band’s compensation, she would have pleaded with him never to reveal
the particulars of his job in writing.
But
she didn’t, and so Mr. Band went ahead and described the “unorthodox
nature” of his work while emphasizing his determination to help “protect
the 501(c)3 status of the Foundation.” That’s the part of the tax code
that has allowed the Clinton Foundation to remain tax-exempt on the
premise that it is dedicated to serving humanity.
Mr. Band graciously copied John Podesta,
then adviser to the board, who would eventually become Hillary’s
campaign chief. His helpful reply was to suggest that Mr. Band “strip
the defensive stuff out” and later “go through the details and how they
have helped WJC” [ William Jefferson Clinton].
The Band memo reveals exactly what critics of the Clintons
have long said: They make little distinction between the private and
public aspects of their lives, between the pursuit of personal
enrichment, the operation of a nonprofit, and participation in U.S.
politics.
Mr. Band writes that he and his colleague Justin Cooper
“have, for the past ten years, served as the primary contact and point
of management for President Clinton’s activities—which span from
political activity (e.g., campaigning on behalf of candidates for
elected office), to business activity (e.g., providing advisory services
to business entities with which he has a consulting arrangement), to
Foundation activity.”
This excerpt and all the potential
conflicts it describes, plus Chelsea’s warning about business “hustling”
at foundation events, would seem more than ample cause to trigger an
IRS audit of the foundation. For that matter, why aren’t the IRS and
prosecutors already on the case? Any normal foundation has to keep
records to show it is separating its nonprofit activity from any
for-profit business.
Mr. Band’s memo confirms that donors were
not seeking merely to help the sick and the poor. He explains that the
Clinton Foundation had “engaged an array of fundraising consultants”
over the past decade but “these engagements have not resulted in
significant new dollars for the Foundation.” In other words, it wasn’t
working as a conventional charity.
Mr. Band then explains how he and his Teneo partner Declan Kelly
had to carry the fundraising load, and did so by packaging foundation
solicitations with other services such as a meeting with Bill Clinton,
$450,000 speeches or strategic advice. Many of the donations, from U.S.
companies like Coca-Cola and Dow Chemical and foreign firms like UBS and Barclays, occurred while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
Why
exactly were donors writing checks? The Band memo makes clear that
donations untied to additional Clinton or Teneo services weren’t all
that appealing to potential supporters. This is significant, because the
large grant-making foundations in the U.S. are almost entirely run by
Clinton voters. So you know they weren’t turned off by the brand name.
They’d contribute more if they thought they were also buying goodwill
and influence with a current Secretary of State and a potential future
President.
***
We don’t applaud WikiLeaks or the theft
of information, and these hacks deserve a firm U.S. government response.
But the emails are public and they will confirm for many Americans
their worst suspicions about the people who run their government.
It’s
also worth noting that in the vast digital trove of Mr. Podesta’s
stolen emails we haven’t noticed emails from Mrs. Clinton. Perhaps they
don’t exist. But American voters shouldn’t worry merely about the emails
released before the election. What emails or memos exist that these
hackers, Russian or not, could be withholding for leverage after the
election with another President Clinton?
The Clinton campaign has suggested that Donald Trump has praised Vladimir Putin
because the Russian has something on the Republican. The question is
what do any number of possible bad actors know about Bill and Hillary
Clinton’s mixing of business, charity and politics?
ABCNEWS.com
The
1964 Shakespeare-Schlumpf transaction is the grandest used-car deal in
recorded history. After Volkswagen AG took over control of Bugatti in
1998, executives at the peoples’ car company thought it might be nice to
own one of the six Type 41 Royales that Ettore Bugatti created as “the
car for kings.” Purchasing a Royale Coupe de Ville cost VW an estimated
$17 million, a shrewd investment given the estimated worth of Royales
today. But contrast VW’s deal to one Fritz Schlumpf—in his day, the most
ruthless carmonger on Earth—pulled off in 1964: $85,000 for one Park
Ward Royale limousine and twenty-nine other Bugattis extracted from a
dusty barn near St. Louis, freight to France included.
Shakespeare’s
golden spoon upbringing was on the opposite side of the tracks from
Schlumpf’s bootstrap roots. His father, William Shakespeare, invented
two key fishing gear advancements: the level wind reel and the backlash
brake. The company he formed at the end of the nineteenth century
introduced both monofilament fishing line and fiberglass rods.
After
acknowledging that five of his cars were disassembled for restoration,
Shakespeare invited Shaw to inspect the collection, and he expressed
willingness to let it go for less than his asking price— as long as the
cars were destined for a suitable new home.
Shortly
thereafter, three Southern Railway freight cars were backed onto a
siding that ran within yards of Shakespeare’s storage building. While a
mechanic steered, railway workers heaved Ettore Bugatti’s personal
inspection runabout to a top berth. The car made its final journey on
U.S. soil at the end of a chain towed by a Jeep.
Upon
arrival in Mulhouse, “His Highness” Fritz Schlumpf stood armed with a
whip to shoo away the curious. There were plenty of onlookers, including
journalists who had been pestering the despot for access to his horde
after hearing about the Shakespeare cars and fourteen other significant
Bugattis he had purchased from Hispano-Suiza.
EXCLUSIVE: Huma Abedin is holed up in her New York home and...
Trump wipes out Clinton's 12 point lead as she loses steam...
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