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Lawsuit Filed Over Open Records Format

by | 1347, 20 Aug 16 | , | 4 Comments

It will be interesting to see the results of this suit.

Bill Lueders, the president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and a longtime reporter, filed a suit against Krug (R-Nekoosa) on Friday in Dane County after the legislator refused to provide him with an electronic copy of records in addition to paper copies. Electronic copies are easier to search through than paper copies.

The open records law must be “construed in every instance with a presumption of complete public access, consistent with the conduct of governmental business,” according to the state statute.

“We think that it is clear that requesters are entitled to records in electronic format. I was told ‘no,’ and I think that’s a problem,” Lueders said.

In an emailed statement, Krug said that since he was elected in 2010, he has “fully complied” with all open records requests his office has received.

“The open records request from Bill Lueders was properly fulfilled and followed the law,” he said.

This has been an annoyance of mine for years. Every time I do an open records request for emails, they responding body insists on printing them even though I always ask for them in electronic format. One government body told me once that they do that because they make a copy of what they give me to make sure they have a record of what was given to me – just in case I decide to alter it or something. That seems like a pretty flimsy excuse.

I’ve always suspected that the real reason is to make it more of a pain for people asking for records. A government body is entitled to charge the person asking for records for reasonable fees associated with fulfilling the request. This is often 25 ot 50 cents per printed page, so a request that totals a few thousand pages can really add up quickly. Also, as Lueders points out, it makes it impossible to search through documents for key words and such.

So while Krug is right in so far as he did comply with the law and did do it in such a way that is commonplace across Wisconsin, the normal way in which open records requests are answered is unnecessarily difficult for citizens

Officer Shooting Deemed Justified

by | 0629, 19 Aug 16 | , | 1 Comment

It was a good shoot. Thankfully, the officer and the woman are okay.

District Attorney Mark Bensen has concluded the July 1 fatal shooting of a Hubertus man by a Jackson Police Department officer during a domestic incident was justified, according to a release.

At around 7 p.m., three Jackson officers and a sheriff’s deputy responded to a residence on Stonewall Drive after a woman reported her boyfriend was attacking her. Officers found Helmut Wihowski, 58, in a bathroom trying to slash the woman with a kitchen knife.

After ignoring orders to drop the weapon, Officer Kyle Henning fired twice at the man.

According to the release, the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s criminal investigation division submitted its report to Bensen on Aug. 1, who concluded Henning’s use of deadly force was appropriate in the situation.

Do you know what you won’t see in Washington County today?

Riots.

Evolving ADA

by | 0642, 17 Aug 16 | | 1 Comment

This tidbit caught my attention.

The Slinger School District Board of Education agreed to replace the bleachers in the high school gymnasium and increase salaries while approving the 2016-17 budget at Monday’s Board meeting.

[…]

“Basically they’re not ADA, they don’t have the hand railings,” Board Vice President Bruce Hassier said of the bleachers.

Several Americans With Disabilities Act guidelines need to be met, including a space for wheelchairs, and at the same time, parts are no longer available to replace those that break

[…]

The bleachers were installed in 1992 and do not offer lanes to walk up or hand rails for support.

I don’t fault the Slinger district with wanting to replace the bleachers, although I would point out that there are many schools whose bleachers are much older. What caught my attention is the justification. The Slinger District wants new bleachers to meet ADA requirements, but the existing bleachers were installed AFTER the ADA was in force. The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990. The bleachers were installed in 1992 – presumably in compliance with the law at the time. Yet, the bleachers are now considered out of compliance with the law.

It just shows how much the ADA, which was passed to ensure that businesses made reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities, has been stretched through the courts to insist on rather extraordinary accommodations.

The Clinton Defense

by | 2151, 15 Aug 16 | | 23 Comments

As it will be known.

A Navy sailor facing the possibility of years in prison for taking a handful of classified photos inside a nuclear submarine is making a bid for leniency by citing the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over classified information authorities say was found in her private email account.

Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier, 29, is set to be sentenced Friday on a single felony charge of retaining national defense information without permission. In May, Saucier pleaded guilty in federal court in Bridgeport, Conn., admitting that while working on the U.S.S. Alexandria in 2009 he took and kept six photos showing parts of the sub’s propulsion system he knew to be classified.

The defense and prosecutors agree that sentencing guidelines in the case call for a prison term of 63 to 78 months, but defense attorney Derrick Hogan cited the treatment of Clinton as he argued in a filing last week that Saucier should get probation instead.

