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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?


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KEYWORDS: benghazi; clinton; hillaryclinton
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To: Kaslin

To paraphrase the late Senator Roman Hruska, R-NE, “even criminals need a little representation too.”


21 posted on 08/27/2015 6:14:32 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: rfreedom4u

The American people “think” she and her husband “care” about them.


22 posted on 08/27/2015 6:15:12 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Kaslin
Sounds like that "Ancient Aliens" program. Just a bunch of never to be resolved "what-if" propositions.

“What if your mama was really a 10,000 year old Alfa Centurion sent here to breed extra terrestrial dna into humans to create a dysfunctional population, for the purpose of providing entertaining “reality tv” for the bored mollusk like creatures, back on the home planet?

What is I turn off my computer and go to work...

23 posted on 08/27/2015 6:15:19 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: zzwhale

“We the people” have put these same ol’ same ol’ officials in office: 2014 was a great example of the ineptitude of Republican primary voters. Why would 2016 be different?


24 posted on 08/27/2015 6:16:20 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Au contraire, my homie. It's much more eloquent for the judge to ax the question "what if" than to state the declarative "Hillary Clinton allegedly blahblah..."

Each "what if" is a rhetorical nail in the bitch's coffin - metaphorically speaking, mind you. :)

25 posted on 08/27/2015 6:17:27 AM PDT by OKSooner (Chamberlain at least loved his country, please don't insult his memory by comparing him to 0.)
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To: Nep Nep
you'd have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to be able to connect the dots.

You must have inadvertently nailed it: are the American people blind, deaf, and dumb? Maybe not physically but certainly politically

26 posted on 08/27/2015 6:17:47 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Kaslin

What if the Uni-party, like all of Washington D C is a criminal conspiracy? A conspiracy that makes Al Capone look like a sidewalk hustler.
Oh wait. That is not a what if. It is a fact.


27 posted on 08/27/2015 6:18:43 AM PDT by Tupelo (Trump is no Reagan, but he is a fighter.")
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To: Kaslin

Hillary Clinton is a traitor...and so is Obama.

They funded and operated, against the law, terrorist in Egypt and in Syria, and they funneled weapons to them through a wholly illegal operation out of Libya that got the Ambassador there killed.

They both know this...and many of their appointed officials, and other elected officials know it. They have lied about it and covered it up.

Thank God the Egyptian people and their military through the terrorists out in Egypt...and now they have executed the better part of them.

I think, that in their holding cells and interrogation rooms, the Egyptian intelligence probably got a boat load f information about all of this. I wonder when...and if...they will ever use it?


28 posted on 08/27/2015 6:20:03 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Kaslin

What all of her actions benefitted the strategic goals of the muslim brotherhood, whose agent is her mistress?


29 posted on 08/27/2015 6:21:17 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Jeff Head

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

There is NO “what if’s” about it, the woman is pure evil, a habitual liar, thinks she is above everyone else, is a known thief (remember the stolen white house property), etc.

Then people have the nerve to compare her to Trump. I see no comparison there in any way.


30 posted on 08/27/2015 6:24:40 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: blueunicorn6

Had Qadaffi been captured, tried and put to death using typical methods of capital punishment (which is the American way), we could say that her statement, “We came, we saw, he died.” would have been mildly appropriate for a SOS of the US to utter.

As it was, her cackling about his torture and death was demeaning to the office she held as a representative of this once great country.


31 posted on 08/27/2015 6:25:24 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Kaslin

Another What If.

What if China KNOWS all this due to her unsecured email servers that were hacked every day by Chinese operatives?


32 posted on 08/27/2015 6:26:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Kaslin
What If Hillary Clinton Doesn't Care?

FIRST: The ONLY thing that evil bitch has ever cared about is HERSELF!

Of course Hussein knew of her illegal activities, and if she gets cornered, I think she will spill the dirt on him in an attempt to save her worthless hide.

33 posted on 08/27/2015 6:30:20 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (America for Americans - what's wrong with that?)
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To: Kaslin
"What If?"

Looks like some 3 dozen "What If?"'s here. Here's the obvious anwer:

 

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34 posted on 08/27/2015 6:32:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Nep Nep

You mean like maybe contributing millions to the Bill Hill and Chelsea shake down organization?
Nahhh,
Ok maybe


35 posted on 08/27/2015 6:37:47 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Ever get the feeling that the time has come to start treating the Saudis and other despotic Gulf regimes as the mortal enemies they really are?


36 posted on 08/27/2015 6:41:11 AM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: Kaslin

Didn’t the judge write another column like this a few months back or was that someone else? Very similar and familiar to another one I read.


37 posted on 08/27/2015 6:53:12 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Reddy

“”As it was, her cackling about his torture and death was demeaning to the office she held as a representative of this once great country””

Boy! Ain’t that the truth? Very, very inappropriate!


38 posted on 08/27/2015 6:54:51 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Jeff Head

“”They have lied about it and covered it up.””

That was clear when she gave her answer to Gowdy in one of the hearings when he asked about funneling weapons to Turkey from Libya. Her answer gave her away - “TURKEY? I’ll have to check.” I wonder if Gowdy ever pressed her for an answer after she “checked.”


39 posted on 08/27/2015 6:59:27 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Kaslin
You know that expression "No matter where you go, there you are?"

With that thought in mind, take a long look at Hilly's history while pondering what sort of belief system would allow or even mandate that she act as she does and do the things that she's done.

See what I mean? Give her an "A" for consistency, she's always been a very bad girl.

So, now ponder the belief system that would make someone like her Sec. of State.

I just ran a System Sanity Check and it came back "WTF, OVER?!?"

Looks to me like sick, twisted, sadistic freaks fundamentally transforming America in their "Call me Cait" image and presenting that image to the world.

I think I need a 12 Step program, but I don't think they have one for this yet.

"Hi My name is John Doe. Now, you can call me "Jaded" or you can call me "Nauseous" or you can call me "Appalled", but y'doesn't hasta call me "Cait"."

40 posted on 08/27/2015 7:05:21 AM PDT by GBA (Just a hick in paradise)
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