Clinton seeks to use new FBI inquiry as galvanizing force

AP via CBC ^ | 10/31/2016

[Phlap]

When news broke that the FBI had told Congress it had found new emails that may be related to Clinton's use of a private server while secretary of state, speculation about a Clinton White House was quickly replaced by questions about whether a winnable race might slip from her grasp.

[Starboard]

Good point. Its very hard to galvanize people who don’t care.

[ClearCase_guy]

I am reminded of the Profumo Affair in Britain. Government official John Profumo was accused of consorting with prostitutes (who also consorted with Soviet officials, making this a concern of national security).

One of the prostitutes (Mandy Rhys-Davies) was brought into court and questioned by an attorney. The attorney tried to dismiss her claims out-of hand, stating: "Mr. Profumo says that he has never met you."

She replied: "Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?"

Hillary claims she is being persecuted by the FBI? Well, she would say that, wouldn't she? But the fact is that they have abundant reasons to investigate her. No one who is paying attention would dismiss this out-of-hand. She's screwed in the court of public opinion.

[dead]

The medias long and on going campaign to bury all of the Clinton’s misdeeds is as much a part of the story as anything else. History will look at this as the defining example of what can go wrong when a supposedly independent media class actually picks a side and joins the team.

[ETL]

MSNBC is trying to say it's the Russians and what connections does Trump have

Who’s in Putin’s Pocket — Clinton or Trump? (Clinton Uranium RussiaGate scandal)

The New American ^ | August 3, 2016 | William F. Jasper

"according to some calculations, the Uranium One deal, involving top Clinton donors Frank Guistra and Ian Telfer, has transferred as much as 50 percent of projected American uranium production to Kremlin control."

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RUSSIAGATE

Who paid Bill Clinton's $2.5 million commission & $500,000 speaking fee (US uranium to Russia)

qura.com ^ | July 27, 2016 | Sierra Spaulding

Who paid Bill Clinton's $2.5 million commission and $500k speaking fee for brokering the sale of 20% of America's uranium deposits to Russia?

You are speaking about a really interesting deal that ended up giving Vladimir Putin and the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States.

Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. ..."

[Buckeye McFrog]

A Wile E. Coyote strategy if ever I have seen one.

Either WikiLeaks or PO-ed FBI agents are gonna leak those
emails and it’s GAME OVER!

[FlipWilson]

Galvanizing force, you bet it is. We are all galvanized against this insane corruption that is imperling, if not having already, destroying our Republic.

Watergate?!?!? Nixon was a piker.

[mrsmith]

"Denial" will be the first response of even her moderate supporters.
After all: there is no new evidence of her wrong-doing as of yet

This hurts her only with undecideds and leaners.
Which isn't bad.

[ETL]

MSNBC is trying to say it's the Russians and what connections does Trump have

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From Investor's Business Daily, Jan 2012:

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY
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March 2012...

"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."

Medvedev: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ..."

Obama: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."

Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." That statement tells us much about the president's mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration.

Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president's comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase "on all these issues," implying more is at stake than just missile defense."

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn't be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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[Mr Ramsbotham]

Galvanizing force only works on passionate supporters. Outside of her elite inner circle, how many people is that?

Not too many, I'd imagine. The ones who will really be influenced are the wishy-washy moderates and people who don't like Trump and would have been inclined to sit out the election but who now are being galvanized by their fear and distaste for Hillary. Many of them will change their minds.

[Travis McGee]

Nixon deserves an apology.

And this time, “Woodward and Bernstein” (American Pravda = ABCNNBCBS NYT WP) are part of the cover-up team.

[Lou L]

She's brazen, I'll give her that.

Nixon, through shame, resigned. To use shame as a motivation, means that in some inner thought, he knew what he did was wrong. Not only did he know, his profound respect for the institution of the Presidency led him to believe that the right course of action for him was to resign.

Clinton has no shame, and is incapable of allowing it to direct her actions. She's doubling down, hoping that she still has enough followers to back her. She's hoping that they won't see through to the facts, that they'll somehow all think this is just some "right-wing conspiracy," designed to bring her down.

[jsanders2001]

“I didn’t know that Huma was a Muslim spy”! (even though she worked for me for 17 years and we were constantly together)

[Vision Thing]

Hillary the VictimHoodlum

[Flick Lives]

This is the R-rated version of Watergate.

[bert]

By today, I question if there is an inner circle

The grenade decimated the inner circle

[Luke21]

The CNN chatty Cathy’s are quoting Eric Holder this morning about how unfair it is.

[heterosupremacist]

Re : Post #2 ~

*Corruption as a galvanizing force. Sounds about right for a Democrat.*

This truly is galvanizing, but not in the way leftists project!

P.S. I read the story at the link which was only interesting for what was omitted, Not what was printed.

Go, Trump, GO!

[jsanders2001]

< This is now a Watergate-style coverup scandal.

I hate that everyone keeps referring to Hillary as just being involved in a Watergate type scandal. In totality this is at minimum, magnitudes beyond that. If Nixon were alive he'd be grinning ear to ear.

[NetAddicted]

I haven’t heard of that. Totally unbelievable.

[ConservativeDude]

I think that’s entirely correct. And bizarre.

But it took the seamy stuff to make it so. If Weiner weren’t involved, this would be another non-headline. But with Weiner, the media can’t get enough, and the public can’t ignore it.

It’s sort of bizarre. But in the end...just.

I think she might lose. And I haven’t felt that since mid-September.