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<a href="/files/2017/01/TRUMP-4.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4072571" src="http://www.wnd.com/files/2017/01/TRUMP-4-300x183.png" alt="TRUMP" width="300" height="183" srcset="/files/2017/01/TRUMP-4-300x183.png 300w, /files/2017/01/TRUMP-4-340x207.png 340w, /files/2017/01/TRUMP-4-103x63.png 103w, /files/2017/01/TRUMP-4-141x86.png 141w, /files/2017/01/TRUMP-4.png 482w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>After obtaining “fast track” authority to push TPP through Congress with no amendments and little debate, the Obama administration had calculated the passage of the TTIP would be reduced to a rubber-stamp decision.
<a href="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2016/october/tradoc_155027.pdf">But the 15th round of Trans-Pacific negotiations was conducted in New York</a> from Oct. 3-6, 2016, without conclusion. And, as feared by U.S. and EU government trade officials, the <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/trade-society/opinion/latest-round-of-t... negotiations failed to reach a final agreement</a> before President Obama’s term in office ended.
Obama’s launching of the negotiations to put TTIP in place began with a detailed exploratory process at the November 2011 U.S.-EU Summit, which took place with little notice by establishment media.
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‘Firmly in the freezer’
While the presidential memorandum withdrawing from TPP makes no mention of TTIP, all information related to TTIP has been wiped from the White House website.
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“The EU and the United States have made considerable progress in negotiating a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) agreement since the negotiations were launched in July 2013,” <a href="https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/201... the last joint U.S.-EU progress report on TTIP, dated Jan. 17, 2017, three days prior to Trump’s inauguration.</a>
“During that period, the economic and strategic rationale for an agreement between the world’s two largest advanced industrial economies has only grown stronger,” the statement continues. “TTIP would increase the exports and investment flows that fuel our economies and support high quality jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. It would also enable the EU and the United States, drawing on our common values and interests, to develop and promote together common high standards in the global economy, leveling the playing field for our producers, exporters, and workers.”
But <a href="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2017/january/tradoc_155261.pdf">EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström conceded in a speech Tuesday in Brussels</a> that TTIP likely died with Trump’s decision to withdraw from TPP.
“The election of Donald Trump seems likely to put our EU-U.S. negotiations firmly in the freezer, at least for a while,” Malmström said.
“We will pursue our trade agenda in the coming months with those like-minded nations. We will continue to make the case of the benefits of the EU trade policy for all, communicating and listening to EU citizens, workers, consumers and business,” she continued.
“But building a wall is not the answer. Those who, in the 21st century, think that we can become great again by rebuilding borders, reimposing trade barriers, restricting people’s freedom to move, are doomed to fail.”
Globalist ‘free-trade’ dream in retreat
As <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/obama-advances-globalist-2-ocean-plan/">WND previously reported</a>, Obama announced in his 2013 State of the Union address the addition of the Atlantic free-trade agreement to the agenda already in place to create the TPP.
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But with the election of Trump, who made withdrawing from TPP a major part of his presidential campaign, American voters apparently rejected the objective of Congress to dwarf NAFTA and sideline the World Trade Organization by implementing the two-ocean TPP-TTIP plan.
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NEW YORK – Angry Trump insiders in New York claim four Hispanic political operatives with extensive business ties in Latin America who have supported President Obama and Hillary Clinton are exploiting their brief courtesy meeting with Trump.
A Trump insider said that in interviews with Latin American media outlets, the businessmen are characterizing the 15-minute meeting they had with Trump last Thursday as a hemisphere-wide endorsement by the president-elect of their business activities.
The Trump insider told WND on condition of anonymity said the four are making statements that Trump doesn’t stand by and are not official policy.
The group visiting Trump featured Freddy Balsera, a media entrepreneur in Coral Gables, Florida, and a Hillary Clinton fundraiser.
Immediately after the meeting with Trump, the insider said, Balsera began telling media in Argentina he was the man to see regarding the Trump organization.
The meeting at Trump’s corporate offices in Manhattan, the insider said, was Trump’s desire “to show some goodwill meeting with a group of Hispanics who represented they wanted to help Trump build bridges in Latin and South America,” but the president-elect was “exploited.”
“Trump was used,” he said. “It was a 15-minute courtesy meeting, and Trump truly no idea who these guys were really were.
“Now, after backing Hillary to the hilt, Balsera and the three others Hispanics Balsera brought with him from Miami are trying to make money off their 15-minute ‘meet and greet’ with the president-elect.”
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<a href="http://www.balseracommunications.com/sonia-diaz.php">Sonia Diaz of Balsera Communications</a> denied the company was utilizing the meeting with Trump for marketing purposes.
“Mr. Trump did not endorse Mr. Balsera or the others who attended the meeting,” she told WND. “Mr. Balsera is an expert on Latin and South America. He and the others met with Mr. Trump to share their views.”
WND asked her about newspaper reports positioning Balsera as the “go-to man” for Trump in Latin America.
“We cannot control what the newspapers say about us,” she said. “We are not using the meeting with Trump as an endorsement or to market for new clients.”
She said Balsera “is a member of the public, and I suspect Mr. Trump will want to meet with experts on Latin and South America to share with him their views.”
Last March, however, <a href="https://twitter.com/FreddyBalsera/status/712044149344759809">Balsera sent out a tweet</a> boasting that he was heading to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to open a Balsera Communications office “as part of” President Obama’s visit to the city.
The tweet was cited in a <a href="http://observer.com/2016/10/clinton-surrogate-helped-get-argentine-dirty... York Observer feature on Balsera</a> which reported he is under investigation for money laundering in Argentina.
Diaz said she knew nothing about published reports that named Balsera in the Argentina money-laundering investigation.
Influential network
The Observer described Balsera last October as “a Democratic operative with a big, influential political network in Florida,” where he claims to have “a huge following” with Hispanic voters.
He was an Obama bundler and a member of Obama’s national finance committee who served in 2008 as a media surrogate for the then-candidate.
<a href="http://www.balseracommunications.com/balsera-communications-opens-buenos...’s press announcement last March regarding the new venture in Argentina</a> noted he was then serving as a director for Correct the Record, a George Soros-funded SuperPAC run by leftist political operative David Brock, founder of Media Matters, to support Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run.
<a href="http://observer.com/2016/08/dc-leak-exposes-top-clinton-donor-george-sor... Observer last August</a> described Correct the Record as a group that “hires Internet trolls to spread pro-Clinton ideologies on the Internet.”
Last Friday, one day after the meeting with Trump, Balsera and his three colleagues <a href="http://www.clarin.com/politica/trump-argentina-eje-importante-eeuu-regio... interviewed by the Clarin</a>, an important daily newspaper in Argentina.
They described themselves as “invited guests” of the president-elect.
“The meeting,” Balsera explained to the Clarin, came about because unnamed “common friends” believed it would be a good idea for Trump “to sit down with experts to talk about the region comprised by Latin and South America.”
“Trump understands the importance of Argentina and he is thankful Argentina is ready to strengthen that relationship,” Balsera said. “I am very clear that Trump considers that Argentina is a very important axis of the United States policy for Latin America.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/FreddyBalsera?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp...’s Twitter account identifies himself</a> as an “expert at communicating political and public policy messages to Hispanics.”
Accompanying Balsera were David Dukenfield, the president of Balsera Communications, <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/duckenfield-appointed-deputy-ass... took a leave from the company in 2014 to serve as assistant secretary for public affairs at the State Department</a> in the Obama administration; C. J. Giménez, the lobbyist son of Carlos A. Giménez, the current mayor of Miami-Dade County in Florida; and Julio Ligorría, <a href="http://www.allgov.com/news/appointments-and-resignations/guatemalas-amba... presented his credentials as Guatemala’s ambassador to the U.S. to President Obama on Sept. 5, 2013</a>.
Until recently, Giménez <a href="http://www.balseracommunications.com/_carlos-gimenez.php">served as a vice president and general counsel at Balsera Communications</a>.
On Oct. 9, 2016, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Giménez, a Republican, announced during a television debate broadcast by WFOR-TV in Doral, Florida, that he would vote for Hillary Clinton, saying he wished Trump would step down as the GOP nominee.
“I’m not going to endorse anybody,” Giménez <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article107085... WFOR’s Jim DeFede</a> during a mayoral debate with challenger Raquel Regalado, a Republican who said she would not endorse anyone in the presidential race. “But between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I’m not voting for Donald Trump. Obviously, I must be voting for Hillary Clinton.”
<a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2016/09/miami-dade-mayor-tr... Miami Herald also reported</a> Mayor Giménez subsequently returned a campaign contribution Trump had made to Giménez’s re-election campaign, expressing disdain for comments Trump made concerning Hispanics.
In 2014, Trump golfed with Giménez as Trump was preparing a bid to take over the local Crandon Park golf course in a proposed $10 million rehabilitation project.
Ultimately, <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article109607...énez recused himself from the deal</a>, concerned about a conflict of interest, because his son, Carlos J. Giménez, was at that time working as a lobbyist for Trump’s resort in Doral.
In 1988, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/julio-ligorria-5b298b6">Ligorría founded InterImage LatinoAmerica, S.A.</a>, a company based in Guatemala and Panama that “provides consulting services in communications and public affairs to multinational enterprises and governments throughout Latin America.” <a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2017/01/miami-dade-mayors-s...ía partnered with Carlos J. Giménez to form the Hemispheric Consulting Group</a>, a Washington-based lobbying business aimed at advocating for businesses headquartered in Latin America.
‘He knew everything we were talking about’
Under the headline “Trump would like to know more about Venezuela and Central America,” the Spanish international newspaper <a href="http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/01/13/estados_unidos/... País, headquartered in Spain, reported last Friday</a> that the president-elect had “received Latin American experts” in his Trump Tower corporate offices the previous day.
El País named Balsera and the three other Hispanic attendees, not reporting their various ties to Balsera Communication, stressing instead various ties each can claim to Republican politics.
“Obviously, I have a long-standing relationship with Mr. Trump and the organization,” <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article126627954.htm...énez told the Miami Herald</a>. “We had a discussion with folks on his team that thought it would be beneficial for us to sit down with him for a few minutes and bring up issues related to Latin America.”
The Miami Herald noted Balsera told El País that Trump “was very interested in knowing our opinion about what’s going on, about what’s going to happen and about what has yet to happen” in Venezuela. Trump also inquired about Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma and opposition leader Leopoldo López, both political prisoners in the South American country.
“He [Trump] knew everything we were talking about and responded with good questions and comments,” Giménez told the Herald. “We want to see freedom come back to Venezuela, and prosperity.”
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Last weekend, some of those old friends – “choom” means to smoke marijuana – and a college roommate rode with the president to a <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-attends-florida-wedding-l... in Florida</a>, this time on Air Force One.
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Choom gangers Greg Orme and Bobby Titcomb were among the guests, according to a White House press pool report, along with Occidental College roommate Hassan Chandoo.
Another Occidental roommate, Wahid Hamid, joined Chandoo and former members of the Choom Gang in August for a flight on Marine One <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/obama-prepares-to-celebra... Camp David to celebrate Obama’s 55th birthday.</a>
Hamid, who became a campaign fundraiser for the president, accompanied Obama to Karachi, Pakistan, in 1981 to visit Chandoo’s family, a trip Obama touted during his 2008 run to bolster his foreign-policy credentials.
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But not only is Hamid tied to Obama, he has a connection to Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation through the UAE-based company Gulftainer, which last November was quietly awarded a deal secretly negotiated with the Obama administration to manage the Port Canaveral shipping port for 35 years.
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/saddams-nuke-scientist-linked-to-u-s-shipping... reported</a> the brother and business partner of Gulftainer’s chairman, Hamid Jafar, is Jafar Dhia Jafar, best known as Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s top nuclear scientist.
Hamid, a former member of the Pentagon’s Defense Business Board under President Obama, has direct business connections with the Jafar family, according to <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/docLib/20161223_Port_Canaveral_Occa... report issued by the Center for Security Policy in December</a>.
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/dubai-ports-redux-arab-takeover-of-port-canav... reported in May 2015</a> the Gulftainer deal bears investigating as a Clinton Foundation “pay-to-play” scheme because the UAE has been a major donor to the troubled foundation.
Jafar has been called the Middle East’s foremost uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons productions experts. His brother, Hamid Jafar, is a wealthy Iraqi oilman and chairman of the Crescent Group, the parent company of Gulftainer.
The CSP report noted Crescent Petroleum, a sister company of Gulftainer, also owned and operated by the Jafar family, was investigated in 1993 by the Treasury Department and three congressional committees to determine if it was a front company for Saddam.
The report goes on to note that Jafar Jafar, who oversaw the production, movement and concealment of Iraq’s nuclear program, initially fled Baghdad and Iraq in 2003 as invading U.S. forces hunted down Saddam’s top WMD scientists. Upon his surrender, Western intelligence officials subjected Jafar to extensive interrogation.
“Dr. Jafar is infamous for his uranium enrichment genius, is known to possess ties to Iran, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE, and was in communication with Pakistani nuclear physicist A.Q. Khan,” the Center for Security Policy report said.
Gulftainer executive Badr Jafar, the son of Hamid Jafar and the nephew of the nuclear physicist, has ties to supermodels linked with President Bill Clinton and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s famed Lolita Island.
Ports deal
As a U.S. senator from New York, Hillary Clinton led the Democratic Party opposition to the Dubai Ports deal in 2006.
But Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew, a former White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, approved the Gulftainer deal without seeking the formal approval of the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, CFIUS.
Hamid Jafar and Badr Jafar have both served on the board at the UAE-based private equity firm the Abraaj Group, where Hamid is a partner.
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NEW YORK – By piecing together recently revealed WikiLeaks emails with evidence that has emerged over the past several years, it’s become increasingly clear that President Obama and his secretary of state at the time, Hillary Clinton in 2011, armed the Free Syrian Army rebels in an effort to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad, mirroring a strategy already under way in Libya to help al-Qaida-affiliated militia overthrow Moammar Gadhafi.
A consequence of the strategy was the emergence of ISIS out of the loosely coordinated Free Syrian Army coalition as well as the disastrous Benghazi attack in which a U.S. ambassador was murdered.
Various Wikileaks emails examined by WND indicate the Free Syrian Army was among the first splinter rebel groups Clinton and Obama armed. The Obama administration apparently was hoping to replicate the regime-change strategy in which it armed al-Qaida-affiliated militia in Libya, including Ansar al-Sharia, the group responsible for the Sept. 11, 2012, attack at Benghazi.
The Wikileaks email evidence shows a shift in policy in which Clinton and Obama appear to have decided in 2011 to topple the governments of Gadhafi in Libya and Assad in Syria, even if it meant arming radical Islamic terrorist groups that traced back to al-Qaida.
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As <a>WND reported last week</a>, Wikileaks emails back up Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s assertion that U.S.-led coalition forces have given support to terror groups, including ISIS in Syria.
The claim <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/leaked-audio-obama-wanted-isis-to-grow/">derived further support from a recording leaked to the New York Times</a> of Secretary of State John Kerry admitting the Obama administration not only hoped ISIS would depose the Assad regime, it also gave arms to the jihadist army and its allies to carry out the task.
Blumenthal recommends Free Syria Army to Clinton
Hacked emails to Hillary Clinton from longtime adviser Sidney Blumenthal that were published in October by WikiLeaks tell the story.
On June 20, 2011, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12602">Blumenthal sent a confidential email to Clinton</a> at the State Department that included <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/16/lesch.syria.repression/">an article by David W. Lesch,</a> a professor of Middle Eastern history at Trinity University in San Antonio. Lesch argued a strategy of regime change could be effected in Syria if the U.S. could find opposition groups in Syria capable of establishing “a Benghazi-like refuge from which to launch a rebellion and to which aid can be sent.”
<a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12173">In a subsequent confidential email July 24, 2012</a>, Blumenthal further advised Clinton that the “growing success of the rebel forces of the Free Syria Army” caused him to believe the Assad regime was increasingly vulnerable to being toppled.
<a>In an email Feb. 24, 2012</a>, Blumenthal characterized the FSA as “loosely organized and uncoordinated,” noting it was “for the most part, local militias, many of them civilian based, that are simply calling themselves the FSA to appear to be part of a whole.”
Blumenthal commented in the email that the armed resistance to Assad “is not well funded or well armed.”
On Feb. 28, 2012, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18594">Jacob Sullivan, a State Department senior policy adviser to Secretary Clinton, forwarded to Clinton</a> an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/opinion/cohen-arm-syrias-rebels.html">... piece published in the New York Times by foreign correspondent Roger Cohen</a> suggesting the strategy Obama and Clinton had used to topple Gadhafi in Libya should be used to bring down Assad in Syria.
“As the Bosnian war showed, the basis for any settlement must be a rough equality of forces. So I say step up the efforts, already quietly ongoing, to get weapons to the Free Syrian Army. Train those forces, just as the rebels were trained in Libya,” Cohen wrote. Payback time has come around: The United States warned Assad about allowing Al Qaeda fighters to transit Syria to Iraq. Now matériel and special forces with the ability to train a ragtag army can transit Iraq — and other neighboring states — into Syria.”
Then, on Sept. 18, 2012, one week after the Benghazi terror attack, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12123">Blumenthal, in a confidential memo</a>, alerted Clinton to the possibility of the FSA military taking over Damascus.
The prospect caused Assad’s wife and close relatives to urge Assad to flee Syria to avoid “the fate of Assad’s former ally Muammar al Qaddafi of Libya, who was captured and killed by rebel forces while attempting to flee his home territory in Sirte.”
Clinton sought to arm Free Syrian Army
<a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774">In an Aug. 17, 2014, email released by Wikileaks</a>, Clinton, after her service as secretary of state, suggested to adviser John Podesta: “At the same time, we should return to plans to provide the FSA [Free Syrian Army], with some group of moderate forces, with equipment that will allow them to deal with a weakened ISIL, and stepped up operations against the Syrian regime.”
<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441008/wikileaks-hillary-clinton-i... C. McCarthy, a senior policy fellow at the National Review Institute, tied the statement to the Obama administration’s plan to equip Syrian fighters</a>, either the Free Syrian Army or “other moderate forces,” to a U.S.-led operation in coordination with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to steer weapons to Syria, “ostensibly to fight both Assad and ISIS.”
McCarthy noted, however, that Clinton’s 2014 memo to Podesta asserted the Saudi and Qatari governments both supported ISIS and other “radical Sunni groups.”
In September 2013, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/obama-relying-on-students-spin-on-syria/">WND reported</a> Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., had relied on the work of Elizabeth O’Bagy, a 26-year-old graduate student, to argue in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Obama administration should send weapons to arm the “moderate” Free Syrian Army to oppose the Assad government in Syria.
In that article, WND detailed the extensive lobbying efforts conducted in Washington to advance the FSA as a “moderate group,” despite clear evidence the al-Nusra Front – operating under the FSA umbrella – had been declared a terrorist organization by the State Department; had pledged allegiance to al Qaida’s top leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri; and was the group of choice for foreign jihadi fighters pouring into Syria.
Clinton ‘changed sides in war on terror’
<a>WND reported in 2015</a> the Obama White House and the State Department under the management of Hillary Clinton “changed sides in the war on terror” in 2011 by implementing a policy of facilitating the delivery of weapons to the al-Qaida-dominated rebel militias in Libya attempting to oust Gadhafi, the Citizens Commission on Benghazi concluded in its interim report.
The April 22, 2014, report, <a>“How America Changed sides in the War on Terror,”</a> alleges “the U.S. was fully aware of and facilitating the delivery of weapons to the Al Qaeda-dominated rebel militias throughout the 2011 rebellion.”
The report asserted the agenda of al-Qaida-affiliated jihadis in the region, including the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and other Islamic terror groups represented among the rebel forces, was well known to U.S. officials responsible for Libya policy.
“The rebels made no secret of their Al Qaeda affiliation, openly flying and speaking in front of the black flag of Islamic jihad, according to author John Rosenthal and multiple media reports,” the interim report said. “And yet, the White House and senior Congressional members deliberately and knowingly pursued a policy that provided material support to terrorist organizations in order to topple a ruler who had been working closely with the West actively to suppress Al Qaeda.”
The report concluded: “The result in Libya, across much of North Africa, and beyond has been utter chaos, disruption of Libya’s oil industry, the spread of dangerous weapons (including surface-to-air missiles), and the empowerment of jihadist organizations like Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.”
The report identified a key al-Qaida operative who played a major role moving U.S. arms into both Libya and Syria as Abdul Hakim Belhaj, (aka Abdallah al Sadeq). Belhaj was a veteran jihad fighter of Iraq and Afghanistan; commander of the al-Qaida franchise militia, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), aka Libyan Islamic Movement for Change; a post-revolution military commander of Tripoli; and the Libyan delegation leader to the Free Syrian Army in late 2011
In September 2014, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/discredited-grad-student-source-of-obama-poli... reported</a> Elizabeth O’Bagy, who had been fired from her job with a Washington think-tank after her exposure by WND as a source for Kerry’s argument that the FSA is a “moderate” rebel force in Syria, had also arranged for McCain a trip to Syria in May 2013 in which senator met with Belhaj, who was then represented as a leader of the FSA.
In November 2013, <a>WND reported</a> trusted Libyan expatriates had claimed Belhaj was at large in Libya. The expatriates identified Belhaj as an al-Qaida operative, noting he was at the top of a list of Libyan terrorists banned by the European Union from obtaining entrance visas and was the principal organizer of the terrorist attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2011, in which Ambassador Stevens was murdered.
<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438605/hillary-clinton-wikileaks-b... reported Aug. 2</a> Ambassador Stevens had “moved an enormous shipment of weapons from Benghazi to the Syrian ‘rebels’ in Turkey, as the Obama administration was working in 2011 to determine which Syrian “rebel” forces should be armed.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-st... pointed to a New York Times article in 2012</a>, some three months before the Benghazi massacre, that reported CIA operatives were secretly in Turkey helping the Obama administration to decide which Syrian opposition fighters would receive arms clandestinely from the United States to fight the Syrian government.
The Times further reported the weapons including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons were being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries, including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood, and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
McCarthy further noted that before becoming ambassador, Christopher Stevens was the Obama administration’s official liaison to Gadhafi’s Islamist opposition in Libya, including its al-Qaida-linked groups. Among them were the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, with Stevens working directly with Belhaj.
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Posted: 4 months 3 weeks ago

Obama ignores evidence Russia didn...

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President Obama’s punishment of Russia for allegedly hacking the emails of Democratic Party operatives to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election ignores at least two important facts.
For one, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose hacktivist organization released the thousands of emails that shed damaging light on Hillary Clinton and her allies, denied the Russians were the source.
In addition, the Obama administration has developed a reputation for manipulating intelligence for political purposes.
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The administration announced Thursday that through an executive order, Obama sanctioned two of Russia’s intelligence services, the GRU and FSB, and declared 35 Russian intelligence operatives “persona non grata” in the U.S. Also, the U.S. is shutting down Russian compounds in Maryland and New York.
‘Personal beef’
Earlier this month, in a speech to donors in New York City, Hillary Clinton blamed her defeat on Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming “a personal beef” with her prompted him to meddle in the U.S. presidential election.
“Vladimir Putin himself directed the covert cyber attacks against our electoral system, against our democracy, apparently because he has a personal beef against me,” Clinton said. ”He is determined not only to score a point against me but also undermine our democracy.”
Clinton claimed that Russia had hacked both the Democratic National Committee and her campaign chairman, John Podesta, and released the emails to Wikileaks in a plot to boost Trump.
Clinton called for Congress to set up a commission similar to the commission set up after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.
But Clinton did not specify Putin’s “personal beef,” nor did she offer any proof Assange and Wikileaks had obtained the hacked emails from Russia.
Podesta, meanwhile, on Dec. 18, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” the presidential election had been “distorted” by the Russian intervention.
Asked if it was a “free and fair” election, Podesta railed against Putin, insisting “the Russians clearly intervened in the election.”
‘No proof whatsoever’
Assange, however, in a July 25 interview with NBC News, said there was “no proof whatsoever” that Wikileaks obtained nearly 20,000 hacked Democratic National Committee from Russian intelligence.
Assange said DNC servers have been riddled with security holes for years and that many sets of documents from multiple sources are now in public hands.
In December, Assange made clear to Sean Hannity in a radio interview that Russia did not provide Wikileaks the Podesta emails or the DNC emails.
Assange insisted the source of the email leaks “was not a state party.”
“We’re unhappy that we felt that we needed to even say that it wasn’t a state party. Normally, we say nothing at all,” Assange told Hannity.
“We have no conflict of interests. We have an excellent reputation, a strong interest in protecting our sources, and so we never say anything about them, never ruling anyone in or anyone out. Sometimes we do it, but we don’t like to do it. We have another interest here that is maximizing the impact of our publications,” he said.
“So in order to protect a distraction attack against our publications, we’ve had to come out and say ‘no, it’s not a state party. Stop trying to distract in that way and pay attention to the content of the publication,’” said Assange.
While Assange refused to comment on Hannity’s suggestion the emails came from a disgruntled source within the DNC, possibly even within Podesta’s office, the WikiLeaks chief did not deny it.
In contrast, he had vociferously denied the source was Russia.
In a discussion with Hannity on his Fox News television show after hearing the Assange radio interview, Eric Bolling, co-host of the Fox News roundtable “The Five,” noted Clinton, according to reports, first blamed her top campaign officials then pursued recounts.
“Then it became the Russians’ fault, that the Russians affected the election. It’s none of the above,” Bolling said. “They had a flawed candidate – the worst candidate, not necessarily the worst human being, but the worst candidate that ran for president in my lifetime. The Russians didn’t make her come up and say ‘Deplorables,’ and it wasn’t Donald Trump who made Obamacare premiums skyrocket – double in some cases the week of the election.”
‘Hit job’
In the initial phases of advancing the story that the Russians were responsible for the Wikileaks emails, Democrats traced it back to intelligence supposedly developed by the CIA.
But the Obama administration has a reputation for manipulating intelligence for political purposes. In August, a congressional task force confirmed allegations that senior U.S. Central Command leaders manipulated intelligence assessments in 2014 and 2015 to make it appear that Obama was winning the war against ISIS.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., a member of the House intelligence community, has charged CIA Director John Brennan was orchestrating a “hit job” against President-elect Donald Trump by going around the intelligence community and leaking information to the press suggesting Russia was behind the hack of Podesta.
“And that’s what infuriates me about this is that we have John Brennan, supposedly John Brennan, leaking to The Washington Post, to a biased newspaper like The New York Times, findings and conclusions that he’s not telling the intelligence community,” King said in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” on Dec. 18.
“It seems like to me there should be an investigation with what the Russians did, but also an investigation of John Brennan and the hit job he seems to be orchestrating against the president-elect.”
The New York Times reported the CIA’s conclusion the Russians were involved apparently was based on circumstantial evidence and “does not appear to be the product of specific new intelligence obtained since the election,” citing several American officials, including some who had read the agency’s briefing.
In any case, the CIA has only alleged the Russians may have hacked the DNC emails that revealed the DNC rigged the primary election in favor of Hillary Clinton and possibly Podesta’s emails. There is no evidence Russian hackers intervened in the vote tabulation.
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Posted: 4 months 4 weeks ago

N.Y. probes Trump foundation, Clint...

