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Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton To Meet For Private Lunch On Monday, White House Announces
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will join President Barack Obama for lunch on Monday, the White House Press Office announced Sunday evening.
The noon appointment, which will be held in the President’s private dining room, is closed to the press. The White House did not disclose the purpose of the meeting. However, as with anything related to Clinton these days, discussion in the media will likely circle back to one topic: 2016.
Several prominent Democrats have already voiced their support for another Clinton presidential run. In May, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) called Clinton the “best qualified” person for the party’s nomination. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) commented last week that Clinton would “handle things probably even better” in the White House than her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
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Why Pay Clintons Top Dollar for No Answers on Jerusalem?
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is commanding big speaking fees. She regularly gets $200,000 for unburdening her mind on important topics of the day. Bill Clinton has topped all former presidents, however, in speaking for dollars. …read more
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Benghazi, The Muslim Brotherhood Connection, And The Libyan Intelligence Report
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About two weeks ago, new information came out that claimed the Muslim Brotherhood and recently deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi were involved in the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
The new information, a Libyan Intelligence document, was reportedly prepared by Mahmoud Ibrahim Sharif, Director of National Security for Libya, and was addressed to the nation’s Minister of Interior. The Obama administration did not release the report; neither did the various Republican Committees investigating Benghazi. It became public in the West thanks to prolific author and Middle East/Islam expert Raymond Ibrahim. Ibrahim reported that the intelligence document came from Arabic websites and was leaked to the Kuwaiti paper, Al Ra’i. It has since been authenticated by the Libyan government’s chief of the Department of Security in Tripoli.
As Ibrahim wrote:
“[The Libyan intelligence document] discusses the preliminary findings of the [Benghazi] investigation, specifically concerning an “Egyptian cell” which was involved in the consulate attack.” Based on confessions derived from some of those arrested at the scene” six people, “all of them Egyptians” from the jihad group Ansar al-Sharia (“Supporters of Islamic Law), were arrested.
According to the report, during interrogations, these Egyptian jihadi cell members “confessed to very serious and important information concerning the financial sources of the group and the planners of the event and the storming and burning of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi…. And among the more prominent figures whose names were mentioned by cell members during confessions were: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi; preacher Safwat Hegazi; Saudi businessman Mansour Kadasa, owner of the satellite station, Al-Nas; Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Hassan; former presidential candidate, Hazim Salih Abu Isma’il…”
Here’s the kicker. According to a translation of the entire Libyan Intelligence report provided by Walid Shoebat (a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood and author of numerous books including Why I left Jihad: The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam, and Why We Want to Kill You: The Jihadist Mindset and How to Defeat it), the report stated: “In addition, there were extremely crucial information as to the financial sources of this group and the planners and executers of the operation which carried out the breaking and entering of the American Consulate in Benghazi and killing all occupants including the desecration of their bodies in revenge for the film which was produced by the Crusaders who produced the film that insults the Messenger, Peace and Prayers be upon Him (emphasis mine).” See the entire translation at the end.
Oh, the anti-Muslim film, the infamous YouTube video surfaces again? This is disinformation on several levels.
Why? Because the Libyan Intelligence report, dated September 15, 2012 (four days after the Benghazi attack), backs up the false claim that a YouTube video—an anti-Muslim film — was the cause of the Benghazi attack, the same lie that the Obama administration (including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former United Nation Ambassador Susan Rice, White House spokesman Jay Carney, and then Central Intelligence Director David Petraeus) told the world. Since then, …read more
Clinton Supporter Suspected Of Illegal Donations
Employees of a Washington, D.C.-based accounting firm that federal prosecutors called an “assembly line for illegal campaign contributions” donated more than $500,000 to federal candidates and committees over the past 10 years, including nearly $50,000 to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of records.
An employee and a consultant for the firm, formerly run by Jeffrey Thompson, pleaded guilty last month in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to making so-called straw donations to several federal and D.C. campaigns. The two men — Lee Calhoun and Stanley Straughter — made donations in their names and their family members’ names and were then reimbursed by Thompson or his firm, Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates.
The charges stem from a federal investigation of the 2010 campaign of Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray. At the center of the probe is Thompson, who has been implicated by prosecutors as the financier of an illegal, off-the-books $650,000 “shadow campaign” that federal prosecutors say helped get Gray elected.
An analysis of campaign finance records provided by the Center for Responsive Politics found that Thompson and other donors who listed the accounting firm as their employer have given at least $514,350 to federal candidates and political action committees since the 2002 campaign cycle, including $36,900 from Calhoun, the employee who pleaded guilty last month.
The biggest beneficiary of those funds was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose campaigns took in $50,400. Clinton’s presidential campaign committee received $40,300 from employees at Thompson’s firm in November 2007, when she attended an intimate fundraiser at the company’s headquarters in downtown D.C., according to three people who were at the event.
Read more at The Center for Public Integrity. By Alan Suderman and Ben Wieder.
Assange to Google's Schmidt: 'I don't use email'
Wikileaks’ latest release is billed as a transcript of a “secret meeting,” but it may more accurately be termed a promotion.
The site on Friday released a five-hour transcript of a June 2011 meeting between Julian Assange, one of the whistle-blowing site’s founders, and Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman.
The meeting was also attended by Jared Cohen, who was an advisor to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Cohen has been working with Schmidt on a book called “The New Digital World” due to be released next Tuesday.
At the time of the chat, Assange was staying in Norfolk, England, with Vaughan Smith, the founder of the journalism organization the Frontline Club while his extradition case continued. Assange remains in the U.K. today, holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy although Britain has approved his extradition to Sweden related to sexual assault allegations.
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'Using Our Moral Will' – 25 Years On, Global Fund for Women Aims for Lasting Change
The Global Fund for Women celebrates 25 years of advocacy and action for women and girls with a gala tonight in midtown Manhattan that features former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and journalist Christiane Amanpour. Forbes sat down with Musimbi Kanyoro, the organization’s CEO, to discuss the progress and challenges of the last 25 years, and the state of development and advocacy for women and girls worldwide.
Video: Obama’s Watergate
By Kris Zane
The story of what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 has been narrated by a schizophrenic.
Or so it seems.
On September 11, 2012, four Americans were murdered in Benghazi: Ambassador Chris Stevens, Communications Specialist Sean Smith, and former SEALS Ty Woods and Glen Doherty.
For weeks, the Obama administration blamed a “protest turned violent” over an amateurish anti-Muslim YouTube video.
Susan Rice hit the Sunday news show circuit with this story—five news shows in one day!
Hillary Clinton crooned for the State Department hit parade, even co-starring with Barry Obama in a $70,000 commercial apologizing to “our Muslim friends in Pakistan” who were rioting and tearing apart their countries because they hated America so much.
And our own rock star President took his “protest turned violent” road show to the United Nations, delivering a long-winded speech about how evil it was for an American citizen to exercise his right to free speech by making the “anti-Muslim” YouTube video.
And as a cherry on top, they imprisoned the producer of the video for so-called “probation violations.” Where the producer of the video—Nakoula Basseley Nakoula—now is, God only knows. Obama probably whisked him off to some rendition camp in Karachi.
Well, it turned out that it was a terrorist attack, except no one seemed to know who told Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, and the President of the United States that it was caused by a YouTube video.
It turned out that Obama was informed that the al-Qaeda-linked group Ansar al-Sharia had claimed responsibility for the attack within two hours.
It turned out from a series of hacked emails from Bill Clinton crony Sidney Blumenthal to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Ansar al-Sharia attacked the consulate and CIA annex in retaliation for the CIA’s involvement in the Libyan civil war—on Muammar Gaddafi’s side. We also know from a Blumenthal February 16, 2013 email that the attack on the consulate was funded by our so-called allies, the Saudis.
And it turned out that Benghazi was a hub for funneling weapons and cash to the al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels.
But this only scratched the surface. There was something much more nefarious going on in Benghazi—if that’s possible—and the Obama administration wanted to keep a tight lid on it.
What was the Obama administration doing in Benghazi that was so top secret, in which the thirty odd survivors have been kept under lock and key, prohibited from speaking to Congress or anyone else for that matter?
