Hostages taken in attack on restaurant in Bangladesh capital; witness says gunmen chanted 'Allahu Akbar'

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DEVELOPING: A group of up to nine attackers set off bombs and took hostages while shouting "Allahu Akbar" inside a restaurant frequented by both locals and foreigners in a diplomatic zone in Bangladesh's capital, local media reported.

Bangladesh TV stations reported that the attackers entered the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka's Gulshan area around 9:20 p.m. Friday and were holding customers and staff hostage.

The exact number of hostages was not known. While some reports said there could be up to 60, others put the figure lower.

The TV reports said the identities of the attackers were not immediately known.

The U.S. State Department said all Americans working at the U.S. mission in the area had been accounted for, according to Reuters.

"We have accounted for all Americans working for the chiefof mission authority" in Dhaka, John Kirby, a State Department spokesman said. He called the situation "fluid."

The reports say a huge contingent of security guards cordoned off the area and the restaurant as they traded gunfire with the attackers who set off explosions.

Jamuna Television reported, quoting a kitchen staff worker at the restaurant who escaped the attack, said that the gunmen chanted "Allahu Akbar" as they launched the attack.

Sumon Reza, the worker, told The Daily Star that several armed men entered the restaurant and took hostages.

“They blasted several crude bombs, causing wide-scale panic among everyone.”

Benazir Ahmed, director general of the elite anti-crime force Rapid Action Battalion or RAB, told reporters that security forces were working to save the lives of the people trapped inside. Several foreigners are believed to be among the hostages.

"Some derailed youths have entered the restaurant and launched the attack. We have talked to some of the people who fled the restaurant after the attack. We want to resolve this peacefully. We are trying to talk to the attackers, we want to listen to them about what they want," Ahmed said.

"Some of our people have been injured. Our first priority is to save the lives of the people trapped inside.," he said. He would not confirm the number of those trapped inside.

Earlier this month, authorities in the country rounded up about 1,600 criminal suspects, including a few dozen believed to be Islamist radicals, in a nationwide crackdown aimed at halting a wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists.

Only 37 of them were suspected to be radical Islamist militants, according to authorities. Those include three charged with alleged membership in the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh.

Hostages taken in attack on restaurant in Bangladesh capital; witness says gunmen chanted 'Allahu Akbar'

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This from the DM so you never know if it's true. Can't find any other sources to back it up.

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Loretta Lynch will recuse herself from Hillary email case and accept whatever the FBI recommends – even an indictment! – after private meeting with Bill becomes political firestorm

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3669756/Official-AG-accept-prosecutor-call-Clinton-case.html#ixzz4D9sNkygV

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State Department seeks 27-month delay for release of Clinton Foundation emails

Did Comey just get a home in the Hamptons?

We have all been here before. You're in your vehicle driving when someone says…quick roll up the windows.. (gagging).. I smell a dead skunk.

What a coincidence, Bill, and Loretta just bumped into each other in AZ and now suddenly this story breaks. You would have thought they would have waited a week but why bother when the media is on your side. Someone call the double fucks Kristol and Will and ask them what they think of this latest development. If Trump's no good for America. Then what is she? Sometimes self-righteousness can make you blind.

How much more obvious can it get? The Clintons have been embroiled in scandals going all the way back to the Arkansas governor's mansion!

Our country is being ripped apart by deceit and corruption. If law and order (regardless of party) is no longer respected we are on our way to becoming another Venezuela.

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The State Department has sought to delay the court-ordered release of emails between four of Hillary Clinton's top aides and officials at the Clinton Foundation and a closely associated public relations firm.

The motion, filed in federal court by the Justice Department late Wednesday, seeks to put off the release of the emails by 27 months. It was first reported on by The Daily Caller. 

In the filing, the State Department says it originally estimated that approximately 6,000 emails and other documents were exchanged between the aides — identified as former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, former Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin — and the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a communications shop that former President Bill Clinton helped launch.

However, the State Department said that due to errors in the initial document search, the number of "potentially responsive documents" was, in fact, more than 34,000. The department estimated that it had more than 13,000 pages still left to review.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras had previously ordered the State Department to release the requested documents by July 21. 

If the State Department request is granted, the emails would not be released until October 2018, nearly halfway through the first term of a potential Hillary Clinton presidency. The documents are being sought by the conservative nonprofit group Citizens United.

"The American people have a right to see these emails before the election," Citizens United President David Bossie told The Daily Caller, adding that the delay was "totally unacceptable."

State Department spokesman John Kirby cited a surge in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in explaining the extension request.

"The Department handles FOIA in an entirely nonpartisan manner," Kirby added.

The former secretary of state has come under scrutiny over whether she used her position to aid corporate and foreign government donors to the Clinton Foundation.

In addition, Abedin worked as an employee at Teneo while simultaneously working at the State Department while Mills held a position at the Clinton Foundation while also serving in the State Department. Both matters have been flagged by Congress as possible conflicts of interest.

State Department seeks 27-month delay for release of Clinton Foundation emails

Attorney General Lynch has private meeting with Bill Clinton

The title of this FOX story is somewhat misleading. It suggests they met in a back room somewhere. Supposedly, Lynch and Clinton just happened to bump into each other at the Phoenix airport. Happens all the time right? I remember bumping into Barry at O'Hare International where he tried to bum a cigarette. I told him I didn't smoke.