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NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman office declared President-elect Donald Trump is not permitted to close his charitable foundation, the Donald J. Trump Foundation Inc., until state prosecutors have completed their probe determining whether Trump personally benefited from the foundation’s spending.
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/27/eric-schneiderman-donald...’s decision Tuesday</a> to investigate Trump over inurement charges – that <a href="https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopicc90.pdf">Trump may have violated IRS regulations</a> prohibiting those owning or operating a 501(c)3 charity for private financial benefit – contrasts with the decision not to investigate the Clinton Foundation over similar accusations, despite evidence in the Podesta emails WikiLeaks released during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The size of Trump’s foundation is dwarfed by the Clinton Foundation.
<a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/133404773">Acco... to IRS Form 990 tax filings</a>, the Trump Foundation had total revenue of $500,849 in 2014.
Comparable IRS Form 990 tax filings show <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/311580204">the Clinton Foundation had total revenue of nearly $178 million the same year</a>.
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Probe of Trump’s foundation
Schneiderman’s investigation into the Trump Foundation began after <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-used-258000-from-his-chari... admitted in a 2015 tax filing made after the presidential election</a> that he had used $258,000 in charity funds to settle lawsuits in his for-profit businesses. He also used $5,000 from the foundation to buy advertisements featuring his chain of hotels in three events organized by a D.C. preservation group, plus some $30,000 in foundation funds to buy two portraits of himself. One portrait was purchased at a charity fundraiser and the other, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-clue-to-the-whereabouts-of-the... 6-foot tall portrait of himself, was purchased at a fundraiser auction</a> held at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-used-258000-from-his-chari... Post reporter David Fahrenthold noted in an article published Sept. 20</a> that Trump founded his charity in 1987 and was its only donor.
The newspaper further noted that in 2006, Trump gave away almost all the money he had donated to the foundation, leaving it with just $4,238 at year end, according to tax records. Trump gave relatively small donations in 2007 and 2008, and nothing afterward. The largest donation came from pro-wrestling executives Vince and Linda McMahon, who gave $5 million from 2007 to 2008.
In response to the Washington Post article, <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-campaign-rips-biased-wapo-reporter-... issued a statement charging the newspaper with bias</a>. Trump pointed to the Clinton Foundation, which he alleged was created and operated for the Clinton’s personal financial benefit.
“In typical Washington Post fashion, they’ve gotten their facts wrong,” the Trump statement, also dated Sept. 20, said. “It is the Clinton Foundation that is set up to make sure the Clintons personally enrich themselves by selling access and trading political favors. The Trump Foundation has no paid board, no management fees, no rent or overhead, and no family members on its payroll.”
Trump argued all contributions to the Trump Foundation were reported to the IRS, stressing there was no intent or motive for his foundation to make improper payments.
“The Post’s reporting is peppered with inaccuracies and omissions from a biased reporter who is clearly intent on distracting attention away from the corrupt Clinton Foundation, a vehicle for the Clintons to peddle influence at the expense of the American people,” Trump’s statement concluded. “Mr. Trump personally and the Trump Foundation, however, are staying focused on their charitable giving to veterans, the police, children and other deserving recipients.”
<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-announces-hell-shut-down-charitable... announced on Christmas Eve that he wanted to close his foundation</a> before he takes office next month to avoid the appearance of any conflict of interest with his role as president of the United Sates.
Clinton Foundation gets a pass
<a href="https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32240#searchresult">The key WikiLeaks document regarding the Clinton Foundation was an email dated Nov. 16, 2011,</a> written while Hillary Clinton was still secretary of state by Doug Band, Bill Clinton’s “body man” at the White House. Band subsequently founded with Clinton the consulting firm Teneo, Inc.
The email was addressed to Podesta, Hillary’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman, with copies to Cheryl Mills, Hillary’s long-time confidant and personal attorney at the State Department, and Justin Cooper, a senior adviser to Bill Clinton at the Clinton Foundation
The attachment consisted of a memo Band wrote documenting the conflicts of interest that were corrupting the Clinton Foundation from within. The attached memo, titled “Background on Teneo and Foundation Activities,” was addressed to two senior Simpson Thacher lawyers, with copies to Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Podesta. Also copied were Clinton Foundation attorney and then-CEO Bruce Lindsey and Clinton longtime associate Terry McAuliffe, both Clinton Foundation board members at the time.
Simpson Thatcher was the international law firm based in New York that Chelsea Clinton brought into the Clinton Foundation in 2011 in an effort to clean up the foundation’s financial mess before an internal scandal erupted to the detriment of Hillary Clinton’s second try to win the White House.
Band apparently wrote the memo to explain his role in obvious conflicts of interest that were inherent in the Clinton Foundation and Teneo policy of key foundation donors also being key Teneo consulting clients. Coca-Cola Company topped the list, giving $4.3 million since 2004 to the Clinton Foundation and/or the Clinton Global Initiative while also being a Teneo consulting client.
“Independent of our fundraising and decision-making activities on behalf of the Foundation, [Band and the other principals at Teneo] have dedicated ourselves to helping the President (Bill Clinton) secure and engage in for-profit activities – including speeches, books, and advisory service engagements,” Band noted in the memo.
“In that context, we have in effect served as agents, lawyers, managers and implementers to secure speaking, business and advisory service deals,” Band continued. “In support of the President’s for-profit activity, we also have solicited and obtained, as appropriate, in-kind services for the President and his family – for personal travel, hospitality, vacation and the like.”
$30 million for Bill Clinton personally
Band noted that of Bill Clinton’s four consulting arrangements at the time, Teneo had secured all of them. It also helped Clinton maintain and manage “all of his for-profit business relationships [unspecified in the memo].”
Band concluded: “Since 2001, President Clinton’s business arrangements have yielded more than $30 million for him personally, with $66 million to be paid out over the next nine years should he choose to continue with the current engagements.”
The memo also noted Band and his colleagues at Teneo had arranged for Clinton millions of dollars in speaking fees.
Band stressed that he and his Teneo partners for the past 10 years “served as the primary contact and point of management for President Clinton’s activities – which span from political activity (e.g., campaigning on behalf of candidates for elected office), to business activity (e.g., providing advisory services to business entities with which he has a consulting arrangement), to Foundation activity (e.g., supporting his engagement on behalf of the initiatives and affiliated entities of the Foundation), to his speech activity (e.g., soliciting speeches and staffing and supporting him on speech travel) to his book activity (e.g., editing his books and arranging and supporting him on book tours) to supporting family/personal needs (e.g., securing in-kind private airplane travel, in-kind vacation stays, and supporting family business and personal needs).”
When Eric Braverman, the Clinton Foundation CEO brought in by Chelsea to implement the Simpson Thacher recommendations, resigned in January 2015, <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/clinton-foundation-eric-b... reported</a> that his efforts to implement the Simpson Thacher audit recommendations were thwarted by the conflicting visions of the three Clinton family members and their rival staff factions.
<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/06/21/clinton-confidant-cuts-ties-with-the-formid... did not resign from his various Clinton Foundation board appointments until June 2015</a>, as Hillary Clinton was beginning to organize for her 2016 presidential campaign.
As a parting shot, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21978#efmAALABKAD5AGdAGfAHV... addressed another email to Podesta, with copies to Cheryl Mills and Justin Cooper, dated Nov. 17, 2011.</a> Band charged that while he was required to sign a conflict of interest agreement to be a board member of the Clinton Global Initiative, Bill Clinton was required to sign no such document.
Band then objected that Bill Clinton was being personally paid by three Clinton Global Initiative sponsors and that he “gets many expensive gifts from them,” some of which Band asserted Bill Clinton keeps at home.
“I could add 500 examples of things like this,” he added, his resentment at being pushed aside by Chelsea evident.
$2 billion Clinton family empire
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/303663-bill-... Band’s memorandum and emails, campaign finance attorney Paul H. Jossey wrote in the Hill</a> that Band had revealed Bill and Hillary Clinton to be “partners in crime.”
Jossey concluded that Band, along with his management consulting company, Teneo, were at the center of the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative self-dealing corruption.
“Band served as gatekeeper to all things Bill Clinton,” Jossey wrote. “Those wanting a former president as golf partner ponied up. Requests for Foundation dough followed. Next came Clinton, Inc. – the steady stream of speeches, books, and honorary titles that enriched Bill Clinton.”
Jossey’s point was that Band and Teneo managed the scheme, with huge corporations seeking Clinton’s favor lining up and to get tax-relief and State Department policy decisions that advanced their business opportunities.
Jossey concluded that the WikiLeaks release of the Band memorandum and emails is showing “what we didn’t know” about the internal functioning of the Clinton Foundation $2 billion global empire: that it may just turn out to be criminal.
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Posted: 4 months 4 weeks ago

Evidence backs claim that Hillary a...

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NEW YORK – Documents made public by the Washington watchdog group Judicial Watch and separately by Wikileaks Julian Assange back up <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2484782/turkeys-president-tayyip-erdogan-c... President Tayyip Erdogan’s assertion on Tuesday</a> that U.S.-led coalition forces have given support to terror groups, including ISIS in Syria.
<a href="http://theduran.com/julian-assange-says-1700-emails-hillary-clintons-col... an interview with Democracy Now’s Juan González on July 25</a>, Assange said the thousands of documents released by Wikileaks through its <a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/">“Hillary Clinton Email Archive”</a> contain <a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=%22Libya%22+&mfrom=&mto=... 1,700 emails that connect Clinton to al-Qaida and ISIS</a> in both Libya and Syria, demonstrating Clinton supplied weapons to ISIS via Syria.
“So, those Hillary Clinton emails, they connect together with the cables that we have published of Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of how Hillary Clinton performs in office, but, more broadly, how the U.S. Department of State operates,” Assange said in the interview.
“So, for example, the disastrous, absolutely disastrous intervention in Libya, the destruction of the Gadhafi government, which led to the occupation of ISIS of large segments of that country, weapons flows going over to Syria, being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within Syria, including ISIS, that’s there in those emails.”
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Erdogan said that rather than supporting Turkey, the West was backing ISIS and groups Turkey classifies as terrorist organizations, the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units and Democratic Union Party, who work with the U.S. on the ground in Syria.
“They are supporting all the terror groups,” Erdogan said. 
“It’s quite clear, perfectly obvious,” he said, offering to provide proof in pictures and video.
See the Assange interview on Hillary’s emails:

