The Patriot Post Digest 7-5-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 7-5-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Jul. 5, 2016

THE FOUNDATION

“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788.)

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS

Editor’s Note: Just before publishing, FBI Director James Comey announced1 that there is “no evidence” Clinton intentionally deleted any work-related emails, adding that there was “no intentional misconduct.” Though he said “there is evidence that they were extremely careless,” he went on to effectively exonerate the former secretary of state: “Although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.”

It would certainly appear the fix was in from the beginning, just as most every American suspected. Clinton broke the law and endangered national security. Yet she will waltz to the Democrat nomination and, we fear, the White House.

‘Lynch-ing’ the Rule of Law2

Just in time for Hillary to meet with the FBI on a holiday weekend.

By Arnold Ahlert

“The tarmac summit sent a signal. It is a signal to all of the hardworking FBI agents who have the goods on Hillary. The attorney general has made it clear what team she is on. The attorney general isn’t on the side of justice. She’s on the Democratic Party team."—J. Christian Adams3, former DOJ Voting Rights Section attorney

Were it not for the fact that local reporter Christopher Sign from Phoenix’s ABC15 Arizona received a news tip and led a crew4 on the tarmac at Phoenix International Airport last Monday, the nation might never have known that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had a private 30-minute meeting5 with Bill Clinton, despite the reality Hillary Clinton remains under FBI investigation (and was interviewed over the holiday weekend). Moreover, Sign noted6 the FBI was "instructing everybody around ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones.’”

It was so clandestine, Hillary even stole one of Barack Obama’s favorite lines: “I learned about it in the news.”

A day after the meeting was uncovered, Lynch insisted it was innocuous — “[There was no discussion on any matter pending before the Department or any matter pending with any other body. There was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of State Department emails…”

There didn’t have to be. The meeting itself was the message. And it is clear that Lynch is every bit the arrogant and compromised law enforcement official her predecessor Eric Holder was. The very same Eric Holder who, when the FBI sought felony charges against former CIA Director David Petraeus for mishandling classified material and then lying about it, had those charges reduced to a misdemeanor.

Thus despite criticism from both sides of the aisle, Lynch refused to recuse herself. Instead, she promised, “The recommendations will be reviewed by career supervisors in the Department of Justice and in the FBI, and by the FBI director, and then, as is the common process, they present it to me and I fully expect to accept their recommendations.” Apparently Lynch believes her pinky swear will sufficiently defuse this egregious conflict of interest.

Yet Adams astutely picked up another “tell” as poker players put it, noting that Lynch “borrowed the narrative of the Hillary campaign when she described the FBI criminal investigation as a ‘security inquiry.’” Adams explained that it’s “a very bad sign that the person who must approve any grand-jury referral has adopted Hillary’s dishonest language.”

Yet it gets even worse. FBI agents reportedly7 are not only “livid” about the appearance of the Lynch-Clinton meeting, they are furious because Bill Clinton is a potential witness in a separate FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation. An investigation where the Lynch-run DOJ filed a motion in federal court last Wednesday on behalf of the State Department, asking for a 27-month delay in producing some key emails between Hillary’s top aides and both the Foundation and a public relations firm Bill launched.

In other words, if Clinton wins the election, the public won’t know about any potential corruption until after she has been president for nearly two years.

Why the delay? The State Department discovered their estimate of 6,000 emails and other document exchanges between Clinton and her quartet of aides — Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin — had grown to “34,116 potentially responsive documents,” as in an average of 700 communications per month between the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings. The same Teneo Holdings where Bill Clinton was formerly a client and a paid consultant, and where Abedin simultaneously served as employee while working for Hillary at the State Department. Miller was also a “double-dipper,” employed by the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, while serving at State.

