The Patriot Post Digest 9-9-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 9-9-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Sep. 9, 2016

THE FOUNDATION

“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.” —Mercy Warren (1805)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Questions the FBI Did NOT Ask Clinton1

In July, when FBI Director James Comey declared Clinton was “not guilty2” of any indictable offenses, that is not the same thing as declaring her “innocent” of indictable offenses. The most significant revelation from the FBI’s Clinton interview notes, the subject of Mark Alexander’s column, Clinton the Consummate “Congenital Liar,”3 is not the questions investigators asked Clinton, but the questions they did NOT ask her. That would include questions about her motives for concealment, etc.

Aside from waiting until their investigation was nearly complete before interviewing Clinton — standard practice would have been to interview her early in order to corroborate her story — the FBI didn’t do a thorough follow-up. The Wall Street Journal writes of the investigation notes, “The report shows the FBI didn’t pursue evidence of potential false statements, obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence.”

    Agents didn’t probe for Clinton’s intent in setting up the server in the first place.
    They bought Huma Abedin’s story that she didn’t know about the server until it became public, despite the fact that Abedin had a private email address on the server, and that she recommended contacts for the server to be set up in 2008.
    They allowed Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, who is almost surely a part of the cover-up, to be present for the interview as Clinton’s “lawyer.”
    And investigators were woefully incurious about the fact that Clinton ordered 30,000 of her emails deleted after a congressional subpoena. Destruction of evidence is usually, well, frowned upon, but Comey’s FBI looked the other way.

Oh, and they granted immunity to Paul Combetta, the computer expert who deleted Clinton’s emails. Usually, immunity is for lesser accomplices so a conviction can be obtained. Not this time.

The Journal is correct to conclude, “The FBI’s kid-glove treatment of Mrs. Clinton raises serious doubts about the seriousness of Mr. Comey’s probe. His July 5 public rebuke2 of her ‘extremely careless’ handling of secrets has masked that Mrs. Clinton and her aides were given a pass on much of their behavior and dubious answers. The entire episode is another Jim Comey scar on the FBI’s reputation.”

While Clinton has declared this corruption saga is “over, period4,” there are dozens of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits already underway, primarily led by the intrepid folks at Judicial Watch5, and many more disclosures6 that await the State Department’s review and redaction of classified information. Most notably, a federal judge ordered Clinton to answer — finally under oath — 25 questions7 prepared by Judicial Watch lawyers regarding her corruption — questions the FBI should have asked Clinton. The answers to those questions are due on Sept. 29, but expect some legal maneuver to delay her responses.

Is Segregation Now OK?8

At California State University, Los Angeles, segregation has come full circle. No, this isn’t 1950s Alabama, but 2016 California, a bastion of “progressivism.” The university is justifying dormitory segregation on the basis of it being the best way to combat “microaggressions” and “racially insensitive remarks.” CSLA opted for this newly “inclusive” racially segregated housing at the request of the CSLA’s Black Student Union. Evidently, “separate but equal” isn’t considered segregation if it’s requested by black students.

A similar story has arisen on the campus of Northern Kentucky University where a poster for “Welcome Black Week” was parodied by a “Welcome White Week” flier. The parody flier advertised such events as “White Lives Matter vs. Black Lives Matter” and “Pizza Party for Tolerance.” The “Welcome Black Week” is an event that has been established on several campuses across the nation in recent years. Its objective is to help introduce incoming freshman to the black experience. Of course, the parody flier has prompted cries of racism and intolerance, so the NKU administration has dutifully launched an investigation to root out those responsible. Which leaves one to wonder: Is promoting racial segregation now the hip new trend for leftists?

The 15th Anniversary of 9/119

On Sunday, we’ll solemnly mark the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack10 on our nation, when 2,977 innocents, mostly American citizens, were murdered by Islamic fascists. In keeping with the presidential proclamation designating Sept. 11 of each year as Patriot Day, all flags should be flown at half-staff in memory of those who lost their lives that day.

We invite you to join us as we offer our prayers for the families of those lost and for our Armed Forces11 now serving on the front lines of the Long War against Jihadistan. We are already paying the bloody price of appeasement12 and tolerance in the Middle East against a jihadi foe that is alive and well.

Hillary Clinton, who wants to be judged by her record13, says she’ll defeat the Islamic State without putting boots on the ground. Never mind that there already are American boots on the ground. Or that the policies she and her boss enacted are responsible for the rise of the Islamic State14 in the first place. We need a leader who will fight for America’s national security, not one who is responsible for the current malaise and who promises to continue it.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

    Rich Lowry: Julian Assange Is Still a Creep15
    Jonah Goldberg: Trump Smashes the Moral Compass of Conservatism16
    Joe Bastardi: Hermine a Poor Example to Push Man-Made Global Warming17

For more, visit Right Opinion18.

TOP HEADLINES

    Clinton Email Scrubber Given Immunity19
    North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test20
    Prosecutors Drop Case Against Ex-Gov. McDonnell21

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report22.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Hillary Has Casual Contact With the Press23

By Michael Swartz

If there is a clear contrast in this campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, it is this: Trump seeks out the press and attracts them like a magnet to steel, while Clinton is perfectly happy to hold scripted events and avoid answering direct questions. But her blissfulness got to be a little too obvious and the press a shade too insistent, so Hillary finally relented and held a press conference. Sort of.

