Posted on 05/31/2016 9:20:11 PM PDT by Innovative
Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor plans to vote for Hillary Clinton for president this year, but not because the longtime Republican and former top aide to then-Gen. David Petraeus has had a political conversion. He just thinks Republican Donald Trump is too dangerous to be president.
It will be the first Democratic presidential candidate Ive voted for in my adult life, said Mansoor, a professor of military history at Ohio State University.
Clintons campaign hopes that there are many more national-security-minded Republicans and independents who would vote for her, even grudgingly, rather than see Trump win the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Wonder how much it cost, what she had to promise to buy this guy’s “loyalty”. Just because he was a colonel and a retired military officer doesn’t mean he has two brain cells to rub together or even a smidgen of moral courage.
Read what he has said about the rise of ISIS and to what he attributes that rise. And now he’s gotta go with a national security “expert”? Bullshit!
“the first Democratic presidential candidate Ive voted for in my adult life,
How many did he vote for before his adult life?
Anyone else would have already been indicted, tried, found guilty, sentenced to spend their life in jail and in jail for the rest of their life!
Mansoor.... council on foreign relations..... NWO DIRTBAG
full birds are a dime a dozen anyhow... and Patreus is another national security risk...
Remember when the cllintons used young military officers to serve as waiters for their state dinners? This fellow wants publicity.
“So...even retired military can be naive and LIB-lovers???”
Yes they can. My dad and brother are two examples.
I would suggest that Mansour, who I would think is a smart man, needs to speak directly with Trump and not assume anything.
Did he, also, turn his back on Petraeus's acts of treason with Petraeus's media mistress/lover?
“This memorandum should be published in the Wall Street Journal!”
Will never happen. Rupert Murdoch owns the WSJ, and he hates Trump!
So it is up to us to spread the word and send this email to our relatives, former MI and military people and just friends to let them know the evils of the Clintoon.
“You have to admit that Obama and Hillary are still in favor of putting our soldiers in harm’s way on behalf of various groups of Islamic thugs.
There are still some people who believe themselves “national security conservatives*” and who think our foreign policy is only showing results when body bags are coming home.”
*Bill Kristol’s buddies and friends, who hate Trump and us!”
If crooked traitor Clintoon isn’t guilty, why is her IT aide pleading the 5th!
Clinton IT aide to plead Fifth in email case
The Hill ^ | June 1, 2016 | Julian Hattem
Posted on 6/1/2016, 4:19:12 PM by jazusamo
The man believed to have set up and maintained Hillary Clintons private email server will assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refuse to answer questions as part of an open records lawsuit against the State Department.
Bryan Pagliano will decline to answer questions from Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group, during a deposition scheduled for Monday, his lawyers wrote in a court filing
on Wednesday afternoon.
The move forecloses the possibility that Pagliano would break his months of silence about the server issue, even as scrutiny has intensified on his role.
Paglianos lawyers told Judicial Watch more than a week ago that he would not be answering any questions, they claimed in their filing on Wednesday, and asked that it drop its subpoena. The organization refused.
In the filing, Paglianos lawyers tried to have a federal judge block Judicial Watch from recording his deposition, given his planned refusal to answer questions. The lawyers said that a written transcription of the proceedings should be enough to satisfy the publics interest.
Given the constitutional implications, the absence of any proper purpose for video recording the deposition, and the considerable risk of abuse, the court should preclude Judicial Watch . from creating an audiovisual recording of Mr. Paglianos deposition, they wrote.
Videotaped depositions pose a serious danger to deponents invoking the Fifth Amendment, the lawyers added, pointing to past court decisions warning that the video makes a good soundbite.
According to the filing, Judicial Watch said it would oppose any such motion.
Questions about Paglianos role in Clintons bespoke email arrangement ramped up after he accepted a deal for immunity from the federal government as part of his cooperation with the FBIs ongoing investigation into Clintons setup.
Yet very little is known about Pagliano and how he maintained the server at Clintons New York home.
The IT expert has previously refused to answer questions on Capitol Hill, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights before the House Select Committee on Benghazi and rejecting requests from leaders of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees to answer their questions.
Last month, the State Department said that it had lost the backup archive of Paglianos emails from his time at the department. However, it had been able to cobble together some emails through the accounts of other officials.
Last month, a federal judge gave Judicial Watch the go-ahead to ask Pagliano questions under oath as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit connected to Clintons emails, alongside key Clinton aides such as Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin.
Mills answered questions for roughly seven hours last Friday, during which she claimed never to have seen Pagliano interacting with Clinton or her senior aides.
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