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FBI criminal investigation emails: Clinton approved CIA drone assassinations with her cellphone, report says

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 3:07am

An explosive new report reveals just what it is that the FBI is looking to: emails in which then-Secretary of State Clinton approved CIA drone assassinations in Pakistan with her cellphone.

From 2011 on, the State Department had a secret arrangement with the CIA, giving it a degree of say over whether or not a drone killing would take place.

Under Sec. Clinton, State Department officials approved almost every single proposed CIA drone assassination. They only objected to only one or two attacks.

The emails that are at the heart of the FBI’s criminal investigation are 2011 and 2012 messages between U.S. diplomats in Pakistan and their State Department superiors in D.C., in which the officials approved drone strikes.

Clinton’s aides forwarded some of these emails to her personal email account, on a private server in her home in suburban New York.

http://www.salon.com/2016/06/10/fbi_criminal_investigation_emails_clinto...

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Well, this sounds a bit more serious than HillBillary was making out. I thought the FBI was just looking into a security inquiry (or whatever that flip phrase was that she called the (as James Comey call it) Investigation.

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Submitted by BitterHarvest on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 3:46am

No Way

Let me read ...

Submitted by BitterHarvest on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 4:07am

Whoa, Way

This is unbelievable:

"The FBI is expected to interview Clinton this summer about the scandal. Law-enforcement officials told the Journal they don’t think criminal charges will be filed against her after the investigation.

Clinton herself has repeatedly confidently insisted that she is not going to be charged."

Submitted by riverlover on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 4:31am

Cynicism abounds

hard to tell opinion from promise. In anything now.

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Submitted by ovals49 on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 6:11am

If the shady profiteers of Wall Street get

a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card, why not Hillary?

I will not be surprised in the least if a preemptive pardon is already a done deal. I WILL be VERY surprised if her crimes and misdeeds end up costing her the nomination.

Power protects its own, always.

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— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”

The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 2:56pm

Yeah, I think that's exactly what's going on. But I'm curious

as to what this story says to her supporters who consistently drone that 'nothing was marked Top Secret'.

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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

Submitted by travelerxxx on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 4:28pm

The Foggy Bottom of Clinton’s Muddy Waters

I don't know who this Nina Illingworth is who wrote "The Foggy Bottom of Clinton’s Muddy Waters" on her site, but it's some damn clear thinking regarding HRC's legal troubles and the consequences thereof:

http://www.ninaillingworth.com/2016/06/01/the-foggy-bottom-of-clintons-m...

This is a fairly long read, but worth every second. I've been sending the link to it around today and everyone has responded in awe. An excerpt:

Although it is virtually impossible to say for sure how many of Clinton’s deleted personal emails the Bureau has recovered, knowing that they have access to the hardware and have discovered cloud backups makes it a pretty good guess that they probably have all of the deleted emails at their disposal by now. I don’t know James Comey personally, but I’ve read enough about him to know that he’s not a slack-jawed, incompetent fucking moron like Gowdy. Once Comey realized that Clinton was guilty, he undoubtedly set his mind to proving it beyond the tiniest fraction of a doubt – at least in part because Comey had worked on the largely unsuccessful Whitewater investigation back in the day and he’d seen first hand exactly how slippery Clinton could be if you didn’t have everything lined up just perfectly.

Submitted by kharma on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 7:53am

hubris

The Clintons/Trumps will bring the country to a new level of low with their uncontrolled hubris. These people do whatever they want because they know their will be no accountability. I'm betting whoever is the winner, they will come out significantly more wealthy after their terms are done.

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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

Submitted by riverlover on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 9:23am

And we will be significantly poorer

or dead. What options.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 8:23am

I'm waiting...

to see how the MSM handles T-rumps attacks on crooked Hellery next week. He may force a public discussion.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by neoconned on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 9:37am

...and waiting...

Godot will arrive first.

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Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.

Submitted by Alex Ocana on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 8:57am

Drones for Peace?

Nabila Rehman.png

Clinton's emails are not even the issue for me. I prefer that she send them to facebook days in advance so the social media wise kids in Wazikistan or Yemen or wherever can share. The issue is the innocent civilians, the many children massacred by this sort of cowardly remote control insanity. Nine out of ten killed by drones are civilians and for every civilian killed by remote control, ten more stand in line to replace him or her.

The second image shows just how much all these fuckwod politicians in the USA give a shit. A 9 year old, who sees her grandmother killed while they are working in their garden, travels accross the world to beg with Congress to stop drone massacres and only five show up... meanwhile corruptate media hits the black box button.

One big issue to protest both within and outside the conventions and in the streets is a ban on using drones for anything except peaceful uses like mapping sea level rise, or insect infestations of crops, or glacier melt... food and water drops and safety for refugees... I think we can be creative instead of monsters.

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From the Light House.

Submitted by CambridgePulsar1919 on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 9:46am