And that’s when the State Department was keeping track at all. Following a successful FOIA suit in federal court, the Associated Press reviewed8 Hillary’s official calendar during her tenure as secretary of state. The AP identified at least 75 meetings she had with “longtime political donors, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests” that were scrubbed. AP also confirmed9 that Clinton failed to turn over at least one work-related 2010 email between her and Abedin indicating she set up her private server to avoid accessibility. And on Monday it was revealed10 Abedin told Judicial Watch attorneys that Clinton destroyed her secretary of state schedules — as in federal records required to be preserved — “on more than one occasion.”

Anyone still remember Clinton deleted a whopping 33,000 “personal” emails based solely on her own discretion?

“I certainly wouldn’t do it again,” an ostensibly repentant Lynch said Friday, further insisting the “most important thing for me as attorney general is the integrity of this Department of Justice. And the fact that the meeting I had is now casting a shadow over how people will view that work is something that I take seriously and deeply and painfully.”

Not seriously and deeply and painfully enough to recuse herself. And the fact that she wouldn’t meet with Bill Clinton again is specious nonsense. One meeting was more than enough.

Will the FBI be able to maintain its integrity? Director James Comey insists it will, but integrity is often measured against worries of career destruction. Moreover, one is left to wonder why the agency scheduled a meeting with the former secretary over the holiday weekend, while millions of Americans were distracted with celebrating Independence Day.

Clinton was grilled11 for three and a half hours. Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill insisted she was “pleased to have had the opportunity to assist the Department of Justice in bringing this review to a conclusion.”

“Security inquiry” is now “review,” and a corrupt Leftmedia is already reporting no charges12 will be filed.

“This is a marriage of a Clinton-style carnival ride in an age of Obama-style lawlessness,” Adams writes. “The stars of ‘no controlling legal authority’ are behaving badly in an age of ‘punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends.’”

Friends indeed. “While Lynch offers no explanation as to why in the world she agreed to the 30-minute meeting on a plane in Phoenix, perhaps she felt she owed the former president something,” writes13 New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin. “Remember, he first nominated her to be the US attorney in Brooklyn in 1999, a promotion that changed her life.”

Regardless, Lynch didn’t owe Clinton her integrity, or an already-tainted DOJ an even tawdrier reputation. In a better nation, she would resign. In one run by the most corrupt administration in history, it’s not going to happen.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Thomas Sowell: What Are We Celebrating?14
Peggy Noonan: A World in Crisis, and No Genius in Sight15
Jeff Jacoby: Elie Wiesel’s Love of America16

For more, visit Right Opinion17.

TOP HEADLINES

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Effort to Disbar Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Begins20

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report21

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TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Veteran Saves ‘Freedom’22

As millions of Americans geared up to celebrate Independence Day23 over the weekend, an Army veteran was busy saving our national bird. So to welcome you back from the holiday, here’s the feel-good story of the day.

Jason Galvin, a veteran of two tours in Afghanistan, spotted the eagle hanging upside down from a tree after having become entangled in a rope. But at 75 feet up, there wasn’t anything the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) or local police could do to reach the bird, which had been stranded for two days. The young eagle would die without help, so after clearing it with the DNR, Galvin grabbed his rifle and began shooting at the branches and the rope to dislodge the eagle. After 90 minutes and 150 shots with his .22, Galvin succeeded. The freed eagle is recuperating at the University of Minnesota Raptor Center, and the Galvins and their neighbors agreed on the appropriate name for him: Freedom.

No-Fly, No-Buy Doesn’t Fly24

As we noted last week, the House will hold a vote this week on legislation dealing with gun purchases and terrorist watch lists. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is sponsoring a bill and said, “I have not met a single member of Congress who is in favor of terrorists being able to buy guns or explosives.” That’s an implicit rebuke of the typical rhetoric from the Demo-gogues, who like to hammer anyone opposed to their “no fly, no buy” proposals as wanting terrorists to get guns. “This isn’t a debate over whether terrorists should be able to purchase guns or explosives,” Zeldin explained. “This a debate over whether there should be due process for Americans.”

