Destruction of (Hillary Email) Evidence

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com

I remember during the Watergate scandal when it was found that a White House tape recording showed President Richard Nixon instructing his aides to use the CIA to make the FBI back off the investigation. It was the smoking gun that showed beyond doubt that Nixon was directing the cover-up. Within days, Nixon resigned.

That was then. Now it seems that every few days, another revelation comes forth that shows that Hillary Clinton and her aides violated every rule of security with her private emails or favors granted by the Clinton Foundation in return for large donations. Many of those favors involved some action by the State Department while Hillary was secretary of state.  Yet it seems to make no  difference. The main stream media ignores it and Hillary is still favored to win the presidency.

Now we learn that even after her emails were the subject of subpoena by Congress, the Platte River Company in Denver, where the emails and servers were stored, proceeded to delete said emails and destroy the devices-with a hammer no less-after being instructed to do so by Clinton aide Cheryl Mills.

"According to the FBI, Mills had instructed the engineer in December 2014 to delete all emails from the server older than 60 days old. But the engineer apparently forgot to delete the files and didn't realize his mistake until March 2015, the FBI said. That was three weeks after Clinton's email revelation and the House Benghazi committee's order that Clinton and her tech consultants retain all of her email records.

The report said that the engineer "was aware of the existence of the (Benghazi committee) preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton's email data on the PRN server."

This revelation comes as a result of the FBI's document dump as they released the notes of their interview with Mrs Clinton using the Washington political tactic of releasing bad news on a Friday to help get the story buried over the Labor Day weekend.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/06/republicans-push-to-re-open-clinton-email-case-after-fbi-document-drop.html

I realize that the FBI went through some tough times under J. Edgar Hoover, but I am now shaking my head. Why was the interview with Mrs Clinton not taped? Why was she not given her Miranda warning? Why was Cheryl Mills, who was also under investigation and who had been interviewed herself, allowed to be present at the interview as some sort of counselor? She had a clear conflict of interest. James Comey told us that Hillary did not lie to agents during the interview. What he didn't tell us was that some 35 times, Clinton answered, "I don't recall." Why was there such a paucity (as has been reported) of follow up questions by the interviewing agents?

The information in the second paragraph above  is not just known to us now-they are known to the FBI. And they did not see any destruction of evidence here?

And this:

"Clinton and her longtime aide and lawyer, Cheryl Mills, told FBI investigators during questioning they had no knowledge of the technology company's deletions."

That would constitute a violation of 18 USC 1001, lying to a federal investigator conducting an investigation as to a material fact. 

I firmly believe that these revelations would have sunk any presidential aspirant or president  back in the days when Nixon resigned. That, alas, was a different time. I guess Nixon was just born too soon.

                                                                                   "Where do I go to get my job back?"

Syracuse Cancels Talk by Israeli Film Maker

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com

Hat tip The Israel Group, Legal Insurrection and Syracuse.com

It is becoming an all too familiar story in academia. A speaker from Israel-or who is pro-Israel- is invited to speak. Then come the threats from the pro-Palestinian BDS lobby on campus, be it students or faculty. Those sponsoring the appearance know that disruption is on the way. Then some university official gets cold feet and cancels the event lest there
be ......

protest

disruption

and embarrassment for the university.

Welcome to Syracuse University, where an Israeli academic was invited to speak-and was disinvited because...

"I now am embarrassed to share that my SU colleagues, on hearing about my attempt to secure your presentation, have warned me that the BDS faction on campus will make matters very unpleasant for you and for me if you come." 


http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/09/israeli-filmmaker-disinvited-at-syracuse-u-bds-faction-on-campus-will-make-matters-very-unpleasant-for-you-and-for-me/


http://www.syracuse.com/su-news/index.ssf/2016/09/syracuse_university_professor.html

This religion professor, Gail Hamner, is falling all over herself trying to apologize for her cowardice and bad judgment. She knows now that she has given in to the BDS bullies on campus. She knows she has brought embarrassment to Syracuse University. She knows that she has struck a blow against free speech.



"They ain't orange. They're yella."

