50 House Repugs Call for Special Prosecutor on Clinton Foundation
From The Hill
GOP lawmakers call for Clinton Foundation special prosecutor
More than 50 House Republicans on Tuesday urged the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether Clinton Foundation donors had unusual access to Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of State.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), a former United States attorney, spearheaded a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting her department follow up on an Associated Press report that found some of the private interests who secured meetings with Clinton had donated to her family’s foundation.
“All of this makes it very unclear where the State Department ended and where the Clinton Foundation began,” the lawmakers wrote. “The facts as they have been reported surrounding the Clinton Foundation warrant an investigation that is beyond reproach and beyond any appearance of political favoritism. Appointing a special counsel is a necessary step at this juncture.”
The article also lists that the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing in September on whether Clinton committed perjury in her Benghazi testimony in 2015.
IN OTHER NEWS From the AP
Grassley: FBI Improperly Restricting Access to Clinton Docs
In a letter sent Wednesday to the Senate's security director, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley asked that unclassified portions of the FBI documents be provided to his staff. The move appears to be an end run around strict restrictions imposed by the FBI, which warned members of Congress not to leak documents from its investigation involving the Democratic presidential nominee.
"As I have expressed to the FBI in the past, it is inappropriate to unnecessarily mingle classified and unclassified information," Grassley wrote Wednesday to Senate Security Director Michael DiSilvestro. "Accordingly, as you have done on similar occasions in the past, please provide the Judiciary Committee with a copy of the unclassified FBI documents from the production."
FBI case files are typically kept confidential after an investigation is closed without a recommendation for charges, and the Clinton documents were sent to Congress accompanied by written warnings not to leak the information.
And...
FBI Expected to Release Hillary Clinton Interview Notes and Case Documents in Coming Days
The FBI is working to release to the public several documents at the heart of its decision not to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, sources told ABC News today.
The documents are expected to be released in the coming days in response to several requests from media organizations under the Freedom of Information Act, sources said.
It’s unclear exactly which documents will be released. But CNN — one of the media organizations to file a FOIA request and the first to report on the pending response — said the release will include the FBI’s report to the Justice Department detailing its recommendations in the case and FBI notes, known as a 302, from Clinton’s voluntary interview with agents.
Comments
Darn!
The article doesn't say who all the 50 are. I will be very disappointed if my tea bagger congress critter isn't one of the 50.
And FBI documents being released in a few days? Yes, please.
Drip, drip, drip. With enough time and water you can carve out the Grand Canyon. I'll be happy if the Clintons just go away. (Although I wouldn't mind seeing Hillary in an orange jumpsuit.)
Unfortunately, I think she
Unfortunately, I think she wore an orange jumpsuit on the campaign trail. It wasn't pretty.
She did indeed wear an orange pant suit.
So helpful for photo shoppers.
Citizen of Earth posted this picture and his comment
was so funny, I couldn't stop laughing!
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Wait
Are those pajama bottoms??? She seems to be channeling Michael Jackson in his last days. (with a little Cap' Kangaroo thrown in...and what is UP with that entitled look on her face?)
Well done is better than well said-Ben Franklin
That's only one of a whole range of entitled looks
she keeps available.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
That's not a potholder - that's a 1950's house dress!
Worn to do housework, not meant to be worn outside the house (other than hanging up laundry).
She's one step away from Mrs. Roper's caftans/muumuus with oversized bead necklaces.
There is no excuse for her to look like this. #1, those clothes cost too much to look so bad (although there's something about money not buying taste.) #2, she has a full-time traveling hair dresser & makeup artist.
My theory: I have a friend who's hypothyroid due to an immune system issue and the first thing she complains about when her synthroid needs to be adjusted is how her hair looks like shit. Playing arm chair dr, I wonder if that's what's up with Hillary's hair. Somebody said that armour thyroid (which Clinton is on) is more variable than synthroid. Pure speculation on my part, of course.
It's pretty bad when $600 haircuts (not including color), and a full-time hair stylist and makeup artist can't make you look better than a wild haired democratic socialist who springs for $10 haircuts. But then, isnt there's something about "we earn our face".
You're too kind.
Many have better ideas.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Lol!
Let's see...
Lynch let Comey decide whether or not to indict clinton. Why did the republicans go to her with this? Why not take it to, say, the head of the Interior Dept, Sally Jewell? Or the Secretary of Education. Or the mayor of my local town of 300. What the hell are they smoking to think do nothing, ladder climbing Lynch would actually investigate this?? Come on repubs, you're slipping badly....
You left out
Postmaster General.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Wolf!
They've been crying wolf every time Hilary changes a $5 bill, and now there's something that ought to sink the Clinton ship and I'm afraid it will be regarded as just another GOP witch hunt.
Nice going Republicans. You couldn't have provided better cover if you'd tried. Hey, wait a minute...
“He may not have gotten the words out but the thoughts were great.”
huh
who outside of orangewater didn't see this coming?
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN IT COMING???!?!11//
and this is only the beginning. just so we're clear, Teflon(R) production poisoned a lot of people (oops) ... so we've been here before.
GIANT ALL-CAPS SIG
A witch hunt.
Does she sink in water? Inquiring minds want to know.
Sorry. Grease floats.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
And so do witches.
The innocent drown.
Just another stressor for HRC
It's no wonder she doesn't give press conference--too many brick bats to dodge. I don't care if Repuglicans are leading the charge. Somebody's got to do it.
Yeah, but
You could probably get 50 GOP house members to call for an investigation into ufo abductions on the grounds that the aliens were taking away the jobs of cattle mutilators.
Or are these 50 sane ones?
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah!
Step right up ladies and gentlemen. This will be the spectacle of the century! Free admission -- sponsored by the U.S. taxpayer! Come One, Come All! Guaranteed the finest in entertainment value! Europe will be howling in the aisles! Vladimir Putin will call for national holidays! And the best part will be -- TOP will hemorrhage! What will Grandma Yuppie do for an encore? Stay tuned...
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Another great article about the Clinton foundation.
The author of this article goes into great detail about how swarmy the Clintons are as well as the people and governments that donated to them.
Next he writes about the neoconservative tapeworms that have endorsed her run for president, while many diarist on DK happily write how these people are endorsing her only because Trump is such a big danger to this country and his views on NATO not paying their way.
Anyone else see how after the emails came out that showed how the DNC collaborated on making sure that Bernie wouldn't win the election, that instead of talking about what the DNC did, they changed the subject and blamed it on Russia. And how DK and many other websites are tying Trump to Russia? Never mind that Hillary helped Boeing sell their jets to Russia and then Boeing donated to the Clinton foundation. Or how Hillary's state department helped Russia with getting over 20% of our country's uranium?
Some of the neocon tapeworms.
Please read the rest of the article.
It also goes into detail about Huma Abedin's ties to the House of Saud and ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
And Trump's supposed ties to Putin and Russia.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/29/hillary-and-the-clinton-foundatio...
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
It'll only be serious
when Democrats join in and make it a feeding frenzy. And that will only happen when people stop whining and start calling for blood.
On to Biden since 1973
Hmm. The idea of calling my Congressman
hadn't actually occurred to me. Nor the idea of yelling at the Dems generally. I just kind of assume they won't answer/respond in any helpful way, kind of like I don't assume the wall will help me do dishes in the evenings, but perhaps it's still worth, even at this late date, writing an Incredibly Angry Letter calling on the Democratic Party to investigate Clinton, just to register that there are Democrats who retain a sense of justice not determined by party.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Well that took a while.
And only 50? out of 200-and-what?
Real brave "principled opposition," Repugs.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
The problem is the memo.
All Rethug Congresscritters (and select Blue Dog Dems) have received a memo from Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, on PNAC stationary, of course. I've seen it. It says:
"We know you hate her, but lay off, you mofos. She's the one we want. She'll play ball with the MIC, Big Pharma, Wall Street and the banks. Leave her the fuck alone. Now, once she's in, you can beat her up all you want. You can even impeach her, as long as the Senate doesn't convict. Capisce?"
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
So, is the FBI actually defending Hillary?
I really thought Comey had the classic "They've-got-my-balls-in-a-vice-but-I'm-gonna-talk-against-them-cause-that's-all-I-can-do" tone so often heard in DC. Could it have all been BS?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver