Posted on 08/23/2015 7:52:27 AM PDT by HomerBohn
While perhaps too early for Democratic elites to panic and begin bailing out on Hillary Clinton’s campaign as a doomed vessel, they would be well advised not to miss any of the lifeboat drills.
For Hillary’s campaign is taking on water at a rate that will sink her, if the leakage does not stop, and soon.
Initially, the issue of Hillary and the emails she sent and received as secretary of state seemed too wonkish, too complex, too trivial a matter to sink a candidacy as strong as hers.
Her nomination was considered as assured as any since Vice President Richard Nixon ran unopposed in 1960.
But since it was revealed that as secretary of state she used a private server for her emails, located in her home in Chappaqua, the bleeding of public trust has been unabated.
Her tortured explanation as to why she installed her own server only raised suspicions. Her erasure of 30,000 “personal emails,” her initial refusal to turn her server over to State, her denials she ever received confidential information, her wiping of the server clean, her stonewalling, have all ravaged her reputation for truthfulness. And truthfulness was never Bill or Hillary’s long suit.
And the issue of Clintonian entitlement and privilege has arisen again.
For Hillary showed a casualness in handling the nation’s secrets that would have cost a civil servant at State, Defense or CIA his or her security clearance and job. And they would be facing charges and potentially jail time.
Indeed, now that Justice and the FBI have been called in to look at Hillary’s handling of state secrets, it is not impossible that at the end of this road lies a federal indictment.
Should that happen, her campaign and career would be over. And should that indictment come later rather than sooner, the Democratic Party could be headed into the election of 2016 led by a Brooklyn-born septuagenarian Socialist.
Every day that new revelations come about Hillary and her emails, and every week that passes between now and when the filing deadlines for the primaries begin to fall, this becomes a real possibility.
Again, the problem here for Hillary and the Democratic Party is that the investigators at Justice, the FBI, and in a hostile Congress and the media, are far from wrapping this up.
They all have their teeth in it, and they are not going away. And there is nothing Hillary can do to halt the investigations, or plug the leaks, or, it seems, to change the subject.
What, really, is the relevance of her $350 billion plan to get the super-rich to pay off student loans, if Hillary is being lawyered up?
The Democratic Party is approaching the fail-safe point.
If it appears that Hillary is headed for the knacker’s yard, then to whom do the Democratic elites turn, and, equally important, when do they move?
For they cannot wait too long.
Hence, a “Draft Biden” movement has begun, and veterans of President Obama’s campaigns are signing on.
Yet the vice president should think long and hard about whether and when he plunges into the Democratic race. For his announcement of availability would be a signal that Joe Biden thinks Hillary is politically dead, or close to it, and he is coming in to drop the hammer.
This would be seen as act of crass political opportunism, seizing upon Hillary’s travails, shouldering her aside, and seizing a nomination millions of Democrats have long believed was hers by right.
How would the millions of Democratic women who have looked forward to the first woman president respond to Biden’s barreling in and finishing her off? How enthusiastic would those women and feminists be for a Candidate Biden who had delivered the deathblow to Hillary and blocked for another decade any chance of a woman as president?
Joe would certainly be up for Chauvinist of the Year 2015.
And other problems would arise for a Biden candidacy.
Would Bill and Hillary Clinton be out there stumping to help Joe win the presidency, when both had dreamed of her having it?
Joe would have to beat Bernie Sanders and rout the Elizabeth Warren liberals. He would have to woo back the big contributors in the Jewish community who believe Barack Obama and John Kerry threw Israel and Bibi under the bus to cut a deal that empowers the world’s leading “state sponsor of terrorism.”
If Joe is having second thoughts about getting in, who can blame him?
As the old saw goes, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”
But for Democrats, such counsel comes too late. Hillary is carrying their basket of eggs, and slipping all over the sidewalk.
If they procrastinate in designating someone else to catch the basket if it falls, they get Bernie. But if they move too soon, they will be charged with sabotaging the last best chance for America to elect a woman president.
A nice problem for those ubiquitous cable TV talking heads who identify themselves as “Democratic strategists.”
I'll second, third, fourth, fifth and six that!
That’s a better story than most floating around.
Now we have our black president and race relations are worse than they have ever been in memory.
Now we are being told that we must have a woman president at all costs. No matter how corrupt, evil and despicable she might be. We simply MUST elect her or we will be a sexist country.