Another Jew Stabbed in France by Muslim

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com


....yelling, "Allahu Akhbar"

Hat tip Algemeiner


There has been yet another ugly hate crime in France committed by a Muslim against a Jew. A Jewish man in Strasbourg was stabbed by a Muslim man yelling, "Allahu Akhbar".

http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/24/daughter-of-strasbourg-stabbing-victim-my-father-is-emotionally-traumatized-but-we-wont-live-in-fear-interview/

I would like to take this opportunity to digress from the incident in France.

The defenders and apologists for Islam are running out of excuses. Aside from  all the terror in the Middle East and Africa, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, Hizbollah, the attacks in Europe and America, and the horrific civil war in Syria, there is just too much that is happening every day. There is just too  much evidence and documentation in the Koran, the hadith, and the life of Mohammad. It is just as obvious as the noses on our faces.

All of this violence is rooted in Islamic doctrine.

So I say to Muslims in general-and with all due respect to the millions of you who are peaceful and don't hate your fellow man:

You cannot explain this away. You cannot continue to tell your friends and neighbors in the West that Islam is a religion of peace. You cannot continue to tell us that Mohammad was a kind and forgiving man. You cannot continue to tell us that the Koran is being misinterpreted by Islam's critics. You cannot continue to tell us that ISIS and Al Qaeda are not real Muslims. You are being dishonest.

I also point out that while thousands of Muslims who live in Europe, the US, Canada and Australia have gone to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS, we know of not one case where a Western-based Muslim has gone to those countries to fight against ISIS. That is very telling.

Aside from a handful-and I mean a handful- of Muslim reformists like Zuhdi Jasser, the so-called "moderate Muslims" in the West keep telling us lies about Islam as they work to advance Islam and sharia law into our Western societies. Those who tell us that sharia law is perfectly compatible with the US Constitution are lying through their teeth.

It is not enough to condemn terrorism and say it has nothing to do with Islam. Most of those Western-based Muslim leaders are lying to us. People like CAIR and others try to silence the critics of Islam by lawsuits or defaming people as bigots and "Islamophobes".

I mean no harm to American Muslims who are law-abiding, but really- Muslims should be ashamed of what is going on and their inability or unwillingness to destroy the jihadists. There should be a mercenary army of young Western Muslim men or Arab men themselves going to Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS. There isn't. I don't advocate vigilantism, but when do you hear of Western Muslims taking out the jihadists in their midst in back alleys of the Western countries where they live? It doesn't happen, does it?

It is Islam itself-not "radical Islam" that is a direct threat to the world. There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, most of whom are not jihadists. Nobody is advocating that we go to war against the entire Islamic world. Yet, the jihadists must be destroyed by the armed forces of the civilized world and our Arab allies. As for the rest of the Muslim world, the message should be that the West will not become Islamic, and it is time to live in peace and respect all other religions.

Finally, a true Islamic reformation is in order. It is problematic given the wording in the Koran, the hadith, and the life of the Prophet. Yet, Muslims must find a way to live in harmony with others without regarding them as "infidels".

We have had enough of al Qaeda, ISIS, and all the other terror organizations around the world.

And we have had enough of religiously-inspired attacks against our Jewish fellow citizens in the West. The term, "Allahu Akhbar"(God is great)  is probably the most honored  expression in the Muslim world.

To the rest of us, it has become an obscenity.

Would You Vote For This Lawyer?

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com


Hat tip Squid, Daily Mail and Gateway Pundit




You know the old story: A sleazebag lawyer uses all the legal tricks to get a vicious criminal off easy. Here is one such example. The lawyer was Hillary Rodham Clinton while she was a lawyer in Arkansas in the 1970s. She later told an interviewer all about it back in the days she was first lady of that southern state with Bill sitting by her side. The 1975 rape victim was a 12-year-old girl. Chuckling in a fake southern drawl, Hillary told how she smeared the girl's reputation and wound up getting her client off with a time served sentence of a few months.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BdNHf1g4ivA

Unfortunately for Clinton, there is an audio of that interview with Arkansas journalist Roy Reed. You can check it out below at  Gateway Pundit (and Daily Mail) along with an update on that 12-year-old girl.

