posted February 03, 2015 11:02 AM            

Obama State Dept. Busted Lying About Muslim Brotherhood Meeting

Washington Free Beacon:

The State Department admitted on Monday that it misled reporters about a recent delegation of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and allies who were hosted for a meeting with officials at Foggy Bottom.

State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki claimed last week that the controversial delegation of key Brotherhood leaders and allies had been “organized and funded by Georgetown University.”

However, the university denied this is the case when reached by the Washington Free Beacon......

posted February 03, 2015 11:48 PM            

The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
by Jim Clifton

Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.

Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall Street about how unemployment is "down" to 5.6%. The cheerleading for this number is deafening. The media loves a comeback story, the White House wants to score political points and Wall Street would like you to stay in the market.

None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed. That's right. While you are as unemployed as one can possibly be, and tragically may never find work again, you are not counted in the figure we see relentlessly in the news -- currently 5.6%. Right now, as many as 30 million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me, the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling" unemployment.

There's another reason why the official rate is misleading. Say you're an out-of-work engineer or healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 -- maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn -- you're not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.

Yet another figure of importance that doesn't get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find -- in other words, you are severely underemployed -- the government doesn't count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.

There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.

And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity -- it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.

Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.

I hear all the time that "unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it." When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth -- the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real -- then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't "feeling" something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.

posted February 05, 2015 09:34 PM            

Governor Palin Takes Out The Mainstream Media Garbage
February 05 2015
iizthatiiz

Governor Palin believes the American people deserve better:

It's said that a man's word can affect the course of history. Certainly a man with a microphone can. Mainstream media lies. Without accountability their power can influence national debate, shift momentum, and destroy a person's good name. All affecting history.

When one of their own repeats a lie for 12 years but is excused with the help of the media's herd mentality, tragic distrust and despondency blankets our land. The veil is torn, however, with the revelation of exaggerated, self-centered falsehoods like NBC's perpetual lie that belittled our soldiers and their truly courageous missions. The face of that network’s news lied about combat experiences in Iraq and then with false humility accepted the title of "war hero" while the press ignores, disrespects, and often destroys the good name of our true war heroes. To me, that's like soiling sacred ground.
http://www.stripes.com/…/nbc-s-brian-williams-recants-iraq-… http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/d7fe32d0-acc0-11e4-9c91-e9d…

After having his lies exposed by troops who were there, this news anchor's recent acknowledgement of "mistakenly" repeating his grandiose story for more than a decade makes this sad tale even worse because even in his explanation he is deceiving.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/…/brian-williams-misleads-viewer…

Brian Williams equated himself with our honorable vets and troops in combat boots with a made-up story of his courage and victorious return to the make-up chair strolling in his Bruno Maglis back to read his TelePrompTer's twisted scripts, and we were forced to swallow it all. That was then. This is now, when we can thank God for new unconventional media that scatters the deceiving herd that would do this to America.

An enlightened public grows more confident everyday knowing we do not have to settle for mainstream garbage insulting our intelligence as it's sold as "news". The American public deserves so much better and it's encouraging to see so many rise up and demand better. It's why we've turned off the old, we turn on the new, and we’ll never look back.

Leftist media and their minions in politics tried for too long to fundamentally transform America with their shared assumption we would fall in line and bend our backs as they rode us with reins to control our individual sovereignty. America said enough is enough and we strengthened our spine so we could fight for freedom, sometimes requiring battles against our own leaders. Remember Hillary Clinton, always seeking the title of Commander in Chief, using a harrowing account of coming under enemy fire in Bosnia? (http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/…/sharyl-attkisson-brian-…/) Of course it didn't happen. But a protecting press excused her with sympathetic descriptions of an exhausting schedule – evidently a schedule having more negative impact than that of her equally busy male competitors, because it was blamed for her dramatic lapse in recalling a near-death war zone experience that was really all made up. It goes without asking, would the press have done the same with others we can think of, had she or he "mistakenly" claimed taking on such danger in their drive to win an election?

Taking the Williams and Clinton examples, it also goes without asking, if they lie about things like this, what and who else do they lie about?

Be encouraged though, America! The demise of old media is a result of us saying, "No more." It shows you what you can accomplish as a free and exceptional nation! We demand truth in reporting by shifting a market away from those refusing to give it. We demand adherence to our Constitution by taking back our government from those refusing to do it. We demand the fundamental restoration of America by refusing to bend to anyone dangerously transforming it.

