It's a long way down from being one of Hillary Clinton's favorite colleagues. Alamoudi organized White House events during the Bill Clinton administration. Under Hillary's supervision, he held official positions: Alamoudi was strategically placed at the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department.
That is, until he was arrested and convicted in a bizarre Libyan intelligence/al-Qaeda assassination plot to kill the Saudi crown prince. Libyan intelligence was it? Whatever happened to old Sprockets anyway ?
Later, he was identified by the Treasury Department as an Al-Qaeda fundraiser who had operated inside the United States. 'Infiltration' - page 269: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated WashingtonBy Paul Sperry
Hillary Clinton and Abdurahman Alamoudi were no mere acquaintances. According to an affidavit filed in court by Georgetown professor John Esposito, Alamoudi was asked by Hillary Clinton to arrange the first White House Ramadan iftar dinner in 1996:
[FOX] The Hillary Clinton campaign didn't take long to respond to Donald Trump's comments about how Russia should try to find Clinton's missing 33,000 emails.
"This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent," senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan said. "That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue."
Charles Krauthammer said on "Special Report" tonight that Trump set a trap, and the Clinton campaign fell right into it.
He explained that the Clinton campaign statement said it would be a "national security issue," which contradicts Clinton's repeated asserted that the missing 33,000 emails were all of a personal nature, not work-related.
"If that's what's really in the 33,000 emails, then there's no national security to be involved at all," Krauthammer said. "So the Clinton campaign ends up admitting that perhaps there really is work-related - if not classified - stuff on the emails which she deleted."
Krauthammer said that could be grounds for a charge of obstruction, declaring that the Clinton campaign has been caught in a "complete contradiction."
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Sunk Costs Logic Error: investing more money on a questionable investment. Putin may have bribed her, but that was then and this is now. Does anybody think that HRC (Her Royal Clinton-ness) will stay bought?
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magpie, it depends on how much Putin offers her. Err, I mean the Clinton Foundation.
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Remember Honduras Coup when her lines were contrary to Barry's - she always goes with the highest bidder. That would get expensive, having to out-bid Europe and Saudi Arabia at every decision.
If it was Russia. I still have most of my chips on Inside Job.
As for her time at SoS, remember the tapped conversation between US and Ukraine deriding the sloth of EU decision and action. Yeah, they have them. Question is how many copies were sold.
Over at the CIA and the National Security Agency headquarters, they must be really enjoying watching Democrats in Philadelphia squirm over WikiLeaks’s exposure of tens of thousands of internal Democratic Party emails. There’s a word for what is happening in the intelligence community:
Blowback.
Throughout the entirety of the Obama administration, nothing was done as WikiLeaks damaged our national security with its serial leaks of highly classified intelligence documents.
But WikiLeaks has finally crossed a “red line” (pun intended) that has earned it the Democrats’ outrage. Instead of targeting the CIA or the NSA, WikiLeaks has gone after an organization Democrats actually care about — the Democratic National Committee.
If I were a conservative commentator who had the chance to opine on this on television in any broadcast, my one, single message would be this: "Wiki can't leak what isn't there to leak in the first place. The DNC staffers wrote these emails. Not one of them yet has been cashiered. Tells you all you need to know about the Democrats."
[BusinessDay Live] THE first black leader of SA's main opposition party on Tuesday accused the ruling ANC of running a racist election campaign, ahead of fiercely fought municipal polls.
DA leader Mmusi Maimane is hoping to lead his party to a breakthrough result on August 3, as the country struggles with record unemployment and flat-lining economic growth.
"They say if you are black, you must vote for the party (ANC)," Maimane told an election rally in central Johannesburg.
"That’s not the SA we want. To me that rings and sounds like racism."
President Jacob Zuma last week told black voters to rally behind the ANC party, denouncing the DA -- widely seen as a party of middle-class whites -- as the "spawn" of the apartheid government. Zuma has been engulfed by a series of graft scandals as well as anger over the country’s poor economic performance, fuelling DA confidence that the all-powerful ANC could be dealt a major blow at the election. I hope none of those items recently stolen from Naval Base Simon's Town mysteriously turn up in Maimane's garage.
[CatholicHerald] Fr Jacques Hamel died a martyr’s death. Of this there can be no question. The 85-year-old priest was at the altar offering the sacrifice of Mass, the moment in which the Church makes present the sacrifice of Christ’s body and blood for the salvation of the world, and his blood was literally mingled with that of Christ. The savagery of the attack has left the secular world, and many in the Church, stunned. While there is a natural human revulsion to such crazed brutality, the Church was founded on such acts of bloody witness to the faith.