It’s the “Clinton Machine” that protects her. Too many influential people, both domestic and foreign, have tons of money, via contributions to the Clinton Foundation and speaking fees, invested in her becoming President. If she is forced to withdraw, all that money and the potential influence that goes with it goes down the drain. Lots of jobs are involved too - employees and hangers-on of the Clinton Foundation, jobs at non-profits, who have contributed, who expect to receive grants, jobs at for-profit businesses, who have contributed, who expect to receive lucrative contracts, etc.
A lot of money and influence is at play here, that wasn’t available to poor old Petraeus.
Zain is her son’s middle name.
<><> formed her private company “Zain Endeavors,LLC” 12 days before she exited State.
After a year filled with ridicule and scandal, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner finally has something he can feel proud about — a new baby boy.
Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, gave birth to the wee Democrat yesterday, 10 days before the New Year’s Eve due date, The Post has learned. Jordan Zain Weiner checked in at 7 lbs. 5.8 oz, a source said.
Weiner emailed friends yesterday announcing the arrival of their “sparkling wonder.”
“Did I mention his mom is amazing? We love you for welcoming him,” Weiner wrote.
The Post first reported in September that the couple was having a boy, months after Weiner’s political career crashed and burned in an embarrassing sexting scandal that forced him to resign from Congress.
I think the golf game last week with Bill Clinton and Obama was big.
Which side set it up?
What was the discussion about?
So she'll be taking the oath of office from the Federal Penitentiary?
She probably still has crucial FBI files on a lot of folks too.
There are some faint hints that the MSM is starting to turn against Hillary. If the MSM totally rejects her then she is through. Hillary’s main problem, at present, is to keep the MSM from totally rejecting her. Once Hillary is nominated and gets to the voters she is President.
Hillary has the same lawyer as Petraeus, FWIW.
Bill doesn't look too happy here.
Excellent point.
High time to mobilize The Bank Secrecy Act ----to follow the paper trail and determine how monies changed hands; to determine the scope and dimension of collusion in sub rosa deals and who might be personally profiting.
<><> L/E needs to examine bank accounts of Platte River, and the Clintons...particularly the Foundation.
<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer funds from one account to another, and/or to wire-transfer funds offshore;
<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.
<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders' personal use and/or for redistribution schemes.
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NOTE WELL Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering and other financial crimes. “The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.
Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.
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<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of Platte River, and the Clinton Foundation checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.
L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.
<><> L/E should scrutinize bank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.
<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures;
Tax fraud may also be a factor, facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from legal bank accounts into personal accounts, or redistribution schemes.
<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support and luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts from luxury outlets.
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FBI TIPS PAGE--YOU MAY REMAIN ANONYMOUS ---https://tips.fbi.gov
SUBJECT: Collusion, conspiracy, bribery
IN RE: financial irregularities
REFERENCE: govt fraud, falsified documents, wire transfers, accounting fraud, etc.
NARRATIVE Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of multiple conspiracies by Platte River, and the Clinton Foundation to collude in sub rosa deals to personally profit and/or to facilitate redistribution schemes of US tax dollars.
OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT The FBI should interrogate individuals at Platte River and the Clinton Foundation for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify official documents to further fraudulent schemes. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted by Platte River for falsified entries.
Crimes might include--govt fraud, conspiracy, collusion, falsifying official documents (a felony), money laundering, tax evasion, extortion, theft, misuse of public facilities.
Examine Platte River and the Clintons' tax returns with a fine-tooth comb.....particularly entries for "interest income."
It certainly wasn't about connecting with some babes.
Bill is one sick looking bast*rd. He probably has a full house: herpes, aids, clap, etc.
Barry just has to worry about aids.
A great example of understatement.
She should be in a chain gang breaking rocks.
It’s funny watching the Clintons destroy the democrat party. All the democrats are finally learning that you should never trust a Clinton.
I think they’re also destroying Chelsea’s dream of being president one day. And don’t think she’s not thinking about it. If W could be president after his daddy, she should be able to be president after both of her parents held the office.
Despite all the Clinton’s conniving, I do not see Hillary avoiding being indicted for these emails. That could also unravel the sordid corruption of the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton’s will always have their supporters who will make any excuse for their corruption, but this is the beginning of the end for them.
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