Thank you for that! And thank the Lord for blessing us with the wisdom and wherewithal to get this done.

posted February 06, 2015 09:10 AM            

Another lie...among all the others Hillary told is the source of her name Hillary.

Hillary claimed her mother named her for the feat of climbing Mt Everest by....Sir Edmund Hillary.

Problem....Hillary Clinton was born in 1947 but Sir Hillary didn't climb Mt Everest until 1953!

Now, will any of this matter to leftist sycophants?

Not a bit. Truth doesn't matter. Character doesn't matter and integrity doesn't matter to leftists. Only far left loon ideology matters.

Sharyl Attkisson: Brian Williams Not Alone; Hillary Clinton Lied About Being Shot At In Bosnia
February 5, 2015
Chris Stigall

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — In the wake of NBC Anchor Brian Williams apologizing for a story that he has told a number of times in which he falsely claims to have been in a helicopter that was shot at by a rocket-propelled grenade, former CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson shared a similar story about presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton with WPHT morning host Chris Stigall in November of 2014.

“I had come home from an overseas trip vacation and my husband says, ‘when you went to Bosnia 12 years ago with the First Lady, were you shot at?’ and I’m like ‘No. I think that I would know if we were shot at.”

The trip was one in which the two women were with the First Daughter, Sinbad, and among others Sheryl Crow, and was one that Hillary had called a “work trip” and Attkisson remembers as “a lovely thing.”

“No, she must have made another trip there, because she’s not talking about our trip”, said Attkisson when asked by her husband if she was sure that she had not been shot at on that trip.

“I mean it was a hostile area and they told us there was a slight chance there could be hostilities, but if anybody had shot at us, I mean, it wasn’t any place where she had to be. We would have landed somewhere else if someone was shooting at us. We wouldn’t have landed among sniper fire and ran to a car.”

Attkisson still has the video from her story notes that compared what Clinton said happened vs. what she says actually happened.

posted February 10, 2015 09:52 AM            

Hillary Clinton is the most politically, institutionally and financially corrupt woman in the United State and she's also a colossal liar.

Beyond that, rational people must question her intelligence. Who but a brain dead moron would tell a story about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire and having to run for the limos ducking bullets...WHEN THE VIDEO CAMERAS WERE RUNNING AND IT WAS ALL BEING RECORDED?

Oh wait, "That's old news" and besides, "What difference does it now make"?

What an embarrassment for America that a woman of Hillary's low character, low integrity and low intelligence is being considered for the highest office in the United States.

Sharyl Attkisson: Why Did Hillary Survive a Brian Williams-like Tale?
Monday, 09 Feb 2015

Emmy Award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who covered the story of Hillary Clinton's lie about being shot at in Bosnia, says she can't understand how the former secretary of state weathered the scandal while NBC News anchor Brian Williams may not.

"To me, part of the irony is if Brian Williams isn't able to survive it — that we think it's important enough when somebody gives this kind of story that he would lose his career — yet we didn't care enough to have it matter that much with someone who became our secretary of state," Attkisson said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.

"[A person] we relied on for honest answers and truths in the aftermath of Benghazi and so on."

Last Wednesday, Williams, one of NBC's biggest stars, recanted his longtime claim of being aboard a helicopter forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that Williams was nowhere near that aircraft — but on another aircraft that took no fire.

Williams, who apologized on his nightly newscast, told Stars and Stripes: "I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."

"Is it really more important that Brian Williams has a certain type of character and honesty than a presidential candidate or secretary of state?" said Attkisson, a former CBS News reporter.

"I don't know, that's up to the American people to decide, but clearly they got past it in the case of Hillary Clinton, although it was never explained. We'll see if people can get past it in the case of Brian Williams."

Clinton's gaff came during her 2008 run for the White House, when she claimed she and her staff had dodged sniper fire on an airport landing strip in Bosnia. But news video of the event revealed it never happened.

Attkisson, author of "Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington," published by Harper, said Williams' lie was on that trip with Clinton and that the Williams case is "strangely" reminiscent.

"In both cases, the attempt at a mea culpa initially kind of almost made things worse," she said.

"With Hillary Clinton, after the video was found that there was no sniper fire, there was no apparent danger on the runway as she claims, she doubled down and said, 'Well, I stopped and you saw pictures of me greeting the young girl, because how could I walk past her and break her little heart? But after that I ran to the car.

