Another Awkward Hillary Moment

The Times takes a while to mention the Hillary connection here, but stay with them:

Spying Case Against U.S. Envoy Is Falling Apart, and Following a Pattern

WASHINGTON — Last fall, federal agents raided the home and office of Robin L. Raphel in search of proof that she, a seasoned member of America’s diplomatic corps, was spying for Pakistan. But officials now say the spying investigation has all but fizzled, leaving the Justice Department to decide whether to prosecute Ms. Raphel for the far less serious charge of keeping classified information in her home.

What, it is illegal to mishandle classified information? Well, sometimes...

Ms. Raphel, in negotiations with the government, has rejected plea deals and has been adamant that she face no charges, according to current and former government officials, particularly because the Justice Department has been criticized in recent years for handing out inconsistent punishments to American officials who mishandle classified information.

After more background on this case the Times gets to some similar examples:

Over the years, the stories of American officials mishandling classified information have at times seemed as peculiar as they were serious. John P. O’Neill, a counterterrorism specialist for the F.B.I., once lost a briefcase full of government secrets in a Florida hotel. Samuel R. Berger, the national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, stole classified documents from the National Archives and hid them under a construction trailer. As attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales took material about the nation’s warrantless wiretapping program home with him.

One C.I.A. director, John M. Deutch, stored classified information on his home computer. Another C.I.A. director, David H. Petraeus, shared his highly classified journals with his mistress, then lied to the F.B.I. about it. Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private email system when she was secretary of state that investigators say contained classified information, although Mrs. Clinton and the State Department say the information was not marked as classified.

The punishment for mishandling classified information has varied wildly. Mrs. Clinton has not been charged with wrongdoing. Mr. Berger pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Mr. Deutch received a pardon from Mr. Clinton and was never charged. Mr. Gonzales and Mr. O’Neill were not charged. In the most recent case, the Justice Department allowed Mr. Petraeus to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, despite strong objections from investigators. That deal was so contentious that the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, personally appealed to the attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., and said that Mr. Petraeus’s crimes warranted felony charges, according to two government officials involved in the case. F.B.I. agents are still angry about that decision and say it set a standard that will make it harder to bring cases in the future.

Pretty suspenseful - are there enough pro-truth and pro-Biden people in the Obama Justice Department to seriously pursue Hillary?

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[Jeff Dobbs]

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[Jeff Dobbs]

Obama on 60 Minutes:

Steve Kroft: Did you know about Hillary Clinton's use of private email server--

President Barack Obama: No.

Steve Kroft: --while she was Secretary of State?

President Barack Obama: No.

Steve Kroft: Do you think it posed a national security problem?

President Barack Obama: I don't think it posed a national security problem.
[...]
Steve Kroft: This administration has prosecuted people for having classified material on their private computers.

President Barack Obama: Well, I-- there's no doubt that there had been breaches, and these are all a matter of degree. We don't get an impression that here there was purposely efforts-- on-- in-- to hide something or to SQUIRREL! away information. But again, I'm gonna leave it to--

(emphasis added)

[henry]

Doom.

[DublinDaveForever]

This thread is lame.

[Miss Marple 2]

henry,

Is that "Doom" in response to something particular or just a general commentary on the state of the world as currently assemble?

[henry]

MissM. likelihood Hillary and cohort will avoid jail even without an Obama pardon, plus clearing the way for Hillary of SloJo as next President.

[Miss Marple 2]

henry,

Should that Doom come to pass I am going into Resistance mode. I know bazillions of ways to cope due to my extensive acquaintance ship with hillbilly types from the auction, plus having grown up poor in the age before fast food and cable TV.

I shall disappear from the economic rolls.

[Miss Marple 2]

Black supporter at a Trump rally goes off on the current state of affairs.

http://linkis.com/thegatewaypundit.com/URLKh

[Dave (in MA)]

narciso would be pleased that there's a Monty Python reference at Instapundit re: Barry and the Rooskies.

