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Hillary And Benghazi: Call In The Cleaners!

September 24, 2014

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A cleaner is a person who gets rid of incriminating evidence at the scene of a crime. A cleaner is usually related to crime fiction novels, but in the case of the Clintons the line between fiction and reality may not be as blurry as you might think.

SHARYL ATTKISSON ARTICLE ABOUT BENGHAZI

I read an article last week by Sharyl Attkisson about former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the State Department, Raymond Maxwell,  alleging that Hillary Clinton cronies cleaned potentially damaging documents, from State Department headquarters, concerning the Benghazi terrorist attacks (read article here). Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff Cheryl Mills was at the cleaning party. I’m not going to go over the whole article, you can read it for yourself.  I’m much more interested in one question: Do you believe these allegations or not?

ISOLATED INCIDENT OR DISCERNIBLE PATTERN OF ACTION?

If you look at this incident in isolation your first question would be: is the reporter credible? Sharyl Attkisson was a CBS news investigative journalist for 20 years before she resigned in March 2014 (read why she resigned here). She has main stream media credibility, until such time that the mainstream media decides to undercut her credibility for writing this article. In isolation this incident comes down to who you believe, Sharyl Attkisson”s reporting and the credibility of Raymond Maxwell, or a State Department spokesman who called the allegations that documents were withheld, “totally without merit”.

The question really isn’t who do you believe? The question should be: is this an isolated incident or is this part of a discernible pattern of action? Lets see if we can find a discernible pattern.

SANDY BERGER CLEANS EVIDENCE

Remember Sandy Berger former National Security Adviser Under Bill Clinton. He was convicted of stealing  classified documents from the National Archives, concerning Clinton’s efforts to thwart terrorist threats. He did this before the 9/11 commission could get these documents. His actions suggest he was cleaning documents to protect the Clintons from looking weak on terrorism. These documents were never recovered. Read this article, Berger Thefts Still Weigh On Archives Agents, if you need your memory refreshed.

CLEANERS TAKE CARE OF ROSE LAW FIRM RECORDS

In the summer of 1992, before the election, and in December of 1992, after the election, Couriers of the Rose Law Firm, which Hillary worked at in Little Rock Arkansas, said Hillary called them to the Governor’s Mansion giving them her and law partners  Foster,  Hubble, and Kennedy’s records to have them shredded at the Rose Law Firms Offices. When special counsel began to investigate in early 1994, Rose Law Firm partners admitted they shredded more files but stated these were unrelated to Whitewater. When Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster committed suicide on July 20, 1993, White House aides entered his office that evening and the next day. The fact that Foster was in possession of Whitewater files was not mentioned (read Shredding Foster’s Files here). On July 22, White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum gives the box of Whitewater files to Hillary’s chief of staff Margaret Williams who took the files to the White House living quarters on the third floor and locked them in a closet, after talking to Hillary. These files were discovered on Janruary 4th, 1996 by Special Assistant to the President Ms. Carolyn Huber, and delivered to the Whitewater Committee the next day by Clintons lawyer David Kendall (read Rose Law Firm Billing Records here).

The firing of Billy Dale from the travel office, and finding out who hired cleaner Craig Livingstone, are two more examples of similar conduct.

CONCLUSION

There is a clear pattern of cleaners being used by the Clintons. The question now becomes: Is this enough of a pattern of action to help you make up your mind about the most recent cleaning of records pertaining to Benghazi? Remember human action is purposeful behaviour used to reach a particular end. The end aimed at is believed to be a better state of affairs than what exists at the moment of the action. The preferred end can be revealed by looking at the action taken. At the very least we can say the Clintons don’t want us to know about their previous actions. I think we can take a guess as to why the cleaning took place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Categories: Government and Politics
Tags: Benghazi, Call In The Cleaners, Discernible Pattern, Hillary Clinton, National Archives, Raymond Maxwell, Rose Law Firm Records, Sandy Berger, Sharyl Attkisson, Shredding Documents, Vince Foster's Files

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Scandals, or Fundamental Transformations?

June 17, 2014

This article, Was Benghazi a Scandal? by Victor Davis Hanson, answers this question. The President has gone about ignoring the rule of law in so many cases it is hard to remember them all. Dr. Hanson catalogues many of these in his article. The President said he was going to fundamentally transform the United States of America, on the campaign trail in 08.