In response to the Assange interview, <a href="http://www.snopes.com/wikileaks-cofirms-hillary-clinton-sold-weapons-to-..., a left-leaning “fact checking” website, argued</a> that Assange released no emails that proved she “deliberately and knowingly” arranged for the United States to sell weapons to ISIS.
Snopes.com, however, did agree Clinton “in her role in shaping the United States’ actions regarding the Libyan intervention and the ongoing Syrian civil war” may have negligently allowed arms to fall into the hands of “jihadists.”
As a consequence, Snopes judged Assange’s claim a “mixture of true and false,” insisting Clinton’s negligence in allowing U.S. weapons to fall into the hands of ISIS terrorists in Syria was not the same thing as “selling weapons to ISIS.”
However, since 2011 WND has reported that documents released by Judicial Watch and Wikileaks showed Clinton’s State Department engineering the clandestine transfer of weapons from Libya to Syria that ended up in the hands of terrorist groups aligned with ISIS and al-Qaida.
Ambassador Stevens involved in weapons shipping
In May 2015, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/declassified-docs-hillary-aided-rise-of-isis/... reported</a> Judicial Watch made public more than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defense and Department of State documents implicating the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS.
Related column:
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/why-todays-terrorism-is-never-ending/">Why today’s terrorism is never-ending</a> by Lt. Col. James Zumwalt
The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, provide evidence that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was involved in shipping weapons from Benghazi to support the al-Qaida-affiliated militias fighting the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, effectively arming the Sunni jihadists who morphed into ISIS.
Judicial Watch also noted the DOD documents contain the first official documentation that the Obama administration knew that weapons were being shipped from the Port of Benghazi to rebel troops in Syria.
An October 2012 DOD report confirmed:
<blockquote>Weapons from the former Libya military stockpiles were shipped from the port of Benghazi, Libya to the Port of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria. The weapons shipped during late-August 2012 were Sniper rifles, RPGs, and 125 mm and 155mm howitzers missiles.
During the immediate aftermath of, and following the uncertainty caused by, the downfall of the (Qaddafi) regime in October 2011 and up until early September of 2012, weapons from the former Libya military stockpiles located in Benghazi, Libya were shipped from the port of Benghazi, Libya to the ports of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria. The Syrian ports were chosen due to the small amount of cargo traffic transiting these two ports. The ships used to transport the weapons were medium-sized and able to hold 10 or less shipping containers of cargo.</blockquote>
<a href="http://truepundit.com/wikileaks-bombshell-leaked-to-true-pundit-hillary-... DIA document made public by Wikileaks</a> included an inventory of weapons that closely matches the inventory listed in the Department of Justice criminal case against arms dealer Marc Turi:
<blockquote>The weapons shipped from Syria during late-August 2012 were Sniper rifles, RPG’s and 125mm and 155mm howitzers missiles. The numbers for each weapon were estimated to be: 500 Sniper rifles, 100 RPG launchers with 300 total rounds, and approximately 400 howitzers missiles [200ea – 125mm and 200ea – 155 mm.]</blockquote>
The heavily redacted document does not disclose who was shipping the weapons.
Judicial Watch noted an August 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency report, written at time the U.S. was monitoring weapons flows from Libya to Syria, said “the Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”
Judicial Watch commented that the sectarian direction of the war in Syria was predicted to have dire consequences for Iraq, which included the “grave danger” of the rise of ISIS.
The DIA document noted:
<blockquote>This creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI [al Qaeda Iraq] to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi, and will provide a renewed momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq and Syria, and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it considers one enemy, the dissenters. ISI could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory.</blockquote>
Judicial Watch said some of the “dire consequences” are blacked out, but the DIA presciently warned one such consequence would be the “renewing facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering into Iraqi Arena.”
Clinton sought to arm Free Syria Army
<a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774">In an Aug. 17, 2014, email released by Wikileaks</a>, Clinton, after her service as secretary of state, suggested to John Podesta: “At the same time, we should return to plans to provide the FSA [Free Syria Army], with some group of moderate forces, with equipment that twill allow them to deal with a weakened ISIL, and stepped up operations against the Syrian regime.”
<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441008/wikileaks-hillary-clintons-... C. McCarthy, a senior policy fellow at the National Review Institute, tied the statement to the Obama administration’s plan to equip Syrian fighters</a>, either the Free Syrian Army or “other moderate forces,” to a U.S.-led operation in coordination with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to steer weapons to Syria, “ostensibly to fight both Assad and ISIS.”
McCarthy noted, however, that Clinton’s 2014 memo to Podesta asserted the Saudi and Qatari governments both supported ISIS and other “radical Sunni groups.”
In September 2013, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/obama-relying-on-students-spin-on-syria/">WND reported</a> Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., had relied on the work of Elizabeth O’Bagy, a 26-year-old graduate student, to argue in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Obama administration should send weapons to arm the “moderate” Free Syria Army to oppose the Assad government in Syria.
WND detailed the extensive lobbying efforts conducted in Washington to advance the FSA as a “moderate group,” despite clear evidence the al-Nusra Front – operating under the FSA umbrella – had been declared a terrorist organization by the State Department; has pledged allegiance to al Qaida’s top leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri; and was the group of choice for foreign jihadis pouring into Syria.
in September 2014, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/discredited-grad-student-source-of-obama-poli... reported</a> O’Bagy, who had been fired from her job with a Washington think-tank after her exposure by WND as a source for Kerry’s argument that the FSA is a “moderate” rebel force in Syria, had also arranged for McCain a trip to Syria in May 2013, during which senator met with Abdul Hakim Belhaj, who was then represented as a leader of the FSA.
In November 2013, <a>WND reported</a> trusted Libyan expatriates had claimed Belhaj was at large in Libya. The expatriates identified Belhaj as an al-Qaida operative, noting he was at the top of a list of Libyan terrorists banned by the European Union from obtaining entrance visas and was the principal organizer of the terrorist attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2011, in which Ambassador Stevens was murdered.
Clinton arms deals tied to Turi prosecution
<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440822/hillary-clinton-scandals-li... tied Clinton’s 2014 comment to Podesta regarding the FSA to a weapons shipment from Benghazi to Turkey</a> for eventual transit to Syria that occurred just days before the Benghazi attack. <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441008/wikileaks-hillary-clintons-... noted</a> the September 2012 weapons shipment was coordinated by Belhaj, “an al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist with whom Stevens had consulted during the uprising against Qadhafi.”
McCarthy further noted the September 2012 shipment of weapons had been arranged by Marc Turi, a professional arms dealer who had been indicted by federal prosecutors in Phoenix for supplying arms to Libyan “rebels” during the 2010-2011 war.
<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440822/hillary-clinton-scandals-li... commented</a> the Obama administration dropped the criminal case one day before a court-ordered deadline to disclose information about its efforts to arm Muslim rebels.
“Turi’s lawyers had explained his defense to the court: His arms shipments, destined for the Libyan rebels and channeled through Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, were part of a U.S.-authorized effort,” McCarthy wrote. “Turi further asserts that the Obama administration was subsequently complicit in the shipment of weapons from Libya to ‘rebels’ in Syria, who are fighting the Assad regime.”
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/judge-napolitano-case-exposes-hillarys-secret... an interview with WND</a>, insisted the DOJ was forced to drop the Turi prosecution because federal prosecutors were convinced his defense would expose Clinton’s secret arms running to the radical al-Qaida-affiliated militia in Libya in 2011.
Video proof of arms transfer
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/visual-evidence-of-hillarys-secret-war/">WND published visual evidence Clinton’s State Department secretly provided weapons to Islamic jihadists</a> in Libya to support the U.S.-backed NATO bombing in 2011.
In one of the videos published by WND, Moussa Ibrahim, Gadhafi’s information minister and official spokesman, displayed to reporters in 2011 a cache of weapons and ammunition seized from a ship from Qatar intercepted by the Libyan Coast Guard off Libya’s coast.
The video matched a report of Qatari military equipment seized in mid-April 2011. Anthony Bell and David Witter of the Institute for the Study of War, in their October 2011 publication “The Libyan Revolution: Stalemate & Siege, Part 3,” said the shipments “consisting of bulletproof vests, helmets and ammunition were bound for the rebels besieged in Misrata.”
“Though his shipment was unannounced, Qatari Prime Minister al-Thani alluded to arming the rebels just days before the crates appeared,” they wrote.
Turi caught in Clinton’s secret war
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/2251045/">WND reported in July 2015</a> Napolitano’s concerns that Turi was being set up for prosecution to continue a cover-up of the secret war on Libya.
The background of the Turi prosecution, while complicated, is at the heart of an allegation made by Napolitano in a syndicated column published July 1, 2015.
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/hillarys-secret-war/">Napolitano charged</a> Clinton, while secretary of state, lied when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., asked her in a Senate committee hearing if the State Department had run guns illegally to Libyan rebels.
An interview of Turi by Fox News intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge and Fox News senior executive producer Pamela Browne led Napolitano to review emails to and from State Department and congressional officials during the years when Clinton was secretary of state.
Napolitano concluded it’s “beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty” that Hillary had conducted a “secret war” shipping arms to Libya illegally in 2011.
Turi used as a pawn
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/judge-napolitano-case-exposes-hillarys-secret... detailed for WND</a> his understanding of the events behind the Obama administration’s decision to run a clandestine war against Gadhafi.
“Secretary Clinton decided she had to get rid of Gadhafi because she wanted to take credit when she ran for president for being the government official responsible for liberating Libya,” Napolitano said.
Clinton knew she would never get a declaration of war from Congress or authorization under the war powers resolution enacted over President Nixon’s veto in 1973, he asserted.
“So, Secretary Clinton persuaded Obama to use CIA intelligence assets who would be exempted from the war powers resolution even if they wore military fatigues in Libya.”
Napolitano explained that to use intelligence assets under the war powers resolution, Clinton needed the cooperation and informal consent of the “Congress within the Congress,” referring to the House Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which are sworn to secrecy.
“The result is the president of the United States, the secretary of state and about two dozen people in the House and Senate, including the leadership of both parties in both houses, can authorize a clandestine war using CIA assets,” he said.
“And this is exactly what President Obama and Secretary Clinton did.” 
Having obtained the authorization of the House and Senate intelligence committees, Clinton began a secret gun-running operation to Libya, using a provision in the United Nations-imposed arms embargo on Libya that allowed the foreign minister of participating countries to grant an exception to the embargo, Napolitano said.
The irony of Turi’s prosecution is that he never actually shipped any weapons to Libya. But in prosecuting Turi for planning to ship weapons, Turi’s attorneys argued in his defense that the Obama administration was planning to blame Turi for the arms shipment should Secretary Clinton’s clandestine arms dealings ever become public.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/evidence-backs-erdogans-claim-that-hillary-armed-isis/

Posted: 5 months 1 day ago

Turkey links assassin to Obama-prot...

<div id="attachment_3840551" style="width: 606px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-3840551" src="http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen.jpg" alt="Fethullah Gulen (gulenmovement.ca)" width="596" height="283" srcset="/files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen.jpg 596w, /files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen-300x142.jpg 300w, /files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen-340x161.jpg 340w, /files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen-133x63.jpg 133w, /files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen-181x86.jpg 181w" sizes="(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px" />Fethullah Gulen (GulenMovement.ca)</div>
NEW YORK – Turkish government intelligence has determined Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22 – the police officer who recently assassinated Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov while the ambassador was giving a speech to open an art gallery in Ankara – was a member of the Gulen organization, which claimed to be the same group that staged an unsuccessful coup in Turkey in July.
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/clintons-protecting-radical-turkish-imam-from... reported Nov. 3</a> the Clinton Foundation was engaged in a pay-to-play scheme to obtain Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s support for the Obama administration decision to give asylum to Fetullah Gulen, a Turkish Muslim imam the Erdogan government holds responsible for the attempted coup July 15.
He’s now living in Saylorsborg, Pennsylvania.
Trusted sources close to the Turkish government have explained to WND on the condition of anonymity that assassin Mert Altintas, born in 1994, joined the police in Turkey in 2012 and graduated in 2014, when Gulen’s organization, known in Turkey as the Fetullah Terrorist Organization, or FETO, was at the peak of its power in Turkey.
Assassin’s links
Turkish intelligence and police units investigating the assassination of Ambassador Karlov have now established that Mevlut Mert Altintas was deeply connected with Gulen’s group.
Evidence for that conclusion includes several books found at Altintas’ residence authored by Gulen, as well as discovering that Altintas’ sister had shared on Internet social media various FETO-supporting posts urging violent terrorist attacks in Turkey and elsewhere.
Altintas was living in an apartment in Ankara that police have established is owned by another fugitive FETO member, Abdullah Bozkurt, the Ankara representative of the FETO group’s English-language propaganda newspaper “Today’s Zaman,” translated as “Today’s Time,” published daily in Turkey.
Turkish authorities are currently attempting to unlock Altintas’ cell phone to gain access to messages and contact lists. They want to know any further connections into Turkey’s police, military, educational institutions and justice system.
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Turkish police interrogating Altintas’ classmates at the police academy have learned the assassin regularly attended meetings in FETO safe houses in Turkey, as well as attending “Körfez Dershanesi,” a notorious network of secondary schools that the FETO terrorist organization uses to brainwash recruits and radicalize militants.
Turkish government authorities have also documented that prior to the assassination, Altintas was under investigation by the Istanbul Department of Chief Public Prosecution as a suspect for stealing questions to the Turkish government’s “Public Service Entry” exam. The Gulen organization repeatedly has stolen these exam questions and given them to their members before the exam so that they could easily infiltrate into the government staff in Turkey.
Turkish authorities investigating Altintas also revealed Altintas’ connections with the Gulen terrorist organization go so deep as to include those references that first recommended Altintas as a recruit to the Turkish Police Department.
Turkish government authorities reveal they have taken action against those who provided recommendations for Altintas after concluding FETO terrorists sought to plant Altintas as a fellow terrorist secretly within the ranks of the Turkish Police Department.
Assassin’s cell phone called key
Government investigators in Turkey have established Altintas used an encrypted telephone phone application known as “ByLock,” a messaging application <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/03/turkey-coup-gulen-mov... believed to generate a private security key</a> for each device used by FETO members to remain anonymous while communicating with others in the FETO underground network.
Altintas took a sick day on the day of the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, leading Turkish intelligence authorities to suspect Altintas participated in the coup tempt alongside the putschists trying to topple the government of President Erdogan, though the role he played is not yet clear.
Turkish investigators, working in conjunction with their Russian counterparts, found the assassin maintained four different levels of security protection in his cell phone and have have begun to develop intelligence concerning Altintas’ whereabouts during the July 15 coup.
By cracking the ByLock encryption on Altintas’ cell phone, investigators said they found that Altintas was in the city of Erbil in Iraq while the coup attempt developed.
While violence was developing for Turkey at that time, “Altintas’ cell phone was giving out a signal within a very close proximity of Erbil government palace and the CIA’s office in Erbil, home of the Kurdish regional government in Iraq and the staging ground for ISIS activity in the area.”
But in the week following the July 15 coup attempt, the cell phone’s signal was cut off, resuming again only after Altintas began using his phone again upon his return to Ankara.
Turkish security experts now believe Altintas represents a new generation of assassins that have managed to infiltrate themselves into trusted government positions, ready to become operational assassins on call, capable of killing on demand, without any evident concern for their ability to escape.
In killing Ambassador Karlov, Altintas used a Turkish-style Canik55 TP9SA, 9×19 mm pistol, with varying capacities of a 15-plus-1 round magazine, an 18-plus-1 round magazine, and a 20-plus-1 magazine. Similar to a Glock semi-automatic pistol, the Canik55 is a high-performance, lethal weapon, generally only available in Turkey to authorized police officers.
Obama stonewalls
The intelligence tying him to the Gulen group has intensified the determination of the Turkish government to get the U.S. government to extradite Fetullah Gulen from Pennsylvania.
Since his self-imposed exile to the United States in 1999, Gulen has operated what Turkey has characterized as the Fetullah Terrorist Organization under the guise of providing educational services.
The Erdogan government has charged that a group within the Turkish army associated with FETO launched the coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 that resulted in the deaths of more than 250 people, plus the injury of another 2,500. In the course of the July 15 coup, two F-16 fighter jets under the control of Turkish military loyal to FETO bombed the presidential palace in Ankara.
“Under their deviant religious ideology, FETO considers it legitimate to engage in all kinds of self-defensive deception, conspiracy, trap and illegal activities to achieve its objectives,” states a 2016 bulletin prepared by Turkey’s government-run press service, the Anadolu Agency, titled “FETO’s Coup Attempt in Turkey.”
“With years of confidential training and dissuasion activities, members of the terrorist organization have gained a level of professionalism beyond the comprehension of ordinary people,” the bulletin continues. “Its members operate with a radical ‘devotion’ and see themselves as the ‘chosen ones’; they switch identities and commit all types of illegal acts, including murder if need be.”
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned in July there “could even be a questioning of our friendship” if the U.S. doesn’t hand over Gulen.
Also, military intelligence sources in Turkey continue to tell WND that Obama administration officials have consistently “looked the other way” regarding terrorism in Turkey, refusing to budge on Turkey’s requests to extradite Gulen.
Turkey is optimistic the incoming Trump administration will take a more constructive approach to the continuing requests by the Erdogan government to assist Turkey in combating terrorism.
Financial ties to Clintons
As WND reported on Nov. 3, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/clintons-protecting-radical-turkish-imam-from... leaders of the Gulen movement donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign,</a> as well as to the Clinton Foundation, the Daily Caller reported in November 2015.
One of the biggest donors is Gulen lieutenant Gokhan Ozkok, who is listed on the Turkish Cultural Center’s website as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Ozkok gave between $500,001 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation in 2015.
The Podesta Group, managed by John Podesta’s brother Tony Podesta, filed a lobbying registration form effective May 12, 2016, disclosing the group had been hired by the Alliance for Shared Values in New York, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that operates as an umbrella organization for various Gulen-affiliated organizations in the United States, including the Rumi Forum.
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http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/turkey-links-assassin-to-obama-protected-imam/

Posted: 5 months 1 day ago

Thatcher adviser warns: Globalists...

