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COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU – BOMBS AWAY

Trump did not pull any punches. (click)The button was pushed and the package delivered via airmail to Syria. Russia has vigorously objected to this act of “aggression.” But really what can they do? Their tough talk is only that; they will not find any advantage in raising the stakes in this conflict. Dead bodies don’t go over well in Mother Russia. As it is 200 Russians were killed in the last exchange. So when more bodies appear in the tarmac news spreads fast. Believe us when we say it, Putin loves blood, however mothers don’t.

Vlad the Animal Lover may be in for the cage fight of his life. Other Western nations including the United States have failed to stop autocratic dictators from exercising their power through force or the threat of force. Obama’s Red Line in Syria is now the focus of today’s conflict; a quagmire that can be the predecessor of WWIII. The taking of Crimea by Vlad is another example of Obama’s tough talk without the walk to back it up. Suddenly we find ourselves in a very precarious situation. But we must admit that presidents before Obama also caved in when it was time to point the gun at our adversaries. Now we are into a confrontation without the ability to hold back. A package must be delivered to these dictators.

Trump’s pick for secretary of state to tell senators years of soft policy toward Moscow ‘now over’

Mike Pompeo, whom President Trump chose for his next secretary of state, is expected to tell the Senate during his confirmation hearing Thursday that years of soft policy toward Russian aggression are “now over.”

According to his prepared remarks obtained Wednesday by Fox News from a senior Trump administration official, Pompeo will chastise Russia for acting “aggressively” and emphasize that the national security strategy of the Trump administration considers Russia “a danger to our country.”

TAKING AMERICA BACK

From the liberals of course, but it can also mean a pull back from adventure or on the other hand a more aggressive foreign policy that brings us back to the days of carrot and stick. The most important thing though is the throwing overboard of the Obama legacy, which by the way turned into a big fat zero, nothing accomplished in eight exhausted years.

And let’s not stop there,  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ” was a disaster according to Trump”, “bad experience did not Trump good experience .  The microscopic focus on Trump’s pick for Secretary  of State is turning into a soap opera. The pundits weighing in on experience of the potential wannabees. Please tell us what experience Hillary Clinton had. Excuse us for asking, we forgot she was the first lady, then a useless carpetbagging senator with a big mouth. Believe us when we tell you that Russ Tillerson will be a great addition to the cabinet and an asset to the Trump Team.

HILLARY CLINTON’S BENGHAZI CARAVAN FROM FOX NEWS

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Last month, I retired from the State Department after 25 years of public service as a Foreign Service officer. As the Deputy Chief of Mission for Libya, I was the last person in Tripoli to speak with Ambassador Chris Stevens before he was murdered in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on our Benghazi post. On this, the fourth anniversary of the Benghazi tragedy, I would like to offer a different explanation for Benghazi’s relevance to the presidential election than is usually found in the press.

Just as the Constitution makes national security the President’s highest priority, U.S. law mandates the secretary of state to develop and implement policies and programs “to provide for the security … of all United States personnel on official duty abroad.

This includes not only the State Department employees, but also the CIA officers in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. And the Benghazi record is clear: Secretary Clinton failed to provide adequate security for U.S. government personnel assigned to Benghazi and Tripoli.

The Benghazi Committee’s report graphically illustrates the magnitude of her failure. It states that during August 2012, the State Department reduced the number of U.S. security personnel assigned to the Embassy in Tripoli from 34 (1.5 security officers per diplomat) to 6 (1 security officer per 4.5 diplomats), despite a rapidly deteriorating security situation in both Tripoli and Benghazi. Thus, according to the Report, “there were no surplus security agents” to travel to Benghazi with Amb. Stevens “without leaving the Embassy in Tripoli at severe risk.”

Had Ambassador Stevens’ July 2012 request for 13 additional American security personnel (either military or State Department) been approved rather than rejected by Clinton appointee Under Secretary of State for Management Pat Kennedy, they would have traveled to Benghazi with the ambassador, and the Sept. 11 attack might have been thwarted.

U.S. law also requires the secretary of state to ensure that all U.S. government personnel assigned to a diplomatic post abroad be located at one site. If not, the secretary — and only the secretary — with the concurrence of the agency head whose personnel will be located at a different location, must issue a waiver. The law, which states specifically that the waiver decision cannot be delegated, was passed after the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa, when deficient security was blamed for that debacle under Bill Clinton’s presidency.

When asked about security at Benghazi on Sept. 11, Mrs. Clinton has repeatedly asserted her lack of responsibility. Initially, she said that she never read any of the reporting on security conditions or any of the requests for additional security, claiming that “she delegated security to the professionals.” More recently, she stated that “[I]t was not my ball to carry.” But the law says otherwise. Sound familiar?

Her decision to allow the Benghazi consulate to be separate from the CIA annex divided scarce resources in a progressively deteriorating security environment. U.S. personnel assigned to Benghazi tried to overcome this severe disadvantage through an agreement that the security personal from each facility would rush to the other facility’s aid in the event it was attacked. The division of our security resources in Benghazi is the root cause of the “stand down” order controversy so vividly portrayed in the movie “13 Hours.”

Notably, one of the primary goals of Ambassador Stevens’ fatal visit was to begin consolidating our Benghazi personnel into one facility, which would have concentrated our security posture in Benghazi’s volatile and violent environment.

There are no punitive measures for breaching these two laws. Mrs. Clinton will not have to appear before judge and jury to account for her failures. Is this why she felt these laws could be ignored? Because she is now the Democratic presidential candidate, only the American electorate will have the opportunity to hold her accountable.

