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Hillary Clinton told FBI agents in July that she thought the classified "C" markings on emails recovered from her private emails were just a way to put paragraphs in alphabetical order.
FBI Director James Comey had said his agents pulled three emails marked classified off her server system in the course of their year-long investigation.
"When asked what the parenthetical 'C' meant before a paragraph ... Clinton stated she did not know and could only speculate it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order," the FBI wrote in notes from its interview with her.
The FBI released an 11-page summary of the interview alongside 58 pages of notes from the investigation.
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The notes indicate Clinton told agents she had a limited understanding of why documents are classified and could not recall ever receiving training on how to handle sensitive material.
If there’s one thing I live for, it’s football season, especially college. Saturday night I was enjoying a fantastic game between Charleston Southern University and North Dakota State University. The game went into overtime and ended with the Bison of NDSU winning 24-17. However, as I watched this thrilling game, it was an item on the ESPN news ticker that disturbed me — to which I see a need to respond to this “teachable moment.”
As we reported yesterday, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the National Anthem in Friday’s pre-season game against Green Bay because he was protesting “black oppression” in the United States. The Niners went on to lose.
The NFL issued a statement that said players are encouraged but not required to stand for the national anthem. Hmm, this is the same NFL that refused to allow the Dallas Cowboys to wear a helmet decal in honor of the fallen Dallas Police officers gunned down on Thursday July 7th.
This is the same NFL that said nothing when players from the then- St. Louis Rams displayed the false narrative symbol of “hands up, dont shoot” — which we know didn’t happen. I find it rather interesting that the NFL has no issue disrespecting law enforcement officers but only “encourages” players to respect the symbol of our nation, the American flag, and our anthem, the Star Spangled Banner.
However, I would recommend a simple scripture from the wise King Solomon for Mr. Kaepernick, Proverbs 17:28 (NIV): “Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.”
Or, as the old folks down South would say, “best for a stupid person to keep their mouth shut and not open it and let everyone know they are.”
Mr. Kaepernick, a biracial young man adopted and raised by white parents, claims America is oppressing blacks at a time when we have a black, biracial president who was twice elected. We’ve had two black attorneys general and currently have a black secretary of homeland security, along with a black national security advisor. Here in Dallas our police chief, whom I know, is an outstanding black leader. The officer in Milwaukee who shot the armed assailant after issuing an order to drop his weapon was black. Is Mr. Kaepernick following suit and cherry-picking what he terms “oppression?”
First of all, let me clarify to you sir, you are a multi-millionaire “one-percenter” just because you can throw a ball and kiss your biceps. Men like Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Oscar Robertson, Ernie Davis, and Bernard King and Condredge Halloway of my alma mater were athletes who knew of oppression. You sir may certainly have the right to sit upon your “fourth point of contact” when the National Anthem is played but never forget, you live in a nation that has provided you the privilege to have that right.
My story is one I wish to share. My dad was a corporal in the U.S. Army and served during World War II. He was born in 1920 and knew oppression. Yet, when he sat me down on the steps of our home, 651 Kennesaw Ave NE in Atlanta, he shared with me that there was no greater honor or privilege, than to wear the uniform of these United States. Perhaps that ‘s why his first and middle sons, along with his grandson, are all U.S. combat veterans, just like Dad. Herman West Sr. was not a victim, and he raised men who would never allow anyone to suppress or oppress them. Perhaps you should stop trying to make victims and admonish people, black people, to be victors — try it, and you may find that more satisfying than your insidious action and word vomiting.
If you want to know about oppression of blacks in America, past and present, how about you ask Rep. Nancy Pelosi of the San Fran Bay Area about the policies that decimated the black family? Maybe you can cross the Bay over to Oakland and ask Rep. Barbara Lee about the 13 to15 million black babies killed since 1973, and ask her who is Margaret Sanger?
Or perhaps you can ask the two California senators, Boxer and Feinstein, about who doesn’t support better education opportunities for black children in the inner cities — school choice, vouchers, charter schools, home schooling.
Perhaps you didn’t know Barack Obama was the one who cancelled the DC school voucher program for deserving young black children — talk about oppression. Is that something you’re willing to do, or is it just too difficult?
You should look at who’s been controlling the communities and cities where blacks live. This isn’t not about what America has done; it’s about what a certain group, a political party has done. And your somewhat backhanded comment towards our law enforcement officers — well, wonder how many times San Francisco PD has protected you?
Here is the deal young man. My recommendation is that you apologize. Be a stand up fella and admit you made a very stupid comment. Humbly state that you do realize how very special this country is and the opportunities it has afforded you — and many others. You should take that stand and apologize to all of those who are currently serving in our Armed Forces and those veterans who’ve been willing to make that last full measure of devotion. You see, when the National Anthem is played, it has a very special meaning to us — maybe you should take a hiatus and go over to Helmand Province in Afghanistan and spend a week and understand why. Go over and throw a football with the men and women who enable you to earn those millions of dollars.
The American flag has a very touching meaning for those of us for whom it will drape our coffin — as it was for my Dad…and it will be for me. That song defines who we are as a proud and exceptional people. This is a land where so many dream of coming to and earning the title of American. Your actions were shameful, disgusting, despicable and disrespectful.