<div id="attachment_3845451" style="width: 606px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-3845451" src="http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/11/trump_triumphant.jpg" alt="Donald Trump" width="596" height="283" srcset="/files/2016/11/trump_triumphant.jpg 596w, /files/2016/11/trump_triumphant-300x142.jpg 300w, /files/2016/11/trump_triumphant-340x161.jpg 340w, /files/2016/11/trump_triumphant-133x63.jpg 133w, /files/2016/11/trump_triumphant-181x86.jpg 181w" sizes="(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px" />Donald Trump</div>
NEW YORK – A former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sees Donald Trump’s victory as a continuation of the worldwide populist movement building since Brexit, but he warns anti-globalists that “triumphalism is premature.”
Christopher Monckton told WND the narrow victories for Trump and for the U.K.’s exit from the European Union are “good news for lovers of liberty and prosperity and bad news for the fascists and communists of the left, who have shown their contempt for democracy by protesting that the mere people got it wrong and that the party line ought not to have been rejected.”
<div id="attachment_241337" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="/files/2012/08/cmonckton12_300.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-241337" src="http://www.wnd.com/files/2012/08/cmonckton12_300.jpg" alt="Christopher Monckton" width="300" height="140" /></a>Christopher Monckton</div>
But he noted that already the British government, as he had predicted, is delaying the triggering of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which gives the EU two years’ notice that the U.K. is leaving.
He said that if British Prime Minister Theresa May can delay the Article 50 process for a couple of more years, she can declare that the 2020 general election will be about whether the voters really want to leave the European Union.”
“A vote for the Tories or Labor or the ‘Liberal Democrats,’ or the Welsh or Scottish Nationalists, she will say, will be a vote to reverse the Brexit decision.”
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Further, Monckton warns that the Clinton camp will not give up easily. Green Party candidate Jill Stein is raising money to challenge the results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, and there are efforts to persuade Electoral College electors to not vote according to the popular-vote result in their states.
“Even if they fail, they will do their best in other ways to stop the Trump presidency from succeeding” he said.
Monckton, a WND columnist, drew attention in the United States both for his <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2010/05/155701/">opposition to the climate change ideology advanced by the political left</a> and his <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/lord-monckton-convinced-of-obama-fraud-after-... that the long-form birth certificate released by President Obama is a computer-generated forgery</a>.
Government debt an enduring problem
While Monckton fully expects Trump will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, he cautions that economic problems compounded during Obama’s two terms in office will not be alleviated easily.
“On both sides of the Atlantic, the central problem is our monstrously excessive and accelerating government debt,” he said.
“Massive contingent liabilities to the voters, unwisely promised in the past, are now rapidly crystallizing, causing a dangerous compound increase in total debt that cannot be long sustained,” Monckton said.
“Mr. Trump, like Mrs. May, will be tempted to be an even bigger spender than Mr. Obama, who near-tripled the U.S. federal debt in just eight years,” he said.
Monckton remains concerned the doubling of the U.S. national debt to nearly $20 trillion under the Obama administration has made the modern welfare state unsustainable.
“So this is not necessarily a good time to be in charge,” he said. “The money has run out, and the effects of the bankruptcy of Western welfare-states such as the U.S. and the U.K. cannot be long deferred.”
Wisdom of conservative principles
He advised Trump not to follow Ronald Reagan’s lead regarding debt.
“Mr. Trump needs to learn from Ronald Reagan, who could not be bothered to read the small economic print and began the process of galloping debt increase that will soon bring down many Western countries,” Monckton said. “He needs to be businesslike and to stop wasteful expenditures at once.”
He reflected on his time advising Thatcher on science-related matters.
“When I worked for Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street, we had an excellent system of control,” he reflected.
“No new expenditure could be approved unless it had first been examined by the prime minister’s policy unit,” he said. “Within two years of this simple control measure being put in place, we were paying back the national debt at a rapid rate — for the first time in 200 years.”
Finally, Monckton advised Trump not to compromise with the political left but to govern based on the conservative policies that propelled him to victory on Nov. 8.
“Mr. Trump should resist the temptation to be a soft-hearted liberal manqué and should instead be what he is — a hard-headed businessman,” Monckton concluded.
“He, of all people, has no excuse for not understanding how many beans make five. He must balance Uncle Sam’s books, and fast, or he will go under, and America with him.”
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http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/thatcher-adviser-warns-globalists-still-kicking/

Posted: 6 months 2 days ago

Green Party's Stein files for...

<div id="attachment_3903641" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="/files/2016/11/jill-stein-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3903641" src="http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/11/jill-stein-1.jpg" alt="Jill Stein (Courtesy Tar Sands Blockade)" width="600" height="306" srcset="/files/2016/11/jill-stein-1.jpg 600w, /files/2016/11/jill-stein-1-300x153.jpg 300w, /files/2016/11/jill-stein-1-340x173.jpg 340w, /files/2016/11/jill-stein-1-124x63.jpg 124w, /files/2016/11/jill-stein-1-169x86.jpg 169w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>Jill Stein (Courtesy Tar Sands Blockade)</div>
NEW YORK – Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who garnered just 1 percent of the national vote, has raised more than $5 million of her $7 million goal in a crowd-funding effort to pay for a recount of the presidential elections in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, <a href="https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/recount">according to figures posted on her website Friday morning</a>.
Stein officially filed a request to election officials in Wisconsin about an hour and a half before the 5 p.m. Central Time deadline Friday.
State Elections Commission Administrator Mike Haas said in a written statement the commission “is preparing to move forward with a statewide recount of votes for President of the United States.”
“We have assembled an internal team to direct the recount, we have been in close consultation with our county clerk partners, and have arranged for legal representation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice,” he said.
The deadlines for filing for recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania are next week. In Michigan, the state on Saturday certified that Trump won by 10,704 votes.
While Stein said her initial fundraising goal was $2.5 million, her campaign website now says she’s trying to raise a total of $7 million to cover the fees for filing costs, attorneys and statewide recount observers.
Stein raised only $3.5 million for her 2016 presidential campaign, prompting critics to charge that her ability to quickly raise nearly $5 million for an election recount indicates Clinton supporters are funding her.
Stein insists the point of her effort is not to help Clinton win.
“This is not being done to benefit one candidate at the expense of the other,” she said in a PBS NewsHour interview Thursday. “This is being done because Americans, you know, come out of this election not happy campers.”
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/23/anti-trumper-hollywoo... reported</a> Democrats in Hollywood continue to insist that with the prospect of recounts, Clinton has not lost yet.
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<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/307388-lefts-new-argument-hillar... Hill reported Wednesday</a> that liberals searching for answers to Trump’s surprise victory have a new explanation: Hillary did not really lose. They contend an “audit the vote” movement could prove voting machine totals in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were inaccurate.
In the third presidential debate, however, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/full-transcript-third-2016-preside... chastised Trump for his unwillingness to pledge that he would accept the outcome of the election, reserving the right to challenge voter fraud.</a>
She called Trump’s statement “horrifying.”
“That is not the way our democracy works,” she said. “We’ve been around for 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections. We’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election.”
Could a recount result in Hillary winning?
Trump won 30 states, picking up 306 Electoral College votes to Clinton’s 232.
Winning Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes, Michigan’s 16 and Pennsylvania’s 20 would be enough to change the outcome, giving Clinton 278 votes to Trump’s 260.
The spoiler aspect of Stein’s recount effort has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/jill-stein-election-reco... critics to dub it “Operation Steal.”</a>
No recount in U.S. history has ever changed the outcome of a presidential election, including in 2000, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida that Democratic candidate Al Gore had hoped would deprive Republican George W. Bush of a narrow win.
In 2000, Gore, like Clinton in 2016, had won the popular vote.
No real evidence of hacking
Stein’s recount effort traces to a New York Magazine report Tuesday of “a group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers” who informed the Clinton campaign a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania is warranted because their analysis detected a pattern indicating it’s possible electronic-voting machines were manipulated or hacked.
“The academics presented findings showing that in Wisconsin, Clinton received 7 percent fewer votes in counties that relied on electronic-voting machines compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots,” <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-hillary-clin... York Magazine reported</a>.
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The statistical analysis indicated Clinton may have been denied as many as 30,000 votes. She lost Wisconsin by 27,000.
But the magazine noted “the group has not found proof of hacking or manipulation.”
The computer scientists argue, nevertheless, “that the suspicious pattern merits an independent review — especially in light of the fact that the Obama White House has accused the Russian government of hacking the Democratic National Committee.”
However, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/jill-stein-recount-effort-231829">... reported Wednesday</a> that one of the cyber security experts relied upon in the New York Magazine story — J. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan — admitted that he had no evidence the 2016 presidential election had been hacked by Russia or anyone else in any state.
“Were this year’s deviations from pre-election polls the results of a cyber attack?” <a href="https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-was-hacked-loo... asked in an article he posted online Wednesday</a>. “Probably not. I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked.”
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/23/sorry-hillary-there-s-z... Harris in the Daily Beast wrote Wednesday</a> that Clinton would have to win those states back in order to change the outcome of the election.
“And while it’s tempting to blame hackers, and not the failure of the political professional class, for Trump’s upset, experts warn not to get your hopes up for a shocking turnaround. For hackers to have changed the votes in three states would have been even more surprising than Trump’s victory,” he concluded.
Potential Trump challenges to states Clinton won
Meanwhile, efforts are under way to challenge the votes in three states won by Clinton: Nevada, Colorado and Virginia.
<a href="https://www.oathkeepers.org/pollmole-exit-polling-palm-hand/">Operation Sabot 2016, launched by the group Oath Keepers</a> is contesting vote totals in Clark County in Nevada; Denver and Boulder Counties in Colorado; and Richmond, Fairfax, and Henrico Counties in Virginia.
“In all three states there were precincts where over 95 percent of the vote went to Clinton with voter turnouts above 90 percent,” <a href="https://www.oathkeepers.org/navyjack-jill-stein-plans-request-election-r... “Navy Jack,” an anonymous Navy veteran leading the Operation Sabot 2016 charge on the Oath Keeper’s website</a>.
“Richmond, Denver and Clark County had precincts with more votes than registered voters,” Navy Jack continued. “This is similar to what occurred in Philadelphia back in 2012. In Virginia, Governor McAuliffe issued 60,000 autopen pardons to allow felons to vote.”
Navy Jack continued to note that McAuliffe sent each pardoned felon a personal letter asking them to vote for Clinton, accompanied by a voter-registration form, ballot and a return postage paid envelope.
“In each of these cases, the President Elect appears to have been disadvantaged,” Navy Jack concluded. “If recounts and investigations become inevitable, expanding the list of states to also include states won by former Secretary Clinton would be appropriate.”
Recounts rarely change outcomes
Recounts have rarely succeeded in changing the outcome of elections.
One of the few exceptions was the 2008 Senate contest in Minnesota in which Democratic challenger Al Franken defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman after the initial count had Coleman winning by 215 votes. The recount included 953 previously rejected absentee ballots, <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/05/minnesota-canvassing-boa... the State Canvassing Board on Jan. 5, 2009, declared Franken the winner by 225 votes</a>.
<a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/automatic-recount-t... states and the District of Columbia provide by law for automatic recounts</a> if the margin between the two candidates is within a certain percentage point. In Idaho, for example, a recount is triggered if the difference is 0.1 percent of the total votes cast for the office.
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Posted: 6 months 3 days ago

'Operation Steal' seeks r...

<div id="attachment_3903641" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="/files/2016/11/jill-stein-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3903641" src="http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/11/jill-stein-1.jpg" alt="Jill Stein (Courtesy Tar Sands Blockade)" width="600" height="306" srcset="/files/2016/11/jill-stein-1.jpg 600w, /files/2016/11/jill-stein-1-300x153.jpg 300w, /files/2016/11/jill-stein-1-340x173.jpg 340w, /files/2016/11/jill-stein-1-124x63.jpg 124w, /files/2016/11/jill-stein-1-169x86.jpg 169w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>Jill Stein (Courtesy Tar Sands Blockade)</div>
NEW YORK – Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who garnered just 1 percent of the vote, has raised more than $5 million of her $7 million goal in a crowd-funding effort to pay for a recount of the presidential election in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, <a href="https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/recount">according to figures posted on her website Friday morning</a>.
Stein’s website also announces the group’s intention to fund a recount in Michigan, where <a>the state on Saturday certified that Trump won by 10,704 votes</a>.
The deadline to request a recount in Wisconsin is Friday. NBC News reported the Wisconsin Elections Commission said it had yet to receive the required paperwork, but Stein said at a news conference Friday her campaign would submit the $1.1 million required to pay for it. The deadlines for filing for recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania are next week.
While Stein said her initial fundraising goal was $2.5 million, her campaign website now says she’s trying to raise a total of $7 million to cover the fees for filing costs, attorneys and statewide recount observers.
Stein raised only $3.5 million from donors during her 2016 presidential campaign, prompting critics to charge that her ability to quickly raise nearly $5 million for an election recount indicates Clinton supporters are funding her.
Stein insists the point of her effort is not to help Clinton win.
“This is not being done to benefit one candidate at the expense of the other,” she said in a PBS NewsHour interview Thursday. “This is being done because Americans, you know, come out of this election not happy campers.”
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/23/anti-trumper-hollywoo... reported</a> Democrats in Hollywood continue to insist that with the prospect of recounts, Clinton has not lost yet.
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<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/307388-lefts-new-argument-hillar... Hill reported Wednesday</a> that liberals searching for answers to Trump’s surprise victory have a new explanation: Hillary did not really lose. They contend an “audit the vote” movement could prove voting machine totals in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were inaccurate.
In the third presidential debate, however, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/full-transcript-third-2016-preside... chastised Trump for his unwillingness to pledge that he would accept the outcome of the election, reserving the right to challenge voter fraud.</a>
She called Trump’s statement “horrifying.”
“That is not the way our democracy works,” she said. “We’ve been around for 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections. We’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election.”
Could a recount result in Hillary winning?
Trump won 30 states, picking up 306 Electoral College votes to Clinton’s 232.
Winning Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes, Michigan’s 16 and Pennsylvania’s 20 would be enough to change the outcome, giving Clinton 278 votes to Trump’s 260.
The spoiler aspect of Stein’s recount effort has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/jill-stein-election-reco... critics to dub it “Operation Steal.”</a>
No recount in U.S. history has ever changed the outcome of a presidential election, including in 2000, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida that Democratic candidate Al Gore had hoped would deprive Republican George W. Bush of a narrow win.
In 2000, Gore, like Clinton in 2016, had won the popular vote.
No real evidence of hacking
Stein’s recount effort traces to a New York Magazine report Tuesday of “a group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers” who informed the Clinton campaign a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania is warranted because their analysis detected a pattern indicating it’s possible electronic-voting machines were manipulated or hacked.
“The academics presented findings showing that in Wisconsin, Clinton received 7 percent fewer votes in counties that relied on electronic-voting machines compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots,” <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-hillary-clin... York Magazine reported</a>.
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The statistical analysis indicated Clinton may have been denied as many as 30,000 votes. She lost Wisconsin by 27,000.
But the magazine noted “the group has not found proof of hacking or manipulation.”
The computer scientists argue, nevertheless, “that the suspicious pattern merits an independent review — especially in light of the fact that the Obama White House has accused the Russian government of hacking the Democratic National Committee.”
However, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/jill-stein-recount-effort-231829">... reported Wednesday</a> that one of the cyber security experts relied upon in the New York Magazine story — J. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan — admitted that he had no evidence the 2016 presidential election had been hacked by Russia or anyone else in any state.
“Were this year’s deviations from pre-election polls the results of a cyber attack?” <a href="https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-was-hacked-loo... asked in an article he posted online Wednesday</a>. “Probably not. I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked.”
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/23/sorry-hillary-there-s-z... Harris in the Daily Beast wrote Wednesday</a> that Clinton would have to win those states back in order to change the outcome of the election.
“And while it’s tempting to blame hackers, and not the failure of the political professional class, for Trump’s upset, experts warn not to get your hopes up for a shocking turnaround. For hackers to have changed the votes in three states would have been even more surprising than Trump’s victory,” he concluded.
Potential Trump challenges to states Clinton won
Meanwhile, efforts are under way to challenge the votes in three states won by Clinton: Nevada, Colorado and Virginia.
<a href="https://www.oathkeepers.org/pollmole-exit-polling-palm-hand/">Operation Sabot 2016, launched by the group Oath Keepers</a> is contesting vote totals in Clark County in Nevada; Denver and Boulder Counties in Colorado; and Richmond, Fairfax, and Henrico Counties in Virginia.
“In all three states there were precincts where over 95 percent of the vote went to Clinton with voter turnouts above 90 percent,” <a href="https://www.oathkeepers.org/navyjack-jill-stein-plans-request-election-r... “Navy Jack,” an anonymous Navy veteran leading the Operation Sabot 2016 charge on the Oath Keeper’s website</a>.
“Richmond, Denver and Clark County had precincts with more votes than registered voters,” Navy Jack continued. “This is similar to what occurred in Philadelphia back in 2012. In Virginia, Governor McAuliffe issued 60,000 autopen pardons to allow felons to vote.”
Navy Jack continued to note that McAuliffe sent each pardoned felon a personal letter asking them to vote for Clinton, accompanied by a voter-registration form, ballot and a return postage paid envelope.
“In each of these cases, the President Elect appears to have been disadvantaged,” Navy Jack concluded. “If recounts and investigations become inevitable, expanding the list of states to also include states won by former Secretary Clinton would be appropriate.”
Recounts rarely change outcomes
Recounts have rarely succeeded in changing the outcome of elections.
One of the few exceptions was the 2008 Senate contest in Minnesota in which Democratic challenger Al Franken defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman after the initial count had Coleman winning by 215 votes. The recount included 953 previously rejected absentee ballots, <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/05/minnesota-canvassing-boa... the State Canvassing Board on Jan. 5, 2009, declared Franken the winner by 225 votes</a>.
<a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/automatic-recount-t... states and the District of Columbia provide by law for automatic recounts</a> if the margin between the two candidates is within a certain percentage point. In Idaho, for example, a recount is triggered if the difference is 0.1 percent of the total votes cast for the office.
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GOP elite 'moderating' Tr...

