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President Obama criticizes FBI Director James Comey

Comey ought to turn the tables on the turd. 

Wouldn't take much to prove "Mr. Pseudonym" is an out-and-out liar!

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-docs-obama-used-a-pseudonym-in-emails-to-clinton/article/2602762

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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama defended Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and said investigations should not allow suggestions or innuendo to influence public opinion.

In his first comment since the FBI reported a new cache of emails possibly related to Clinton, Obama said in a radio interview he did not want to meddle in the process. 

But he was clear on how he believed the investigative process should be carried out.

"I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations we don't operate on innuendo and we don't operate on incomplete information and we don't operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made," he told NowThisNews in the interview, which was taped on Tuesday and aired on Wednesday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday announced it had found new emails that might pertain to Clinton's use of a private server for government business while she was Obama's first secretary of state from 2009-13.

FBI Director James Comey said he did not know whether the emails were significant and released no information other than that they existed. His announcement 11 days before the Nov. 8 election drew outrage from Democrats and others who believed it would unfairly influence the vote.

Little is known yet about the emails, which were found during an unrelated probe into former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Obama noted that the FBI already has determined that Clinton had not intentionally transmitted classified information over her private email server but had been "extremely careless.""When this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the FBI the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that she had made some mistakes but that there wasn't anything there that was prosecutable," Obama said.

Obama defended Clinton, whose increasingly confident campaign was blindsided by the FBI announcement, as someone who has always put the American people first.

"When she makes a mistake, an honest mistake, it ends up being blown up as if it's some crazy thing," he said. "I wouldn't be supporting her if I didn't have absolute confidence in her integrity and her interest in making sure that young people have a better future."

President Obama criticizes FBI Director James Comey

The hits just keep on coming

'Kept me out of jail': Top DOJ official involved in Clinton probe represented her campaign chairman

John Podesta’s Best Friend At The DOJ Will Be In Charge Of The DOJ’s Probe Into Huma Abedin Emails. 

(Certainly no conflict of interest here)

This means in about 24 hours she will be found toatally innocent.

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The Justice Department official in charge of informing Congress about the newly reactivated Hillary Clinton email probe is a political appointee and former private-practice lawyer who kept Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta “out of jail,” lobbied for a tax cheat later pardoned by President Bill Clinton and led the effort to confirm Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Peter Kadzik, who was confirmed as assistant attorney general for legislative affairs in June 2014, represented Podesta in 1998 when independent counsel Kenneth Starr was investigating Podesta for his possible role in helping ex-Bill Clinton intern and mistress Monica Lewinsky land a job at the United Nations.

“Fantastic lawyer. Kept me out of jail,” Podesta wrote on Sept. 8, 2008 to Obama aide Cassandra Butts, according to emails hacked from Podesta’s Gmail account and posted by WikiLeaks.

Kadzik’s name has surfaced multiple times in regard to the FBI’s investigation of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for using a private, homebrewed server. After FBI Director James Comey informed Congress on Thursday the FBI was reviving its inquiry when new evidence linked to a separate investigation was discovered, congressional leaders wrote to the Department of Justice seeking more information. Kadzik replied.

“We assure you that the Department will continue to work closely with the FBI and together, dedicate all necessary resources and take appropriate steps as expeditiously as possible,” Kadzik wrote on Oct. 31.

The DOJ is responsible for approving the bureau’s warrant applications and ultimately for convening a grand jury.

Fox News has previously confirmed the Justice Department was opposed to Comey making public the latest Clinton revelations.

Kadzik had been an attorney with Dickstein Shapiro LLP for 18 years before he represented Podesta in the Clinton/Lewinsky investigation. He was hired in 2000 as a lobbyist for tax cheat Marc Rich, who was controversially granted a pardon by President Bill Clinton during Clinton’s final days in office.

(He passed away in 2013 but still votes Democrat)



 Kadzik got the job “because he was ‘trusted by [White House Chief of Staff John] Podesta,’ and was considered to be a ‘useful person to convey [Marc Rich’s] arguments to Mr. Podesta,’” according to a 2002 House Oversight Committee report.

Podesta and Kadzik kept up their relationship after Kadzik was appointed to the DOJ. In a May 5, 2015 email, Kadzik’s son, PJ, wrote to Podesta seeking a job on Hillary Clinton’s newly launched presidential campaign.

“I have always aspired to work on a presidential campaign, and have been waiting for some time now for Hilary [sic] to announce so that I can finally make this aspiration a reality,” PJ Kadzik wrote.

Podesta said he would "check around," but it's unclear what came of the request.

Kadzik was also a dinner guest of Podesta and his wife, Mary, on Oct. 23, 2015 – the day after Hillary Clinton testified before the House Benghazi committee, another email shows.

In a separate exchange about another dinner meeting, on Jan. 12, 2016, Kadzik emailed Podesta: “We on?”

Podesta replied, “Yes sorry. 7:30 at our place.”

“Great. C u then,” Kadzik wrote back the next day.

Though he said he has had "many differences" with Kadzik, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R.-S.C., said on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday that he wasn't concerned about any potential conflicts of interest.

"Peter Kadzik is not a decision maker, he is a messenger," Gowdy said. 

Kadzik is still a key official in the department. He “led the successful effort to confirm Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates,” according to his DOJ biography. Lynch has come under increased scrutiny since it emerged she met privately with Bill Clinton in the days before the FBI initially said it would not seek to prosecute Hillary Clinton.

The hits just keep on coming

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Disliking Trump and Clinton, Votes McCain for President

Nov 1 2016, 8:18 am ET

Not surprised... might as well have been Ralph Nader.