He is moving closer toward keeping his promise every day, as each new scandal/transformation comes and goes. We are being conditioned to accept this as the new normal because of the sheer volume of his usurpations of power. Why should anyone be surprised by anything he has done, if you consider his progressive radical back ground that anyone could have uncovered with a small amount of effort. Our founders said, “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom“. In retrospect eternal vigilance seems like a bargain compared to the price, in time and effort, we are going to have to pay to get this ever-growing Government back inside of its constitutional borders.

Here are some excerpts from the article.

“In sum, what many Americans see as scandals are not scandals to the Obama administration. Our president believes instead that the law is fluid. Statutes are mere constructs dressed up by those with inordinate power to paper over race, class, and gender biases.”

“For the nobly progressive, the desired equality of result at home and greater fairness toward nations abroad require a sort of deconstruction of “settled law.” Liberal elites may be forced to emasculate their enemies, if need be, by politicizing the IRS, or by ignoring the law through executive orders, or by sending out officials to peddle untruths, or by doing almost anything necessary to enact social justice here and abroad. Some call it scandalous, but others see it as empowering and long overdue.”

“The more such scandals occur in the next two years, the more they will not be seen as scandals, but as mere bothersome hurdles to fundamentally changing America. In the age of Obama, you win the race not by playing by the fossilized rules of jumping over the track’s hurdles — but instead by running right through them to reach the finish line first.”

Categories: Government and Politics
Tags: Benghazi, Eternal Vigilance, Fundamental Transformation, Obama Scandals, Rule of law, Usurpation of Power, Victor Davis Hanson

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Must Reads For The Week 7/6/13

July 6, 2013
The pen is mightier than the sword...

The pen is mightier than the sword… (Photo credit: mbshane)

Presenting Inflation…, at zerohedge.com. The Feds counterfeit money is leaking out of the financial sector and into the rest of the economy.

The Benghazi Diary, A Hero Ambassador’s Final Thoughts, by Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb, at sofrep.com. Steven’s diary sheds light on a cover up.

Don’t Mess With A Man’s Family: Armed Texas Dad Takes On Three Armed Intruders, by Jason Howerton, at theblaze.com. Mr. Ortiz saved the tax payers money that would have been used on the trial, and incarceration of the perps. I think he should get a tax credit for a percentage of what was saved. Lets incentivize this behaviour, so it can disincentivize the perps behaviour.

Rep Tammy Duckworth Eviscerates Man Using H.S. Football Injury For Government Contracts, at egbertowillies.com. Iraq war veteran and double amputee Rep. Tammy Duckworth,crushes this federal contractor for using a H.S. football injury to get a service disabled status in order to get federal contracts. This guy can’t turn his man card, he never had one!

Egypt What A Shame, by Chris Rossini, at economicpolicyjournal.com. Individual liberty can’t exist in the same place that Government power exists. The people of Egypt are trying to gain freedom through the very entity that is keeping them from being free. Dismantling Government power is what makes the individual more free.

Up In My Grill: 4th Of July Rap, by Remy & MeredIth Bragg, at reason.com. You probably broke some Government regulation at your 4th of July celebration.

Rahmaland Fireworks: 34 people shot on July 4th, at economicpolicyjournal.com. Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws. I know I know; ” just think what the numbers would be if they didn’t have strict gun control laws!”

A Yiddish Lesson From Paul Krugman, at economicpolicyjournal.com. “Man plans and God laughs”.

Obamacare Strikes: Part-Time Jobs Surge, Full Time Jobs Plunge, at zerohedge.com. When Government creates incentives to hire part-time employees, part-time employment will rise. You don’t need a crystal ball to see this.

The Dirty Little Secret About Holiday Traffic Ticketing, by Gary Biller, at washingtimes.com. Interesting article showing evidence that speed limit laws have nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with funding.

Categories: Must Reads For The Week
Tags: Benghazi, Brandon Webb, Chicago Murder Rate, Coup d'e tat in Egypt, Defensive Use Of Firearm, economicpolicyjournal.com, July 4th Rap, Obamacare, Part Time Employment, Paul Krugman, Tammy Duckworth, Traffic Tickets, zerohedge.com

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Must Reads For The Week 6/22/13.