“Democratic Presidential Candidate and former Secretary of State Hilary [sic] Clinton…has come under scrutiny for engaging in acts similar to Mr. Saucier,” Hogan wrote. He noted that FBI Director James Comey said 110 emails in 52 email chains in Clinton’s account contained information deemed classified at the time, including eight chains with “top secret” information and 36 with “secret” information.

“In our case, Mr. Saucier possessed six (6) photographs classified as ‘confidential/restricted,’ far less than Clinton’s 110 emails,” Hogan wrote. “It will be unjust and unfair for Mr. Saucier to receive any sentence other than probation for a crime those more powerful than him will likely avoid.”

It won’t work because Saucier isn’t a powerful politician. Such is the state of justice in America.

PA AG Convicted of Perjury and Criminal Conspiracy

by | 2108, 15 Aug 16 | , | 0 Comments

Among other things.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Kathleen G. Kane, the attorney general of Pennsylvania, was convicted Monday night of nine criminal charges, including perjury and criminal conspiracy.

It was a stunning end to the political career of Ms. Kane, once an ascendant Democratic star, whose fall came when prosecutors here accused her of leaking grand jury information, and then lying about it, in an effort to discredit a political rival.

[…]

Ms. Kane, who faced nine charges, including perjury and criminal conspiracy, was accused of leaking secret grand jury documents to the news media in an effort to discredit a political rival, the prosecutor Frank Fina, and then lying to cover it up.

 “‘This is war,’ the defendant’s words,” said the lead prosecutor, Kevin Steele, in reference to an email written by Ms. Kane. “Wars have casualties. Wars leave scars.”

In a nearly two-hour closing statement, wrought with text messages, newspaper front pages and grand jury testimony, Mr. Steele painted a picture of Ms. Kane trying to “go on the offensive” after a newspaper article that criticized her for shutting down an undercover investigation into possible corruption by Democratic state representatives. Prosecutors say she believed Mr. Fina was behind the story.

 Ms. Kane, he said, sought to leak details from a 2009 grand jury investigation into the financial affairs of J. Whyatt Mondesire, a former leader of the N.A.A.C.P., because she wanted residents to know that Mr. Fina had chosen not to prosecute. She then lied about it when a grand jury investigated, Mr. Steele said.
I seem to recall a secret investigation in Wisconsin that targeted the political enemies of the prosecutor and the details of which were illegally leaked to the press for years – particularly before elections. What was that again?

Governor Activate National Guard to Quell Milwaukee Violence

by | 2104, 14 Aug 16 | , , | 7 Comments

Necessary, but sad that it is.

Following a request from Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, and after discussions with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Adjutant General Donald Dunbar, I have activated the Wisconsin National Guard to be in a position to aid local law enforcement upon request.

I commend the citizens who volunteered in clean-up efforts this morning. This act of selfless caring sets a powerful example for Milwaukee’s youth and the entire community. I join Milwaukee’s leaders and citizens in calling for continued peace and prayer.

It is also important for citizens to know that Wisconsin is the first state in the nation to have a law requiring an independent investigation anytime there is a shooting by a law enforcement officer that leads to a death. I will not comment on the specifics of the case as it is now under this investigation. I do, however, hope people will give law enforcement the respect that they deserve for working so hard to keep us safe.

Let’s hope for a night without any deaths, injuries, or property damage. Is that too much to hope for?

Appeals Court Stays Adelman’s Ridiculous Ruling

by | 2158, 10 Aug 16 | , | 1 Comment

Good.

A federal appeals court has stayed a judge’s order allowing people who said they could not obtain photo IDs to sign an affidavit and vote anyway — meaning that option may not be available to Wisconsinites seeking to vote in November.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling issued Wednesday morning was the latest in the ongoing legal battle over Wisconsin’s voter ID requirement.

The ruling blocked an order U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman issued last month that allowed anyone without a valid photo ID to sign an affidavit at their polling place in order to vote.

Groups Sue John Doe Persecutors

by | 2137, 1 Aug 16 | , | 3 Comments

Accountability can be a bear.

A conservative group has filed a class action lawsuit against the investigators and former state officials connected to a halted criminal investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s 2012 recall campaign.

In the lawsuit, the John K. MacIver Institute alleges the investigators violated the a 1986 federal law that protects electronic communications from illegal searches and seizures.

The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, including punitive damages and lawyer’s fees, names special prosecutor Francis Schmitz, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, former Government Accountability Board director Kevin Kennedy and members of their staffs.