In effect he just voted for Clinton. 

Another guy I lost all respect for.

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich said he wouldn't vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, and he made that final Monday when he mailed in an absentee ballot writing in Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, for president, spokesman Chris Schrimpf confirmed. 

"You want to vote for someone you can support," Schrimpf told NBC News. "He's been clear he can't support Trump. He's been equally clear he can't support Clinton." 

Kasich was the last Republican to leave the presidential race, on May 4, before Trump became the presumptive nominee. While he hesitated for months to say anything negative about any of his opponents, he was very critical of Trump by the end of his run. He finally announced that he wouldn't vote for his party's nominee after the controversial "Access Hollywood" tape with Trump speaking about women emerged. 

McCain told NBC News in a statement Monday night: "I appreciate that my old friend and Ohio's outstanding governor John Kasich would pay me the compliment."

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Disliking Trump and Clinton, Votes McCain for President

How much more of this can the American people take?

Clinton aide left classified info behind on 2010 China trip

Okay, Killary is not in jail and probably is not going to be. But can you honestly say she's fit to be POTUS? When the FBI director refuted all of Clinton's claims lies and stated she was "extremely careless" does that mean anything? When you boil it down Clinton only has herself to blame. She insisted on a private server breaking all the rules solely to conceal her surreptitious actions. And now she still won't pay the price.

Imagine Condi Rice SOS under Bush did the same thing as Clinton. Do you honestly believe (more than likely serving time) she would have a snowball's chance in hell of becoming POTUS?

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An unnamed “senior aide” to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left classified information unsecured and unattended in a hotel room during a 2010 trip to China, one of several overseas lapses by Clinton’s inner circle, Fox News has learned.

Confirmation of the alarming violation comes as Clinton herself is under a renewed FBI probe for mishandling sensitive information on a private server and her longtime senior aide, Huma Abedin, also faces scrutiny as part of the investigation. It was not known which of Clinton’s aides left the information exposed.

“In May 2010, Secretary Clinton was on official travel in Beijing, China, accompanied by senior staff. Upon Secretary Clinton’s departure, a routine security sweep by Diplomatic Security agents identified classified documents in a staff member’s suite,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told Fox News in a statement, issued several weeks after a Freedom of Information Act request was filed with the agency.

Diplomatic Security, which protects the Secretary of State in the U.S. and abroad, as well as high-ranking foreign dignitaries and officials visiting the United States, wrote up the incident on a Form 117, while the Marine Security Guards filed a separate formal report, the source said.

The information came to light when the FBI was investigating whether Clinton or her staff violated the US Espionage Act by mishandling classified and top secret information.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., citing a whistleblower who separately came to him with an allegation it was Clinton who left the material out, wrote to the FBI director on Monday asking for more information.

“I …understand that former Secretary Clinton left classified documents in her hotel room in China and that U.S. Marine Corps security officials filed a report related to the possible compromise of the documents,” Nunes wrote to FBI director James Comey.

Additionally, Nunes said an email released in response to a FOIA request described Abedin asking another staffer to remove “burnstuff” Abedin had left in a car during a trip to India.

Kirby told Fox News that incident may not have involved classified material.

“This email exchange does not show that classified information was left in a motorcade car,” Kirby said of that incident. “Sensitive But Unclassified material is routinely disposed of in burn bags. As the regulations state, Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) and Personally identifiable information (PII) documents are often burned. So it’s not accurate that any reference to a document going to a burn bag is a document that includes classified material.” 

As for the China incident, Kirby insisted that Clinton had nothing to do with the matter. 

“To be clear – this was not Secretary Clinton’s hotel room and no citation whatsoever was given to Secretary Clinton, nor were any reports written about Secretary Clinton’s conduct,” Kirby said in the statement.

At the time of the security sweep, the suite was still inside of a Diplomatic Security-controlled area, Kirby said, and under the direct control of a Diplomatic Security agent posted outside the room.

“Ultimately, Diplomatic Security concluded that classified information had been improperly secured, but that the evidence did not support assigning culpability to any individual. Furthermore, the Diplomatic Security investigation concluded that due to the fact that the documents were found within a Diplomatic Security controlled area, the likelihood that the information was compromised was remote.”

Leaving out classified or top secret information is a serious offense, a former state department staffer told FoxNews.com.

“Diplomatic Security and the Marine Security Guard takes exposure of classified information very seriously,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy research at the Center for Immigration Studies. “You can lose your security clearance if you’re caught more than once, and that means you might lose your job. It’s a big deal.”

As FoxNews.com reported Sept. 30, a top aide to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton found herself in hot water in 2013 with the agency’s security and law enforcement arm when she lost classified information while accompanying her boss on a diplomatic trip to Moscow, an incident that the FBI also revisited earlier this year when it probed Clinton’s own problems handling sensitive data.

Monica Hanley, Clinton’s “confidential assistant” at the state department, was reprimanded and given “verbal counseling” by Diplomatic Security after she left classified material behind in the Moscow hotel, FBI documents show. The FBI spoke to Hanley, 35, in January as a part of its investigation into Clinton’s handling of top-secret and classified information when she was Secretary of State.

During her trip with Clinton to Russia, Hanley was given a “diplomatic pouch” that held Clinton’s briefing book and schedule for her Russian trip. Hanley brought the pouch and its contents into the Russian hotel suite, which she shared with Clinton, but she left behind some of those classified documents, the FBI report revealed.

Diplomatic Security found the classified document in that suite during a routine sweep after Clinton and Hanley left the hotel. Agents subsequently informed Hanley “the briefing book and document should never have been in the suite.”

How much more of this can the American people take?