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As with all things Clinton, you have to parse the term “press conference” in order to describe it as such — Hillary set up on an airport tarmac with an awaiting plane and deigned to answer a grand total of six questions from the assembled media. So the long streak “technically”24 came to an end, but you can bet Hillary endured the entire affair — which barely took 10 minutes — only because she had to.

Still more telling is the fact that not only did this availability lack a sufficient quantity of questions, but the quality was lacking as well. (That’s reminiscent of the last time she met the press25.) Among the queries were ridiculous softballs about her position in the polls, the “double standard” in her treatment on the campaign trail (along with a companion question about whether the media is too easy on Trump), and reaction to the “what is Aleppo?” comment made by Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson about the Syrian situation, and a piece by Matt Olsen, the former head of the National Counterterrorism Center, who remarked on Wednesday that the Islamic State was supporting Trump26. That last howler was asked by longtime Clinton sycophant Andrea Mitchell as Hillary was departing, and she dutifully praised Mitchell for being “indefatigable” about asking questions.

The most substantive questions were deflected by Clinton, who refused to discuss her intelligence briefings (at least with the press) and reiterated her comments from the night before regarding her refusal to commit ground troops13 to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — you know, where our ground troops already are fighting.

“This could barely be called a press conference,” wrote commentator Ashe Schow27. “Clinton probably gets asked more questions by coffee baristas.”

In this era of 24/7 media, it’s fascinating how more and more press coverage reveals less and less about certain candidates. In March, we learned that during the Republican primary season Trump was the recipient of nearly $2 billion worth in free media28, almost eclipsing the rest of the GOP field combined. (By comparison, second-place Hillary received just shy of $750 million worth.) Coverage of all things Trump led off newscasts for months, which allowed him to develop his own narrative against the remaining Republican field.

Yet while we have a good idea why Trump has dubbed Clinton “Crooked Hillary,” reporters seem reticent to do much digging. (Perhaps they worry about the undertaking leading them to the undertaker29.) No one dared ask these obvious questions at the brief press conference, and it’s doubtful that the subject will be broached at one of the upcoming Presidential debates. It’s more likely the most damaging revelations will conveniently come out in the months after the election.

Pundits dismissively speak of “low-information” voters, but it’s not the lack of information that’s the problem. Instead, it’s the shortage of useful information provided to them by the lapdog press. In terms of a legitimate press conference, Clinton sparing 10 minutes on the tarmac to field a few softballs doesn’t even pass the giggle test.

Gary Johnson wasn’t asking, he was answering a Jeopardy question.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

    The Coast Guard Needs a Boost30 — U.S. maritime borders should be secured, too.
    Finally, Something Worthy of Obama’s Name31 — The president lends his name to a new parasite.
    ObamaCare Support Still on Life Support32 — Majority of Americans are fed up with the health care law.
    Dem Scheme Would Mandate Abortion Funding33 — A backdoor proposal would stifle abortion adversaries.
    Unadulterated Love34 — The Leftmedia’s cozying up to Hillary Clinton is a lesson in true devotion and adoration.

OPINION IN BRIEF

Rich Lowry: “[Julian] Assange is now treated as a respectable figure by some elements of the right because he detests Hillary Clinton and promises to torpedo her campaign with new email exposures. Never mind that he has done everything within his power to damage the interests of the United States, in league with his quasi-ally, Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Rarely has ‘strange new respect’ been stranger. … The enemy of my enemy (or more properly, my domestic political opponent) can still be a reprehensible creep, and that’s what Assange is. … It is Hillary’s own fault that she is vulnerable to the likes of Assange. Her secrecy, corrupt practices and dishonesty make her an ideal target. Yet there is a world of difference between Tom Fitton, the head of Judicial Watch, who has done so much through litigation in the U.S. courts to expose Clinton, and Assange, a certified America-hater whose work is likely enabled by Russian intelligence. There was a time when everyone could see the distinction, but that was before 2016, a year of strange, not to say loathsome, bedfellows.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.” —Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)

Sexism card, part I: “I think there will be a lot of PhD theses and popular journalism writing on that subject for years to come.” —Hillary Clinton when asked, “Do you think that you’re treated differently in this race because you’re a woman?”

Sexism card, part II: “I’ve been somewhat heartened by articles recently pointing out the disparate treatment of Trump and his campaign compared to ours — I don’t understand the reasons. I find it frustrating, but it’s part of the landscape we live in and we keep forging ahead. I’m not asking for any special treatment. I know the road that I’m on. I’ve been on it for 25 years and I just get up and keep moving forward.” —Hillary Clinton

Upright: “I was part of the IRS investigation in my last job here in Congress, and I would say it’s a very, very similar story [to that of Clinton’s]. It’s a story of stonewalling. … We see more misleading. We see that the claims that were made, you know, six months, a year ago, about servers and emails and devices are now, were false when they were made, knowingly false. So we clearly see that she’s not being truthful.” —Paul Ryan

Non Compos Mentis: “It turns out that Hillary Clinton, when you look at the fact checkers, she’s one of the most honest politicians in America.” —Van Jones (It helps when those “fact checkers” are leftist lemmings.)

And last… “Hillary using multiple cell phones is not unusual for someone who talks out of both sides of her mouth.” —Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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