{"id":54527,"date":"2016-11-02T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54527"},"modified":"2016-11-02T07:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T11:02:40","slug":"watergate-ii-national-review-calls-clintons-state-department-racketeering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54527","title":{"rendered":"Watergate II?. National Review calls Clinton\u2019s State Department \u201cRacketeering\u201d."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by JoNova<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ten days to go, thousands of emails to read. The FBI say they \u201cdon\u2019t know what they have\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We do know that they have a monster-load of emails of Hillary\u2019s right hand woman, vice chair of Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign and the FBI think they can\u2019t afford <em>not<\/em> to let the world know. For those who don\u2019t know who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2016\/01\/huma-abedin-hillary-clinton-adviser\">Huma Abedin is: <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> <\/a>pretty much describes her as the \u201ckey glue\u201d for Hillary, around her all the time, the inner-inner circle:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026 along with Chelsea, Abedin is \u201cthe third rail\u201d of the Clinton political world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Bob Barnett, the lawyer who brokered the Clintons\u2019 multi-million-dollar book deals, says Huma is \u201cnow one of the key glues that holds Clintonworld together\u2026. She knows everyone and everyone knows her.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For those wondering why the FBI would make this \u201cblockbuster\u201d announcement now, read the <em>National Review <\/em>to get an idea of the potential<em>.\u00a0<\/em> (Noting that the FBI have released almost no details on what they have found):<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/441573\/hillary-clinton-corruption-foundation\">Clinton\u2019s State Department: A RICO Enterprise<\/a><\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"pull\"><p>Mrs. Clinton appears to have converted the office of secretary of state into a racketeering enterprise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrew C. McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>She appears to have used her official powers to do favors for major Clinton Foundation donors. Felony mishandling of classified information, including our nation\u2019s most closely guarded intelligence secrets; the misappropriation and destruction of tens of thousands of government records \u2014 these are serious criminal offenses. To this point, the Justice Department and FBI have found creative ways not to charge Hillary Clinton for them. Whether this will remain the case has yet to be seen. As we go to press, the stunning news has broken that the FBI\u2019s investigation is being reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Clinton appears to have converted the office of secretary of state into a racketeering enterprise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/jo.nova\/photo\/people\/politicians\/us\/hillary-flag.gif\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton, US Election, Flag. 2016.\" width=\"200\" height=\"229\" \/>Hillary and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, operated the Clinton Foundation. Ostensibly a charity, the foundation was a de facto fraud scheme to monetize Hillary\u2019s power as secretary of state (among other aspects of the Clintons\u2019 political influence). The scheme involved (a) the exchange of political favors, access, and influence for millions of dollars in donations; (b) the circumvention of campaign-finance laws that prohibit political donations by foreign sources; (c) a vehicle for Mrs. Clinton to shield her State Department e-mail communications from public and congressional scrutiny while she and her husband exploited the fundraising potential of her position; and (d) a means for Clinton insiders to receive private-sector compensation and explore lucrative employment opportunities while drawing taxpayer-funded government salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/441573\/hillary-clinton-corruption-foundation<\/p>\n<p>The piquant irony is that for all the Russian hacking these emails were tripped over by the FBI during an investigation of Anthony Weiner, the former congressman who accidentally tweeted a selfie-of-the-worst-kind to 45,000 people. He, it turns out, is married to Hillary\u2019s right hand woman \u2014 Huma Abedin, who has been working for Hillary for most of the last 20 years. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want the general moving picture news (but without the juicy Nat Review depth) <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/fbis-latest-review-hillary-clintons-emails\/story?id=43144549\">see ABC news. (US).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2016\/10\/watergate-ii-national-review-calls-clintons-state-department-racketeering\/\">http:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2016\/10\/watergate-ii-national-review-calls-clintons-state-department-racketeering\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}