Rogue Federal Judge Writes New Law

by | 2046, 29 Jul 16 | , | 0 Comments

Here we go again.

Laws that limited in-person absentee voting to one location, limited early voting hours and eliminated weekend voting are unconstitutional, Peterson ruled.

The 2013 law limiting hours for in-person absentee voting “intentionally discriminates on the basis of race,” Peterson wrote in a 119-page decision.

“I reach this conclusion because I am persuaded that this law was specifically targeted to curtail voting in Milwaukee without any other legitimate purpose. The legislature’s immediate goal was to achieve a partisan objective, but the means of achieving that objective was to suppress the reliably Democratic vote of Milwaukee’s African Americans,” Peterson wrote.

Peterson — who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama in 2014 — also overturned laws that increased the residency requirement for voters from 10 days to 28 days, prohibited distributing absentee ballots by fax or email and required “dorm lists” used as proof of residence to include citizenship information.

Notice that he doesn’t even bother to cite law in his explanation. Instead, he considers his opinion as to the intentions of the duly-elected legislators who voted for this law as justification enough. In other words, he thinks that the opinion of one man – him – should supersede the entire process of elections and law-making. We are increasingly becoming a country where the will of the people no longer matters. All that matters are the opinions of jackasses in robes with jobs for life.

German Residents Forced to Pay for 80 Years of Construction

by | 2023, 29 Jul 16 | , | 3 Comments

I’d move.

Homeowners on a street in Germany have been told they must foot the bill for their road’s construction – even though it’s been there for nearly 80 years.

Residents on Auf’m Rott, in suburban Dusseldorf, went to court after city authorities told them pay an average of 10,000 euros ($11,000; £8,400) per household for what looked like a long-established road, Die Welt reports.

The bills included a conversion from the Nazi-era Reichsmark currency into euros for the original road surface, first laid in 1937, which is being dubbed “Hitler asphalt” by the German media. The figures were also adjusted for inflation.

While homeowners were perplexed, a court has now confirmed that they must cough up the cash. It determined that while construction began in the 1930s, the road was only officially completed in 2009 when pavements were added. For the intervening period it was considered to be under development.

In Germany, residents have to pay a “development contribution” to the local authority for things like new roads, cycle paths and street lighting.

According to Die Welt, the council says people weren’t required to contribute towards road construction under the Third Reich, so the costs are simply being billed now. The court agreed, saying that the length of time involved doesn’t matter. “There is no statute of limitations in relation to the construction work,” says Franziska Hoette, a judge at Dusseldorf’s Administrative Court.

So, Auf’m Rott’s current residents will be shelling out for the “Hitler asphalt”, streetlamps dating back to 1956, a sewer from the 1970s, and pavements and greenery added in 2009. But despite taking a sizeable financial hit, the residents appear to have accepted the court’s verdict. Spiegel Online reports that they’ve withdrawn their complaint, saying: “If this is how it is, then this is how it is.”

Accused Killer of Chandra Levy Released

by | 2123, 28 Jul 16 | | 0 Comments

There’s a name I haven’t read in a while. I hope they find her killer.

The US Attorney’s Office said it had dismissed the case against Ingmar Guandique, an El Salvadorean immigrant.

Ms Levy, 24, had just finished an internship with the US Bureau of Prisons when she disappeared in 2001.

Her body was found in a park more than a year later, in a case that generated national headlines and claimed one politician’s career.

Democratic politician Gary Condit, to whom Ms Levy was romantically linked, was a suspect in the murder and ended up leaving Congress.

According to the statement from the attorney’s office, the case against Guandique was no longer one that prosecutors could prove beyond a reasonable doubt, due to “recent unforeseen developments”.

Attorney Dan Kelly Tapped for Wisconsin Supreme Court

by | 1732, 22 Jul 16 | , | 0 Comments

I thought Walker would go with Gundrum, but this is a good pick.

Attorney Dan Kelly promised Friday his personal and political beliefs will play no role in his rulings as a state Supreme Court justice.

But Gov. Scott Walker cut off any deeper questions about Kelly’s past writings that compared affirmative action to slavery or his opposition to same-sex marriage.

Asked about the writings, which were included in Kelly’s application to replace Justice David Prosser, the attorney said there is a bright line between a judge’s personal beliefs and the role of the courts.

“As soon as we step into the courtroom all of our personal, political and philosophical beliefs take a backseat,” Kelly said. “The primary and only job of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice is to apply the law as written.”

When a reporter asked a follow-up question about the writings, Walker said the “answer is pretty clear,” adding he doesn’t want an activist on the court from the right or the left. Another reporter attempted to ask Kelly what the writings say about his judicial philosophy. But Walker said the question had already been answered, again stressing his belief about the court’s role.

“I answered it for you,” Walker said. “If you don’t like the answer, that’s fine.”

Kelly, who will join the court after Prosser’s resignation at the end of July, would have to run in 2020 for a full 10-year term on the bench. Walker also stepped in when a reporter tried to ask Kelly if he plans to run in four years.

The guv said he did not ask Kelly about his intentions for 2020, but that his expectation generally is that his judicial appointments will seek to retain the seat.

The notion that justices aren’t supposed to have had opinions on things is fairly silly. Of course he has some opinions about issues. Everybody does. I hope he is a fair judge who rules according to what the law says and not what he thinks it should be. We will all have plenty of time to evaluate his performance before he stands for election (assuming he does).

Another Officer Accused in Gray’s Death Acquitted

by | 1356, 18 Jul 16 | , | 1 Comment

Justice is served.

The highest-ranked Baltimore police officer charged in connection with the custody death of Freddie Gray has been acquitted on all charges.

A judge ruled that prosecutors failed to prove the charges of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office against Lieutenant Brian Rice.

Lawyers had argued Lt Rice caused Gray’s death by failing to secure his seatbelt inside the police van.

Gray died from a spinal cord injury.

The death sparked days of protests and rioting throughout Baltimore, and prosecutors announced charges against six officers.

[…]

This is the fourth time that Baltimore prosecutors have failed to secure a conviction.

Not every death of a black man at the hands of cops is because of racist, dirty cops. In fact, the evidence shows us time and time again that it is exceedingly rare that the facts of the case justify the rhetoric of the protest groups.

More Cops Hunted Down in Baton Rouge

by | 1545, 17 Jul 16 | , | 8 Comments

Suspects are still at large. Tragic. The war on cops is getting worse.

BATON ROUGE – Two East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office deputies and two Baton Rouge Police Department officers were killed and three others wounded during a Sunday morning shooting on Airline Highway near the Hammond Aire Plaza.

Authorities have confirmed that the first of three suspects is a Missouri man who was killed after the shooting. Two other suspects were taken into custody in West Baton Rouge Parish and are being questioned by Baton Rouge Police.

President Obama’s statement was spot on. Maybe he’s finally starting to understand that pandering to racist anarchist organizations has consequences. Here’s his statement:

I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault. These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop.

I’ve offered my full support, and the full support of the federal government, to Governor Edwards, Mayor Holden, the Sheriff’s Office, and the Baton Rouge Police Department. And make no mistake – justice will be done.

We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear: there is no justification for violence against law enforcement. None. These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one. They right no wrongs. They advance no causes. The officers in Baton Rouge; the officers in Dallas – they were our fellow Americans, part of our community, part of our country, with people who loved and needed them, and who need us now – all of us – to be at our best.

Today, on the Lord’s day, all of us stand united in prayer with the people of Baton Rouge, with the police officers who’ve been wounded, and with the grieving families of the fallen. May God bless them all.

Mayor Weighs in on War on Police

by | 1832, 13 Jul 16 | , , | 24 Comments

A word from the Mayor of West Bend:

July 12, 2016

My entire life, I have respected police officers, sheriff deputies and other law enforcement professionals.  As a child, I looked up to them and as an adult I value their important and necessary role in society.

Their profession requires a certain amount of danger and risk which most of us do not encounter where we work.  In the past I felt as though that risk was a known entity, that upon entering the public safety arena it was well known danger was part of the job.  Those who could accept that risk went on to honorable careers.  Those who could not, chose another field of work.  I felt these men and women signed up for the job, knowing full well the risks involved.

I felt that way until recently when the risks changed significantly.  Unfortunately, it appears as though the new job description of a law enforcement officer must now include shouldering the burden of being singled out, labeled a racist, and worst of all accept the role of being hunted down simply for wearing the uniform.  Thank you to those who, in spite of this, continue to serve.

Today’s societal condition reminds me of Vietnam Veterans coming home after serving our country.  Many arrived and were welcomed with violence and hate.  Today, just as then we need strong leaders who have the dignity and grace to cut through political party affiliations and speak simply, as Americans.  Fortunately, veterans have regained their rightful place as the best of the best and are revered and respected, just as they should be.  That change in attitude took leadership.

Once again, we find ourselves looking for leaders and what a shame it is to see those at the highest levels of government refusing to engage properly.  It is not an accident neither our President nor Secretary Clinton can bring themselves to condemn recent actions. It is not an accident the Black Lives Matter organization does not speak of strengthening the family, promoting personal responsibility or championing change through education (Please see blacklivesmatter.com to view their agenda for yourselves).

None of these are accidents, rather, they are an integral part of the lifeblood of the far left wing.  Politicians supporting these motives cannot afford to allow others to know the benefits of a unified family, to discover the value of a great education or the joy of financial freedom.  They know once a suppressed population is freed it will embrace principles of a limited government and will have achieved the American Dream, offering more opportunity to their children than they had themselves.  The far left knows this would eliminate the need for politicians like these who rely on vulnerable and angry populations for their very existence.

As Americans, our goal should be to help each person realize they are intelligent, significant and important members of society.  All lives have meaning and our leaders should invest in teaching those in need how to achieve their full potential, whatever that potential may be.  It is infinitely inspirational to hear stories of those who fought against incredible odds and now enjoy a life of self-sufficiency.  To lead in this manner is not racist.  To lead in this manner takes courage, courage our present day leaders don’t have.

I am willing to respectfully debate dozens of topics with those whom I have political differences in order to strengthen my own beliefs and understand more fully the positions of others.  However, the support of racist acts by our President and Secretary Clinton only serve to re-segregate our country and undermine the progress made over the past decades.  There is no debating the dishonor of their inaction.

I ask the citizens of West Bend and Washington County to be courageous leaders and do two things.  First, when you see a man or woman in uniform, sincerely thank them. Second, regardless of where you view yourself politically, don’t fall victim to the narrative of hate.  Let’s knock off the idea that hate ever cured anything, it hasn’t.

Remember we are Americans, the leaders of the world.  Let’s act like it.

Kraig K. Sadownikow

Mayor

City of West Bend

National Insecurity

by | 0628, 12 Jul 16 | , | 0 Comments

My column for the West Bend Daily News is online. Here it is:

Late in 1971, the USS Halibut, a highly modified nuclear attack submarine, snuck through a shallow channel between the Kuril Islands into the Sea of Okhotsk. It was the middle of the Cold War and the Halibut was deep into the roaming territory of the Soviet Union’s Pacific fleet on a mission about which only a handful of people knew.

The Halibut was seeking an undersea communications cable no more than 5 inches in diameter that the Americans believed would be carrying unencrypted communications from Soviet military leaders in Moscow to their facilities in Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula. The Americans found the cable and placed a tap on it that recorded communications for years. It was an intelligence coup that took a considerable amount of money, time, and bravado to achieve that reverberated for years during the Cold War without the Soviet Union, or most Americans, ever knowing it happened.

All that a hostile nation needed to intercept years’ worth of classified and unclassified communications of America’s Secretary of State was a mediocre hacker with a laptop sipping a latte at his local coffee shop. That is the reality that FBI Director James Comey made clear after concluding the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email use.

The framework of Clinton’s email management has been known for some time, but the details are even more shocking. Against State Department rules and federal law, Clinton chose to set up and use a private email system for her official correspondence rather than using the secure system provided by the government.

According to the FBI, Clinton’s private email system included several servers and multiple devices — none of which had any more security than what is commonly used in the private sector. With this system, Clinton sent and received tens of thousands of emails. More than 100 of those emails were deemed classified at the time they were sent, which is in direct contradiction to Clinton’s statements.

Using her private email system, Clinton sent many of these emails while in nations that are hostile to the United States and using their networks. Barring utter incompetence by those foreign nations, everything she sent and received was intercepted. One hacker has already credibly claimed to have hacked Clinton’s email system and it is naïve to think that almost every sophisticated foreign power has not done the same.

Before turning over the emails from her private system to the government, as required by law, Clinton’s lawyers sifted through the emails even though they were not cleared to view classified material. Even though Clinton claimed that she had turned over all work-related emails, the investigation identified thousands of missing emails that Clinton did not turn over.

After all of that, Comey disgraced himself and his agency by not recommending charging Clinton because the FBI claims she did not intend to break the law. Instead, they said, she was simply “extremely careless.” The fact remains that America has been prosecuting people for breaching national security for as long as we have been a nation whether they intended to or not. The laws that Clinton broke do not require intent in order to be broken.