What do we mean? Well, here’s yet another story of an American who erroneously ended up on a no-fly list. As a state senator in California, Tom McClintock, now a U.S. representative, found himself unable to fly home because, he later found out, he shared a name with an Irish Republican Army terrorist. After months of wrangling, including help from the California Senate working with federal officials, McClintock finally had his name removed. Not every American has a state legislature at their disposal. “If your fundamental constitutional rights can be withdrawn at a bureaucrat’s whim” without due process, McClintock asserts, “then the Bill of Rights means nothing.” Just as Democrats would have it.

Don’t forget — Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who led the anti-civil rights congressional sit-in25 last month, also found himself on the no-fly list. And he still wants to deny due process to Americans in the same situation.

Leftmedia Uninterested in Triple Homicide26

It’s been just over a year since Kathryn Steinle27 was murdered by Francisco Sanchez, a serial deportee and convict living in one of America’s most notorious sanctuary cities. Despite having been evicted five times, Sanchez managed to meander his way back into San Francisco, where foolish protective measures for illegal immigrants provided him an opportunity to take an innocent life. The events of July 1, 2015, underscored two disturbing facts: America’s immigration enforcement system is fragmented, and policymakers are partially to blame for Steinle’s death.

Sadly, those same policymakers are not learning any lessons. Not only did San Francisco reaffirm its commitment to shielding illegal immigrants28, but on June 27 — nearly a year to the day of Steinle’s death — three more people were fatally shot by an illegal immigrant, this time by Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez in Woodburn, Oregon. Unbelievably, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Oseguera “has been repatriated to Mexico six times since 2003, most recently in 2013.” In other words, immigration officials had six opportunities to stop more senseless bloodshed. If upon being deported Oseguera had been stopped from re-entering the U.S. and freely roaming our streets, the burials of three innocents could have been prevented. Steinle’s death apparently wasn’t enough to induce changes. How about a triple homicide?

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

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A Bad Week for Religious Liberty & Sanctity of Life31
Picking Winners and Losers in the Car Market32

OPINION IN BRIEF

Thomas Sowell: “Today, too many Americans take freedom for granted, as just another entitlement, something that does not require them to take any personal responsibility. … High-handed use of government powers has become increasingly common during the Obama administration. But an apathetic and uninformed public voted him a second term. That is not the ‘eternal vigilance’ required to preserve freedom. It is the widespread apathy and gullibility which accepts the coming of tyranny on the installment plan. Earlier generations of Americans fought and died to preserve freedom. Today’s generation cannot spare time from their selfies and twitters to think about such things. Neither the past nor the future seems to weigh on their minds. A generation that owes so much to the past acts as if they owe nothing to anybody. Their idea of freedom is exemption from laws or obligations. … Freedom is not free. It requires, at a minimum, maturity and a sense of the realities of life. No society of human beings has ever been perfect. But we need only think of whatever person we love most and ask: Is that person perfect? Is a country that is not perfect nevertheless deserving of our respect, our gratitude or our love? The Fourth of July is a good day to ponder that question.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.” —Calvin Coolidge, Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926

Upright: “Today, too many Americans take freedom for granted, as just another entitlement, something that does not require them to take any personal responsibility. … A generation that owes so much to the past acts as if they owe nothing to anybody. Their idea of freedom is exemption from laws or obligations.” —Thomas Sowell

The BIG lie: “I learned about it in the news and it was a short, chance meeting at an airport tarmac and both of their planes, as I understand it, were landing on the same tarmac at about the same time and the attorney general’s husband was there. … It was purely social. They did not veer off of speaking about those kinds of, you know, very common exchanges.” —Hillary Clinton

Blind squirrel finds a nut: “No matter what happens, if [Clinton] is exonerated … there will still be suspicions, not only among the Donald Trump people, but among a lot of other people. There will be suspicions that it was politically influenced. This was absolutely a disastrous decision on their part.” —NBC’s Andrea Mitchell

Non Compos Mentis: “I find it hard to believe that [Hillary Clinton] would do anything intentionally wrong.” —Joe Biden

And last… “For a country founded by the average man rising up against an oppressive government, we sure have an obsession about not giving up our guns.” —Frank Fleming

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