[glasater]

From the previous thread..

Buckeye, when going to Guadalajara check our Lake Chapala area and be sure to visit the town of Ajijic a great artist community.

(pronounced: AH-Hee-Heek

Years ago the Lake Chapala area was home to disenfranchised Americans with a newspaper in English. Beautiful climate.

[buccaneer morgan]

Just a fleshwound dave.

[Thomas Collins]

That was a good interview. Kroft challenged Obama frequently. I think the key phrase is "purposely efforts". Obama is defending The Hill by using a criminal defense lawyer's standards.

[GMax]

There is something about the title of this thread.

ANOTHER AWKWARD HILLARY MOMENT

I would proffer that there is no other kind of Hillary moment.

[buccaneer morgan]

Does this mean all the people reviewing Rachel's case were on the take from the isi

[Jeff Dobbs]

Speaking of awkward Clinton moments...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/11/video-man-asks-chelsea-clinton-whether-bill-clinton-preys-young-girls/

Chelsea Clinton was confronted at a book signing with a question about her father’s alleged marital infidelity.

Appearing at an Austin, Texas book signing Friday to promote her children’s book “It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going,” Clinton was caught off guard by camera-toting conservative activist Robert Morrow.

“I am so proud to be my parents’ daughter,” Clinton said after Morrow asked about longstanding but unconfirmed rumors that Chelsea was the offspring of an affair between her mother and her mother’s onetime law partner Webster Hubbell.

Morrow then asked whether Clinton’s father targets young girls for sex.

“I would say my book is really resonating with kids,” Clinton replied. “I was at the Ann Richards School earlier today and I’m so grateful that it’s resonating to the young girls and the young boys that I’ve been talking to across the country.”

[peter]

Chelsea is a big zero, but I don't think that was a fair question. She didn't choose her father. I wish she would just go back inside her ten million dollar condo and shut her pie hole, but that was beyond the pale, IMHO

[lyle]

"Well I hear the whistle but I can't go
Gonna take it down to Mexico
She said, "whoa no, Guadalajara won't do"
But I did not think the girl could so cruel
And I'm never going back to my old school"

[GMax]

maybe the progs in Austin on Indigenous Peoples Day should consider renaming that Ann Richards School the Cecile Richards School. More in line with their current beliefs...

[jimmyk]

rumors that Chelsea was the offspring of an affair between her mother and her mother’s onetime law partner Webster Hubbell.

How did I miss that? Maybe I just never wanted to contemplate the idea of those two mating. But the resemblance is striking, no?

[James D.]

peter @ 11:34

She didn't choose her father, but she has chosen to be a highly-visible spokesperson for the Clinton Crime Family, and that makes any question to or attack on her fair game from where I sit.

[buccaneer morgan]

Dial neuralizer to 12.

[buccaneer morgan]

Dial neuralizer to 12.

[buccaneer morgan]

Dial neuralizer to 12.

[buccaneer morgan]

Bannon and gerth have done so much work on the razorback pelf recovery operation, as has judicial watch.

[jimmyk]

I agree with Peter that in that setting the question was off limits. But if she speaks on behalf of her father as such a wonderful human being and so sensitive to women's issues, for example, the question would be appropriate. Like in a courtroom where a question is not allowed until the witness opens the door by making some assertion.

[buccaneer morgan]

There is no curiosity about the late Mr. Drumheller, who was the Howard hunt of this saga.

[Stephanie]

Happy Belated, TK!

Congrats, Eileen!

[lyle]

Ditto what Stephanie wrote, TK and Eileen!

[Jane]

I think maybe kiwi broke her paw. She was in the grass, and apparently got bitten by something, leaped into the air and now can't walk on one of her front legs. It seems to be sorest at the top by the joint. I want to give it some time, plus it's a holiday. has anyone dealt with something like this before? I checked for bugs, and put some ice on it.

[Jack is Back!]