We know from the recently published book, Benghazi: The Definitive Report, that Obama’s chief counter terrorism officer at the time, John Brennan—now CIA chief—had been secretly involved in the Libyan civil war. Through a secret black ops unit—operating not only outside the purview of Congress, but outside the purview of the Pentagon and the CIA—John Brennan, like an errant knight over his own fiefdom, conducted his secret war in Libya. And that was just one of the secret wars he was involved in. This while he was a lowly chief counter terrorism
Video: White House Civil War
By Kris Zane
What if the FBI was working against the President of United States?
What if it was the FBI, not a single agent as reported, but an agency-wide operation that was behind leaking information to the GOP establishment about David Petraeus’ affair with Paula Broadwell? What if it was part of an “October Surprise” to pile on top of the September 11 Benghazi consulate attack debacle in order to derail Obama’s chances of winning the 2012 election?
If a hacked email sent from Bill Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on November 12, 2012 is to be believed, that is exactly what happened. In an email released on April 5th entitled “Petraeus/October Surprise,” Blumenthal lays out the FBI plan and how Obama, the new “Teflon President,” came out of the debacle unscathed, while the GOP establishment crashed and burned. The FBI, hiding in the shadows, then successfully portrayed the operation as a single FBI “whistleblower,” instead of FBI head Robert Mueller spearheading the operation.
If true, America, there is a civil war going on within our own government.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/white-house-civil-war/
Read This: 'Top Gear'… beloved in Iran?
By Zach Bowman
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It’s true. Top Gear has been hitting airwaves in Iran since 2009, and since then, the program has garnered an impressive following. Mozaffar Shafeie, an actor who translates Jeremy Clarkson‘s musings into Farsi for the show, routinely finds himself signing autographs for fans. While the BBC can’t operate freely in the country, BBC Persian TV hosts Top Gear. When the station dropped the show to air an interview with then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, BBC reports viewers accustomed to their regular dose of Clarkson, Hammond and May protested bitterly.
When the regular Top Gear season comes to a close, BBC Persian TV fills the time slot with Top Gear USA. Needless to say, that maneuver goes over about as well as broadcasting Clinton’s comments.
Iranians are only allowed to buy 13 gallons of gasoline every month, but that hasn’t quelled the country’s love of cars. Even so, many manufacturers have left the country in protest against Iran‘s nuclear program.
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'The Culture of Rape' and a Smart Phone App: Activism Meets Technology in India
The other day at the annual Women in the World conference in New York, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took to the stage to speak bluntly and directly about what she called a “culture of rape.” She talked about the brutal rape and disemboweling of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi last December, and the horror it evoked in people of goodwill. …read more
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Joe Biden ‘Thinking About’ Running For President, ‘Hasn’t Made Up His Mind,’ Son Beau Biden Says
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Vice President Joe Biden is well aware that the loudest rumblings about the 2016 presidential election are currently coming from supporters of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — he experienced their enthusiasm firsthand last week.
Yet while the Clinton speculation already appears to have kicked into overdrive, Biden’s son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, recently told The New York Times that his father isn’t closing any doors, especially with Clinton still maintaining that her career in public office is over.
“It’s no secret that he’s thinking about this,” the younger Biden said. “I’m glad he’s thinking about this. But he hasn’t made up his mind.”
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Being Biden Vol. 4: Vital Voices
By <a href="/author-detail/45">Kori Schulman</a>
In the fourth installment of “Being Biden,” the Vice President tells the story behind a photo taken with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backstage at the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards. The two discussed their shared commitment to reduce violence against women and their call for all Americans to continue to speak out on this issue.
Learn more about the Administration's efforts to end violence against women at wh.gov/1is2many. Read our strategy to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls globally here.
You can listen to the full series at whitehouse.gov/beingbiden, and also sign up to receive an email update when new stories are posted.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at The White House
Hillary Clinton To Give First Paid Speech In April: Report
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will give her first paid speech next month, CNN reported Sunday.
According to the CNN report, Clinton will address the National Multi Housing Council in Dallas, Texas on April 24. While Clinton’s fee for the speech was not disclosed, early reports indicated that the former secretary of state will earn upwards of six figures per speaking engagement. According to Politico, she intends to give some of her earnings to charitable causes.
Clinton joined the Harry Walker Agency last month, adding her name to a roster of high-profile political figures including Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Howard Dean and Karl Rove. Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, is also represented by the agency. In 2011, he earned $13.4 million from speaking engagements.
