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Sunday, December 9, 2018

Judge suggests Justice, State colluded to protect Hillary Clinton in email scandal

A federal judge has raised speculation that Hillary Rodham Clinton and her State Department “colluded” to keep her missing emails secret from the public and courts, an escalation of scrutiny into Obama-era scandal.

Senior District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth in a new memo also called the Clinton email affair “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”

In it, he demanded that State and Justice work with Judicial Watch, which has sued in the case, to develop an evidence seeking schedule into whether Clinton sought to avoid the federal Freedom of Information Act by using a private email system in her New York home.

In detailing the new memo from Lamberth, Judicial Watch issued a statement that also highlighted the judge’s concerns with how the current administration is handling the case.

“The historic court ruling raises concerns about the Hillary Clinton email scandal and government corruption that millions of Americans share,” said Judicial Watch Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch looks forward to conducting careful discovery into the Clinton email issue and we hope the Justice Department and State Department recognize Judge Lamberth’s criticism and help, rather than obstruct, this court-ordered discovery,” he added.

Their FOIA lawsuit is related to the Benghazi terrorist attack.

In their release, Judicial Watch highlighted the following comments in Lamberth’s memo:

"Lamberth ruled:

… the Court ORDERS the parties to meet and confer to plan discovery into (a) whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email while Secretary of State was an intentional attempt to evade FOIA; (b) whether the State Department’s attempts to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and (c) whether State has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s requests.

Terming Clinton’s use of her private email system, “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency,” Lamberth wrote in his MEMORANDUM OPINION:

… his [President Barack Obama’s] State and Justice Departments fell far short. So far short that the court questions, even now, whether they are acting in good faith. Did Hillary Clinton use her...

This looks like it is the biggest right-wing protest in London this year. Thousands descending on Westminster chanting “We want our country back” pic.twitter.com/dO9wlMO4Vt
— James Dawson (@TheJayToday) December 9, 2018

The Second Amendment: Here Is Context...

Muslim Stabs Professor To Death Because He ‘Insulted Mohammed’

Arrested: Ali R. was arrested at the scene after stabbing Irish university lecturer

John Dowling, 66, to death outside the Leonardo de Vinci university in Paris

John Dowling, 66, stabbed to death outside the Leonardo de Vinci university
Ali R., 37, was arrested at the scene and has admitted to killing the Irish lecturer
The Pakistani national claims Dowling had ‘insulted the Prophet Mohammed'
He also confessed he held a personal grudge against Dowling for failing him

An Irish university lecturer stabbed to death by one of his former students had allegedly ‘insulted the Prophet Mohammed', his killer has told French police.

The 66-year-old academic, named locally as John Dowling, was attacked and stabbed 13 times outside the Paris university where he worked on Wednesday.

Ali R., a 37-year-old Pakistani national, has confessed to the killing and told police he held a personal grudge against the teacher after failing his exams last year.

Ali – whose surname has not been disclosed by the French authorities – is due to be indicted for murder in Paris today for the attack outside the Leonardo de Vinci private university in La Defense business district.

Catherine Denis, the Nanterre prosecutor involved in the case, said Ali harboured an ‘obsessive resentment’ against the university for kicking him out in September 2017.

‘He came to France two years ago to join the management school, but did not pass his first year,’ she said.

‘Since then he had been returning to the college, and had become unwanted to the point that he was not allowed in any more.’

CCTV footage shows Mr Dowling chatting calmly with Ali at around midday, before the attacker took out a steak knife and plunged it into the Irishman’s throat, and then...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have completed another sweep in New Jersey, this time arresting 105 illegal aliens which will have all the usual suspects yowling like scalded cats.

ICE made the announcement on Friday and noted that 80 percent of those taken into custody had criminal records and their removal from the streets – while depriving Democrats of voters – will help to make Americans safer.

The completion of the operation comes just over a week after New Jersey officials announced a new rule limiting police cooperation with the agency tasked with enforcing federal immigration laws.

Via NJ.com, “ICE slams N.J. over new rules limiting when cops can turn over unauthorized immigrants”:

New Jersey’s attorney general unveiled a broad new directive Thursday limiting when local police can ask someone’s immigration status and turn unauthorized immigrants over to federal officials for deportation.

Standing in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said the new rules — called the Immigrant Trust Directive — are designed to improve relations between local police and immigrant communities.

The new rules will draw “a bright line” between federal immigration officials and local police at a time when immigrants are growing more fearful of deportation and federal crackdowns on illegal immigration, Grewal said.

“No law-abiding resident of this great state should live in fear that a routine traffic stop by local police will result in his or her deportation from this country,” Grewal said.

Officials with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency slammed the attorney general for rules they say will hinder ICE and undermine public safety.

But that didn’t stop ICE from doing its job.

Via ICE’s official website, “ICE arrests 105 in New Jersey operation targeting criminal aliens and public safety threats”:

Four individuals in the country illegally who have Interpol warrants based on crimes they committed in their home countries were among 105 foreign nationals taken into custody during a five-day operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week in New Jersey. The operation, which was spearheaded by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), targeted at-large criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants and other immigration violators and was supported by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) New Jersey Field Office.
Of those arrested during the operation, 80 percent had prior criminal convictions and/or pending criminal charges.

These individuals will go through removal proceedings before an Immigration Judge or for those under a final order of removal, arrangements will be made to remove them from...