State Department Blocks Release Of Hillary Clinton-Era TPP Emails Until After The Election
As David Sirota reports in IBT the US has reached stunning levels of incompetence and corruption.
Trade is a hot issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. But correspondence from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department aides about a controversial 12-nation trade deal will not be available for public review — at least not until after the election. The Obama administration abruptly blocked the release of Clinton’s State Department correspondence about the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after first saying it expected to produce the emails this spring.
The decision came in response to International Business Times' open records request for correspondence between Clinton’s State Department office and the United States Trade Representative. The request, which was submitted in July 2015, specifically asked for all such correspondence that made reference to the TPP
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Clinton’s shifting positions on the TPP have been a source of controversy during the campaign: She repeatedly promoted the deal as secretary of state but then in 2015 said, "I did not work on TPP," even though some leaked State Department cables show that her agency was involved in diplomatic discussions about the pact. Under pressure from her Democratic primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, Clinton announced in October that she now opposes the deal — and has disputed that she ever fully backed it in the first place.
And so it goes....
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Heh...
she can't let it be proven that Trump is to the left of her on trade.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
at least
not until after the election...
Nobody could have anticipated that over in Washington, Dee Cee,
one hand washes the other, and separation of powers has been replaced by “If you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours.”
I have another term for it
rather than 'washing and scratching' but it's too early in the morning for my potty mouth.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Jeesh
makes me sick but not surprised. This whole damn thing is rigged. I'm beginning to think trump is a plant in order to make clinton president. Welcome to the banana republics America. And dems say "YOU have to vote for hillary because SCOTUS!"
What the hell does the court matter anymore when you live in a banana republic. It will do what it's told and it will always be a 4 to 5 vote for appearances sake.
BernieOrBust
I've been thinking that
since I saw the report about the phone calls between Bill Clinton & Trump a few weeks before Trump announced he was running. The Democratic leadeship is just as crooked as the Republicans, they're just better at it which is why they can be more dangerous. And they're smart enough to throw a bone to the peons now & then to shut them up. It's funny, but now that Hillary has it almost wrapped up as the Democratic nominee then out come the claws against Trump from all sides. I can't believe someone can do as much business as he has & be as stupid as he has seemed. He almost seems to be begging to be criticized & gets more outrageous every day. I'm just wondering if all his legal problems will just disappear if/when Hillary is President. A CT is just a CT until it is proven true.
Beat Trump with Bernie!
CINTRUMP: coodinated Kabuki theatre
It's all lies. all of it: there is no Democracy and there is no separation of the parties. Just one big oligarchy creating a creepy and increasingly unbelievable illusion.
I am so sad this AM
It is bad enough that Obama is gung ho for the deal but this crap is something Candidate Obama in 2008 (when I supported him, I no longer do) would have called bullshit on
Candidate Obama would have said what it took to win
In fact, he did, and contradicted much of it almost out of the gate. He wouldn't have been allowed to rise through political ranks like a meteor and win if he didn't understand and agree to play by the rules. Bernie Sanders has broken through the stranglehold on the process--a true gate crasher--and shown it for what it is. Painfully new information to many who didn't understand where they lived and find that perspective hard to reconcile with "shining city on the hill" and "beacon of hope" and "world's greatest democracy."
And that's why we'll see every contrivance possible to delay (or prevent) an indictment and plug in someone like Biden.
Sanders is an insurgent candidate, and we know what our government and its complicit media arm say about insurgents, those freedom fighters who unaccountably object to invasion and oppression.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Agree, you are correct
I was one of those who thought he was the real thing.
I thought (and hoped) Obama was the real thing, too
Voted for him with some enthusiasm the first time. Hesitated over my ballot and almost didn't vote for him the second time and regretted having done so.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Very sad now re: Obama
Shocked when he tapped Rahm for COS. Sick really. Then, when he put Tim Geithner at Treasury. The NYFed did nothing, nada, zip, to stop the criminal activity of the banks. Then, to sell us out on Single payer, know he needed Tom Daschle & couldn't get him - but to not fight with Baucus, Lieberman when so much was at stake.
He's smart, sometimes wonder why he acted so weak - really what it felt like. Naive. Think now he really did cut a deal to give Clinton SOS to get her support & votes.
SICK OF THEM ALL.
Bernie or Bust. And remember when it was A.B.C.=Anybody But Clinton.
Keeping an eye on http://www.thepeoplessummit.org/ if you haven't looked in a while, they now have a long list of speakers, panels.
Hope to see some essays here from people who are able
to attend.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
His rise in Illinois and national politics was backed by the
Pritzker family. For their own personal gain.