Video: Were Saudis Behind Benghazi Attack?
By Kris Zane
The hacker known as Guccifer first came to prominence in February after breaching the AOL email account of Dorothy Bush Koch, the sister of George W. Bush. Guccifer released photos of Bush’s amateurish oil paintings and details regarding the ailing elder Bush. The mainstream media idiotically focused on Bush’s prowess as an artist rather than the fact that the public was being offered a glimpse into the secret world of the elite that pull the levers in American society and the world.
Guccifer’s real treasure, however, came in the form of a series of emails hacked from the AOL account of former Bill Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The emails are significant because there is one dated September 12, 2012, which of course was the day after the attack on the Benghazi consulate. Blumenthal cites a number of what can only be called spies throughout the world in order to supply Clinton with a clear picture of current events.
Some jaw-dropping revelations are revealed in the September 12 email, involving the Muslim Brotherhood and the CIA.
First, on the day of the attack on the Benghazi consulate, Libyan President Mohammed Yussef el Magariaf summoned his advisors to discuss the attack, among them members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Per the email:
During the afternoon of September 11, 2012 new interim President of Libya Mohammed Yussef el Magariaf spoke in private with senior advisors, including the members of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, to discuss the attacks by demonstrators on U.S. missions in Tripoli and Benghazi.
Second, the attack on the Benghazi consulate was in part due to revenge for the CIA supporting the Qaddafi regime.
Third, when Qaddafi was overthrown, the rebels found a treasure trove of documents linking the CIA to the Qaddafi regime.
Again, continuing with the September 12, 2012 email:
At the same time, this individual noted that several of el Magariaf’s advisors share his concerns in this matter, pointing out that the return of Qaddafi’s intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi for trial in Libya has heightened public interest in the liaison relationships conducted by the CIA and British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) with Qaddafi’s intelligence and security services. These same individuals note that they believe Islamist militia forces under the command of General Abdelhakim Belhaj captured files and documents describing this relationship from Qaddafi’s offices in Tripoli.
By February 13, 2013, Blumenthal had discounted the ludicrous “protest turned violent” story regarding the attack on the Benghazi consulate. It was clear according to his sources that it was a terrorist attack by the group Ansar al-Sharia, of which Hillary Clinton early on publicly stated was untrue, despite the al-Qaeda-linked group taking credit for the attack, and despite the fact that this information was sent to the White House Situation Room hours after the attack on the consulate.
According to Blumenthal’s February 16, 2013 email to Clinton, the Benghazi attack was well-planned and well-funded by Saudi billionaires:
The attack…originated with wealthy Sunni Islamists in Saudi Arabia. During July and …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism
Hillary Clinton To Give Speech At Event Honoring Women Leaders
By The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is returning to the public stage with her first speaking events since leaving the Obama administration.
Clinton is scheduled to speak Tuesday at the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards in Washington, D.C., an event honoring women leaders around the world. A Clinton spokesman says it will mark her first public speaking event since leaving the State Department.
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Emotional Embrace Of Same-Sex Marriage
This has been another eventful month regarding the national conversation surrounding same-sex marriage (SSM). Last week, Ohio senator Rob Portman had a “change of heart,” coming out in support of SSM as a result of his son’s recent confession of being gay.
This week, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and famed, former mega-pastor Rob Bell both came out in support of gay marriage. Clinton, preparing for a presidential run in 2016, justified her position by saying that “gay rights are human rights” and adding “I believe America is at its best when we champion the freedom and dignity of every human being.” For her, this includes marriage.
Bell, who is in the midst of his book tour said on Sunday at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral: “I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it’s a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs — I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.”
And let’s not forget the Justice Department’s amicus curia brief asking the Supreme Court to strike down Proposition 8, California’s ban on SSM.
Though I don’t support SSM, I think that SSM advocates will see the legal affirmation of the gay lifestyle, and marriage will be redefined. I believe this because the case against SSM hasn’t been made consistently enough to turn the tide.
In all the back and forth on the topic, there are several issues that seem to be purposely overlooked and not discussed when the topic is raised.