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NEW YORK – In a move deeply troubling to the base of voters who helped propel him to the White House, Donald Trump told the New York Times he had “an open mind” on whether or not to support the United Nations climate accord, prompting <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/trump-now-believes-manmade... left-leaning Mother Jones to feature the headline “Trump Now Believes That Manmade Climate Change Is Real.”</a>
Defenders of Trump, <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/11/23/fake-news-update-media-falsely-sp... as Marc Morano at ClimateDepot.com</a>, were quick to point out that in the meeting with Times reporters on Tuesday, Trump restated his skepticism of global warming, charging the media had “falsely spun” his comments.
“The media have created a cartoon-version view of Trump’s climate views,” Morano told WND. “If he says anything short of global warming is a hoax created by Chinese, (which he said was a joke tweet) then they say he flip-flopped.”
Yet, in his attempt to defend Trump, Morano also expressed disappointment.
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“The reality is Trump has been very clever about presenting his climate views. What he told the New York Times was very nuanced and scientifically correct,” Morano said.
“While I wish he would have said the U.N. Paris agreement was finished, I think he was trying to be nuanced with the onslaught of climate activists at the New York Times,” Morano concluded.
WND was unable to reach for comment Sen. James Inhofe, a frequent critic of climate-change activists who seek a United Nations tax on the U.S. consumption of carbon-based fuels that effectively would redistribute wealth to developing nations.
WND received no response from a detailed email asking Trump spokesman Jason Miller and Sean Spicer of the Republican National Committee to respond to questions regarding Trump’s comments to the Times.
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Instead, WND received a phone call from a Trump campaign insider who had played an important role in the campaign and insisted on not being named.
The insider expressed concern that Washington-based Republican Party operatives – including Reince Priebus, Trump’s newly appointed White House chief of staff, and Spicer, among others – were attempting to moderate Trump’s message to make it more compatible with the views of House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
At issue in the phone call was an article <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/trump-flip-flops-presiden... published Tuesday</a>, “15 Trump flip-flops in 15 days,” alleging instances in which Trump has moderated policy positions he held during the campaign.
“If Trump had said on the campaign stump what he told the New York Times on Tuesday regarding the U.N. climate accord, Hillary Clinton would be president-elect, not Trump,” the insider said.
The insider noted that like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the U.N. climate accord is a global governance agreement poorly negotiated by the Obama administration, placing an onerous international cost on U.S. taxpayers that will drive up the cost of energy while dampening economic growth.
Times presses Trump to save Obama’s legacy deal
On Nov. 10, two days after Trump won the U.S. presidential election, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/us/politics/donald-trump-climate-chang... New York Times published an article</a> noting that during the campaign, Trump had called human-caused climate change a “hoax” while vowing to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency.
“Mr. Trump cannot legally block other countries from fulfilling their Paris agreement commitments, nor can he quickly or unilaterally erase Mr. Obama’s climate rules,” New York Times reporter Coral Davenport wrote.
Davenport said Trump’s campaign position against the U.N. climate accord was putting at risk a central component of outgoing-President Obama’s “proudest legacy.”
“But if Mr. Trump makes good on his campaign promises, experts in climate change policy warn, that legacy would unravel quickly.” Davenport continued. “The world, then, may have no way to avoid the most devastating consequences of global warming, including rising sea levels, extreme droughts and food shortages, and more powerful floods and storms.”
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-inter... reflected in the transcript of Trump’s Tuesday meeting with the New York Times</a>, Trump gave the newspaper reason to relax.
When questioned by James Bennet, the editorial page editor, whether there was any causal connection between human activity and climate change, Trump equivocated.
“I think right now … well, I think there is some connectivity,” he said. “There is some, something.”
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Trump insider: Hillary still could...

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NEW YORK – While Donald Trump and spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway have indicated the president-elect has no intention of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information and her family foundation, a Trump insider tells WND the statements should be interpreted narrowly, describing them as a shrewd effort to buy time and foster a spirit of “magnanimity” during the transition period.
Once Trump has taken the oath of office, the insider noted, the decision to launch an investigation rests with the attorney general, who has the power to convene a criminal grand jury or appoint a special prosecutor.
Further, Congress has the power to investigate and recommend the Department of Justice pursue a criminal prosecution.
Regarding the Clinton Foundation and allegations of “pay to play,” state attorneys general in states where the charity is registered also would have the authority to launch an investigation.
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<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/just-in-case-impeach-hillary-plans-ready/">WND reported Nov. 7</a> that Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, confirmed the House Judiciary Committee had sent a “preservation letter” to the Department of Justice demanding the Justice Department maintain for Congress copies of the contents of the approximately 650,000 emails related to Clinton’s State Department tenure found on the laptop of former Rep. Anthony Weiner.
King, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/what-next-for-hillary-investigation/">WND later reported</a>, believes a congressional investigation under the incoming Trump administration could raise additional evidence against Clinton or against one of her close aides at the State Department, including Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, that might induce a new FBI director to convene a grand jury.
Even as president, Trump will not have the authority to order the House Judiciary Committee to cease and desist from the investigation into the contents of Weiner’s laptops. Nor can he block any recommendations to prosecute that the House Judiciary Committee may decide to make to the Department of Justice as a result of an investigation.
Words carefully chosen
Conway addressed the issue on Tuesday on the MSNBC “Morning Joe” television show.
“I think when the president-elect who’s also the head of your party … tells you before he’s even inaugurated he doesn’t wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone and content, to the members,” Conway said.
“Look, I think, he’s thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States, and things that sound like the campaign are not among them,” Conway continued, limiting her comments to Trump’s concerns as president-elect.
“I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that’s a good thing,” Conway concluded.
Later Tuesday, New York Times reporter Mike Grynbaum tweeted Trump’s statements on the issue in a meeting with the paper.
Grynbaum said Trump was “pressed if he has definitively ruled out prosecuting Hillary Clinton.”
He quoted Trump saying: “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about.”
Trump further said, according to Grynbaum: “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t. She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.”
When asked by the New York Times reporters if his apparent “reversal” would cause a backlash among supporters, Trump answered: “I don’t think they will be disappointed. I think I will explain it that we in many ways will save our country,” adding that prosecuting Clinton “would be very, very divisive for the country.”
<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/22/trump-wont-pursue-charges-against-clinton/"... New York Post recalled Trump’s promise during the campaign</a>: “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception.”
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AG has the authority
The U.S. attorney general has the authority to appoint special prosecutors under U.S. Department of Justice regulations as specified in 28 Code of Federal Regulations 600.1.
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/counsel/office/history.htm... President Nixon in the Watergate affair ordered Attorney General Eliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox</a> in what became known as the October 1973 “Saturday Night Massacre,” Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, creating the U.S. Office of the Independent Counsel.
It was replaced in 1999 by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel.
Neither Conway’s statement to MSNBC nor Trump’s statement to the New York Times gives any reason to believe Trump would object should his attorney general – he has nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. – decide to convene a grand jury or to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate any crimes Clinton may have committed.
Also, nothing Conway or Trump said Tuesday suggested the Trump administration would make any attempt to stop an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation that evidently is ongoing or any criminal prosecutions that may result from evidence gained in the seizure of Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
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Posted: 6 months 6 days ago

What next for Hillary investigation...

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NEW YORK – Since FBI Director James Comey closed the reopened criminal investigation in Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information two days before the election, the question remains whether or not an investigation would be resumed under the incoming Trump administration.
WND has now confirmed with the New York Police Department that in the days leading up to the presidential election on Nov. 8, the FBI terminated the NYPD investigation of Clinton’s emails on former congressman Anthony Weiner’s laptop, demanding that the laptop and all 650,000 State Department emails be taken to the FBI in Washington.
The move by the FBI in D.C. to shut down the NYPD investigation set the stage for Comey to declare in a letter to Congress Nov. 6 that the newly discovered emails did not change the FBI’s original conclusion not to refer criminal charges.
WND has also confirmed with the NYPD that the FBI in Washington has blocked the NYPD from making any arrests in the Weiner “sexting” case involving an underage 15-year-old girl.
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“The last thing I wanted was to have this become political propaganda,” she said.
Consequently, there appears to be no ongoing NYPD or FBI investigation either into the State Department emails found on Weiner’s laptop or into Weiner’s allegedly criminal actions sending sexually explicit text messages via the Internet to an underage girl.
Nevertheless, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a member of the House Judiciary Committee has told WND he intends to continue pressing for the House Judiciary Committee to obtain copies of all 650,000 State Department emails found on Weiner’s laptop.
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/just-in-case-impeach-hillary-plans-ready/">WND reported Nov. 7</a> that Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote a “preservation letter” to the Department of Justice, demanding that all of the emails on Weiner’s laptop be retained for inspection by Congress.
A congressional investigation under the incoming Trump administration could raise additional evidence against Clinton or against one of her close aides at the State Department, including Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, that might induce a new FBI director to convene a grand jury.
A Trump administration Justice Department prosecution of a State Department official as highly placed as Mills or Abedin might go forward despite any immunity offers extended by the Obama administration if new Justice Department officials conclude they are no longer binding in light of new evidence developed after Obama leaves office.
Special prosecutor?
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-rudy-giuliani-rep-keith-e... Sunday, in an interview on ABC News “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos</a>, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said it was a “tough question” whether or not President-elect Trump plans to follow through with his campaign promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton.
Giuliani hedged, shifting the ground of a possible special-prosecutor investigation to include a probe of the Clinton Foundation.
“As a lawyer, I hate to use the ‘on the one hand, but the other,’ but on the one hand, you don’t want to disrupt the nation with what might look like a vindictive prosecution, even though it might not be,” Giuliani said.
“On the other hand, you want equal justice under the law and if she has violated the law – you know, the FBI never completed the foundation investigation,” he continued. “That’s, as far as I know, that’s still an ongoing investigation. They completed the email investigation, but not the foundation investigation.”
Also last Sunday, in an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” Trump replied to Lesley Stahl that he hadn’t made a decision about whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton.
“Well, I’ll tell you what I’m going to do,” Trump answered. “I’m going to think about it. I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on health care, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill. We want to have a great immigration bill. And I want to focus on all of these other things that we’ve been talking about.”
Trump promised the next time he was on “60 Minutes” he would have a “very good and definitive answer” to that question.
Presidential pardon?
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/11/press-briefing-pr... the White House press briefing Nov. 9</a>, Obama’s press secretary, Josh Earnest, was directly asked if President Obama had considered granting a pardon to Hillary Clinton before he leaves office Jan. 20.
Earnest refused to say directly whether or not it was under serious consideration.
“The president has offered clemency to a substantial number of Americans who were previously serving time in federal prisons, and we didn’t talk in advance about the president’s plans to offer clemency to any of those individuals,” Earnest responded. “And it’s because we don’t talk about the president’s thinking, particularly with respect to any specific cases that may apply to pardons or commutations.”
Earnest also expressed hope that President-elect Trump would not pursue prosecuting Clinton after he takes office, noting that the tone of Trump’s remarks on Election Night appeared conciliatory toward Clinton.
“We have a long tradition in this country of not – of people in power not using the criminal justice system to exact political revenge. In fact, we go to great lengths to insulate our criminal justice system from partisan politics,” Earnest said. “And that commitment has served our country very well for more than two centuries, and the president is hopeful that it will continue.”
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Posted: 6 months 1 week ago

1 main reason U.S. border wall hasn...