Later he got one from a porter.

The crux of this story is something I didn't know. Check out the last sentence. She is where she is today (head of the DOJ) in large part because of Bill Clinton. 

What do you think the prospects are of her indicting his wife?

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton in Arizona on Tuesday, but Ms. Lynch told reporters that the two didn’t discuss the investigation into his wife’s email use as secretary of state.

Ms. Lynch said at a press conference that the Clinton meeting was unplanned. Mr. Clinton was apparently waiting to fly out of the Phoenix airport when Ms. Lynch’s plane coincidentally landed there. The former president then walked over to the attorney general’s plane to speak to Ms. Lynch and her husband.

“Our conversation was a great deal about his grandchildren. It was primarily social and about our travels,” Ms. Lynch told reporters in Phoenix on Tuesday.

“We talked about former Attorney General Janet Reno, for example, whom we both know, but there was no discussion of any matter pending for the department or any matter pending for any other body. There was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of the State Department emails, by way of example,” she said.

The two did discuss the recent vote in the U.K. to leave the European Union, but the Justice Department isn’t involved in that issue, she said.

An aide to Bill Clinton said no topics were discussed beyond what was described by Ms. Lynch. A spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

But others suggested the meeting could send the wrong message. “It’s probably ill-advised because it does create the appearance of impropriety,” said Ken Sukhia, a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida who is now running for Congress as a Republican. “You don’t necessarily have to talk about the subject to garner some good will [from prosecutors] by having that kind of conversation.”

Mr. Clinton nominated Ms. Lynch as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a position she held from 1999 to 2001.

Attorney General Lynch has private meeting with Bill Clinton

Clinton censoring media? Tell-all book about Hillary Clinton banned from broadcast networks after she deems it ‘trash’

Saw Gary Byrne on FOX this morning. He claims he was booked on all the major networks to discuss his new book until Killary made a few phone calls. Is he lying? I don't know.

But I do know he's not lying about this.

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As usual, this case was suppressed by the MSM. A spokesman for Killary came forth and simply said, "she misspoke". Case dismissed. 

Now think about that for a moment! 'Misspoke' in this case is like trying to cover an elephant with a handkerchief.

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ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN have all allegedly agreed to ban former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne from appearing on their networks despite the fact his damning Clinton tell-all book is already a bestseller. The book, Crisis of Character, hasn’t been released yet, but it is already a bestseller. However, all major networks have agreed to keep Byrne out of the spotlight as Hillary Clinton calls his book “trash for cash.”

The Daily Mail reports that Hillary Clinton’s words apparently carry weight when it comes to all of the major networks. With a scathing tell-all book about Clinton slated to be released next week, Clinton has called the book “trash,” noting that any network that allows the former Secret Service agent on the air is helping “spread lies.” Therefore, all of the major networks have declined interviews with Byrne and have agreed to keep him off of their programs.

The publication also claims that Hillary Clinton and her campaign are responsible for having the book blocked and that Gary Byrne has been barred from promoting his book on all major networks.

Meanwhile, there is a lot of interest in the story which is evident by the book’s ability to become a bestseller even before it was actually released. In fact, Crisis of Character was listed as a bestseller a week before it was released and is already No. 2 on Amazon’s book list for the month of June. Despite all of the interest in the book, Byrne will have to stick to cable networks for promotion.

The controversy over the book stems from the fact that many higher ranking Secret Service members have claimed that Byrne’s accounts are inaccurate and that it would have been impossible for the man to see the things he describes in the book due to his low rank. It was revealed that while Byrne was a Secret Service agent during Bill Clinton’s presidency, he was a “plain clothes agent” which was described as the lowest level agent in the White House. Therefore, Secret Service officials say there is no way that Byrne would have come close enough to Bill Clinton to see the things described in his book.

“One must question the veracity and content of any book which implies that its author played such an integral part of so many [claimed] incidents. Any critique of management by one who has never managed personnel or programs resounds hollow. Additionally, why would an employee wait in excess of ten years after terminating his employment with the Service to make his allegations public?”

Others note that even if Byrne did not witness some of the alleged incidents first-hand, he may have been retelling stories he was told by other agents.

“Did Gary Byrne hear an anecdotal story being told by a couple of agents? Maybe. But did Gary Byrne see it the way he’s purporting to have seen it? No way. That’s a lifetime worth of events this individual saw in a very short amount of time.”

As Byrne reportedly exposes the Clinton family secrets, Hillary Clinton is not standing by and allowing the “spread of lies.” Instead, the Clinton campaign team has informed all of the major networks that the book is “trash” and encouraged them not to allow Byrne on their programs. The networks have obliged but refused to give any comments on the issue.

Meanwhile, Fox News had Byrne on their network, with the former Secret Service agent appearing on The Sean Hannity Show for his first public interview following the book’s release.

What do you think about Hillary Clinton’s campaign asking networks to ban the anti-Clinton author from their networks?

Well in case there was any doubt it does show you who their in the tank for.

Clinton censoring media? Tell-all book about Hillary Clinton banned from broadcast networks after she deems it ‘trash’