You do have a right and a freedom of expression. But know, there are consequences to your ignorant action, which is what it was.
When the National Anthem is played, I salute because I am a black man born and raised in the inner city afforded the opportunity for greatness in my own right. May you seek God’s forgiveness and find humility, because we, the people are not going to forget what you did and said.
EX-HUFF POST JOURNO: HOW THE MEDIA SLEEPS WITH HILLARY
Here's just how close Hillary is to the mainstream media
David Seaman | Infowars.com - SEPTEMBER 2, 201656 Comments
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Hillary Clinton has not subjected herself to an open press conference in going on 270 days.
She has sustained massive PR blows during this time frame, with the public increasingly focused on her deteriorating health, her and her husband’s byzantine money-raising foundation and even darker rumours.
Despite this, the corporate media has been a source of unlimited compassion toward Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
It’s as if Hillary Clinton makes herself available for public commentary at any and all hours of the day, such is her vitality.
It’s as if the radical transparency organization Wikileaks had not released an unsettling 30,322 emails and email attachments from her private email server — the contents of which we will get into below.
I used the phrase “as if” in the previous paragraph because in reality, of course, Hillary Clinton has been mysteriously absent from any unscripted media whatsoever.
When she *is* seen in public, it’s with the support of mysterious medical handlers around her, one of whom has been spotted with what appears to be some kind of drug injection pen.
Users on Twitter have shared photographs of what appears to be an oversized medical paddy wagon of some kind for Mrs. Clinton’s use.
A viral video made by this network’s own Paul Joseph Watson, viewed more than four million times already, purports to show Mrs. Clinton experiencing what could very well be a brief “Jacksonian seizure” or similarly disturbing neurological event, according to the experts Watson consulted.
The video footage is very unsettling and almost incontrovertible.
Given all this, you would think that a free and unfettered media would begin to peel back the curtain here and ask, well, WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON?
Hillary Clinton’s behaviour, elusiveness, and the rumours concerning her health status have now reached such a fever pitch that the media’s lack of interest… or air time… is supremely bizarre.
And thankfully a few others in the media are speaking up now, to say that whatever is happening this election season, IT IS NOT NORMAL.
The Observer’s Liz Crokin published a piece on the publication’s web site, “Media Orgs Donate to Clinton Foundation Then Downplay Clinton Foundation Scandal,” which does a good job of serving as an introduction to what is so wrong here:
Hillary Clinton and her media allies have been working overtime to put out numerous fires that continue to pop up and spread during the final weeks of her campaign for president. Recently, the flames have gotten more difficult to smother as reports of Clinton’s frail health have bled into the mainstream media, despite the unanimous and unilateral decision by the MSM to treat anyone who even raises a question as akin to a Holocaust denier. (On Sunday night, for example, Huffington Post fired contributor David Seaman and deleted his columns simply for linking to a Hillary health video that’s been viewed four million times.)
Julian Assange stoked more flames when he suggested a murdered DNC worker was the Wikileaks source for the DNC hack. Most recently, the Associated Press released a blockbuster story concluding that more than half of the people Clinton met with as secretary of state gave donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Despite these ongoing scandals, Clinton’s close yet questionable ties to media outlets such as Google, CNN, PBS and The New York Times have seemed to pay off. These entities have gone out of their way to censor negative stories about Clinton, particularly ones involving the Clinton Foundation. There’s one common thread though these media outlets suppressing harmful Clinton stories all share: they’ve donated to the Clinton Foundation.
So what is going on here? Well, the collusion between the corporate media and the Clinton campaign — for whatever reason — appears very real. It’s the culmination of relationships that have taken many years to establish and strengthen.
Thanks to Julian Assange and the Wikileaks Clinton email archive, we now know quite a bit about who is on Corporate Media Team Clinton, no matter what.
Consider an email in which Hillary Clinton is asked if she’s interested in an “informal setting to talk to some influential new York city writers and opinionators.”
It will be a “smallish dinner,” the organizer notes, where Hillary in a relaxed atmosphere will be able to relay to some of the media’s most influential “the highs and even some lows of policy making on Libya, China, Iran, the Arab spring and the Israel Palestinian issue.”
Even some of the lows! My God, does Clinton’s “flawless” foreign policy record even have any “lows” to speak of? This organizer is one bold fellow. But I digress.
The organizer concludes his pitch with what he knows Clinton will need to see the star-studded list of invitees- “They are: Eleanor Randolph and carol Giacomo from the New York times editorial board, Richard Cohen of Washington post, David Remnick and Rick Hertzberg from the New Yorker, Leon Wieseltier and Frank Foer from the New Republic, Tina Brown from Newsweek, my wife from CNN and ABC, and maybe one or two others like Tom Brokaw. The point is not to create news stories, but to ensure when these people deliver their inevitable assessments of your term as Secretary they have an appreciation.”
Of course, not to create news stories, just to have that “appreciation” when the time comes.
