Why was Bill Clinton's SOS-coordinated Schedule Redacted?
"Because of National Security" really doesn't explain his suddenly Top-Secret globe-hopping. Bill was well helping Hill -- or so outward appearance would make it seem.
So now Friends of Hill are helping Bill -- keeping his foreign fund-raising journeys far from the public's prying eyes ...
[...]
State turned over 14 pages of heavily redacted Bill Clinton schedules to the RNC in June amid a smattering of other records. Just about the only substantive information left in the daily calendars for the former president were weather forecasts for the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York.Last week, the State Department acknowledged that the 14 pages are only the tip of the iceberg: an estimated 5,400 pages of Bill Clinton schedules are due to be processed for release to the GOP — more than half the records covered by the suit.
[...]"The record ... reflects that State Department officials and Clinton Foundation officials worked essentially hand in glove, coordinating President Clinton’s schedule and whom he would speak with, as well as talking points and even briefings with regard to political ramifications of certain meetings or events," wrote Jason Torchinsky, an attorney for the RNC. "The electronic calendar records at issue here merely are a function of, and inextricably intertwined with, that coordinated effort with the federal agency officials."
While the thousands of pages of Bill Clinton's schedules could provide ample fodder for opposition researchers at the RNC, it's uncertain whether the GOP will get its hands on many of them before the November election. [...]
New Clinton email fight: Bill Clinton's schedules
An RNC lawsuit is trying to force release of the records, but it may not gain traction before the election.
by Josh Gerstein, politico.com -- 08/09/16
So now we may have some idea why Hillary had to delete over HALF her official public-record emails -- OVER 30,000 of them -- could it be that a significant portion of those Deletions, had to do with her "private" shuttle-diplomacy Foundation business? Could they have been Hill telling Bill where the next Pokemon molehill was buried?
Well if the recipients list of Clinton Foundation's chief ambassador itinerary is any indication, there was more "than Yoga" being discussed in those now-redacted/deleted travel plans:
Based on the email distribution lists, Bill Clinton's schedules appear to have circulated regularly to dozens of people. A handful of them were State Department officials, including Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton scheduler Lona Valmoro, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Communications Philippe Reines and Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro.
Hmmm, just Bill getting this week's "Grocery List" ... we are left to presume?
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Well the Clintons are big on Public Private partnerships
Transparency, eh, not so much.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Well
The redactions were done with "white-out".
That's half-way to Transparency
-- Not so jarring on the eyes.
Help! As much as I'm grateful for c99%
I cannot read the insert in your post at all. I have increased my windows 7 screen font size to the max and everything else is horribly oversized while nothing has changed font-wise on this site.
On especially interesting days, I leave mostly blind, having squinted at the screen trying to elicit content.
Then I spend hours readjusting to normal vision because when you get older, readjustment takes longer.
I'm sure I'm not the only one. I know small type permits more dense material, but honestly, my participation has been severely curtailed, not as much by the font size as the size of posted images containing text, which are completely unreadable to me. I can squint at the posts/diaries/stories for the most part. Evidence presented is impossible to see.
Maybe there is some trick I'm not aware of? I haven't looked around that much because the font is too small for me to see well. Read the welcome but found no hints to make it all more legible for myself. In addition, I have not figured out how to see who has uprated comments. Back at TOP that became kind of informational during the primary.
Hope someone drops in long enough to help me!
I have the same problem, gustogirl.
I'm ruining my eyesight trying to read essay text on this site. It is, and remains, entirely too small a typeface.
And, like you, I find that increasing the presentation from 100% to 200% only barely increases the text size while hugely increasing the size of headers, etc. - and makes other sites at that magnification completely unreadable one-word-per-line disasters.
I complained about it many months ago, but felt my problem was dismissed because I'm using a phone (which gives me no less than four ways to simultaneously adjust screen presentation - and wreck viewing the rest of the internet).
Maybe if others are having the same problem - and pipe up about it! - JtC can look into it.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
not sure
if this is snark..? but it doesn't sound like it, so..
ctrl + mousewheel lets you zoom most browser windows in and out, making the text bigger or smaller..
GIANT ALL-CAPS SIG
Thanks much, tourniquet!
The cntl/mousewheel worked well for me. Not at all snark! These niblets of computer knowledge elude me because I don't think to google in order to figure it out. I just did a google and see I would have had to go through about 10 posts to find the cntl/mousewheel solution. Maybe I'm just too lazy p;.
But I'm on a laptop - is there an equivalent for the phone problem dancingrabbit described?
no problem,
it's one of those things like ctrl+v that people assume everyone knows so nobody ever talks about it, so eventually it's going to be like 10 people with the key combos thinking everyone else is crazy.. lol..