***
Obama considering the Mother of failed sub-prime lenders for Secretary of Commerce position
Obama and Pritzker go way back
***
Billionaire Bankster Breaks Into Obama's Cabinet
Obama starts paying the Pritzker family back for their patronage
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Pritzker family
Hill got a $500,000 donation from the Chicago Pritzkers (big donors) to fund the staged photo OP to "help" the poisoned children of Flint right before the Michigan debate and primary. She put Chelsea in charge, of course, and got the newly-elected black female mayor to go along with it. Really good optics for her, even though nothing much came of it for the kids of Flint.
I believe
they thought they had Michigan in the bag and didn't bother to rig the voting machines. They got a big surprise and they sure aren't going to let that happen again in a close state. I'm afraid for California...
BernieOrBust...
Here's Obama's legacy for you: an underhanded
secret deal to benefit his corporate overseers.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Remember when those of us who were kids
growing up in the USA felt specially blessed that our parents had had the good thought of us being birthright? We were better then, although I cannot locate a year in retrospect. I had a Russian expat in my class in fourth grade!! Obviously a spy now. I never met his double-traitor parents. But I was happy to have not been born in Hungary or Yugoslavia or USSR.
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.
Rapidly sliding toward a Jill Stein vote
if Bernie isn't nominated. At a certain point, a vote of conscience rather than compromise is what's required.
The beauty of modern man is not in the persons but in the
Disastrous rhythm, the heavy and mobile masses, the dance of the
Dream-led masses down the dark mountain.
- Robinson Jeffers, Rearmament
Made that decision
a couple of months ago. Right after all the crooked shit going on with the state primaries started coming out. IMO, anyone that's been paying attention to these rigged elections then turns around and votes for clinton in the primaries or in the general is condoning voter suppression and election fraud.
BernieOrBust
Well - knock me down with a feather
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Maybe Putin will help us out
and release what they harvested from H's e-mail server.
If I didn't think it would get me thrown in Leavenworth
without a key to get out, I'd write to him and ask him for them myself...
Tsar Vlad will help himself and his fellow Russian oligarchs.
The following site is pro-Russian, if not Russian financed. They are accused, maybe rightly so, of promoting propaganda or CT. Many of the contributors appear on RT. The site owners are registered in Montreal.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/about
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking
Putin
Putin loves Clinton. She gave him a uranium mine.
Just one Party
and we peasants are not allowed in the door.
I never thought I'd say it, but the Democrats are more corrupt than the Rapepublicans.
Let it all burn down. The one party fuckacracy needs to destroy itself.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
I still don't know
if Obama is trying to help Hillary or scuttle her. But if the former he's really, really bad at it.
On to Biden since 1973
Hard to tell now whether it's befuddlement
or calculation, all beyond us peons who now recognize that we are peons. Sekrit or not?
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.
It's the same as it always was. He figures "who else they gonna
vote for" like the rest of these arrogant, smug Third Way jackasses.
And many will. There is NO WAY that we should be torn between which winner of the election will do the 'least damage'. AGAIN. That is not how I think the system should work. That's exactly how I felt about Obama (although all it took was Couric's interview of Palin and I was out volunteering to work for his campaign in Nebraska.)
And even worse, I'm not sure which is worse, the guy who is dumber than the legendary Miss Teen USA 2007, Donald Trump - or the money/war whore , Hillary Clinton.
Future generations are so screwed.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I think he's
going to help her. After all, he's probably wants in on the endless stream of money gig the clintons have going. What else could explain the TPP and why he pushed so hard for it.
Of course it does...
This is what actually makes the State Departments review of her emails particularly troubling. It was done by a "Friendly" and still concluded there was wrongdoing, if not criminal activity. The fact they are delaying the release of this other stuff shows they are tipping the scale Clinton's way when they can.
Perhaps just trying to save the TPP
That's Obama's Big One, the one he's expected to deliver or prime for delivery, as Clinton delivered NAFTA in his waning days.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
TPP emails delay
This does not bode well for THE INVESTIGATION by the FBI. Despite hints to the contrary, Obama wants Hill to be POTUS. Now I doubt that Justice will indict after this interference by Obama.
The TPP...
is the reason the MSM is so pro $hillary IMO. I forget which Media CEO said he thought Hellery would come on board the TPP (lame duck) vote after she was elected. Big media gets all sorts of intellectual property rights as a part of the trade deal.
We're screwed (unless Bernie pulls it out).
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yup...however...
I really wish you would reword this:
Not to mention the threat to the Internet which will help the MSM, not us.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass