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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
More Clinton do-do swept under the rug
Arms dealer says administration made him scapegoat on Libya operation to 'protect' Clinton
By Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. BrownePublished October 12, 2016
Arms dealer says Obama admin used him as a scapegoat
EXCLUSIVE: American arms dealer Marc Turi, in his first television interview since criminal charges against him were dropped, told Fox News that the Obama administration -- with the cooperation of Hillary Clinton’s State Department -- tried and failed to make him the scapegoat for a 2011 covert weapons program to arm Libyan rebels that spun out of control.
“I would say, 100 percent, I was victimized…to somehow discredit me, to throw me under the bus, to do whatever it took to protect their next presidential candidate,” he told Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge.
The 48-year-old Arizona resident has been at the epicenter of a failed federal investigation led by the Justice Department spanning five years and costing the government an estimated $10 million or more, Turi says.
Turi says the Justice Department abruptly dropped the case to avoid public disclosure of the weapons program, that was designed to force the ouster of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi during the 2011 Arab Spring.
"Those transcripts from current as well as former CIA officers were classified," Turi said of the evidence. "If any of these relationships [had] been revealed it would have opened up a can of worms. There wouldn't have been any good answer for the U.S. government especially in this election year." The Justice Department faced a deadline last week to produce records to the defense.
Turi says he was specifically “targeted by the Obama administration “and “lost everything--my family, my friends, my business, my reputation.”
As Fox News has reported extensively, in 2011, the Obama administration with support from some Republican and Democratic lawmakers explored options to arm the so-called “Libyan rebels” during the chaotic Arab Spring but United Nations sanctions prohibited direct sales.
Turi's plan was to have the U.S. government supply conventional weapons to the Gulf nations Qatar and UAE, which would then in turn supply them to Libya. But Turi says he never sold any weapons, and he was cut out of the plan. Working with CIA, Turi said Clinton's State Department had the lead and used its own people, with weapons flowing to Libya and Syria.
"Some (weapons) may have went out under control that we had with our personnel over there and the others went to these militia. That's how they lost control over it," Turi said. "I can assure you that these operations did take place and those weapons did go in different directions."
Asked by Fox News who got the weapons -- Al Qaeda, Ansar al-Sharia, or ISIS -- Turi said: "All of them, all of them, all of them."
Turi exchanged emails in 2011 with then U.S. envoy to the Libyan opposition Chris Stevens. A day after the exchange about Turi's State Department application to sell weapons, Clinton wrote on April 8, 2011 to aide Jake Sullivan, "fyi. the idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered."
Asked if the email exchanges are connected or a coincidence, Turi said, "When you look at this timeline, none of it was a coincidence. It was all strategically managed and it had to come from her own internal circle."
Turi also told Fox News that he believes emails sent about the weapons programs were deleted by Hillary Clinton and her team because that “it would have gone to an organization within the Bureau of Political Military affairs within the State Department known as PM/RSAT (Office of Regional Security and Arms Transfers.) That’s where you would find Jake Sullivan, Andrew Shapiro and a number of political operatives that would have been intimately involved with this foreign policy."
The four felony counts -- which included two of arms dealing in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and two of lying on his State Department weapons application -- were dismissed last week against Turi “with prejudice,” meaning the government cannot come after him again on this matter.
The Justice Department decision, weeks before the election, coupled with the now public emails, cast a new light on Clinton's 2013 Benghazi testimony where she was asked about the movement of weapons by Sen. Rand Paul.
Paul: Were any of these weapons transferred to other countries. Any countries. Turkey included?
Clinton: Well, senator you'll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex and I will see what information is available.
Paul: You're saying you don't know?
Clinton: I don't know.
Turi first told his story to Fox News senior executive producer Pamela Browne in 2014, and since, Turi says he's lost everything to fight the Justice Department, which had no further comment beyond the publicly available court records.
"With all the resources that they were throwing at me, I knew there would have to be some type of explanation of the operation that was going terribly wrong in Libya," Turi said. "It is completely un-American...I was a contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency."
Turi said he is grateful the case is over. "It really is ungodly, and unjust and unconscionable, that the entire force of the United States government came after me for a simple application. I was working for the U.S. government."
Turi added, "I never shipped anything. I never even received the contract. So all I received was an approval for $534 million to support our interests overseas. And it would have been the United States government that facilitated that operation from Qatar and UAE by way of allowing those countries to land their planes and land their ships in Libya."
Close friend and Turi adviser Robert Stryk described Turi this way to Fox News in a statement:
“Marc Turi is a true patriot who served his country in the fight against Islamofascist terrorists in the Middle East. His fraudulent prosecution by Hillary Clinton’s associates in the Justice Department is deplorable as is the fate of the American heroes murdered in Benghazi. Our most loyal citizens deserve better."
And Turi hinted there is more to emerge on the 2012 Benghazi attacks which killed four Americans including Stevens.
"Now there’s a flip side to this. Some of the operations that I was involved in, in another country for the agency has a linkage and there’s a backstory to the actual buy-back program of the surface to air missiles that were shipped and mysteriously disappeared out of Benghazi," Turi said. "So we can save that for another time, but the reality is a lot of this could have exposed a number of covert operations that I don’t think the American public would really want to know at this point in time.”
Fox News asked the State Department about Turi’s allegations, and whether no weapons reached extremists groups on Clinton’s watch. A spokesperson said they would check.
Catherine Herridge is an award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Herridge joined FNC in 1996 as a London-based correspondent.
Pamela K. Browne is Senior Executive Producer at the FOX News Channel (FNC) and is Director of Long-Form Series and Specials. Her journalism has been recognized with several awards. Browne first joined FOX in 1997 to launch the news magazine “Fox Files” and later, “War Stories.”
Monday, October 10, 2016
Trump DARES the Clintons and the press to unveil more explicit audio
A tip for Trump:
As in the first two debates, I noticed Bill and Chelsea sitting in the front row.
At the next debate, if I were Trump, I would point to them and ask Killary…I see Bill and Chelsea made their third appearance. Just wondering where Chelsea’s father-in-law Ed Mezvinsky is? How come we never see that guy?
I bet 95% of the voting public are unaware of this story and you can bet your ass the MSM will never report it.
Don't believe it.
Check it out on Snopes
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Donald Trump dared the Hillary Clinton campaign and the national media on Monday to unveil more and more tapes showing him saying 'inappropriate' things, saying he will continue to turn the attacks on their heads.
Facing Friday's revelation of a 2005 recording in which he denigrated women, 'I said to myself, wait a minute!' he said in a Pennsylvania high school gymnasium.
'Bill Clinton sexually assaulted innocent women, and Hillary Clinton attacked those women viciously.
'If they want to release more tapes with inappropriate things, we'll continue talking about Bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things.'
BRING IT ON: Donald Trump dared the Clintons and the media to dig up more tapes of him saying inappropriate things, saying he'll just double down on calling Bill Clinton a sex abuser and Hillary a cover-up artist who was 'vicious' to his victims
TERRIBLE TRUMPa The Republican presidential nominee waved a 'Terrible Towel,' a Pittsburgh Steelers fan favorite, as he took the stage in Ambridge, Pennsylvania
NEXT SHOE TO DROP? Trump is pre-empting future shock-recordings by saying they'll only embolden him to attack
'I'm not proud of everything I've done in life,' Trump conceded. 'Is anybody here proud of every single element?'
But Bill Clinton 'was a predator,' he claimed, rattling off a list of women who have lodged sexual assault or harassment claims against him.
And Hillary, he said, has systematically attacked his accusers.
'For decades Hillary Clinton has been deeply familiar with her husband's predatory behavior,' Trump said.
'And instead of trying to stop it ... she put more women in harm's way.'
Citing her claim of being an advocate for women's rights, he called the Democratic candidate 'a total hypocrite' who has 'destroyed and hurt so many lives.'
He cited the case of Kathy Shelton, one of four anti-Clinton women his campaign featured Sunday in St. Louis.
Clinton 'was defending a man who raped a 12-year-old little girl,' he said, recounting Shelton's case form more than 40 years ago. 'Desperate to win her case, Hillary Clinton blamed the 12-year-old girl!'
'Hillary ruined that little girl's life, destroyed her life, then years later she was recorded laughing about it.'
'There's nothing Hillary Clinton won't do or say to obtain power,' he said, 'and it's about time people started to understand that.'
FRONT ROW SEATS: Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathy Shelton – all women with sex-abuse related claims against Bill and Hillary Clinton – were given prominent seats by the Trump campaign for Sunday's debate
Trump vows to 'get a special prosecutor' to probe Clinton emails
Rose Tennent, a conservative Pittsburgh talk radio host who emceed for Trump's pre-show lineup of local dignitaries, underscored the line between Trump's words and the Clintons' actions – both past and yet to come.
'What he has said in the past,' she told Trump's supporters, talking about Friday's audiotape, 'does not at all compare with what she will do in the future.'
Tennent laughed off the idea that female voters will run screaming from Trump because of his past vulgar language.
'We're not going to come down with the vapors,' she quipped. 'We are women, hear us roar.'
Trump also claimed Monday that Hillary Clinton 'lied' her way through Sunday's debate, ripping his Democratic opponent's performance at their second head-to-head smackdown.
Donald Trump slams Clinton with 'honest Abe Lincoln' line
'SHE LIED': Trump spelled out what he said were a host of lies Hillary Clinton told during Sunday's debate in St. Louis, Missouri
Daughter Tiffany watched the rally from the sidelines with Rudy Giuliani
'During the course of 90 minutes, she was exposed. Her failures were exposed,' Trump told a nearly packed house in the hardscrabble Pittsburgh suburb of Ambridge.
'And she lied. All she did was lie last night!'
Trump claimed he ran circles around Clinton, winning 'unanimous decisions' from most TV news panels afterward – although he said some were 'pained' to admit he had won.
'We had a lot of fun, and I would say that Hillary is highly overrated,' he declared.
Trump singled out two 'lies' in particular.
'She lied,' he said, when she claimed she was no longer in office when President Barack Obama drew a 'line in the sand' warning Syria's dictator not to deploy chemical weapons against insurgents and civilians.
'She was there as Secretary of State with the so-called line in the sand,' Trump said Sunday.
'No I wasn't. I was gone,' she said.
Obama delivered his famous 'red line' speech six months before Clinton left her position as secretary of state.
He also castigated Clinton for insisting she didn't delete State Department emails after Congress issued a subpoena for them.
OH, BOY: Bill Clinton's sexual dirty laundry was tossed all over the debate stage as Trump fought back against claims he's a sexist
'Bill Clinton Is A Rapist' protester disrupts Clinton rally
The subpoena, issued on March 4 of last year, came between three and four weeks of when investigations show the deletions were carried out.
During the Sunday night debate, Trump challenged Clinton: 'You get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 e-mails!'
Clinton responded: 'Everything he just said is absolutely false, but I’m not surprised.'
'That was another lie!' Trump boomed on Monday.
Trump mused in Pennsylvania that the National Security Agency might already have her deleted emails. 'I don't think they looked too hard,' he said.
He also mentioned news reports that 'two boxes of her emails are missing'.
The now-common chant of 'Lock her up! Lock her up!' was deafening as Trump reiterated Sunday's pledge to reopen the investigation into Clinton's classified email if he wins the White House.
'Very sad,' Trump said. 'Special prosecutor, here we come! I will appoint a special prosecutor. Because we can't allow this to happen to our country.'
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Clinton called for 'open trade and open borders' in private, paid speeches
The MSM made it their crusade to make sure all of America knows about Trump's sexual escapades but Killary's 'wet dream' of open borders will get little play.
Are you more concerned about Trump's sex life ...or having a country with no borders?
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WikiLeaks appears to reveal Clinton's Wall Street speeches
Hillary Clinton told bankers behind closed doors that she favored "open trade and open borders" and said Wall Street executives were best-positioned to help reform the U.S. financial sector, according to transcripts of her private, paid speeches leaked Friday.
The leaks were the result of another email hacking intended to influence the presidential election.