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Thanks for the reply, tourniquet.
No, it wasn't snark. I don't know why, but the size of c99p essay text just doesn't scale up on some devices, like my Android phone. UnabashedLiberal was having the same problem, too, months ago when we were discussing it; don't know what device she was using (a tablet?).
I believe this was right before the Great Migration in March when JtC was fiddling with the code and other problems were cropping up, then ... the Great Migration occurred and he had a whole lot more to worry about than text-scaling problems on a very small number of users' devices.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
i'm not sure about android
phones except for double-tapping the text tends to expand the window to the size of the text block, i do my interwebbing on a desktop most of the time. =/
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Not sure
if I can fix that?
It may be the graphic size, which is 550 px wide and quite long,
that is causing the display problems.
Do you have the same issues on post without graphics? Like this one: Deconstructing-nader-spoiler-smear-tactic
This posts look fine on my PC, which is all I have go by.
Sorry for the display problems --
Perhaps you can just click the links gustogirl, and go to source articles.
Tourniquest's reply helped, jamess
In normal mode, regular text on this site makes me squint but it's readable. Texts in graphic inserts are next to impossible, but tourniquet's hint resolved that for my laptop.
I don't have to squint on other sites, like the progressive wing or (heaven forgive me!) TOP. In general I think an increase in font size at the source of this blog would be helpful to more people than just myself.
While I have the chance, please accept my compliment that I click on your posts as often as I can, for you are a favorite for me from way back when. Thanks for your work. (I need to say this to a number of other people as well!)
Opaqueacy would be a more apt term!
You really have to ask yourself... Who in the hell is really running our government and foreign policy?
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush
That's the question, isn't it?
Many people believe that there was a government coup on 11/22/1963 when members of the FBI and other people not only our government but possibly other governments killed Kennedy.
Then they made sure that they stayed in power when they killed Bobby.
Who are the people that are in the deep state that many people believe are actually running the show.
There have been rumors of the Bilderburg group for decades and it's well known that the people elected to be a country's leader have attended meetings with them.
Then there is the Trilateral Commission, the Council of Foreign Relations. ALEC and other groups. Skull and Bones?
we know that Hillary used her position at the state department as SOS to enrich both the Clinton foundation and Bill's pocket book after she agreed that she won't and they aren't held accountable, after she has already gotten away with using her private email server and exposed classified information with people who didn't have proper security clearances.
Sidney Bluementhal stole classified information from the NSA in Sudan and forwarded it to Hillary. He didn't have security clearance.
Huma Abedin has said in her deposition that Chelsea was able to access the private email server and she didn't have security clearance.
The server was set up so that people from the foundation could have access it. Did any of them have security clearances?
Now not only JW but the RNC also want Bill's schedule and if they get it then they will see how both Clintons were in the same area when weapons were sold or Hillary would help people who had business with the state department and bill would first give it speech, Hillary would fix their problems and then the foundation would receive millions of dollars in donations.
If after all of this evidence of wrongdoing is known and the Clintons aren't charged then we will know that they are to big to charge.
I have a link to an article about how bringing down the Clintons and the foundation would bring down the government.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
I forgot to include the link to this article
That shows how the state department and the Clinton foundation worked hand in hand together for the enrichment of the Clinton foundation and Bill's speaking engagements.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/emails-renew-questions-about-clin...
The RNC and the republicans are finally requesting the information about how Hillary used her position at the state department to enrich her foundation.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/emails-renew-questions-about-clin...
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
In terms of timing
From what I've read (I also posted an essay on this topic yesterday morning which did not get much traction), it's not that they've just gotten around to asking - the ask for the schedules happened in 2015, it's just that they are finally being released now.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Opaqueacy!!
Love it. Should be added to the lexicon of Political Bullshit.
The Clash
I Fought The Law ...
The Clintons make the country feel like it needs a shower.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Or a pressure washing!
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush
The Clintons make the country need a shower.
What the Clinton foundation did with the collusion of
Hillary's state department in Haiti is criminal.
Anyone or any corporations that wanted in on the rebuilding of Haiti had to go through the foundation first and after they made a donation to it, then they would get a contract.
The state department was involved in who was elected president and Hillary along with Huma Abedin was in the middle of it.
When the Haitian government wanted to raise the minimum wage to $.64 per hour, Hillary made sure that it stayed at $.31.
Huma made over 30 trips to Haiti to meet with Bill while the Clintons were getting the sweat shops back up and running.
They built it on prime farmland that decimated many of the farmers.
And the Clintons made sure that the big hotels wer rebuild ASAP.
I'm sure that the reason why Hillary deleted 30,000 emails was because it showed that Bill's scheduled speeches aligned with Hillary's state department selling weapons and helping companies and financial institutions that had business with the state department.
And after each time these things were done, the Clinton foundation received millions in donations.
Hillary was told and agreed to keep the foundation separate from her duties as SOS.
How many pay to play scandals have we read about?
God, I don't know of anyone more corrupt and despicable than Bill and Hillary Clinton.
And these two wankers are going to be returning to the White House.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
thanks snoopydawg
for that frightening summary.
Swarmy doesn't begin to cover it.
...another Foundation misappropriation...alledged
There was another angle to the Foundation's questionable money trail per Charles Ortel. Per his review, there was money received for charitable purposes which Clinton's then channeled over to HRC's election campaign. Not allowed by law. Here's the interview.
Honestly, the more I learn
The more I can actually understand voting for Trump.
(Not that I would do it. But where it used to be a revolting thought, now it seems like a viable alternative).
But Trump University, Trump's hair--and he's ORANGE!
And, from all appearances, just short of willing to call himself a racist and a misogynist.
Out of abut 350 million people, these are the choices the two largest political parties saw fit to give us? While I hate Republican politicians, I have to say that, for whatever reasons, at least i believe GOP bigwigs did not designate Trump for coronation. For better or worse, he seems to have been the people's choice--albeit with lots of help from mainstream media. I can't say that about Hillary and Democratic voters.
Speaking of mainstream media, isn't it odd how they seemed to worship him, right up until his primary win to become Hillary's major opponent seemed insured, whereupon they began vilifying him?
#JillnotHill
You are right James
Swarmy doesn't cover what the Clintons are.
I have mentioned before that Chuck Grassley questioned the legality of what Hillary was doing in regards to her foundation and can't understand why he didn't pursue the matter.
Was it because so many congress members get rich off of the weapons sales and the donations to their campaigns from the financial institutions?
There was one foreign bank that was in trouble with our government and I think it would have been the state department that would look into their problems, so they asked Hillary to run interference with it and after she got them out of trouble they too donated millions to the foundation.
How the hell that can be legal is beyond my understanding.
And this type of activities happened many times.
BTW, the Clintons didn't release their foundation tax returns for the 4 years that she was SOS. I don't know if they have done it yet, but the complexity of all the shell companies that the foundation uses would be hard to unravel.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
I wrote about this
a while back:
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade -- to be featured at Tribeca
I suspect they are.
Why Grassley didn't pursue the matter.
My guess is that he didn't want to wake up one morning to discover he'd "committed suicide."
What is the most lucrative export of US manufacturing?
Might weapons be the best seller still made in the US?
Judging solely by how much government fiddles with employment figures, they must be very important politically. What would happen to our unemployment figures if we stopped making stuff that kills "some folks?"
I really don't know the answers to my questions.
I can't verify what type of website this is
But it's not the only one saying that the Clinton foundation can bring down the entire government, it just has the most information on this.
http://www.ascensionwithearth.com/2016/07/fbi-source-clinton-foundation-...
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
At least in theory, the D of J did not decline to bring charges;
it only announced it would not perform its own duties, but would defer 100% to Comey. After all, Americans may have had the wrong impression from Clinton's plane waiting on the tarmac for Lynch's plane, so he could do nothing more than be sociable while the FBI was investigating his wife. I guess Bubba forgot how to be sociable over the phone? Or via private email server?
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Isn't it funny how two lawyers (yes, two: the Arkansas bar reinstated Clinton. Shocker) were both so oblivious to the whole "avoid even the appearance of impropriety" thing that they went to all that trouble to create the appearance of impropriety on a tarmac? And our media, which can't seem to investigate or report news to save its bottom line, covered the hell out of it?
why is this whole thing not put into a lock-box
this should be the sole disqualifying element - any potential conflicts of interest none the least of which involve Bubba being anywhere near the situation room or the oval office for the next four years
@eState4Column5
Save your torches and pitchforks for the names of
Deep State to be leaked. Oh yes, they will be named.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Yes, please.
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
Claim of involvement throughout gov't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR3KJXDSv90 7 min review of snoopydawg's article above.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR3KJXDSv90]
Of course they want to keep Bill's schedule secret. I like the idea of this coming out and bringing down the entire gov't. Might just be the thing we need - a house cleaning.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
"National Security," the term that makes judges cave,
especially since 911.
The Bush and Obama administrations have used it often, to media and courts, whether or not national security is actually threatened. For government, it's the "Open Sesame" of the never-ending war on terra.