At the outset, most agree that the topic of SSM is an emotional one. It’s emotional for those who happen to be gay and who desire to be married. It’s emotional for those who have friends or loved ones who are gay and want them to be “accepted”- part of that acceptance is having the opportunity to be married. It’s also emotional for those who, though they may have friends and loved ones who are gay, still hold to the understanding that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. Further still, it’s emotional for those who struggle to remain faithful to their religious worldview that impacts their understanding of marriage.
It’s precisely because of emotionalism that reason hasn’t prevailed.
The one issue that’s repeatedly raised when discussing SSM is the notion of “rights.” Advocates of SSM argue that marriage is a basic “right” that is denied to gays and, as such, is illegal. Therefore, in the interest of fairness, marriage (by law) should be extended to gays in the same way that it is extended to non-gays.
This sounds convincing. To deny a basic right to one group of people while extending it to another group of people is wrong and discriminatory. And if that’s what the law does, it should be rescinded.
But that isn’t what the law does. First, marriage isn’t a …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism
Hillary Clinton Caught With Her Pants Down?
By Jim Emerson
The latest target of the hacker known as “Guccifer” was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal. Guccifer has targeted former President Bush and Colin Powell, and now we are led to believe he is targeting Democrats.
In the last few months, Americans have seen that current and former government officials made frequent use of non-government email sites to conduct business outside of official channels. Though these email accounts are used to hide communications from Congress and the American people, they are principally used to hide correspondence from Freedom of Information Act scrutiny. Hillary was most likely communicating with Blumenthal in this way to create “talking points” to mislead the American public about the September 11 murders of the American Ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi.
Guccifer allegedly hacked into Blumenthal’s AOL email account last week. The hacked emails that were published on RT.com appear to be analyst summaries, opinions based on facts but which should nevertheless not be taken as gospel. They do however give the idea that the planned Benghazi attack was triggered by a YouTube video. The actual sources of this conclusion are unknown but were most likely from human source interviews, though they could be the opinions of the original author. Though the emails were sanitized versions of the original summaries, Hillary should have known better than to send even sanitized confidential reports by way of a public email account. Either Hillary or Sid were extremely sloppy, or they intended this correspondence to become public. If she decides to run in 2016, she can use these hacked emails to deflect public criticism of her actions regarding Benghazi. Of course, she could also claim they were fraudulent.
The bottom line is that these emails might have been deliberately fed to Guccifer in order to “verify” Hillary’s lie that the attacks at Benghazi were launched in response to a little-known YouTube video. In this case, Guccifer is either a party hack or a tool. Hillary will undoubtedly refer to these leaked e-mails to silence her critics concerning the Benghazi murders. Don’t look for the Holder Justice department to do anything. There is no concrete proof that these emails are valid.
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Benghazi FBI FOIA Request Denied: Stonewall Continues
Another day, another one of my Benghazi Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests has been denied — this time from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). As previously reported, the CIA also denied my Benghazi FOIA request.
Recall it was on September 11, 2012 when Ambassador Christopher Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, were murdered by terrorists. President Barack Obama with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, former CIA chief, the ‘celebrated,’ philandering General David Petraeus, the brains behind the failed counter-insurgency policy called COIN in Afghanistan that is maiming and killing U.S. and NATO troops to win “hearts and minds” that cannot be won, lied to the public when they blamed the murder of four Americans on an anti-Muslim Youtube video.
As the New York Times reported, Woods and Doherty worked under contract with the CIA.
Thus far justice for these American remains elusive. No one has been held accountable. We still don’t know who ordered the “stand down” order to not help these Americans in peril. We still do not know what the Ambassador was doing in Benghazi and who changed the administration’s talking points to deceive Americans.
And the reason for my FBI FOIA request denial? To not hinder a “pending or prospective” investigation.
'End of men'? Not even close, says report on gender in the professions
50 years after Betty Friedan‘s explosive book launched feminism’s “second wave,” 41 after Title IX, the equal-opportunity amendment banning sex discrimination in education, was signed into law – and some exceptionally successful women are making a lot of news. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is riding high in public opinion, winning straw polls for the 2016 presidency. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, after shrugging off maternity leave, has sparked the “Great Telecommuting Debate” with a company-wide ban on working from home. And Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, is on the cover of TIME and every other national stage, it seems, talking about “Lean In,” her just-published memoir and “sort of feminist” manifesto on succeeding as a female in corporate America. …read more
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