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NEW YORK – The legislation President-elect Donald Trump will need to build the promised wall along the U.S. southern border with Mexico was passed in 2006 and remains on the books, even though it was never built.
The Trump administration will only need fund the 2006 act to finally build a double-layer secure wall along the border with Mexico as Congress originally intended 10 years ago.
On Oct. 26, 2006, <a href="https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/10/200610... George W. Bush signed</a> the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/109/plaws/publ367/PLAW-109publ367.pdf">Secure Fence Act of 2006</a> saying: “This bill will help protect the American people. This bill will make our borders more secure. It is an important step toward immigration reform.”
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Democrats in Congress have blocked funding, arguing the barrier is too costly and a step away from their stated goal of “comprehensive immigration reform,” a code-phrase for proposed legislation that typically includes de facto amnesty for the millions of illegal immigrants already in the United States.
<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr6061/summary">The bill was introduced into the House of Representatives (H.R. 6061)</a> on Sep. 13, 2006, by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. The bill received overwhelming support, passing the House by a vote of 283-138 on Sept. 14, 2006, and passing the Senate by 80-19 on Sept. 29, 2006.
The Secure Fence Act of 2006 called for building some 700 miles of double-fence construction along the Mexican border, complete with vehicle barriers, checkpoints and lighting. Congress approved $1.2 billion in a separate homeland security spending bill to build the fence.
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In 2006, as George W. Bush was pushing the Security and Prosperity Partnership with Mexico as a result of a tripartite summit with Mexico and Canada in Waco, Texas, the previous year, those pushing for secure borders had reason to believe the Secure Fence Act would go a long way toward solving the problem of unchecked illegal immigration from Mexico.
Where’s the Fence?
However, as <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2007/12/45018/">WND reported in 2007</a> then Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, submitted an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security 2008 budget that would effectively gut the Secure Fence Act.
The Hutchison amendment read, in part, “nothing in this paragraph shall require the Secretary of Homeland Security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location.”
By slipping the amendment into the 2008 DHS funding bill, Hutchison gave DHS total discretion to build a fence or to not build a fence in any particular location.
Hutchinson knew that if then-Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff had discretion on whether or not to build the fence, the Bush administration could always insist that negotiations at the local level along the border, including with Mexico, had resulted in solutions to border security — including cameras, drones, sensors and other technological surveillance measures — that would make the barrier unnecessary.
On Nov. 6, 2007, a DHS fact sheet documented that only 76 miles of a “pedestrian fence” had been built along the Mexican border, making it clear no double-layer barrier had been built.
On Jan. 25, 2008, then-Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., the author of the double-layer fence provisions of the Secure Fence Act of 2008, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2008/01/45725/">complained that only five miles of the 75 mile “pedestrian fence” then built was actually double-layer, as specified in the original legislation</a>.
In 2014, Hunter’s son, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., <a href="https://hunter.house.gov/fence-right-fix-nation’s-border-problems">posted on his website an editorial he had published in a San Diego newspaper</a> arguing that the fence specified by his father in the 2006 legislation still needed to be built.
“One of San Diego’s greatest assets is the double-layered border fence that extends inland from the Pacific Ocean,” Hunter wrote. “Fencing and infrastructure alone are by no means enough to stop illegal crossings, but the presence of physical impediments at the border, when supported by manpower and technology, create barriers that make entry increasingly more difficult and sometimes impossible.”
Hunter charged the Obama administration was lying in claiming that border infrastructure needs had been met, arguing that less than 40 miles of double-layered fence had been built along the Mexican border in the eight years that had gone by since the Secure Fence Act had been passed.
“Either the mandates of the Secure Fence Act should be reinstated, which I have proposed, or the Obama administration should utilize existing authority to finish the job that the Bush Administration halfheartedly started,” Hunter insisted. “Either way, this is one initiative that, after almost 10 years since the Secure Fence Act was enacted, needs to be completed — the way it was intended.”
Failure to finish
On Jan. 23, 2008, the senior Rep. Duncan Hunter <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr5124">reintroduced into the 110th Congress a bill (H.R. 5124) titled Reinstatement of the Secure Fence Act of 2008</a> that again called for the building of a two-layered 14-foot tall, reinforced fence along the U.S. border with Mexico, only to see the bill die in committee.
In an article published in Human Events Online on May 17, 2010,
Then-Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., wrote in Human Events Online on May 27, 2010, that only 34.3 miles of double-layer fence had been completed along the southern border, with only 2.3 miles of that total being built in the first year of the Obama administration.
At that time, DeMint was preparing to reintroduce an amendment to the DHS spending bill that he first introduced in July 2009. It would force President Obama to finish the 700-mile double-layer border fence by the end of 2010, as specified by the original 2006 legislation.
In 2009 and again in 2010, Democrats, in the legislative mark-up conference after the DHS funding bill had been passed by both houses, stripped DeMint’s amendment from the DHS budget behind closed doors after the Obama administration opposed what was termed “rapid expansion of the fence.”
DeMint stressed that a pair of reports the Government Accounting Office prepared in 2009 and early 2010 “proved virtual fencing is a virtual disaster.”
“The GAO found Border Patrol agents were relying on cameras that suffered signal loss and that the number of new defects identified with the virtual fence outpaced the number that were being fixed,” DeMint wrote. “U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Chief Alan Bersin dashed any hopes left for the virtual fence when he called it a ‘complete failure’ during a Senate hearing last month.”
DeMint was frustrated with both efforts to finish the fence.
“We’ve now had two administrations fail to keep their promise to the American people to secure our border and Americans are tired of excuses,” DeMint said when launching his doomed second attempt. “Americans have demanded a real fence to combat the very real problems of illegal immigration that have led to human trafficking, drug trafficking, kidnapping and violence on our border. Congress will never be able to achieve long-term reform to create a legal immigration system that works until we secure our borders.
In 2012, <a href="https://prod-static-ngop-pbl.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/2012GOPPlatform.pdf">the Republican Party’s platform again raised the issue,</a>, declaring, “The double-layered fencing on the border that was enacted by Congress in 2006, but never completed, must finally be built.”
Funding Trump’s wall
Realizing the legislation already exists in the form of the Secure Fence Act of 2006, <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/09/this-is-what-trumps-border-wall-could-cos... have focused on the costs to build Trump’s wall</a>, which some estimate may have escalated from the $1.2 billion total projected in 2006 to more than $4 billion today.
<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/systems/mexico-wall.htm">Trump, repeated asserted during the 2016 campaign that Mexico would pay for the wall</a>, noting the cost would be “a tiny fraction of the money” the U.S. loses to Mexico in trade deficits, <a href="https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/mexico">currently estimated at $58 billion in 2015</a>.
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WND author recommended for job in T...

<a href="/files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2858084" src="http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER.jpg" alt="wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER" width="280" height="420" srcset="/files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER.jpg 300w, /files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER-200x300.jpg 200w, /files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER-183x275.jpg 183w, /files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER-42x63.jpg 42w, /files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER-57x86.jpg 57w" sizes="(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px" /></a>NEW YORK – A supporter of Donald Trump from early in his candidacy, WND author and Oxford professor Theodore Roosevelt Malloch is being referred to the Trump transition team as a candidate for either ambassador to the United Nations or to the United Kingdom.
The author of <a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/01/insider-pulls-back-elite-curtain-of-globalism/”">“Davos, Aspen, and Yale: My Life Behind the Elite Curtain as a Global Sherpa,”</a> Malloch is a professor at Oxford’s business school and the chairman and CEO of Global Fiduciary Governance LLC. He also heads the Directors Forum Advisory Board at the Henley Business School at the University of Reading in the U.K. and is a former board member of the World Executive Forum, which hosts the Davos meetings.
The recommendation of Malloch for ambassadorial positions comes from sources close to the vice-president-elect, Mike Pence, and the top levels of the Heritage Foundation.
An American citizen by birth, Malloch raised eyebrows among his British academic colleagues by become an unofficial Trump surrogate, advocating the Republican candidate in his many interviews with the BBC in the U.K. during the 2016 presidential campaign.
<a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/01/insider-pulls-back-elite-curtain-of-globalism/”">Ted Malloch’s “Davos, Aspen, and Yale: My Life Behind the Elite Curtain as a Global Sherpa” is available at the WND Superstore.</a>
Although he faced extreme skepticism among the intelligentsia in London and Europe, Malloch persisted to make the case that Trump was not a xenophobic nationalist, as Hillary Clinton and the Democrats tried to portray him. He portrayed Trump as a true capitalist who could be relied upon to take his business experience to rebuild America for the benefit of London and the European Union.
Return to ‘the glory our forefathers intended’
Malloch, a descendent of President Theodore Roosevelt, sees characteristics in Trump similar to those Roosevelt relied upon to achieve the White House.
“At the turn of the last century, TR took America into a new nationalism and basically built up the industrial base and its military power and put America where it is on the map in 101 different ways,” <a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/01/global-insider-trump-is-new-teddy-roosevelt/”">said Malloch in a January WND feature</a>. “I think that Trump embodies in some ways that same kind of popular spirit, that national spirit that transcends parties, that could, to steal his own line from his campaign, ‘Make America Great Again.’ So I was joking the other day in another article that we might have to find some more rock on Mount Rushmore if we get a President Trump.”
At the beginning of the year, Malloch began working with Sam Clovis, a professor of economics at Morningside College whom Trump had appointed in August 2015 as a co-chairman and a top policy adviser for his 2016 presidential campaign.
Malloch advanced his policy advice in a series of more than 20 WND commentaries that began on Jan. 21, with <a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/01/the-candidate-wholl-restore-u-s-spiritual-capital/">a piece titled “The Candidate Who’ll Restore U.S. Spiritual Capital.”</a> In it, he argued conservatives should rally around Trump, not only for his business acumen but because Trump “wants to bring America back to its spiritual and Constitutional moorings” as a necessary part of his aim “to make America great again.”
Malloch’s signature academic contribution internationally has been to articulate the importance of valuing and pursuing what he has characterized as “spiritual capital” in a secular age dominated by multinational corporations.
Malloch saw Trump as the ideal candidate who promised to be an inspiring U.S. president, both at home and around the world.
Malloch expressed his view in a <a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/03/understanding-trump-as-a-principled-politician/”">March 6 WND commentary titled entitled “Understanding Trump as a Principled Politician.”</a>
“For Trump, to exude confidence not only inspires others to confidence, but becomes a self-fulfilling act,” Malloch wrote. “But the truth is that to make America great again, one has to believe that one is a partial expression of that greatness. Trump wants all Americans to be included in that greatness he sees as possible for America, and he dares to extend his reach beyond party, class, race, gender and region.”
Malloch then proceeded to compare Trump with both Reagan and Lincoln.
“All three gentlemen have embraced the highest ideals of our Founding Fathers with the naiveté to believe their destiny was to assist this nation in fulfilling that dream,” he wrote.
Malloch concluded: “In the final analysis, Trump – like Reagan and Lincoln before him – loves America and welcomes the challenge to return this country to the glory our forefathers intended to bequeath to future generations.”
He said Trump “can embrace this challenge in this age because he is, after all, an entrepreneur.”
Malloch, who grew up in Philadelphia in the 1960s, has credentials in the U.S. State Department as well as a post in international economic analysis for the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. He has taught at Yale University.
For more than a decade he organized the seminars and presentations at both the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and at the celebrity-packed Aspen Institute. He currently serves as professor of strategic leadership and governance at the Henley Business School at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.
<a href="//nypost.com/2016/11/13/gay-foreign-affairs-guru-on-trumps-list-for-un-ambassador/?0p19G=c">The New York Post reported Sunday</a> that Richard Grenell, who served as spokesman to four U.S. ambassadors to the U.N. under President George W. Bush, is on Trump’s short list to be appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Grenell’s main experience is in public relations, as the co-founder of Capital Media Partners.
The post said Grenell is openly “gay,” pro-Israel and a critic of the Iran nuke deal. He slammed the Obama administration, including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for failing to put Boko Haram on the terror list.
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Posted: 6 months 2 weeks ago

WND author recommended for U.N. amb...

