Lamar Smith Subpeonas FBI
Busy day for the Congress Critter!
From The Hill
Republican chairman subpoenas the FBI for Clinton server interviews
The article reminds us that earlier this month, Smith and Ron Johnson requested (pdf) that Loretta Lynch provide notes and other materials from interviews with IT personnel (Pagliano, Cooper and PRN) who took care of the Clinton email server(s) by 9/16/16. None were received, so now a subpoena has been sent to Comey with a deadline of 9/26/16.
Smith is investigating the security protections in place on Clinton’s server to determine if “amendments” to a certain federal cybersecurity framework are necessary.
“The committee is convinced that former Secretary Clinton’s unusual server and network arrangement necessitates amendments to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA),” according to a release.
“The Committee continues to have questions about the structure and security of the email system used by former Secretary Clinton and whether she and her staff employed cybersecurity standards required by FISMA.”
Apparently, some Democrats are objecting that Smith is acting at the behest of the Trump campaign (personally, I don't see any evidence that Trump and his peeps have been following this at all closely).
Comments
Is it any surprise the Corruptocrats are howling?
They're all superdelegates who backed Clinton even before Bernie jumped in to challenge her. If she goes down, the Congress is gonna stay Red and they sorry sons-of-bitches will be out looking for real work. And why didn't Comey press his "investigation" to really look into her security breaches, other than to say there were breaches?
There's more to the Comey story, I'm sure
I keep wondering what Clinton has on him. I cringed and did not click earlier when I saw something which said that Comey previously didn't investigate the Clintons... wonder if I can trace my steps back. What makes paying attention to this stuff so hard is that one cannot un-see what one learns. I don't want to know the world works this way...
'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
Previous investigation was whitewater.
Hard to get the goods on a suspect when she hides the law firm's files.
Also time at HSBC, on the board, bad stuff went down.
He is certainly a target for leverage by someone he sees as more powerful.
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.
Rose Law Firm Files
One of my favorite tricks of the Clintons when they were in the White House, and her Rose Law Firm records were subpoenaed and she COULD NOT FIND THEM. What a joke! Then those very same records ages later suddenly just "turned up" in the family quarters of the White House.
When the Clintons lie, somehow, they don't think it's still a lie. Strange.
Not strange for sociopaths
one really must use that perspective.
'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
Those "misplaced" Rose Law
Those "misplaced" Rose Law firm records didn't turn up until just after the statute of limitations had ran out.
How do they get away with this?????????
Seriously, how do they get away with this?
Maggie Williams was SEEN walking out of Vince Foster's office with FILESin her hands, shortly after his death was announced. She was seen. When testifying before Congress and asked if she took files out of his office, she DENIED it. She LIED.
This has happened so often with the Clintons and their sycophants. Seems they've really learned, just lie, deny, and keep denying - end of story.
DOG, can't even bear to think of all of them back in the White House. Including David Brock! Remember when we thought Dick Morris was bad news. This could be worse than hideous.
Is Mars habitable yet?
Psychopaths easily learn that
Psychopaths easily learn that if sticking to lies and denial works, they should stick with it as long as it works for them and enables them to become, and do, worse. It's the human portions of their brains which fail to function correctly, not the scheming parts.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Yeah, they 'turned up'.
For their role in Castle Grande and other matters, the McDougals went on trial. HRC has professed complete ignorance. “I don’t believe I knew anything about any of these real estate parcels and projects,” she proclaimed in her deposition to the RTC. The RTC and the independent counsel asked Rose for billing records to buttress HRC’s assertions. Both the firm and the White House claimed they could not be located. Two days after the statute of limitations expired on the Castle Grande dealings, the records were miraculously discovered on a table in an office used by HRC to store papers in their private White House residence. The records show she billed Madison for 60 hours of work on the Castle Grande deal.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/30/the-clinton-files-is-hillary-a-cr...
***
Yes, there were crimes and scandals involved in Whitewater. One of the most telling sentences in this article is this one:
“Whitewater” represents a pervasive character trait of the Clintons: the exchange of money for political favors. It also represents a trait that caused an uproar when William Safire drew attention to it in 1995: namely, HRC’s untrammeled propensity to tell lies.http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/30/the-clinton-files-is-hillary-a-cr...
That is an excellent article and it lays out what exactly it was that the Clinton, mainly Shillary, were up to back in those days. I guess for a while there money WAS a problem for them. But only due to her corrupt actions.
TWO EDITS. Both due to typos. I'm a pathetic mess this morning. Oh my. It's 4:54 a.m. I need to lay down some time. I was up at 7 yesterday morning. I am being treated for insomnia. It's not fun when it sets in when you're past the stage of pulling all nighters and partying (although I was never a big party person).
