Army General Lloyd Austin, in charge of the anti-ISIS war effort from the U.S. Central Command, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that only “four or five” members of the U.S.-trained moderate rebel force are still fighting the Islamic State in Syria.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry phoned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the third time in the past ten days to discuss the situation in Syria. He warned Lavrov that Russia’s support of beleaguered President Bashar al-Assad “will only prolong the Syrian conflict.”
Far too many people who should have blown the whistle on Clinton kept quiet. Finding someone truly impartial to improve transparency, in an Administration with a penchant for obfuscation, stonewalling, and secret communications networks, is not easy.
The United States Embassy in Chad, in response to a “credible threat” from the terrorist group Boko Haram, plans to keep its doors closed from Tuesday through Friday, September 11, Fox News has learned from a military source.
One of the scandals buzzing around Clintonworld concerns the alleged abuse of personal time off by one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, Huma Abedin. She’s accused of collecting about $10,000 in salary over-payment by taking time off without logging those days as vacation or sick time, effectively collecting double pay for the days in question.
Four decorated veterans, convicted of allegedly shooting into a crowd of Iraqi civilians indiscriminately while working as private security contractors hired by the federal government, recently filed a motion to persuade their trial judge to promptly rule on their new trial request, arguing that the Obama administration used perjured testimony to secure their guilty verdicts.
Czars are often dropped as distractions, like a fighter jet ejecting flares to avoid heat-seeking missiles. The appointment of a powerful new position with great fanfare is the ultimate Washington way of pretending to Do Something and mollify an angry public. And so, there comes unto the State Department a new “transparency czar,” officially to be known as the Transparency Coordinator.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign claims the Clinton family personally paid Bryan Pagliano, the former State Dept. employee who invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to give testimony incriminating himself, for maintaining the private email server where Hillary conducted official government business as Secretary of State.
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden held forth on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal during an interview with Al-Jazeera on Thursday.
With a long line of debunked lies, shredded excuses, and abandoned spin attempts behind her, Hillary Clinton finally decided it was time to “apologize” for her email scandal. Of course, her idea of an “apology” basically amounts to: I’m sorry you Little People are too stupid to understand what I was up against, as a historic female Secretary of State.
Was Hillary Clinton’s private email server hacked? The FBI is trying to answer that question as part of its investigation into possible mishandling of classified information.
A former State Department employee who helped Hillary Rodham Clinton set up her private email server said he will assert his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before the House committee on Benghazi.
The release of the latest tranche of Hillary Clinton emails from her private server while she was Secretary of State reveals her State Department’s long-standing anti-Israel bias.
The Hillary Clinton era was a time of much “consternation” for State Department technical staff and security experts, to borrow a word used in today’s Politico article about Clinton aides pushing for the ability to view secret and top-secret material on their personal electronic devices. Just imagine what’s in the 30,000-plus emails Clinton deleted before investigators, Congress, and the American people could see them, if the stuff she eventually decided to hand over is this alarming and embarrassing.
Hillary Clinton originated at least six emails containing classified information, contrary to her spin that she was just a helpless unwitting recipient of material others should be blamed for compromising. Many of the messages contained information that was “born classified” – indisputably classified at the time Hillary sent or received them, under a 2009 executive order signed by President Obama, contrary to Clinton’s repeated false claims that none of her emails included information that was marked classified at the time she handled it. Some of these emails had to be redacted in their entirety before they could be released to the public.
Ed Henry of Fox News reported that the number of Hillary Clinton emails in the new release has increased to 7,000, while the number of messages that had to be redacted to protect classified material is more than double what was expected. (The report is slightly confusing on this point, because Henry later suggests there are 150 more classified emails in addition to 63 that were already expected.)
The State Department will release roughly 7,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails Monday, including about 150 emails that have been censored because they contain information that is now deemed classified.
Gov. Bobby Jindal blasted Hillary Clinton’s comparison of Republican opponents of funding Planned Parenthood to “terrorists” Friday by urging her to “look in the mirror” at the fact that her foundation has raised money from countries that terrorize women.
Hillary Clinton told an audience in Iowa Wednesday that she takes “responsibility” for her private email server, saying, “it clearly wasn’t the best choice” to use it for State Department work.
According to Agence France-Presse, the United States will accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016. This is a modest number when measured on the scale of mass migration – a veritable drop in the bucket compared to the tide sweeping through Europe – but still much larger than what Americans were previously told to expect by their government.
Furthermore, although Clinton has attempted to portray herself as everything from a “passive and unwitting” recipient of sensitive material to a fearless warrior on a one-woman crusade to reform silly classification rules, the Fox report makes it clear that only the intelligence agencies originating this information have the authority to declassify it, not anyone at the State Department – not Hillary Clinton, and most certainly not her top aide, Huma Abedin, who figures prominently in this story, and is looking more and more like the perfect stooge to take a fall for Clinton.
Another one of Hillary Clinton’s false talking points collapses, as Reuters examines what it describes as “dozens” of her emails and finds they contain information that was classified from the moment the information was generated… meaning that, despite Clinton’s repeated statements to the contrary, they were “born classified” — classified on the day she received them.
A spokesman for Platte River Networks, the company which handled Hillary Clinton’s email server after she left the State Department, says the company turned the server over last week at the FBI’s request.
The U.S. is expressing concern over alleged plans by Russia to sell Iran a missile defense system.
A federal judge has ordered the State Department to cooperate with the investigation into the Hillary Clinton private email scandal, Breitbart News has learned. Judge Emmett Sullivan, who presides over the nonprofit group Judicial Watch’s lawsuit against the State Department