Excerpts of the speeches given in the years before her 2016 presidential campaign included some blunt and unguarded remarks to her private audiences, which collectively had paid her at least $26.1 million in speaking fees. Clinton had refused to release transcripts of the speeches, despite repeated calls to do so by her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The excerpts were included in emails exchanged among her political staff, including Campaign Chairman John Podesta, whose email account was hacked. The WikiLeaks organization posted what it said were thousands of Podesta's emails. It wasn't immediately clear who had hacked Podesta's emails, though the breach appeared to cover years of messages, some sent as recently as last month.
Among the emails was a compilation of excerpts from Clinton's paid speeches in 2013 and 2014. It appeared campaign staff had read all Clinton's speeches and identified passages that could be potentially problematic for the candidate if they were to become public.
Typical Clinton-- the trend is your friend:
Wow...what a f------ turn of events!
Isn't it worse now than in 1995? Were we pressing 1 for English?
One excerpt put Clinton squarely in the free-trade camp, a position she has retreated on significantly during the 2016 election. In a talk to a Brazilian bank in 2013, she said her "dream" is "a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders" and asked her audience to think of what doubling American trade with Latin America "would mean for everybody in this room."
Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, has made opposition to trade deals a cornerstone of his campaign.
Podesta posted a series of tweets Friday night, calling the disclosures a Russian hack and raising questions about whether some of the documents could have been altered.
"I'm not happy about being hacked by the Russians in their quest to throw the election to Donald Trump," Podesta wrote. "Don't have time to figure out which docs are real and which are faked."
Podesta's comments came just hours after U.S. officials publicly accused the Russian government of directing cyberattacks on political organizations and American citizens in an attempt to interfere with U.S. elections.
The joint statement from the office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Homeland Security Department cited disclosures of "alleged hacked emails" on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks as being "consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts."
The statement didn't refer by name to the affected political institutions, but federal authorities are investigating cyberattacks on the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement, "It's not hard to see why she fought so hard to keep her transcripts of speeches to Wall Street banks paying her millions of dollars secret."
The emails released Friday included exchanges between Podesta and other Clinton insiders, including campaign manager Robby Mook. Most were routine, including drafts of Clinton speeches, suggested talking points for campaign surrogates and suggested tweets to be sent out from Clinton's account.
The excerpts include quotes from an October 2013 speech at an event sponsored by Goldman Sachs, in which Clinton conceded that presidential candidates need the financial backing of Wall Street to mount a competitive national campaign.
"Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it," Clinton said. "New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy."
In the same speech, Clinton was also deferential to the New York finance industry, exhorting wealthy donors to use their political clout for patriotic rather than personal benefit. She also spoke of the need to include Wall Street perspectives in financial reform.
"The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry," Clinton said.
In an April 2013 speech to the National Multifamily Housing Council, Clinton said politicians must balance "both a public and a private position" while making deals. Clinton gave an example from the movie "Lincoln," and the deal-making that went into passage of the 13th Amendment, a process she compared to sausage-making.
"It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be," Clinton said. "But if everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position."
Clinton's speeches often touched on technology and privacy. In an April 2014 speech to JPMorgan, she denounced National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden for going abroad, saying, "if he really cared about raising some of these issues and stayed right here in the United States, there's a lot of whistleblower protections."
But she told her audience that her time in the public eye left her sympathetic to privacy concerns.
"As somebody who has had my privacy scrutinized and violated for decades, I'm all for privacy, believe me," she said.
Speaking on international affairs, Clinton's comments were largely in line with her positions as secretary of state, if sometimes more blunt.
"The Saudis have exported more extreme ideology than any other place on Earth over the course of the last 30 years," she told the Jewish United Fund at a 2013 dinner.
The speech transcripts were produced under an agreement Clinton routinely imposed on any organization that hired her to speak. The contracts, such as ones crafted by the Harry Walker Agency, required the organizations to hire, at their own expense, a stenographer who would provide the transcripts to Clinton and not keep copies for themselves.
In some cases, the contracts themselves were obtained by news organizations under public records laws because Clinton was being paid to speak by public universities or colleges.
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