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
Fellow insomniac (third time up--I give up)
have you tried this set of podcasts? Sleep with me, I want to try them, forgot last night, even through my phone is charged.
c99 does not support it, look them up, they are bizarre.
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.
The other pattern with the Clintons is...
The Clintons seem to lie, evade, intimidate their own way out of ever being indicted in crime after crime. The people around them, however, do end up in jail. I wouldn't put it past Hillary to throw Huma or Cheryl Mills under the bus for the foundation stuff while she was at State Department.
I think it is already apparent that the Clintons plan to pin as much of the e-mail scandal on their IT people as possible.
Congress is going to stay red no matter what.
R's gerrymandered the house seats really well, and I read analysis somewhere today that it's looking more & more likely that they'll retain a majority in the senate.
What kind of coat tails does a greased snake have?
Hey, that is an insult to
Hey, that is an insult to snakes! I have had snakes as pets, they are more honest as to their intents than Her Heinous
So long, and thanks for all the fish
And unlike a Clinton they're not cold and slimy. (My brothers
made sure I got over my fear and revulsion of snakes at a young age. Reptiles get a bad rap.)
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
Eels, on the other hand....
Then again, eels are just critters doing what critters do.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Eels? Less Slimy Than A Clinton!
Their slime is everywhere...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Like I said a while ago--
it's tough to find an insult for Clinton, because I feel like it's unfair to the Ebola virus when I compare her to it!
Actually, I've never compared Clinton or anybody else to a germ or vermin, because IMO that's a dangerous/bad linguistic practice--way way worse than calling somebody a bigoted bad word--but if I did insult her by calling her Ebola, I'd feel I was being unfair to the virus.
"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
It's not just gerrymandering
Some of this is not the result of malfeasance. Cities tend to be more Democratic, so that voting pool is more concentrated, people tend to be influenced by where they live, migrate to places that reflect their culture, etc.
But it's also true that the Democratic Party leadership demonstrably DOES NOT WANT the majority. Tim Kaine is being rewarded for getting rid of the 50 state strategy as DNC Chair. The party refuses to fund or support progressives, even when they win their primaries (last I heard, DCCC was refusing to help Teachout). They intentionally leave some seats unopposed for the Republicans to take, even when local Democrats want to run for the seat. (Down with Tyranny is good with granular reporting on this.) This is even though voters continually reject corporate Dems, often electing them one time and then tossing them out as soon as they vote like Republicans. The Democratic Party just pukes up another corporate/"formerly" Republican Democrat to run, and the cycle begins again.
You can see why that would be. Obama's first two years were quite awkward, because he had a workable majority in both houses. They had to go to a lot of trouble to create the necessary roadblocks to be able to pretend they COULDN'T pass citizen-preferred policy over the corporate-preferred policy of their owners.
Sad but true
They found out in 2009 if they actually won an election they'd be expected to deliver on some of the phony promises they always make. Good thing they still had they filibuster to hide behind. Of course, losing elections doesn't really threaten the party leaders' power or perks. Not losing to a Republican, anyway. If Bernie Sanders had been allowed to win the primary, OTOH, a lot of them would be out on their asses.
Please help support caucus99percent!
Very true
When the democrats are in charge, the republicans use filibusters and private holds against the bills that they don't want passed.
But for some reason the democrats never used those things when they were the minority party.
I remember when Cheney went to congress to pass the winning vote when it was tied at 50-50.
And then when the democrats were once again in the majority for some damned reason it took 60 votes to pass a bill.
How many diaries were there on TOS telling the democrats to use the nuclear option Yet they never did.
That's when I knew that it was just kabuki theater.
Plus 7 years ago Amy Goodman had an ex congress member on her show and he admitted that the parties took turns being in charge.
And it wasn't only Kaine who got to keep his job.
DWS lost both houses of congress and many state governors yet she too kept her job. My opinion for that was because Obama wanted the republicans in charge so that he can pass the TPP.
And how did people know a year before the election that the democrats would be losing so many seats? It's kinda like it was pre ordained. Or planned, you pick.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Also remember the 06 election
When the democrats promised us that if we put them in power that they would roll back the Bush abuses.
So we did and what happened? Pelosi said that "impeachment was off the table because they had to keep their powder dry"
So they continued to fund the wars in Afghanistan that was started to getBin Laden even though they knew that he had fled to Pakistan.
And then instead of bringing the troops home, for some reason the mission was to fight the Taliban who had nothing to do with 9/11.
Plus after no WMDs were found and Saddam was hanged, the troops had to stay in Iraq because if they came home then all of the troops that had died would have died in vain.
Next Obama campaigned on ending the Iraq war as soon as possible, but then we found out that he was trying to keep the troops in Iraq after the SOFA but the Iraqi government wouldn't agree to his terms so there was a big excitement when the last troops rolled out of Iraq.
But guess what? Obama made a deal with the Iraqi government to put a few 'adviser' troops back in Iraq and the Iraqi government told him how many he could put back. And as usual the US didn't adhere to the rules and there are many more troops in Iraq over the government's objections.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Anyone else wondering if DKos
Anyone else wondering if DKos was carefully managing members/readers over the years at least partly to build cred in the expectation that we'd all follow them over the cliff when the time came?
Edit: sentence under construction, lol.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Well maybe that and
Kos has become a very rich media mogul, there's that.
~annominous
Unfortunately for Little Napolean,
We did not turn out to be the ignorant lemmings he believed we were.
The people wanted a jobs program. The bastid couldn't do that.
But by picking healthcare coverage and holding 'hearings' he ran out the clock on having to do anything to help the citizens of this country. All the nations assests were earmarked for bailing out the crooks who crashed the economy.
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
Thank you for following and reporting on this.
I wouldn't know any of it if it wasn't for you.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
As much as I hate to say it
because I really, really despise Lamar Smith (He's from Texas, which makes all us Texans look bad gosh dern it!), but...whatever they do that can help keep Hillary out of the WH, well I guess I would have to support that, ya know. (ugh, I think I'm gunna toss my cockies...)
RR
C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
I'm pretty sure that Huma Abedin is on record saying that
The Clinton email server had to be taken offline for a few days because it had been hacked. She told someone to call Justin to fix it.
This information came out during her deposition to judicial watch.
So if it had been hacked, who did it and what information did they get?
Is congress and the FBI aware of all the information that judicial watch has exposed?
And why wasn't Sidney Bluementhal charged under the espionage act for stealing classified information from the NSA and passing it on to Hillary who removed his name from the email and passed it on to Obama?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I think it was the IG
Who reported that suspected hacking attempts were dealt with by taking the server offline.
Justin is Justin Cooper who was part of Bill's staff as
an ex-president. He and Pagliano set up the server originally.
'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
You are correct, Mr. Dawg
Huma told Justin to shut er' own after he reported to her that he thought they had been hacked.
The screws are turning now, another stern article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-who-tells-dreadf...
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 won't be long now before her candidacy is "redacted"
When WaPo craps on Hillary that badly, they know that something big is gonna change--like her withdrawal the night before the great debate, so that Drumpf doesn't have anyone to debate.
At WaPo there are now enemies (Hillary would call them that)
traitors to her cause. Unlike Trump, who can take bad press as good, she cannot do that, the villain scene is not in her repertoire that she will admit to.
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.
Thanks for posting the link!
Thanks for posting the link! While there, I also noticed the title of this and went to read it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/09/19/the-gop-di...
Good article, but it brought to mind: how about a woman who tries to falsely call the supporters of her deeply honourable Dem nomination opponent racist and sexist for not supporting her instead and who, when caught misbehaving - or engaging in outright criminal acts - denies the evidence, blames someone (or virtually everyone) else and/or lashes out in anger? Is anyone like that fit to be President and rent out the White House bedrooms for extra Clinton cash?
What about a party which not only supports but cheats in a nominee who commits wide-scale violence and invasion of other people's countries for corporate gain and promises much more to her big donors, permits the chronic and casual police harassment/false arrest/beating and murder of citizens of Colour to continue, and defrauds their own Party voters of voting rights in their own nominations if not for their long pre-selected corporate candidate? Do they have the moral authority to govern?
To paraphrase from the article: ...Actively defending, excusing, covering up and minimizing Hillary's endless and profitable-for-her/donors 'mistakes' and lies puts the Democratic Party in the exact camp as the Republicans - corporate/billionaire stooges. They should not be welcome in whatever party follows the Dems. ... ...It’s been deeply upsetting to see so many voters buy into the Clinton lies and conspiracies. “Aren’t we better than that?” The verdict will not be pretty on the voters who supported her, but going forward the goal must be to never again nominate someone who appeals to our most negative, darkest impulses. ...
It sucks through serpent's fangs when 'both sides (really do) do it'...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I never know what to think of the RW truth-tellers
so much cognitive dissonance.
But more importantly, what's in the drinking water of the 11% to make them think such a crazy thing?!
And if only 11% believe her, how is she getting 46% in the polls?
'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