Guess Who?

"You guys are the first to realize that I'm really not even a human being. I was constructed in a garage in Palo Alto a very long time ago. People think that, you know, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, they created it. Oh no. I mean, a man whose name shall remain nameless created me in his garage. "

[buccaneer morgan]

Mark Hemingway agrees with me, that is a much more interesting story then the squirrel they Fed Schreiber.

[henry]

Wozniak, what have you done now?

[buccaneer morgan]

Holy for bin project!

[jimmyk]

Had to google to figure out bucc's 11:39, but a trigger warning for the pic of Hillary at this link:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tyler-drumheller-man-hillary-clintons-private-libya-intel/story?id=31834468

[Jack is Back!]

henry,

The clincher. [your not even close]

""I thought he threw away the plans, at least that's what he told me when he programmed me — that there would be no more, "I've seen more people that kind of don't sweat, and other things, that make me think maybe they are part of the new race that he created: the robot race."

[Beasts of England]

Chelsea is a public figure. By choice. She's traded the name of her mother and father for fame and fortune. Nothing is off limits. If she doesn't like it, she can answer the occasional awkward question or pack it in. She deserves neither sympathy nor quarter.

[Hillary "The Robot" Clinton]

I AM HU-MON.

[henry]

JiB, I guess Rubio isn't one of these robots then.

[Hillary "The Robot" Clinton]

I HAVE COMEDY v6.6.6 DOWNLOADED.

[Hillary "The Robot" Clinton]

I AM TARRED AND REBOOTED. LAUGH.

[Jeff Dobbs]

I checked for bugs, and put some ice on it.
--stuff Clenis said

[Miss Marple 2]

I WAS BAKING COOKIES THE NIGHT OF BENGHAZI. SMILE, NOD.

[DebinNC]

Someone who deserves a lot of sympathy is the widow of Houston area Deputy Goforth, recently killed while returning to his car after paying for gas. Not only did one of the witnesses to his death turn out to be a woman who claims to have been in a 15 mo. romantic relationship with Goforth, but now the lead investigator in the case has been removed from duty for becoming romantically involved with her too.

[Eric in Boise]

1. A presidential candidate may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A presidential candidate must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A presidential candidate must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

[Miss Marple 2]

Wow, Deb! Did that woman buy one of those love potions they hawk on eBay or something?

[Miss Marple 2]

Eric,

Not only Hillary but Obama have violated rule #1. (Nice Asimov reference, by the way.)

[DebinNC]

If HC makes it into the WH, she'll bring along her script-writer/s. Nothing she says in a public forum is spontaneous. Even when she's supposed to tip her face back and laugh, it's written in beforehand.

[Miss Marple 2]

The only saving grace of HRC getting in the White House would be Geezer Bill having to explain the Christmas decor for the yearly TV special.

[clarice]

Wish I knew what to do, Jane. Have you checked the paw to make sure there's no cut? If there is you need to clean it. This vet is near you and is open today:
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Phone:(941) 766-8555
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[rse]

Jane-what you are describing fits with a spider bite one of our cats got while out on a side porch in Florida. Made her pretty sick.

New post up. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/incarcerated-by-their-minds-false-narratives-compulsion-via-the-law-and-believing-in-unicorns/

[jimmyk]

Someone who deserves a lot of sympathy is the widow of Houston area Deputy Goforth

Assuming she didn't order the hit on her philandering husband. Somehow I don't think we've heard the last big surprise in this case.

[buccaneer morgan]

So Minnesota Fed has expanded into bankrobbery through negative interest rates.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Wake me when the creepy old crone has a moment that isn't awkward.

[Jack is Back!]

I, Robot.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/582686/hillary-clinton-constructed-garage-palo-alto

Now that Wall St. money has dried up, she is working the Valley.

[Miss Marple 2]

buccaneer morgan,

Are we now to the place where we are better off hiding money in a tin can buried in the back yard?