"So I was assigned to do a second day story by [the CBS] Evening News … that showed more video that too wasn't true, and when she knew we had the video it is just beyond me that she continued to tell this tale."

Attkisson said the video showed that Clinton "lingered on the runway, took pictures with a group of seventh graders, visited with the troops, [and] took photographs with them.

"There was no apparent danger to us, there was no mention of it, there was no corkscrew landing, there was no sniper fire," she said.

"You kind of wonder in both instances … how they got away for so long with telling the story and how they thought that they would get away with it without somebody coming to them, family members and so on, saying that didn't happen."

Williams, who has temporarily taken himself off the air, is now under an internal investigation at NBC. His fate may weigh on other things besides just journalistic integrity, according to Attkisson.

posted February 11, 2015 02:32 PM            

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

One rainy evening, three people walked into a bar and sat down. One was grim, another solemn, while the sole woman among them was absolutely giddy. The bartender poured a few shots of whiskey and said to the trio, “Why so grim, so solemn, so giddy?”

The grim man with squinty eyes and a huge forehead went first. “My life is over. I ‘conflated’ a couple of war stories, said I was aboard a helicopter in Iraq that got shot down when I wasn’t. Now, everything I’ve worked for my whole life is gone.”

“Gee, that’s tough,” said the bartender.

The even more-horse-faced solemn man next to him went next. “I said I won a bunch of medals for honor and bravery as captain of a fast patrol boat in Vietnam, but then all my comrades swiftly said I was lying. I lost the job I really wanted.”

“Damn. Rough. What about you, lady?” the bartender said to the broadly smiling blonde.

“Ha! I once lied and said I outran sniper fire in Bosnia. They even had videotape of me walking calmly across the tarmac to meet a little girl who gave me a poem — a poem! And I’m probably going to be the next president of the United States!”

Let’s get something straight right out of the chute: Brian Williams is just a guy on TV. He’s not even a reporter, he just reads a 20-second intro into a story gathered by real journalists. In Europe, he wouldn’t even be called an “anchor” — a too-lofty term for what he does — he’d be called a “presenter.” Rightly so.

Second, no one elected Mr. Williams to anything. He’s a paid employee (reportedly $10 million a year) at NBC — which also operates the decidedly liberal MSNBC (of course, there’s a lot of crossover between the two). In that way, he’s like a plumber who works for Roto-Rooter: An employee who calls in sick now and then and occasionally has to attend that HR presentation on sexual harassment in the office.

So, here’s the thing: If you don’t like that he lied about being in a helicopter that was hit by an RPG — you have but one way to voice your displeasure: Turn the channel. (And by the way … he most assuredly did “lie about,” not “conflate” the RPG attack. How do you “conflate” the time you weren’t on a helicopter that was hit with an RPG with the time you were on a helicopter that didn’t get hit with an RPG?)

It’s far from clear whether Mr. Williams will survive his now-too-numerous-to-list lies — another whopper comes out every day (like the one about seeing a dead body float by in the French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina, except that the French Quarter never flooded). A few sources inside NBC tell me it’s touch and go: The top brass want to ride out the storm while lower-level managers — you know, the ones who do the real work — say he just can’t stay.

But he’s just a TV personality, another hubris-filled, shallow egotist. NBC doesn’t care what you think, and if they decide he stays, he stays. You don’t have any say in the matter: It’s a corporate issue.

But not at all so for Hillary Rodham Clinton. In March 2008, giving a foreign policy speech on Iraq about her days as first lady and a trip to Tuzla, Bosnia, she delivered an unbelievable tale.

“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

So, picture that: Chopper lands, sniper bullets pinging and zinging everywhere, she and her comrades sprinting across the tarmac, perhaps zigzagging to throw off the sharpshooter.

But it didn’t happen. None of it. Right after the speech, she was asked about the sniper fire. “There was no greeting ceremony, and we basically were told to run to our cars. Now, that is what happened,” she lied.

A week later, she changed her whole story, telling the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board that she “misspoke.” Yes, she said that word. When she said snipers had fired at her, when really a little girl had given her a poem, that was her just “misspeaking.”

The next day, she told reporters: “So I made a mistake. That happens. It shows I’m human, which for some people is a revelation.” Ha ha, oh, she’s so lovely — and human.

Oh, and an incredible liar, a valor thief, a fabulist. And dangerous.

Now, Mr. Williams you’re stuck with. But Hillary? She’s different. She’s no employee of some company — she wants to be the top employee of the American people. You’ll decide. Probably best to just say, “Thanks for applying for the job, but we checked your resume and, well, too mendacious. So, don’t call us, we’ll call you.”

posted February 16, 2015 10:27 PM            

I'm going to let you prove that allegation...with credible quotes and attribution from hosts at Fox News.

posted February 17, 2015 09:19 AM            

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Liberals, for whom the ends always justify the means, have an odd relationship with the truth.

Al Franken illustrated this point perfectly in his 2003 book, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.” Written when he was a professional comedian, Mr. Franken targeted conservatives for their “documentable lies.” Funny thing is, the book (researched by 14 Harvard graduate students) was itself full of lies.

Reviewer Mary Lynn F. Jones of the The Hill wrote then: “Franken’s tendency to mix fact with fiction also left me wondering sometimes what was true and what wasn’t.”

Of course, there’s no need to mention Bill Clinton’s troubled relationship with the truth (he actually argued that the “sex” he had with that White House intern half his age wasn’t “sexual relations,” and questioned what the meaning of the word “is” is).

But there’s reason to mention Brian Williams, the one-time anchor of the Nightly News on NBC (whose sister station is rabidly anti-conservative and anti-Republican). Over the years, Mr. Williams became a celebrity, starring in cameos on “30 Rock” and becoming a regular on the late-night funny shows — home court of the liberal.

Mr. Williams has some sort of pathological need to embiggen himself. It wasn’t enough that 9 million people watched him nightly, or that he made $10 million a year, he needed to be more — a war hero, it turns out. So he made up stories — lied — about what he had done as a “journalist.” While a slew of liberal mouthpieces sought to help him out (what he did really wasn’t that bad, they argued), he was ridden out of town on a rail.

But not so at all for another lying “journalist” — Jon Stewart. The same week Mr. Williams was imploding, Mr. Stewart announced he’d be leaving his fake news program, “The Daily Show.” The nation’s liberal media swooned — what on Earth would America do without Mr. Stewart’s incisive insight, his witty sarcasm, his truer-than-true take on the news, they moaned.

Mr. Stewart is a special kind of “journalist.” He covers the “news,” but he isn’t bound by any journalistic ethics (that annoying demand to cite sources, be unbiased, balance reports, etc.). He said on the air what the liberal media pundits say to each other at all those snooty Manhattan cocktail parties.

And yes, the Comedy Central funnyman was one of the MSM “journalists” who tried to downplay the Williams scandal. “Being caught is punishment enough,” he said last week with an uncharacteristically straight face.

Mr. Stewart then launched into a gag bit (maybe) on how un-credible the news media is — after all, they misled America about WMDs in Iraq by not vetting claims by the George W. Bush administration, he said, so this is par for the course. The studio audience laughed and laughed.

But in the end, Brian Williams doesn’t matter, Jon Stewart doesn’t matter. They aren’t elected, their lies have no effect. But Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to be president, and she’s a liar: She said she faced sniper fire when she once flew into Bosnia, but she didn’t. She said the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked in protest of an anti-Muslim video on YouTube — a flat-out, bald-faced lie.

Now she wants to be president.

Yet even she’s just a wannabe, a former who now makes a living giving speeches — and inflating her resume.

But there is one big liar Americans should be furious at, and that’s the president of the United States. According to his top aide, David Axelrod, Candidate Obama lied to the American people in 2008 about his stance on gay marriage.

“Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church,” Mr. Axelrod writes in his new book, so Mr. Obama “modified” his stance, saying he believed marriage should be between a man and a woman.

After one campaign event, the former aide wrote, Mr. Obama came off the stage and told him, “I’m just not very good at” a metaphor involving bovine waste.

But that’s not true: He’s great at it. He got elected twice by lying, by saying the politically expedient thing to whatever group he was addressing.

Odd that we heard so much about the lies told by a news anchor — but so little about the lie told by the president. Yet for the liberal liars and the liberal lies they tell — liberally — the ends always justify the means. And the mainstream media couldn’t care less. Nor, for that matter, could fake news maestro Jon Stewart.

posted February 17, 2015 06:47 PM            

If you really hated her and thought she were so bad went would you be so energetically trying to discredit her before she even runs? Answer because she is the only Dem you think threatens your monolithic "sweep"..

posted February 18, 2015 09:19 AM            

Pointing out Hillary's political, financial, institutional corruption, her incessant lying and the stupidity exhibited in her speeches is a public service..but you don't need to thank me.

posted February 20, 2015 10:35 AM            

Btw, Hillary's incessant lying is a matter of public record. Hillary's stupidity exhibited in her speeches and testimony are also a matter of public record.

O’Reilly Blasts ‘Disgusting’ Report Claiming He Misled Viewers About War Reporting: ‘Bunch of Lies’
Feb. 19, 2015
Oliver Darcy

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly had sharp words for a Thursday report alleging he misled viewers about his time covering the Falklands War.

“It’s a bunch of lies and a politically motivated hit piece,” O’Reilly told TheBlaze by phone Thursday evening, adding, “Everything I have said is absolutely 100 percent true.”

The famed Fox News host was reacting to a report in Mother Jones that claimed he was not truthful in the past when recounting his experience covering the 1982 conflict. The left-leaning publication quoted O’Reilly citing his experience covering the Falklands War as proof he had reported in “active war zones.”

“I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands, where my photographer got run down and then hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete,” O’Reilly said, for instance, during a 2013 segment on his program.

O’Reilly maintained Thursday evening that everything he said was truthful, pointing to his coverage of the war from Buenos Aires and taking a shot at David Corn, the author of the Mother Jones report.

“I never said I was in the Falkland islands — ever. I said I covered the Falkland Islands War,” he told TheBlaze. “And if that moron doesn’t think it was a war zone in Buenos Aires, then he’s even dumber than I think he is.”

O’Reilly said it was clear why Mother Jones published the report.

“Have you looked at our ratings lately? He [Corn] works for MSNBC. We’re just killing him. We are wiping them out of the universe,” the Fox News host told TheBlaze. “It’s all about ideology and money. He’s got a chance to try and tie me into Brian Williams so he throws a bunch of lies to try to make that happen.”

O’Reilly then predicted the outlet would continue going after him.

“They are far-left zealots,” he told TheBlaze. “I mean, it’s disgusting, but that’s the world I live in.”

“I’ll reiterate one more time … every single thing I have said about my reportorial career has been true,” O’Reilly said. “Everything.”

posted February 21, 2015 08:31 AM            

O'Reilly isn't a conservative but Korn chose the wrong guy to use in his hit piece. O'Reilly will deck him. O'Reilly is a real journalist, Williams and Korn are lying political activists posing as journalists.

posted February 21, 2015 08:43 AM            

How nice. Let's see if all of Hillary's scandals make it onto her list.

Let's see, there was the Cattle Futures scandal...Cattlegate where Hillary was part of a scheme to funnel illegal cash to her and Bill through an illegal commodity pooling arrangement. Hillary got credited with all the winning transactions and other members of the scheme got all the losses deducted from their accounts. Oh, the Commidity broker..."Red" lost his trading license over this Hillary Scandal.

Stay tuned as I list Hillary's scandals one after another. Just another public service in the interest of good government...because I know Hillary will have forgotten all the scandals in her and Bill's past. "Oh, that's old news" and..."What difference does it now make"

Don't worry Hillary, there are lots of people who will help you remember all your scandals.

posted March 02, 2015 09:47 AM            

It's embarrassing to have such a colossal liar as president of the United States.

March 2, 2015
Obama wins four Pinocchios for Keystone veto claim
Thomas Lifson

Congratulations to President Obama, whose reputation for lying received another boost courtesy of Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s fact-checker. When one attempts to govern in opposition to the will of the American people, a certain amount of lying is necessary. Hence:

President Obama, seeking to explain his veto of a bill that would have leapfrogged the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline, in an interview with a North Dakota station repeated some false claims that hadpreviously earned him Pinocchios. Yet he managed to make his statement even more misleading than before, suggesting the pipeline would have no benefit for American producers at all. (snip)

As we have noted before, when the president says “it bypasses the United States,” he leaves out a very important step. The crude oil would travel to the Gulf Coast, where it would be refined into products such as motor gasoline and diesel fuel (known as a distillate fuel in the trade). Current trends suggest that only about half of that refined product would be exported, and it could easily be lower. (snip)

Finally, note that Obama said Keystone was just for Canadian oil, and “we should be focusing on American infrastructure for American jobs and American producers.” But actually, Keystone would help U.S. oil producers in North Dakota and Montana. TransCanada, the builder of the pipeline, has signed contracts to move 65,000 barrels a day from the Bakken area –and hopes to build that to 100,000. That’s nearly 10 percent of the region’s production. (snip)

The president’s latest remarks pushes this assertion into the Four Pinocchios column. If he disagrees with the State Department’s findings, he should begin to make the case why it is wrong, rather than assert the opposite, without any factual basis. Moreover, by telling North Dakota listeners that the pipeline has no benefit for Americans, he is again being misleading, given that producers in the region have signed contracts to transport some of their production through the pipeline.

posted March 05, 2015 08:07 AM            

Leftist loons don't care about any of Hillary's marathon scandals but, we've been down this road before with the utterly corrupt Clintons.

In the parlance of the Clintons:
It's the corruption, stupid!

1996 Called, Wants Its Clinton Fundraising And Document Scandals Back
By Mollie Hemingway
March 3, 2015

At the end of November, a House committee released a report on Benghazi that the media interpreted as a complete exoneration of the Obama administration's handling of the terrorist attack and aftermath in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. Without reading the report, which ran many hundreds of pages long, journalists gave their responses within moments of the report's release. GOP should be ashamed, read a tweet by National Journal's Ron Fournier, for instance.

I read the report before weighing in and wrote 20 Ways Media Completely Misread Congress. Weak-Sauce Benghazi Report in response. The report was beyond inadequate. And, it turned out, the work of the committee in general was flawed.

Another Benghazi committee, this one chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-SC, began its work, promising a more thorough investigation. It already is, if this bombshell it dropped in the New York Times lap is any indication.

WASHINGTON Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that official's correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record. Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.

The previous committee didn't interview Hillary Clinton, or ask for emails regarding Benghazi! Had they done that basic level of research, we might have known about this violation of the law years ago.

This is 1996 all over again

Let's revisit another New York Times story, this time from 1996. It begins:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, After nearly two years of searches and subpoenas, the White House said this evening that it had unexpectedly discovered copies of missing documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's law firm that describe her work for a failing savings and loan association in the 1980's.

I know that some of you were too young to remember the 1990s, but this was basically what happened with the Clintons all the time. That revelation of a discovery of law firm billing documents that had been subpoenaed by federal investigators two years prior (the Clintons claimed they didn't have them) came not 24 hours after another revelation of a missing document.

That document was a 2-year-old memo that admitted Hillary Clinton had, according to the Times, played a far greater role in the dismissal of employees of the White House travel office than the Administration has acknowledged.

That's why I tweeted this in response to BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski.

Seriously, the original investigation into the Clintons dealt with alleged corruption in a land deal years earlier. Close business partners were sent to prison on fraud, conspiracy, federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges. Then it somehow involved the firing of White House travel agents, the improper use of FBI files and a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee of Clinton's. And, as you may have heard, it involved President Clinton's lies regarding his sexual relationship with a young intern named Monica Lewinsky. He was impeached not for the sex but, as it happened, for obstructing justice and committing perjury in that case. (Though I have even read the footnotes of the Starr report, and you would not believe how detailed they are. We'll leave that for another time.)

This administration also had a fundraising scandal that involved China trying to influence American politics by giving money to the Clintons. Stop me if you've heard this before. Or, I should say, since. Here's the Washington Post last week:

The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday.

This is not surprising behavior from the Clintons. Surprising behavior would be if they were transparent with their record-keeping and not involved in fundraising scandals involving foreign countries.

It's not just Hillary's problem

Hillary Clinton's lack of transparency is newsworthy as investigators attempt to ascertain her work around the time of the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi. Certainly the media could stay quite busy investigating how Clinton communicated with her colleagues and the White House, how secure her email communications were, whether they were hacked, who was privy to this law-breaking (or rule-breaking, in the parlance of the media), and assorted other questions. For instance, was it a GMail account? Did she get targeted ads based on the content of possibly top secret emails? Were classified documents sent to this email address? Did that violate any other laws? What, exactly, was she trying to hide? What Benghazi information, if any, was hidden by this workaround? How do we know?

But U.S. citizens are unable to view the workplace correspondence of many Obama officials. Here's an Associated Press story from a few years ago:

WASHINGTON (AP) Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, according to a review by The Associated Press. The scope of using the secret accounts across government remains a mystery: Most U.S. agencies have failed to turn over lists of political appointee's email addresses, which the AP sought under the Freedom of Information Act more than three months ago. The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses.

The HHS Secretary in question is, of course, Kathleen Sebelius of Obamacare fame. And then there's this.