Clinton aide Abedin interviewed by FBI in email investigation

The FBI has interviewed top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin as part of its investigation into the former secretary of state’s use of a private server, a source close to the investigation told Fox News.

The source did not say when the interview took place or when the FBI’s investigation might be completed. 

The FBI and Justice Department have been investigating whether sensitive information that flowed through Clinton's email was mishandled.

Abedin was one of Clinton's closest aides during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat, serving as deputy chief of staff. The interview of Abedin, part of Clinton's inner circle, is a possible indication that the investigation might be in its final stages. It was not immediately clear whether other aides have been interviewed, or when or if Clinton herself might be questioned. 

I can see it now.

According to a Los Angeles Times report, the Abedin interview was held April 5 in Washington.

"From the start, Hillary Clinton has offered to answer any questions that would help the Justice Department complete its review, and we hope and expect that anyone else who is asked would do the same," Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement. "We are confident the review will conclude that nothing inappropriate took place."

On Wednesday, a federal judge in Washington also said he may order Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server to evade public records disclosures.

The order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan granted a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department staffers, including Abedin, about the creation and purpose of the private email system.

Clinton has said the use of a private email server was a mistake, but said what she did was allowed by the State Department. She has dismissed the idea that she could face legal trouble over the use of the server, saying in response to a debate question in March about the prospect of a federal indictment, "It's not going to happen."

Clinton aide Abedin interviewed by FBI in email investigation

Killary Clinton's attack ad on Donald Trump

This is a very effective ad. Why? There is not one Democrat attacking Trump. 

They're all Republicans!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOocb-DId4


And who are these Republicans? All losers. Romney (who I supported) ran twice for the WH and lost. Bet 98% of Americans didn't even know George Pataki was in the race. Graham and Rubio couldn't even win their own state. And what can I say about Cruz... other then he was born in Canada.

Wonder if it ever dawned on them they would be appearing in a Killary ad?

Killary Clinton's attack ad on Donald Trump

Liberal super-PAC American Bridge launches 'Donald Trump Screwed Me' project

Maybe Citizens United can start a new project called:

"The Clinton Scandals...from Whitewater to the Email Server"

When it's complete the paperwork alone will be thicker than War and Peace.

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A liberal super-PAC on Thursday announced the launch of a new project to solicit information from people who have been "personally screwed" by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

The project, titled "Donald Trump Screwed Me," is an effort by American Bridge to share stories from current and former employees, tenants and people who have been scammed by Trump's businesses. Digital ads will focus on Trump's properties in Manhattan, Atlantic City and Palm Beach.

The website, DonaldTrumpScrewedMe.com, asks for people's names and a description of their stories. It also asks whether that person would be willing to speak publicly about the experience.

"If you have been personally screwed by Donald Trump, or have a friend or relative who has been taken advantage of by Trump, we want to hear from you!" the website says.

"Telling your story will help make sure that others like you are not abused by Trump. Together, we can put an end to Donald Trump’s aggressive business tactics that hurt hard-working Americans while he’s padding his pockets with your blood, sweat, and money."

American Bridge President Jessica Mackler said in a statement that the initiative is launching because "too many regular people have been hurt by Donald Trump's exploitative self-enrichment and their stories deserve to be heard."

"Trump built his fortune by preying on seniors, veterans, small businesses, and middle class families. He's a con man who has consistently pushed the limits to take advantage regular people," the statement said.

Mackler said Trump needs to be held accountable.

"So we at American Bridge encourage anyone who's ever done business with Donald Trump to visit DonaldTrumpScrewedMe.com and share their story."

American Bridge plans to launch other projects throughout the next several months to hold Trump accountable.

It says that Trump has been using dishonest practices for decades, referencing years of housing discrimination, tenant abuses and the ongoing scandal with Trump University.

Liberal super-PAC American Bridge launches 'Donald Trump Screwed Me' project

London poised to elect its first Muslim mayor

Coming to our shores soon.

May 5, 2016: London mayoral candidate Labour Party's Sadiq Khan arrives with his wife Saadiya to cast their votes at a polling station in Streatham, south west London. (AP)

LONDON – Britons voted Thursday in local and regional elections that will choose a new mayor for London — and are expected to deal a blow to Britain's main opposition Labour Party.

Voters are electing a Scottish Parliament and legislatures in Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as choosing members of many English local authorities, including a new London mayor to replace flamboyant Conservative Boris Johnson.

The mayoral race pits the Labour Party's Sadiq Khan against Conservative Zac Goldsmith. Pollsters and bookies make Khan the favorite to win and become the city's first Muslim mayor, after a bitter campaign that saw Goldsmith accuse his rival of sharing platforms with Islamic extremists.

Khan, a former human rights lawyer and the son of a bus driver from Pakistan, accused wealthy environmentalist Goldsmith of trying to divide voters in one of the world's most multicultural cities, home to 8.6 million people — more than 1 million of them Muslims.

Muslim Population Incursion in Europe 

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Tony Travers, a local government expert at the London School of Economics, said the introduction of a directly elected London mayor 16 years ago has "brought into politics an American form of government" that differs from traditional British Parliamentary and local government structures.

"Now intriguingly this time — and we've seen a bit of it before — it appears to have brought with it some of the harder American campaign tactics," he said.