Hillary Clinton replied to the organizer’s pitch, “I’d like to do this and am copying my folks to start looking for a time. Thanks for staying in touch. All the best. —H.”
CCed on the email is close Clinton staffer Huma Abedin.
For me, at least, there is something completely wrong here. It’s a suspicion and a gut feeling I’ve had for years after a varied career in cable and online media.
MY OWN EXPERIENCES
When I was in Los Angeles doing my media stuff, I would sometimes tell my close friends that I thought my mere existence and career were signs America could be fixed.
There’s been some overgrowth of the surveillance state and military industrial complex, for sure. But with a free press and constitutionally protected free speech, we have the tools in our hands to fix what’s wrong, and move forward.
That’s what I thought.
But I didn’t last long out there. The national TV show I was on frequently got canceled; they fired the hosts, replacing both of them with a very establishment Meghan McCain. I was never booked again. Producers stopped returning my emails.
Eventually, I was simply shut out of any media outlets worth being on.
Thank God for the Internet, YouTube, and sites like this one. I no longer believe we have freedom of press in the United States, but the important thing to remember is that only a few people are holding us back. The few individuals financing all the biased media and propaganda, they’re outnumbered and even out moneyed. If each of us start voting with our wallets, even in small ways, it’s game over.
And they deserve a game over. As a journalist and researcher, I don’t like being shut out. Don’t like being silenced. Don’t like being disconnected from my own readers, after building up a relationship with them.
There will be hell to pay for the establishment. You can’t abuse your population in this manner and not expect blowback, fall-out, whistleblowers, and even more disclosures.
I suspect Julian Assange will drop his best stuff on the censoring military-industrial ghoul, Mrs. Clinton, immediately before the election.
If he doesn’t, it’s truly hard to fathom how the world will fare after the election. I’ve begun praying.
Millions of bees have just died in South Carolina, because Dorchester County officials decided to attack Zika mosquitoes from the air, from planes, with a pesticide called Naled.
The Washington Post reports, in an article headlined: “‘Like it’s been nuked’: Millions of bees dead after South Carolina sprays for Zika mosquitoes.”
“The county acknowledged the bee deaths Tuesday. ‘Dorchester County is aware that some beekeepers in the area that was sprayed on Sunday lost their beehives,’ Jason Ward, county administrator, said in a news release. He added, according to the Charleston Post and Courier, ‘I am not pleased that so many bees were killed.’
That’s the highest degree of outrage County Administrator Ward can muster? He’s not pleased?
Who said this Naled pesticide was safe? None other than the CDC. Sort of.
On the agency’s web page titled “Zika Virus: Information on aerial spraying,” we have several remarkable and inconsistent statements, obviously designed to straddle the fence and cover the agency and pesticide companies:
“Spraying Naled can kill bees outside of their hives at the time of spraying; therefore, spraying is limited to dawn or dusk when bees are inside their hives…”
“Because Naled breaks down quickly, it does not pose a risk to the honey bee populations…”
“Studies show that honey production between hives in treated and untreated sites did not show significantly different quantities of honey over the course of a season…” [But suppose millions of bees are killed and their colonies are destroyed?]
“For additional protection, urban bee keepers inside the spray zone can cover their hives when spraying occurs…”
A masterpiece of slippery contradiction. Naled is safe, but it isn’t, but it is.
Regardless, Dorchester County, in South Carolina, just learned a lesson about pesticide safety.
And for what? To kill mosquitoes purportedly carrying the Zika virus.
This is the virus that hasn’t been proved to cause anything. Zika. I have covered this hoax extensively in past articles. In a nutshell, no researchers anywhere in the world have been able to demonstrate a strong correlation between the presence of Zika and cases of the birth defect called microcephaly. The correlation isn’t there.
This failure is actually a refutation of the notion that Zika causes microcephaly. It’s a mandatory reason for saying, “Well, that Zika idea doesn’t work, now we have to go back to the drawing board to find out what’s causing this birth defect.”
But that’s not what the CDC and the World Health Organization are doing. They’re promoting Zika day and night; and the payoff will be a Zika vaccine.
These are the global health agencies tasked with guarding your health.
If you want to dig further, you can discover that, despite assurances to the contrary, Naled, like other toxic organophosphate pesticides, harms humans as well. Organophosphates are neurotoxins. The original research was done in Germany, in the hunt for nerve-agent weapons.
Here is a note from nospray.org: “Naled’s breakdown product DICHLORVOS (another organophosphate insecticide) interferes with prenatal brain development. In laboratory animals, exposure for just 3 days during pregnancy when the brain is growing quickly reduced brain size 15 percent.”
In other words, to kill mosquitoes carrying a virus that causes nothing…but is claimed to cause fetal brain damage…they spray a compound that CAN cause fetal brain damage.
Your health agencies at work.
Medscape, in its presentation on organophosphate pesticides, states: “Children are at a significantly increased risk worldwide…Childhood deaths and reported poisonings in the United States have declined over the last few decades, partly because of educational efforts and improved regulation and packaging.”
Maybe so, maybe not. But spraying an organophosphate pesticide from planes in South Carolina doesn’t qualify as “improved regulation.”
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