As Damian Thompson rightly pointed out for the Herald yesterday, what appears as an almost unimaginable horror in La Belle France is, tragically, a reality of daily Christian life for those living in Iraq and many other places in the Middle East. I say tragically; any loss of human life is surely a tragedy, but what the Church has proclaimed, from the moment of its foundation, is that the martyr’s crown is glorious. The willingness to receive death for the faith, rather than to deal it out, it the counter-intuitive core of the Christian witness of radical love, and what sets it apart from the pagan religions against which it was first proclaimed. One of the earliest legends concerning the conversion of St George is that, as a soldier in the Imperial Court, he converted after witnessing a Christian accept a sentence of death rather than recant their faith. This, he is supposed to have observed, is true courage to shame any soldier.
When Oscar Romero was beatified last year, many thought his cause was long overdue. Here was a man who had been killed in the very act of saying Mass, surely this was a martyr’s death. Others were more sceptical, not of the late Archbishop’s courage or holiness, but of his prudence by continuing to appear in public despite knowing the great risk of being killed for having spoken out against the violent oppression of the people; the question was asked: was his murder was really in odium fidei, or if it was more personally directed? Wherever you happen to be on that question, there is no such doubt in the case of Fr Hamel: he was killed simply and solely because he was a priest, in a church, offering Mass. The emerging accounts of the murders having preached their rationale from the altar immediately before or after martyring the priest only underscores the immediacy of their hatred for the faith.
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hmmmm - I say no. Murdered by Islam, socialism just drove the car.
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This is one of the key differences between Christian and Muslim martyrs. A Christian martyr is killed for his or her faith. A Muslim martyr kills himself and tries to kill as many other people as possible.
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Murdered. Period.
By adherents to a shared psychosis.
[Haaretz] Every general with few wars to fight and time on his hands to think about power or self-aggrandizement knows the recipe for staging a coup d’etat.
You wait for the leader you’re toppling to be out of the country. Ifhe’s not, you make sure you take him prisoner in the first hour or so.
You dispatch the troops at dawn so that the country awakens to a fait accompli. You seize control of major transportation infrastructure, like bridges and airports. Other troops are dispatched to take over television and radio stations.
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[Free Beacon] A leading federal regulator appeared to signal her support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid at a Tuesday event near the Democratic National Convention that also featured a senior adviser to the Clinton campaign.
Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn suggested that Clinton, not Republican rival Donald Trump, would be the next president of the United States in remarks made in her official capacity.
Clyburn, a former acting chair of the FCC, "suggested she’s ready to take a larger role if called to do so again," according to a Communications Daily report on the event.
"I’m looking forward, whatever my title is, to working with whoever she is that will be elected soon," Clyburn said. She then acknowledged her use of the word "she."
[PJ] Oh, the vapors, the vapors! Donald Trump has done it again. He has a gone a bridge too far for the 150th time, but on this occasion taken us all the way across the Bering Straits to the very edge of the Gulag Archipelago. He has urged Vladimir Putin to reveal the contents of Hillary Clinton's gazillion missing emails the FBI somehow couldn't find.
Traitor! Traitor! yell the well-intentioned, like former SecDef Leon Panetta. This selfish yellow-haired plutocrat must be disqualified from the presidency!
Never mind that Putin would need no encouragement whatsoever from any outsider to hack the wide-open server of the former secretary of state, nor would the intelligence services of at least a dozen other first-world countries (they all do it--we were listening to Merkel's cell phone ourselves, it will be recalled), not to mention the who-knows-how-many non-state actors and twelve-year-old high-tech whippersnappers with the skill to do this.
Never mind that Trump was undoubtedly far less interested in making friends with Putin than in calling attention to the obvious relationship between Hillary's home-brew server and the similarly wide-open server of the DNC that Mrs. Clinton claimed to know nothing about. Her media lackeys on 60 Minutes made sure no one paid attention (hello, Scott Pelley!).
[Breitbart] Sigourney Weaver spoke in support of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the party’s national convention in Philadelphia on Wednesday, where she discussed her "deep concern" about climate change while introducing a warning video directed by James Cameron.
"As an American, I am also deeply concerned about my family’s future, indeed about our shared future as a nation, because that future is at risk," the 66-year-old Alien star and environmental activist said.
"You see, when we talk about greenhouse gases, warming temperatures or deadlier droughts, even more destructive storms, what we’re really talking about is people," Weaver added. "They’re the people you’re going to see in a few moments, people whose lives are affected by climate change right here in America, right now."