<a href="/files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2858084" src="http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER.jpg" alt="wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER" width="280" height="420" srcset="/files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER.jpg 300w, /files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER-200x300.jpg 200w, /files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER-183x275.jpg 183w, /files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER-42x63.jpg 42w, /files/2016/01/wndb-Malloch-Davos-Aspen-Yale-COVER-57x86.jpg 57w" sizes="(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px" /></a>NEW YORK – A supporter of Donald Trump from early in his candidacy, WND author and Oxford professor Theodore Roosevelt Malloch is being referred to the Trump transition team as a candidate for either ambassador to the United Nations or to the United Kingdom.
The author of <a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/01/insider-pulls-back-elite-curtain-of-globalism/”">“Davos, Aspen, and Yale: My Life Behind the Elite Curtain as a Global Sherpa,”</a> Malloch is a professor at Oxford’s business school and the chairman and CEO of Global Fiduciary Governance LLC. He also heads the Directors Forum Advisory Board at the Henley Business School at the University of Reading in the U.K. and is a former board member of the World Executive Forum, which hosts the Davos meetings.
The recommendation of Malloch for ambassadorial positions comes from sources close to the vice-president-elect, Mike Pence, and the top levels of the Heritage Foundation.
An American citizen by birth, Malloch raised eyebrows among his British academic colleagues by become an unofficial Trump surrogate, advocating the Republican candidate in his many interviews with the BBC in the U.K. during the 2016 presidential campaign.
<a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/01/insider-pulls-back-elite-curtain-of-globalism/”">Ted Malloch’s “Davos, Aspen, and Yale: My Life Behind the Elite Curtain as a Global Sherpa” is available at the WND Superstore.</a>
Although he faced extreme skepticism among the intelligentsia in London and Europe, Malloch persisted to make the case that Trump was not a xenophobic nationalist, as Hillary Clinton and the Democrats tried to portray him. He portrayed Trump as a true capitalist who could be relied upon to take his business experience to rebuild America for the benefit of London and the European Union.
Return to ‘the glory our forefathers intended’
Malloch, a descendent of President Theodore Roosevelt, sees characteristics in Trump similar to those Roosevelt relied upon to achieve the White House.
“At the turn of the last century, TR took America into a new nationalism and basically built up the industrial base and its military power and put America where it is on the map in 101 different ways,” <a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/01/global-insider-trump-is-new-teddy-roosevelt/”">said Malloch in a January WND feature</a>. “I think that Trump embodies in some ways that same kind of popular spirit, that national spirit that transcends parties, that could, to steal his own line from his campaign, ‘Make America Great Again.’ So I was joking the other day in another article that we might have to find some more rock on Mount Rushmore if we get a President Trump.”
At the beginning of the year, Malloch began working with Sam Clovis, a professor of economics at Morningside College who Trump had appointed in August 2015 as a co-chairman and a top policy adviser for his 2016 presidential campaign.
Malloch advanced his policy advice in a series of more than 20 WND commentaries that began on Jan. 21, with <a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/01/the-candidate-wholl-restore-u-s-spiritual-capital/">a piece titled “The Candidate Who’ll Restore U.S. Spiritual Capital.”</a> In it, he argued conservatives should rally around Trump, not only for his business acumen but because Trump “wants to bring America back to its spiritual and Constitutional moorings” as a necessary part of his aim “to make America great again.”
Malloch’s signature academic contribution internationally has been to articulate the importance of valuing and pursuing what he has characterized as “spiritual capital” in a secular age dominated by multinational corporations.
Malloch saw Trump as the ideal candidate who promised to be an inspiring U.S. president, both at home and around the world.
Malloch expressed his view in a <a href="//www.wnd.com/2016/03/understanding-trump-as-a-principled-politician/”">March 6 WND commentary titled entitled “Understanding Trump as a Principled Politician.”</a>
“For Trump, to exude confidence not only inspires others to confidence, but becomes a self-fulfilling act,” Malloch wrote. “But the truth is that to make America great again, one has to believe that one is a partial expression of that greatness. Trump wants all Americans to be included in that greatness he sees as possible for America, and he dares to extend his reach beyond party, class, race, gender and region.”
Malloch then proceeded to compare Trump with both Reagan and Lincoln.
“All three gentlemen have embraced the highest ideals of our Founding Fathers with the naiveté to believe their destiny was to assist this nation in fulfilling that dream,” he wrote.
Malloch concluded: “In the final analysis, Trump – like Reagan and Lincoln before him – loves America and welcomes the challenge to return this country to the glory our forefathers intended to bequeath to future generations.”
He said Trump “can embrace this challenge in this age because he is, after all, an entrepreneur.”
Malloch, who grew up in Philadelphia in the 1960s, has credentials in the U.S. State Department as well as a post in international economic analysis for the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. He has taught at Yale University.
For more than a decade he organized the seminars and presentations at both the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and at the celebrity-packed Aspen Institute. He currently serves as professor of strategic leadership and governance at the Henley Business School at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.
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Grenell’s main experience is in public relations, as the co-founder of Capital Media Partners.
The post said Grenell is openly “gay,” pro-Israel and a critic of the Iran nuke deal. He slammed the Obama administration, including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for failing to put Boko Haram on the terror list.
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Posted: 6 months 2 weeks ago

Just in case, impeach Hillary plans...

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NEW YORK – If Hillary Clinton wins the election Tuesday, a prominent Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee says there will be an immediate move to impeach her before she can even be sworn into office Jan. 20.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told WND he has spent the last week ensuring Congress has secured all of the hundreds of thousands of emails examined by the FBI over the last 10 days and has confidence the House could impeach her before she assumes office.
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“Don’t think that Hillary Clinton has been declared innocent on the email scandal just yet,” King warned. “This is not over yet.”
King, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, noted the only alternative to a possible impeachment of a president-elect Clinton would be if a groundswell of American voters rises up to elect Donald Trump.
“With President Trump in the White House, we could appoint within the Justice Department and the FBI officials who would do their duty to investigate Secretary Clinton’s email scandal with a resolve to get to the truth, even if President Obama should pardon Clinton before leaving office,” King insisted.
FBI Director James Comey informed members of Congress on Sunday that a review of the 650,000 emails discovered on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner had reinforced his July 5 decision not to refer charges against Hillary Clinton.
King explained to WND he spent several days last week working to ensure that Congress will secure the Weiner emails, along with emails belonging to top aides Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson.
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He noted that Samuelson, a lawyer and 2008 Clinton campaign staffer, worked under Mills to assist longtime Clinton attorney David Kendall to sort through Hillary Clinton’s emails to determine which, if any, were private.
“I am today confident Congress will have access to all 650,000 State Department emails on former Congressman Weiner’s computer,’ King said
King explained his confidence was based on a “preservation letter” that was sent to the Department of Justice last week by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
‘We must demand justice’
King said that if Clinton wins Tuesday, “we cannot expect justice from the Department of Justice under the direction of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, with James Comey heading the FBI.”
“This will obligate Congress to begin an investigation into the investigations conducted by the Department of Justice and FBI regarding Secretary Clinton’s private email server,” he said.
If Clinton were to win, King said, an investigation could lead to the House impeaching Clinton even while she is still president-elect.
“That congressional investigation could lead to evidence requiring Congress to take action under the Constitution: Impeachment proceedings against Hillary Clinton before Jan. 20, 2017, even before she takes the oath of office to become president,” he said.
King emphasized his determination to launch a legitimate investigation into Clinton’s private email server and possible violations of national security laws regarding the handling of classified information.
“The people of the United States cannot be forced to accept a Department of Justice cover-up that was designed to hide the truth,” he declared.
“What happened to the evidence on Weiner’s computer that caused Comey to reopen the case?” King asked.
“Comey had two weeks to look over that evidence before he announced he was reopening the investigation. So what did Comey find in the 650,000 Weiner emails so quickly, after only nine days of a reopened investigation, that led the FBI to reverse the conclusion made after two weeks to reopen the investigation?”
King said he has given the issue considerable thought, and with the letter Goodlatte and Chaffetz co-authored to the Department of Justice, he is confident the Weiner evidence has been preserved so Congress can conduct it’s own independent investigation.
“My instincts have been right on this all along,” he said. “And I’m sure my instincts continue to be right today.”
Unfathomable political pressure
King believes Comey’s announcement Sunday was the result of intense political pressure put on him by Clinton’s campaign and by powerful forces within the Democratic Party.
“One cannot fathom the pressure that was brought to bear on Comey by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, to whom this investigation points, as well as by the former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, who sat on the tarmac with Loretta Lynch, plus the power of Hillary Clinton herself, a potential future occupant of the White House, on the cusp of being elected president of the United States,” he said.
“Who wouldn’t cave in, with the weight of two-and-a-half presidents upon them, and the full force of their political party, plus the public pressure brought to bear by the mainstream media pulling for Hillary Clinton?” he asked.
“Only a noble person of character could stand up in the face of that pressure,” he concluded, “but they would have to be willing to do so at the risk of sacrificing at least their career, if not putting their life at risk.”
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Posted: 6 months 3 weeks ago

Clinton Foundation pay-to-play behi...

<div id="attachment_3840551" style="width: 606px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="/files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen.jpg"><img class="wp-image-3840551 size-full" src="http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen.jpg" width="596" height="283" srcset="/files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen.jpg 596w, /files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen-300x142.jpg 300w, /files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen-340x161.jpg 340w, /files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen-133x63.jpg 133w, /files/2016/11/fethullah-gulen-181x86.jpg 181w" sizes="(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px" /></a>Fethullah Gulen (gulenmovement.ca)</div>
NEW YORK – The Clinton Foundation was engaged in a pay-to-play scheme to obtain Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s support for giving asylum to the Turkish Muslim preacher the Erdogan government holds responsible for the attempted coup, Fethullah Gulen, according to sources close to the Turkish government and emails released by WikiLeaks and Judicial Watch.
Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin sent several emails that suggest she was the intermediary between Gulen’s organization in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains and the Clinton Foundation.
Sources close to the Turkish government have explained to WND on the condition of anonymity their concern that a Clinton Foundation pay-to-play scheme is behind the Obama administration refusal to extradite Gulen, the radical Turkish imam the Turkish government considers the mastermind behind the failed July 15 coup.
The Gulen movement boasts an estimated 8 million followers worldwide and $50 billion in assets.
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One of Gulen’s two lieutenants in the United States, Gokhan Ozkok, sent Abedin an email on May 22, 2009, praising Clinton and requesting a renewal of contact.
It was four months after Clinton became secretary of state.
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“Secretary Clinton is also the beginning of and the reason for our success in ‘converting’ the Turkish American community and its leaders to the Democratic Party and its values and leadership,” he said. “We are proud of her and we would be happy if we can reestablish the contact with her after a long time.”
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Abedin also corresponded with Gulen’s second lieutenant in the United States, Recap Ozkan, a major donor to the Clinton Foundation and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. He is the president of the Turkish Cultural Center in New York City.
On June 23, 2009, Ozkan sent Abedin an email saying he had heard Clinton wanted to meet Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, a Turkish academic and diplomat who at the time was the secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the body of 56 Muslims nations that calls itself the “collective voice of the Muslim world.”
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“Dr. Ihsanoglu is also a very close friend of your parents and sends his greetings to you,” Ozkan wrote to Abedin.
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As <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/the-explosive-secret-huma-is-hiding/">WND reported</a>, Abedin’s family runs the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs, which was founded by the Saudi government to help promote the establishment of Islamic law worldwide. <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/hillarys-chief-worked-with-al-qaida-front-man... Abedin served on the editorial board of the institute’s journal with Abdullah Omar Naseef</a>, who founded a financial institution prior to 9/11 to fund Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.
On Sept. 28, 2009, Ozkok sent Abedin an email with the subject line “Turkish American Invitation to Secretary Clinton” in which he communicated that the <a href="http://rumiforum.org">Rumi Forum</a> – a group for which Fetullah Gulen had been the honorary president since 1999 – wanted to give Hillary Clinton “the prestigious 2009 Rumi Peace and Dialogue Award for Extraordinary Service.”
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Wikileaks has tracked Gulen since 2012, when it began publishing some 5 million emails from the Texas-based “global intelligence” community Stratfor, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/15/1532300_gulen-movement-turkey-s-th... a Stratfor internal email dated Nov. 18, 2009</a>, warning that the Fetullah Gulen Community, known as the “Gulen movement,” controlled millions of dollars and was in the process of <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/hillarys-ties-the-shady-islamic-cler... a network of some 160 high schools</a> in some 25 U.S. states to promote a radical Islamic ideology under the guise of being a democracy movement.
The warning was repeated in <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21283">an Aug. 12, 2014, memo released by WikiLeaks</a> addressed to John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Podesta was forwarded a notice that the State Department had notified the National Security Council that Turkish charter schools in America were being established by Turkish nationals “with questionable credentials.”
The schools had benign-sounding names, such as Ohio Horizon Science Academies, as a guise to teach radical Islamic theology.
Financial ties to Clintons
Leaders of the Gulen movement have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, as well as to the Clinton Foundation, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/22/followers-of-a-mysterious-turkish-isla... Daily Caller reported in November 2015</a>.
One of the biggest donors is Gulen lieutenant Ozkan, who is listed on the Turkish Cultural Center’s website as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Ozkhan <a href="https://warsclerotic.com/category/hillary-clinton-and-Fetullah-gulen/">gave between $500,001 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation in 2015</a>.
The Podesta Group, managed by John Podesta’s brother Tony Podesta, filed <a href="http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=... lobbying registration form effective May 12, 2016, </a> disclosing the group had been hired by the <a href="http://afsv.org">Alliance for Shared Values in New York</a>, a <a href="https://www.guidestar.org/PartnerReport.aspx?ein=46-0647083&Partner=...(c)(3) non-profit organization </a>that operates as an umbrella organization for various Gulen-affiliated organizations in the United States, including the Rumi Forum.
‘Terrorist organization’
Since his self-imposed exile to the United States in 1999, Gulen has operated what Turkey has characterized as the Fetullah Terrorist Organization, FETO, under the guise of providing educational services.
The Erdogan government has charged that a group within the Turkish army associated with FETO launched the coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 that resulted in the deaths of 240 people.
“Under their deviant religious ideology, FETO considers it legitimate to engage in all kinds of self-defensive deception, conspiracy, trap and illegal activities to achieve its objectives,” states a 2016 bulletin prepared by Turkey’s government-run press service, the Anadolu Agency, titled “FETO’s Coup Attempt in Turkey.
“With years of confidential training and dissuasion activities, members of the terrorist organization have gained a level of professionalism beyond the comprehension of ordinary people,” the bulletin continues. “Its members operate with a radical ‘devotion’ and see themselves as the ‘chosen ones’; they switch identities and commit all types of illegal acts, including murder if need be.”
The Obama administration says it is reviewing the Turkish government’s demand that Gulen be extradited.
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/07/20/erdogan-says-u-s-m... Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned</a> in July there “could even be a questioning of our friendship” if the U.S. doesn’t hand over Gulen.
<a href="http://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2016/11/02/half-a-million-pieces... Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek declared at a press conference in Washington</a> that Turkey has overwhelming evidence Gulen was behind the failed July 15 coup attempt.
“We don’t have any doubt that Fetullah Gulen was the person behind the coup attempt. There are nearly half a million pieces of evidence including informative statements that we have presented to the U.S. [government] regarding the issue,” Şimşek said at the 35th Annual Conference on U.S.-Turkey Relations organized by the Turkey-U.S. Business Council and the American-Turkish Council (ATC).
On Oct. 19, the 43rd session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as well as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, <a href="http://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2016/10/19/organization-of-islam... to list FETO as a terrorist group</a>.
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