A victory for Khan would be a bright spot in what looks set to be a grim day for Labour, which has been out of office nationally since 2010.

Opposition parties usually gain seats in mid-term elections as voters punish the sitting government. But Labour under left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn is divided and beset by a controversy over allegations of anti-Semitism within its ranks. The furor erupted when former London mayor Ken Livingstone — a Corbyn ally — claimed that Adolf Hitler had supported Zionism before he came to power.

Livingstone, Labour lawmaker Naz Shah and several local party officials have been suspended over comments or social media posts about Israel, and Corbyn has faced renewed pressure over his links to pro-Palestinian groups.

Corbyn predicted last week that Labour would not lose seats, but later said that "predictions are not that important."

A poor showing would bolster discontented Labour lawmakers who believe the party is heading for a third straight general election defeat in 2020 if Corbyn — a rumpled life-long socialist with strong support among the party's grass roots — is not replaced.

Some voters were turned away from polling stations in the north London borough of Barnet early Friday after being told their names did not appear on a list of electors. The council said the problem had been fixed by late morning, and urged voters who had been turned away to try again.

Sophie Walker, mayoral candidate for the Women's Equality Party, said some voters would be unable to return, and she would make a formal complaint about the glitch.

"These are vital votes, particularly for smaller parties," she said.

In Scotland, the pro-independence Scottish National Party is on course to win a majority of seats in the Edinburgh-based parliament and retain governmental power, with Labour at risk of sinking to third place behind the Conservatives.

The SNP oversaw an unsuccessful 2014 referendum on leaving the U.K., but has said it could make a fresh independence bid if British voters choose to leave the European Union in a June 23 poll.

In Northern Ireland, which has its own set of political parties reflecting the Catholic-Protestant divide, rivals are competing to see whether the Catholic side can overtake the territory's dwindling Protestant majority for the first time.

The outcome of the Northern Ireland Assembly election will determine who serves as first minister atop the surprisingly durable, nine-year-old coalition government, which has overseen relative calm following four decades of conflict that claimed 3,700 lives.

The party with the most assembly seats always receives the top post. The incumbent is Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland's first female leader. Polls suggest the Irish nationalists of Sinn Fein will narrow the gap with the Democratic Unionists, but fall short of overtaking the Protestant side of the house.

Polls are open until 10 p.m. (5 p.m. ET), and results of all the races are due Friday.

London poised to elect its first Muslim mayor

CAL THOMAS: Who to blame for the rise of Donald Trump?

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Dr. Frankenstein created the monster that bore his name, and if Dr. Jekyll had not conducted those experiments in his laboratory, Mr. Hyde would never have emerged to terrorize London.

In literature, we know who to blame for the monsters, but who is to blame for the rise of Donald Trump? Is he the "monster" the elites say he is?

I am no fan of Mr. Trump and wish there were better candidates for president from both parties, but the major fault for his rise as the "presumptive nominee" of the Republican Party in 2016 can be laid at the feet of the very elites who are so vociferous in their condemnation of him.

It is they who have presided over the horrific national debt, spending as if there were no tomorrow. They are not good stewards of the money we make and they take. It is the elites who have started wars we should not have fought and then not fought them to win with too many "rules of engagement" that only guarantee stalemate, or victory for the other side.

They are the ones who overregulate even small businesses, stifling their growth and preventing the creation of new ones. They so penalize initiative that if today's Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations had been applied to Wilbur and Orville Wright, the two visionaries would never have emerged from their Ohio bicycle shop, much less flown for the first time at Kitty Hawk, N.C.

The career politicians, the lobbyists, the lawyers, the self-serving institution that government has become (instead of the constitutionally limited, people-serving institution it was originally created to be) have fueled the rise of Donald Trump. It doesn't help their position now that these elites appear at least as arrogant as Mr. Trump in their denunciations of him while refusing to accept responsibility for what they have failed to dismantle.

As Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan has noted, Mr. Trump projects love for America and increasing numbers of voters, who also love America, are captivated by his love song, even if he sings it off-key.

Many of those voices that have warned of dire consequences should Mr. Trump become president have enabled big government. Republican politicians, afraid of their own shadow, the media and the Democrats, have done little to reverse any of this. When former House Speaker John Boehner refers to Sen. Ted Cruz as "Lucifer," it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. What did Mr. Boehner do as speaker, other than cut deals with Sens. Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy and kiss former Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the cheek as she handed him the gavel? She must have instinctively known that Mr. Boehner wasn't going to rock the boat and would do little damage to the Democratic agenda until the day that party would return to the majority and members resume their former ways.

Voters gave Republicans a majority in both houses of Congress, and they did almost nothing with it. It is why Mr. Boehner was ousted by conservative members of his own party.

I would have left on the word "almost".

Don't you have a right to be angry if you love America, if you served in the military or have relatives who did, as I have and did? The anger is bipartisan, as the popularity of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders attests.

This lyric from the British punk rock group Dead Swans might help explain the country's mood: "You're lying to yourself, just like you always have, the words you said never meant a thing, I could see it from the start, you just want attention, absent friends and enemies are all that's left in your life, every day is like a knife cutting through your chest, constant frustration, you choked on the best years of your life, no love, no hate, no hope, all lies."

CAL THOMAS: Who to blame for the rise of Donald Trump?