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I understand the moral obligation of persecuting anybody who claims the Sun doesn't circle the Earth but vise versa. After all, you can see the truth with your own eyes - all you need is a bit of patience.
#4
not that Siggy would care but the corn, wheat and soybean crop in the US are all in pretty good shape as of yesterday
the Gulf of Mexico has set a record for longest period of NOT having a hurricane
the Atlantic has gone all July without a named storm
the arctic icepack is larger than last year
Posted by: lord garth ||
07/28/2016 8:36 Comments ||
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As I've said before, why the hell do we care what ANY person from Hollyweird says? In general, their only qualifications are that they are usually better looking than average (Barbra Streisand excepted), and they are good at pretending to be somebody else.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
07/28/2016 8:59 Comments ||
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There is no Hillary. There is only Zulu!
Snark of the day. And you beat me to it...
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/28/2016 9:35 Comments ||
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Point taken Rambler. My bad, but we are talking totally alien.
[Reddit] Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock...
Hillary, you think you can run the clock 133 more days?!
You haven't spoken to the press openly since Donald was on the ticket!
How you gonna be hard on Putin if you can't even putin the time to talk to reporters?
Trump's doing 4 interviews a day, and you're...
I got a buddy at Guiness Book who is looking to break the record for your silence!
el oh el
#1
She's the smartest woman in the world but can't take non-softball questions
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/28/2016 9:37 Comments ||
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C'mon folks. The new Hilarity v6.0 has a superior exoskeleton and completely life-like movement. It's programmed to mimic a 8575 69 year old woman shuffling down a nursing home hallway. It has even fooled the experts with that coded throat-clearing "cough". Unfortunately the AI isn't up to spontaneous questioning, even from a sycophantic press, and it sure won't look human under any significant stress.
So this is what you get for now. The new v7 due in January is going to be a major upgrade.
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[LI] Just last week, my husband (a licensed therapist) and I were discussing the pro-life cause and how the lasting mental health ramifications are criminally underreported. He explained that of the many issues women face, there is seldom any trauma he’s encountered that rivals the aftermath of abortion.
A new documentary, "Hush", explores what really happens to women, both physically and mentally post-abortion.
"Women who have an abortion history are at a higher risk for substance use, for anxiety, for depression..." one of the film’s participants explains. "This really has nothing to do with the morality of abortion, per se, it’s the morality of telling the truth about it."
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Any other entity that suppressed or hid information concerning their product or services that lead to the deaths of it's 'customers', would be keelhauled in the media and community. There's an entire industry of tort lawyers advertizing daily about such injuries. However, the number of deaths due to complications from legal abortions is suppressed to the utmost to protect the narrative. Just consider it another modern version of human sacrifice to the god of power.
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abortion history are at a higher risk for substance use, for anxiety, for depression..."
Which is the chicken and which the egg?
It seems to me that women who get pregnant with little or no thought to keeping/having the baby are probably fair candidates to be all those things first.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/28/2016 12:14 Comments ||
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women who get pregnant
Sorry, 'victims of poor impulse control and known unintended consequences' is no more applicable than blaming 'poor hygiene' and 'toilet seats'.
There are psychological ramifications for the host to the deliberate interruption of physiological development processes that are not shared by the enablers.
They lose any argument based on morality so their only arguments are based on convenience. The "pushers" suffer no consequences but do gain the profits.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] Right now, 
[BusinessDay Live] THE first black leader of SA's main opposition party on Tuesday accused the ruling ANC of running a racist election campaign, ahead of fiercely fought municipal polls.
[CatholicHerald] Fr Jacques Hamel died a martyr’s death. Of this there can be no question. The 85-year-old priest was at the altar offering the sacrifice of Mass, the moment in which the Church makes present the sacrifice of Christ’s body and blood for the salvation of the world, and his blood was literally mingled with that of Christ. The savagery of the attack has left the secular world, and many in the Church, stunned. While there is a natural human revulsion to such crazed brutality, the Church was founded on such acts of bloody witness to the faith.
[Haaretz] Every general with few wars to fight and time on his hands to think about power or self-aggrandizement knows the recipe for staging a coup d’etat.
[Free Beacon] A leading federal regulator appeared to signal her support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid at a Tuesday event near the Democratic National Convention that also featured a senior adviser to the Clinton campaign.
[Breitbart] Sigourney Weaver spoke in support of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the party’s national convention in Philadelphia on Wednesday, where she discussed her "deep concern" about climate change while introducing a warning video directed by James Cameron.
