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What If Hillary Clinton Doesn't Care?
Townhall.com ^ | August 27, 2015 | Judge Andrew Napolitano

Posted on 08/27/2015 5:48:10 AM PDT by Kaslin

What if former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been pulling the wool over our eyes for years?

What if, while she was secretary of state, she ran two secret wars, one in Libya and one in Syria? What if there already were wars in each of those countries, so she used those wars as covers for her own?

What if President Obama gave permission for her to do this? What if the president lacks the legal authority to authorize anyone to fight secret wars? What if she obtained the consent of a dozen members of Congress from both houses and from both political parties? What if those few members of Congress who approved of her wars lacked the legal authority to authorize them?

What if her goal was to overthrow two dictators, one friendly to the U.S. and one not? What if the instruments of her war did not consist of American military troops, but rather State Department intelligence assets and American-made military-grade heavy weapons?

What if under federal law the secretary of state and the secretary of the Treasury are permitted on their own to issue licenses to American arms dealers to sell arms to the governments of foreign countries? What if Clinton secretly authorized the sale of American-made military-grade weapons to the government of Qatar? What if Qatar is a small Middle Eastern country, the government of which is beholden to and largely controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood?

What if the Muslim Brotherhood is a recognized terrorist organization? What if the U.S. has no lawful or military purpose for putting military hardware into the hands of a government that supports or is controlled by a terrorist organization?

What if the real purpose of sending military hardware to Qatar was for it to end up in the hands of rebels in Syria and Libya? What if it got there? What if some of those rebels are known al-Qaida operatives? What if some of those operatives who received the American military hardware used it to assault Americans and American interests?

What if among those assaulted was the U.S. ambassador to Libya? What if Ambassador Christopher Stevens was assassinated in Benghazi, Libya, by al-Qaida operatives who were using American-made military-grade hardware that Clinton knowingly sent to them?

What if the U.S. had no strategic interest in deposing the government of Libya? What if Congress never declared war on Libya? What if Col. Gadhafi, the then-dictator of Libya who was reprehensible, was nevertheless an American ally whose fights against known terrorist organizations had garnered him praise from President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair?

What if the U.S. had no strategic interest in deposing the dictator of Syria, President Assad? What if Congress never declared war on Syria? What if the government of Syria, though reprehensible, has been fighting a war against groups and militias, some of whom have been designated as terrorist organizations by the secretary of state? What if that secretary of state was Hillary Clinton?

What if Clinton had a political interest in deposing the governments of Libya and Syria? What if her goal in fighting these secret wars was to claim triumph for herself over Middle Eastern despots? What if it is a federal crime to fight a private war against a foreign government? What if it is a federal crime to provide material assistance to terrorist organizations? What if these are crimes no matter who consents or approves?

What if, when asked about this while testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Clinton professed ignorance? What if it is a federal crime for a witness to lie to or mislead Congress?

What if the outcome of Clinton's war in Libya has been the destruction of the Gadhafi government and ensuing chaos? What if that chaos has brought terror and death to many thousands of innocents in Libya? What if Clinton has failed to achieve any noticeable result with her secret war in Syria?

What if she managed these wars on an email system that was not secured in a government venue? What if she did that to keep her thoughts and actions secret from the president and from the State Department in case she failed to win the wars? What if she used a BlackBerry she bought at Walmart instead of a secure and encrypted government-issued phone?

What if her management of these wars on the private email system exposed national security secrets to anyone who could hack into her server or her router? What if the server or the router had been kept in the bathroom of an apartment of an employee of a computer company in Denver, Colo., and not under lock and key and armed guard in her home in New York as she has represented?

What if Clinton just doesn't care whether she has broken any federal laws, illegally caused the deaths of thousands of innocents, and profoundly jeopardized and misled the American people?

What if the American people do care about all this? What will they do about it?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: benghazi; clinton; hillaryclinton
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1 posted on 08/27/2015 5:48:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Before we consider if she “doesn’t” care, they’d first have to convince me that she “EVER” cared.


2 posted on 08/27/2015 5:52:22 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Kaslin

Arh, too many what ifs.