[glasater]

The thing that really got me from Zero's interview last night on 60 Minutes is that he really thinks if he ran for prez again he'd win!

Proves to me the whole election is/was corrupt as can be.

[Jane]

Thanks guys. I'm going to see if she recovers over the day. She is now limping on it, instead of not walking on it at all. I checked for cuts, and bug remains but didn't find any.

[buccaneer morgan]

Even in Westworld classic, they were more responsive, she would certainly face the voight kampf

[maryrose]

Deb
So true
I wonder what lies we will be entertained with tomorrow night?
Drink game if the words email or Benghazi are mentioned

[buccaneer morgan]

Michael rubin suggests what seems obvious to me, the sultan targeted that rally in Ankara.

[buccaneer morgan]

The subsequent missile strikes against the pkk make the point.

[buccaneer morgan]

Kyle mill's latest revision of Mitch Rapp features a scenario like the raphel matter, but on a higher pAy scale.

[boris]

You are walking in the desert when you see a tortoise ....

Hillary: What's a tortoise?

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

The Omen has been used by the Crime Family as a prop since Day 1. If the First Perpetual Child wants to be left alone she could stop appearing in high exposure public settings.

[buccaneer morgan]

Lurch' Senate finance chair, David paul, was the front man for bcci in south florida, at the time he was investigating said bank, so senator Ferris is not a figment by any means

[boris]

Tortoise is like a turtle only differnt ...

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

The Children of the Cornhole are characterizing tomorrow's debate as "The Adults Take the Stage". Maybe they meant adult diapers...

[henry]

So the BLM stampede aren't eligible for juvie?

[buccaneer morgan]

That yech blog strategy isn't really working out.

[buccaneer morgan]

Its a typo, but it's intended.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

In case you guys want some good news: I was walking Teddy at the park last evening when the owner of Lincoln, a young lab mix who played often with him, told me that he'd been out of town on the previous day and Linc slipped off the collar of whoever was walking him, ran in the road and was struck by a car and took off from there. We searched all around the park, particularly off the trails, but couldn't find him. Since a day had passed my optimism was at a very low ebb. Fortunately a neighborhood bulletin board had the news this morning that he'd been found, taken to the vet's and given a positive bill of health.

[daddy]

Good Morning!

General Jack Keane was just on FOX giving pretty much the exact same comments about Obama/Putin and the Middle East mess that I transcribed 2 days back from his interview on Kudlow's radio Show.

Good. It directly goes after Obama's idiotic comments on the 60 Minutes Interview. Nice to see Keane getting an opportunity to give his ideas to a larger audience.

And in the process he is able to shoot down the Leftist talking point nonsense about "ISIS not having an Air Force so it's stupid to have no fly zones," and also shooting down the meme that "the Right's only alternative is to go to War and bomb,bomb,bomb."

[rse]

It's just their tragic environment, henry.

I almost laughed out loud last Friday when the very official who had just hyped having to teach parents to talk to their babies, then began to complain about the lack of proportionality in either the Gifted or the suspension rates.

Never at any point was bad personal behavior given as a reason for a problem.

[rse]

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260433/looting-legitimate-political-protest-matthew-vadum

For henry.

[henry]

Personal behavior? White privilige made them do it.

[Miss Marple 2]

I just got back from buying Chik-fil-A for granddaughters and myself. Long past the lunch hour at 1:15 they still had a line.

BUT, they had a girl taking orders on an iPad along the line, gave you your total so you could be ready.

Got the complete large order in under 5 minutes, and it was TOTALLY correct, including the no pickles on 2 sandwiches, marked with "no pickle" stickers.

Plus they were friendly and polite.

I would buy stock in that company if it ever went public.

[rse]

It won't MM and it has a nice profit-sharing arrangement with the managers of each location so they have an incentive to make sure it is well run.

The General Counsel and several other of their lawyers went to law school with me. We ended talking about corporate cultures at my 30th law school reunion.