The victim's name was Kathy Shelton, who is now in her 50s. She has come out publicly with the ordeal that Hillary Clinton put her through.

Hillary Clinton portrays herself as a lifelong advocate for women. Tell that to Kathy Shelton. Tell that to the mother of Sean Smith, whom Hillary lied to about how her son died in Benghazi "over a video". Tell that to the women her husband had affairs with and who were smeared by Hillary and her gang of operatives, who attacked them as "nuts and sluts".

So where are all you liberal feminists who support Hillary Clinton? Where are all you people who think Donald Trump has too many character flaws to be president? Where is the mainstream media asking Hillary Clinton to explain this?

Hillary Lies About Her Lies

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com

Poor old Hillary Clinton is insisting that FBI  Director James Comey cleared her of any and all lies when he gave that press conference ending the investigation into her emails.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/04/clinton-doubles-down-on-disputed-claim-fbi-found-her-email-remarks-truthful.html

The Washington Post Fact Checker has already given her four Pinocchios over this issue, but Hillary just keeps on lying. In his testimony before Congress, Comey was asked a series of questions by Trey Gowdy (R-SC) about specific assertions Clinton made during her sworn testimony. Comey refuted all of them. Gowdy, a trained prosecutor, knew the answers to each question before he asked them.

But alas, what does it matter? The latest polls show Clinton up by ten points.

Hillary's Speech

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com


My main interest in watching Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech was not to hear what she had to say or how she would say it. I already knew. It would be the standard Hillary speech full of one-liners, harsh barbs aimed at Donald Trump, a laundry list of liberal goals, and lies all delivered with that Spade Cooley look that suggests she has lost her mind over the years. She didn't disappoint.

Hillary repeated the convention theme that is so contradictory. While heaping praise on President Obama, she talked about all the inequities, injustices and wrongs that she intends to fix. Why didn't Obama fix them? Which one is it?

Nor did I overlook those throw away lines in which she referred to our military as a "national treasure". This from the woman who as first lady didn't want the military aides attached to the White House to wear their uniforms. This from the woman who reportedly told a general who made the mistake of saying, "Good morning" to her one day in the White House  to "F-off". The rule in those days was that you did not speak to the first lady or even make eye contact with her unless she addressed you first. No amount of words from Chelsea Clinton telling us of how warm and fuzzy her mother is can wipe that away.

Nor can it wipe away the contempt she has for law enforcement. Hillary also threw out a line about appreciating the cops who protect us, but  the worst assignment a Secret Service agent can draw is guarding Hillary, who has always made it her habit to scream insults at them.

When it is all said and done, what is left is Hillary the liar. What is left is Hillary the corrupt, money grubbing woman who charged $200,000-300,000 a speech including from Wall Street groups like Goldman-Sachs, but who tells us she is going to clean up Wall Street. What is left is her email server scandal and the Justice Department white wash. What is left is a tenure at the State Department full of nothing but policy failures. What is left is the corrupt Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the biggest money laundering scheme in US political history. What is left is her non-performance at Benghazi and subsequent lies about a video and cover-up.

What is left is Hillary Clinton- the real person.

Breaking: Syrian Asylum Seeker Kills Woman With Machete in Germany

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com

                                                          "We can make this work."


This is being reported in the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Today, in the southwestern town of Reutlingen in the German state of Baden Wuerttemberg, a 21-year-old Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested after killing a woman with a machete and wounding two others. The article says the man was known to police.


http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/reutlingen-mann-greift-menschen-mit-machete-an-14355784.html

Police say the motive is "not clear".

Nice: Have We Had Enough?

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com


As I write, the death toll in Nice is between 77 and 80 depending on which source you use. We don't have the age breakdown as yet, but surely there will be many children. I just watched French President Francois Hollande address the nation. It was a bunch of empty rhetoric. Here at home, it is reported that President Obama and DHS director Jeh Johnson have been briefed. Wonderful. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is calling for an "intelligence surge" as if the CIA has been on a 6-month vacation.