3 posted on 08/27/2015 5:53:15 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Kaslin

This is how you can accuse without the chance of being sued. This is how you can get something into the conversation.
Just posit it as questions instead of statements of fact.
Remove the question marks and what ifs.
He he he! Very cleverly done


4 posted on 08/27/2015 5:55:25 AM PDT by Macoozie ("Estoy votando por Ted 2016!" bumper stickers available)
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To: Kaslin
What if, while she was secretary of state, she ran two secret wars, one in Libya and one in Syria?

Those were and are McCain's wars. Stick to legal issues Judge.

5 posted on 08/27/2015 5:56:16 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Sounds like many for the first time in a long time, the JUdge might be on to something.


6 posted on 08/27/2015 5:57:04 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: Kaslin
If someone had asked these questions 12 months ago, they'd be called a tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.

Today, you'd have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to be able to connect the dots.

I'd add one more question though: What if Clinton was paid by foreign governments to engage in these wars?

7 posted on 08/27/2015 5:58:16 AM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: Kaslin

bump


8 posted on 08/27/2015 6:00:11 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: Kaslin

what if rhetorical questioning gets repetitive and tiresome?


9 posted on 08/27/2015 6:00:23 AM PDT by McBuff
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To: Kaslin

What if I was a libertarian and Townhall would pay me by the word to indirectly help prop up some feckless RINO?

What if I had so little self-respect that I would take their money and write nonsense?


10 posted on 08/27/2015 6:00:38 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: nikos1121

What if she wins


11 posted on 08/27/2015 6:00:54 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Kaslin

Hillary Clinton joked about Qadaffi being killed. And Qadaffi died in a horrible manner.

She sounded like she was a competitor with Qadaffi. What was she competing with him for?

His wealth. Hillary hasn’t done a damn thing to help the people of Libya after she had Qadaffi murdered. That’s because she never cared about the people of Libya. She cared about Qadaffi’s wealth.

Think about it.

She said about Qadaffi, “We came. We saw. He died.”

Does that sound like someone discussing foreign policy, or like a competitor gloating over a victory?

Hillary did some bad things concerning Libya and Qadaffi.

Some very bad things.


12 posted on 08/27/2015 6:04:31 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: McBuff

What if rhetorical questioning allows one to say things one could not say otherwise without a defamation lawsuit?


13 posted on 08/27/2015 6:04:54 AM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: blueunicorn6

Sounds like someone proud of accomplishing the task she got paid handsomely for.


14 posted on 08/27/2015 6:05:43 AM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: Kaslin

Except:
1.) the FBI is used by this administration to obstruct justice, not investigate crime as required under the law
2.) obama was a party to all of it
3.) amerika is a bananna republic with no rule of law
4.) the Constitution is now meaningless
5.) this administration rules by blackmail, bribery payoffs and crony kickbacks
6.) congress is too busy enriching itself to care
7. we the people are not represented and dont count
8.) the repubs and dems represent the same power people and companies and special interests who buy them like the cheap whores they are...
that is why the repubs are furiously trying to get Bush in by any means possible and if they dont so what .. Clintoon or whoever is bought and paid for anyhow.
America is sold out and beong taken down by both parties in the favor of globalists (wealthy elite) for their financial gain and political power.
Look around... the central banks are manipulating markets and economis for the gain of a select few insiders represented by the big banks... AS IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN.


15 posted on 08/27/2015 6:08:42 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Kaslin

A psychopath is incapable of “caring”.


16 posted on 08/27/2015 6:08:55 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Kaslin

What if Clinton just doesn’t care whether she has broken any federal laws, illegally caused the deaths of thousands of innocents, and profoundly jeopardized and misled the American people?

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Judge ... you are VERY late to the party. When has she EVER cared about anyone but her own interests & how much money she can rake in from whatever she can manipulate into a cash cow?


17 posted on 08/27/2015 6:09:12 AM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss)
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To: Gaffer

But she does care.

About obtaining more power, more money, more followers...etc.....


18 posted on 08/27/2015 6:10:11 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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To: rfreedom4u

Well, yes....but that is understood all along. I think they’re talking about care for others.


19 posted on 08/27/2015 6:11:18 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Kaslin

What if, after all this, Americans didn’t care how much of a criminal she is and elected her anyway? Then, we’ll know the America experiment is over.


20 posted on 08/27/2015 6:12:41 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberalism is the poison ivy that infests the garden of society.)
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