[Stephanie]

Jane, is it a front leg or back leg? Yorkies are prone to ligament damage in their back legs (one of ours tore a ligament jumping off the sofa), so if it is a back leg, you might want to see the vet promptly.

[Miss Marple 2]

Newman holding the Mike at the No Labels event!

[henry]

Wow MissM.... more blue hair than a Bernie rally!

[Stephanie]

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/florida-football/report-florida-qb-will-grier-suspended-rest-season/

PEDS. Sorry Rich.

[buccaneer morgan]

That blm outtake reminds me they are
Looking at the opening scene in demolition man as inspiration.

[Miss Marple 2]

henry,

Exchange seen on Twitter:

"Wait, I though he got eaten by dinosaurs!"

"He's surrounded by them in New Hampshire!"

[Miss Marple 2]

Fashion tip:

If fat oozes out of the side of you bra line, do NOT wear a clingy sweater!

[DebinNC]

That looks like the kind of crowd that would show up for a chance to see hearthrobs Joe Lieberman and Jon Huntsman.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Newman!

[Miss Marple 2]

If you can read this whole, self-serving interview with so many straw men and howlers in it, you have a much tougher gag reflex than I have:

http://www2.nybooks.com/articles/s3/2015/nov/05/president-obama-marilynne-robinson-conversation.html

[Jane]

Front leg Steph and we just took a nap and the limp has diminished. So we've gone from her unable to use her paw, a very severe limp to a minor limp. So I'm going to wait it out until tomorrow provided it keeps getting better.

[Miss Marple 2]

The Mailman has announced his national co-chairs:

Zeke Miller Verified account
‏@ZekeJMiller

inbox: Kasich announces national co-chairs: Gay Gaines, Trent Lott, Larry Paul and John E. Sununu

[daddy]

Retired General Jack Keane now on FOX Business with the cute Trish Regan, again dealing with the President's comments and contrasting that with reality. Current topic is the Iranian's Deal breaking test-firing today of a new long range Ballistic Missile.

Keane: ...Putin is doing this because of this simple calculation. He knows that President Obama, and believe me Putin is inside Obama's head, he knows that President Obama fears escalation, and fears confrontation, and as a result of that will not take on retaliation as a result of that. So he's counted on that and so far that calculation is accurate. Putin is pounding , pounding our Moderate Rebels who we have armed and trained, the CIA did, and that is his first priority target, and we're doing nothing.
------------------------------

Amazing that later today we will witness the State Department spokesfools out there giving excuses for why the Iranians may not have violated the Iranian Agreement, because our side is so cowed that we will now provide the excuses for them.

[maryrose]

daddy
This Iran deal has taken on a real stench and achieved nothing for aKerry or Obama in terms of legacy

Bergdahl is also a massive fail

[DebinNC]

FOX: "The U.S. military airdropped 50 tons of small arms ammo and grenades in northern Syria on Sunday, a senior defense official told Fox News, representing the Pentagon's shift from training rebel fighters to equipping them.
Coming just two days after the Defense Department announced it was effectively ending its current training program, the airdrop delivery was made Sunday by four C-17 transport aircraft. The 112 pallets contained ammunition for M-16s and AK-47s."

No weapons for the Kurds though, lest we offend Turkey. Weapons supposedly going to rebels fighting ISIS.

[clarice]

Glad to hear that, Jane!

[henry]

Weapons supposedly going to rebels fighting ISIS

edited for accuracy

[Stephanie]

Jane, it's good that it's a front leg. Glad it seems to be subsiding.

[Jane]

I tell you it was scary as hell. I've never seen her jump that high. I have no idea what she stepped on. But I'm convinced the damage was done when she was coming down.

[Stephanie]

If your grass there is St Augustine grass, she may have stepped on a burr.. the grass gets burrs in it in the late summer. Hurt like hell.

[Beasts of England]

St. Augustine: kicking the other grasses asses since 1959.