Candidate Clinton and her campaign point to her record as secretary of state as a positive qualification for the presidency.

However, the record shows that Secretary Clinton persuaded the president to overthrow Qaddafi and advocated maintaining a diplomatic presence in Benghazi after the Libyan revolution. And then she abandoned her diplomats by ignoring her security obligations. She sent Ambassador Stevens to Benghazi during the 2011 revolution and then induced him to return in the first few months of his tenure, which accounted for his September visit there. Despite the fact that Sidney Blumenthal had alerted her to the increasing danger for Americans in Benghazi and Libya, Mrs. Clinton apparently never asked security professionals for an updated briefing on the situation in Libya. Either she could not correlate the increased tempo of attacks in Libya with the safety of our diplomats, demonstrating fatal incompetence, or she was grossly negligent.

If Mrs. Clinton was unable to fulfill her security obligations to the federal employees she was legally obligated to protect as secretary of state, how can we trust her with the security of our entire country? I won’t.

AMERICA IS CATCHING THE BIRD – START SINGING THE JAIL HOUSE ROCK

Worse than “El Chapo” , Hillary Clintonstonewall is about to face the music; we can’t wait till the whole cell block sings the Jail House Rock.

Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock
Everybody on the whole cell block
They was dancing to the jailhouse rock

The recently released State Department inspector general report, which found Hillary Clinton broke government rules with her personal email use, increases “the likelihood and pressure” for the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges, an intelligence source familiar with the FBI investigation told Fox News.

The ongoing FBI criminal probe — investigating Clinton’s emails practices as secretary of state — is focused on whether the more than 2,100 classified emails discovered on her server constitute a violation of federal code, including the Espionage Act’s 18 USC 793, known as the “gross negligence” statute. FBI Director James Comey plans to make a recommendation based on the evidence, and if the findings merit criminal charges, the decision to prosecute ultimately rests with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

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STATE DEPARTMENT COVER-UP

Department of State employees continue to cover-up for Hillary Clinton. Under court order to produce Clinton’s emails they have consistently delayed and/or indicated none exist. Now we have learned that they have failed to produce 82% of Clinton’s emails by the December 31, 2015 deadline; blaming the holidays for the delay.

In reality employees of the department are scanning these emails for the smoking gun or guns which will tighten the rope on Clinton’s neck, but obviously not turn these over. John the lackey Kerry is now in charge of what emails are to be released; Kerry gets his orders directly from POTUS.CHAPPAQUA

The newly released emails reveal Clinton and one of her closest aides, Jake Sullivan, had an exchange in September 2010 that showed considerable confusion over her email practices.

The time has come for America to rise up and demand that this rogue candidate be incarcerated in a Federal Prison; she is a traitor to our country a duplicitous liar to boot. If the FBI does not arrest her, then America knows what to do next.

“WIPED CLEAN” MAY NOT BE THE CASE

Further investigation has revealed that Hillary’s private server may not have been wiped clean. “Like what with a cloth?” This revelation is sending shivers up and down the spine of HRC.  From her own words, ” I deleted 30,000 personal emails.” To her they were personal emails, but to investigators that has yet to be determined.

“She is trying to be transparent as she possibly can.” Please Ms. Clinton stop with your lies, the public is sick and tired of your cover up. The facts are these Ms. Clinton, you stole government property, you caused the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in our embassy in Benghazi, Libya. We don’t care what you turned over, we care what is on the emails that were subsequently deleted, these emails are the smoking gun. And please, you never sent or received top secret or sensitive emails. You said that you were aware of what is and what isn’t. Apparently, this was not the case. How can you as Secretary of State not received or sent one classified email. Impossible?

The company in charge of the server, Platte River has no knowledge of the server being wiped,” company spokesman Andy Boian told The Washington Post. “All the information we have is that the server wasn’t wiped.”

And Ms. Clinton, don’t try the blame game and say this is politically motivated. You are the one who put yourself in this position and we want the facts. You say the facts are coming out, coming out of where? Your mouth.

 

ADVICE TO TREY GOWDY “GO TO CHAPPAQUA WITH THE SARGENT OF ARMS AND ARREST THE CRIMINAL”

Former Secretary of State has sanitized the server and ultimately any record of her corrupt dealings as our foreign policy continued to hemorrhage during her tenure. Everything this woman has done is on the sly, from futures trading to banking relationships, to Vince Foster’s suicide to fund razing and ultimately to her Benghazi cover-up.  Bottom line, Clinton is a blatant liar.

The time has come take the necessary steps which involves arresting her for stealing and destroying government records; this lady needs to be brought to justice. Trey Gowdy, who is heading the investigation has the authority to ask the Sargent at Arms to issue an arrest warrant for Clinton.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is a tough, former prosecutor who is Hillary Clinton’s worst nightmare. As the Chair of the Benghazi Select Committee, he is furious at Hillary’s blatant criminal activity.

CHAPPAQUA

From the Republic’s earliest days, Congress has had the right to hold recalcitrant witnesses in contempt — and even imprison them — all by itself. In 1795, shortly after the Constitution was ratified, the House ordered its sergeant at arms to arrest and detain two men accused of trying to bribe members of Congress. The House held a trial and convicted one of them.

The Congressional Research Service issued a report in July 2007 that confirmed Congress’s inherent contempt powers. It explained how they work: “The individual is brought before the House or Senate by the sergeant at arms, tried at the bar of the body, and can be imprisoned in the Capitol jail.” Congress can do this, the report concluded, to compel them to testify or to punish them for their refusal to do so.

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