As I now regularly write, where is the next target? Will it be Marseille? Will it be Berlin? Possibly Chicago? Within a couple of weeks, we will know the answer.

It is time for the West to say, "Enough is enough".

First of all, let's drop this American government nonsense calling it "violent extremism". Even calling it "radical Islam" is too politically correct.

It is now time for the US, NATO and our Arab allies (the only ones I can confidently list are Egypt, Jordan and Iraq) to put the overwhelming number of soldiers on the ground in Iraq, Syria and Libya and wipe out the ISIS fighters both on the ground and from the air. Exterminate them like the vermin they are. Obama wants to close Gitmo. We need more Gitmos. As for Bashar Assad, the brutal president of Syria, overthrowing him is not a priority.

Then we (the West) must deal with those ISIS fighters, recruits, and sympathizers who are in Europe, the US, Australia and Canada.  They must be identified and either prosecuted if possible, deported or put into Gitmos. No, I am not calling for US Muslims to be interned as was done with Japanese and Japanese-Americans on the West Coast after Pearl Harbor. I am talking about targeting the radicals, the subversives, those who want to do us harm. This can be done in conformance with our laws and Constitution. I have never called for punishing innocent people. We don't do pogroms in this country and places of worship should not be attacked.

It is also time to close our doors. We can start with the Syrian refugees. We cannot vet them. We cannot even keep tabs on them when they arrive and are resettled by the various charities. In addition, Our visa policies must be changed. As things stand now, a Tunisian Muslim with a French passport doesn't need to apply for a visa. We need to able to scrutinize every last person who applies for a visa to come to the US-and everybody should have to have a visa. Other countries require it, so can we. Let other countries reciprocate against us if they don't like it. If I have to get a visa to go back to Germany, so be it.

Western civilization is in a war whether our feckless leaders know it or not. French people are dying on the streets of their own country. Americans are also dying on our own streets-in San Bernardino, New York City, Orlando and other places. As long as we continue to allow Muslims to flood into our countries, the body counts will rise.

In addition, the entire Muslim population needs to understand that if they subscribe to sharia law, they are not welcome here. If they are working, even peacefully, to advance a vision of an Islamic America in the future, they are not welcome here. We also need a government that will investigate organizations like CAIR, a subversive organization and shut it down. The same goes for ISNA, ICNA, MAS, MPAC and several others. I fully sympathize with peaceful Muslims who have no desire to live under sharia law here, have no designs of making Islam dominant in the US, and wish us no harm.  However, we cannot silence ourselves and regulate our language for fear of offending them. Besides, I don't see armies of Western Muslims going to Syria and  Iraq to fight against ISIS.

And let's stop the crap about profiling. We know who the terrorists are. We know what their motives are. We know the ideology that is driving them.

We must also acknowledge that far too many mosques in the West are radical breeding grounds. Saudi money has funded radical imams and radical teaching in many mosques in the US and the West. Saudi money has also funded the establishment of Middle East studies centers in our universities, staffed with leftist, anti-Israel, anti-West radicals. This must also stop. Our next president needs to have a heart-to-heart talk with the Saudis.

We are back to 1939-or in the case of the US, 1941. We are at war. Back then we had leaders like Churchill and Roosevelt. Today, we have Barack Obama, David Cameron Teresa May, Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau,and Francois Hollande. It is a recipe for defeat. The West desperately needs new political leadership.

I hope voters will think very carefully about this in November.

The Somalis Next Door

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com


Hat tip WND

I heard about this today while listening to an interview of Michele Bachmann on Sean Hannity's radio show. It is shocking and sickening, but it falls right into line with everything I have been saying about so many of the Somali immigrants for years. Now we have armies of them invading Minneapolis neighborhoods and threatening residents while police turn a blind eye. In the incident below, it took the police over an hour to respond to repeated 911 calls and no arrests were made.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/muslim-refugees-threaten-minnesota-community-with-rape/#!

I don't care how anybody reading this reacts. I just want to scream, "Get them out of our country!" I guess from reading the article most if not all of these delinquents are American citizens thanks to our government policy of bringing over 100,,000 Somalis to this country for whatever reason I can't explain. 