Even though intent is not relevant, it is clear that Clinton did intend to break the law. The mere act of setting up a private email system for her official communications was an intentional act to circumvent all of the laws that require her communications to be both secure and archived for future scrutiny. It was that scrutiny that she wanted to avoid. She wanted to hide her emails so that investigators and the public would only ever be allowed to see what Clinton allowed them to see. When Clinton was scrutinized by the FBI, she lied and obstructed the investigation. Clinton was far more concerned with the American public seeing her communications when she was a high official of our government than she was with our enemies seeing them.

The evidence is clear that America’s former Secretary of State intentionally and willfully concealed her communications, including classified emails, from any scrutiny from our government and the people while leaving those same communications exposed to being read by hostile powers. At best, she was criminally negligent. At worst, the intentionally subverted our national security for her own personal gain. Either way, she is a criminal.

And yet, a Democratic president with a Democratic attorney general have refused to charge the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee after their FBI director debased himself for them. In failing to charge Hillary Clinton for her actions, this administration has forfeited our nation’s security for the political ambitions of the Democratic Party.

No Charges for Clinton

by | 2030, 5 Jul 16 | , | 8 Comments

Is anyone surprised that our government no longer holds the powerful accountable? And yet:

Clinton sent and received emails that concerned matters that were classified at the top-secret special access program level at the time of the communications, he said. That flatly contradicted the former first lady’s public assertion that she never sent or received classified information.

“There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about the matters should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation,” Comey said.

Comey also said “it is possible that hostile actors gained access” to Clinton’s private email account, noting that her use of that system was widely known and that she sent and received work emails “in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.”

Let’s fill in the picture a little… on the merits of the case, the FBI can prove that she knowingly sent classified material on an unsecured system, kept a private server in the first place, and lied the whole time about it, but didn’t recommend charges because they don’t believe she intended to break the law? That’s pure, unaltered BS. Not only is intent moot in the laws she broke, but a simpleton can see that she darn well intended to do what she did and that she knew it was against the law. Any other reading of the facts assumes that either Clinton is a drooling imbecile.

The FBI discredited itself today and opened the door to decades of challenges from people who breach our national security.

Next, let’s look at the timeline that reveals the politics.

– For weeks, Democrats have been telegraphing that she wouldn’t be charged (how did they know?).

– The week before, Bill Clinton huddles with the Attorney General.

– After getting caught, the AG says that she will take whatever the recommendation of the FBI (easy to do when you know what it will be).

– The FBI interviews Clinton on the Saturday of the Independence Day weekend. Why? Because it gets minimal media attention. Remember that this investigation has been going on for months. They could have interviewed her any time.

– On the day after Independence Day, the FBI announces its decision to not recommend charges.

– THAT DAY, President Obama is campaigning with Clinton. Campaign events – especially with a sitting president – are booked well in advance. There’s no way Obama would have campaigned with her had she been charged. His simple presence tells us that he knew all along that she wouldn’t be charged. And why wouldn’t he? The FBI and DOJ work for him.

This whole episode confirms what American have known, but hoped wasn’t true, for a while now: laws are only for the rest of us. The rich and powerful need not worry.

Attorney General Recuses Herself from Hillary Indictment Decision

by | 1659, 1 Jul 16 | , | 2 Comments

Wow.

(CNN)Attorney General Loretta Lynch will accept the determinations and findings of the FBI and career prosecutors who are investigating Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, Lynch said Friday.

Lynch made the pledge Friday at Aspen Ideas Festival, following questions raised when she met privately with former President Bill Clinton at a Phoenix airport earlier this week.
“I certainly wouldn’t do it again because I think it has cast this shadow over what it should not, over what it will not touch,” Lynch said at the event, adding, “It’s important to make it clear that that meeting with President Clinton does not have a bearing on how this matter will be reviewed and resolved.”

Milwaukee Woman on FBI’s Most Wanted List

by | 2222, 28 Jun 16 | | 0 Comments

Be on the lookout.

The FBI is on the hunt for a Wisconsin woman accused of fatally shooting a pregnant mother and killing the victim’s unborn child.

Authorities say Shanika Minor, 24, has been missing since March, when she allegedly opened fire on her mother’s neighbor in Milwaukee over an argument about loud music. Minor, who is now on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, is accused of shooting the neighbor in the chest on March 6 after a fight about the noise escalated.

The 23-year-old victim, who was five days away from her due date, died in her home in front of her two children, authorities said. Her unborn baby also died.

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