No doubt some are good citizens (Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of my personal heroes, but she is in a  different category.) But this insane government policy of flooding the country with Muslims just because their own countries are dysfunctional is insane. Too many Somali men have either  gone to join Al Shabaab or ISIS or have been arrested trying. Just this week, three more pleaded guilty to trying to join ISIS, and according to Bachman, the judge hearing the case is considering whether to sentence them to some kind of therapy!

I'll tell you something else that bugs me about this incident. Where the Hell were the men? I'd like to see them try this in Bullsnuts, Texas.

But alas, get ready for even more under President Hillary Clinton.

The House Benghazi Report: Nothing New?

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com


Hillary Clinton's (public) reaction to the House Benghazi report was that there was nothing new and it was time to "move on" (a favorite saying of the Clintons over the years as they have moved on from one scandal to the next).

In a sense, she is correct. We already knew that the State Department under her tenure had refused some 600 requests for enhanced security from the diplomatic mission in Libya. We already knew that the attack had lasted some 13 hours from the mission to the CIA annex and that only an unmanned drone was sent to observe the attack, which enabled our leaders to watch the attack in real time. We already knew that the security men at the annex had been told by the CIA station chief to stand down when they wanted to respond to the mission, an order they eventually disobeyed. We already knew that no military help ever arrived other than other security elements who responded from Tripoli. We already knew that President Obama, Clinton, Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey were huddled together in Washington holding meetings and talking. We already knew that in spite of all that, no military units responded to Libya to assist against an attack that lasted 13 hours.

We already knew that Mrs Clinton had called her daughter that night to tell her a terrorist attack was underway in Benghazi. We already knew that she communicated with the president of Egypt and the prime minister of Libya within the following 24 hours and told them that it was a terrorist attack. We already knew that she told family survivors at Andrews Air Force  Base that they were going to prosecute the maker of "that video". We already knew that Susan Rice was sent on the Sunday talk shows where she told everybody that it was a protest over a video that caused the deaths in Benghazi.

Here is what is new:

We now know that the White House meeting lasted from 7:30-9:30 pm. A number of action items were discussed, half of which  dealt with the infamous video that the administration later blamed for the attack.

We now know that Leon Panetta, instead of being ordered to call and order a military response to Benghazi, was told to make calls to try and get the video removed from the Internet.

We now know that there was discussion and concern over sending in troops without permission of the Libyans, using military marked vehicles and whether the troops should wear uniforms. We also now know that troops who were preparing to deploy were ordered to change their clothing 4 times! But they never went to Benghazi.

What kind of military, diplomatic and presidential leadership is that? Does this jive with Hillary's famous 2008 presidential campaign ad about that phone ringing at 3 o'clock in the morning? The phone was ringing off the hook on September 11, 2102 and it was never answered.

And who made the decision that the security men in the CIA annex should not respond to the burning mission as it was under attack? In the opinion of committee members Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Pompeo (R-KS) it was likely a certain somebody in Washington with whom the CIA man was on the telephone.

This report is damning not just to Hillary Clinton, but to the leaders under her at State, the President, Leon Panetta, and Martin Dempsey.

For months, Mrs Clinton and her underlings were negligent in ignoring requests for more security from the Libyan mission. During the attack, she and the above-mentioned officials failed to send the necessary help. It certainly would not have saved the lives of the two men killed in the initial attack, but it might have saved the lives of the two heroes killed while fighting off the attackers at the annex.

Subsequently, Mrs Clinton and the administration have been involved in a massive cover-up, initially claiming that the attack was a video protest gone awry, and since trying to conceal the details of the attack even trying to keep survivors from being interviewed.

Keep in mind that this attack happened two months before Obama's re-election as the administration was promoting the theme that "GM was alive, Bin Laden was dead and Al Qaeda was on the run".

Hillary Clinton is not fit to serve as our Commander-in-Chief. This report makes it as obvious as that smoking gun tape that resulted in Nixon having to resign the presidency. How times have changed.