June 22, 2013
Mightier Than the Sword

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Tap It: NSA Slow Jam (Featuring Remy), by Remy and Meredith Bragg, at reason.com. Short video about the surveillance State.

Rotting, Decaying And Bankrupt-If  You Want To See The Future Of America Just Look At Detroit, at zerohedge.com. The only difference is Detroit can’t print money. The Fed can, which leads to an even bigger default.

US Treasury Denies It Is Trying To Torpedo Bitcoin, at zerohedge.com.  … “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” – Obi Wan Kenobi

10,600 Empty Rentals In The People’s Republic Of San Francisco At A Time When Many Can’t Find Rentals, at economicpolicyjournal.com. Government intervention creates an artificial scarcity.

Uncle Sam’s Growing Ownership Of Student Loans, at economicpolicyjournal.com. We discussed this in the post, Young People Get Hooked Into Huge Debt When They Take The Student Loan Bait.

Culture Of Corruption, Monty Pelerine’s World, economicnoise.com. Video of Congressman Trey Gowdy’s comments about the IRS. My suggestion is a flat tax, which would allow us to abolish the IRS and with it the problem, which is arbitrary power.

The Benghazi Stand Down Order, by Will Rodriguez, at sofrep.com. The guys at  Sofrep.com, know what went on in Benghazi.

Will The Real Traitor Please Stand Up, by Jonathon Moseley, at americanthinker.com. Is Edward Snowden a traitor to the Government, or is Gen. Keith B. Alexander chief of the NSA a traitor to the Constitution? Great article that shows verbal sleight of hand artists in action.

Tobacco Speakeasy, by Jeffery Tucker, at fee.org. The unintended consequences of Government intervention. People will not comply with an immoral law.

Categories: Must Reads For The Week
Tags: Benghazi, Detroit, Internal Revenue Service, National Security Agency, SOFREP.com, Student Loans, Tobacco Roll Your Own, Who's A Traitor

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Benghazi And Political Incentives.

May 13, 2013
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TRUTH ABOUT BENGHAZI.

The hearings last week about Benghazi have put politicians, and the witnesses who were on the ground, on opposite ends of the truth. This shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands what a politician values the most, which is his own political power. I wrote a post two days after the Benghazi attack titled, Real Analysis About Middle East Insurgency at SOFREP.com, in which the truth about the attack was known within 24 hours. The way the administration lied about what happened in the weeks following  the incident is standard operating procedure for 99% of politicians and bureaucrats.

POLITICAL INCENTIVES  CONCERNING BENGHAZI.

In a post titled, Mises “Human Action” Explains Lies About Libya, written two weeks before the last election, I talk about how to analyze  political decisions in general, and the Benghazi situation in particular through the lens of “Human Action”. Here are a few excerpts from the post that are as true today as they were seven months ago. (more…)

Categories: Government and Politics
Tags: Benghazi, Brandon Webb, Hillary Clinton, Libya, Middle East, Mises Human Action, United States Department of State

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SOFREP.com’s Brandon Webb Talks About The Heroes In Benghazi.

November 1, 2012

Brandon Webb most recent post on SOFREP.com, What Went Right In Benghazi, Libya: A Story Of American Heroism, tells of the heroism of SEALS Glen Doherty and Ty Woods. This is what we should be talking about instead of a political coverup.

Read this commentary about Benghazi by former SEAL Pete Sobell in an article on The Blaze titled, Benghazi: What Really Maters.

Read about Army Ranger Sgt. Craig Warfle’s heroism in Afghanistan August 18 2010 in this article, Ranger Awarded Distinguished Service Cross, also on SOFREP.com.    navy seal trident insignia, Special operators navy seals

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Tags: Benghazi, Brandon Webb, SEALs, SOFREP.com, Special Ops.

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Charles Woods, Father of SEAL Ty Woods Killed in Lybia, Interviewed By Megyn Kelly.

October 26, 2012

Here are a few excerpts from an interview with Charles Woods whose son Ty was killed in Bengahzi while trying to save others. Read more and watch the interview at the url below.

Woods said he forgives whoever denied the apparent request, but he urged them to “stand up.” Sources also said Tyrone Woods and others, who were at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate, ignored orders by their superiors to stand down and not go to the consulate to help. Woods went to the consulate, and hours later he was killed back at the annex.

Charles Woods said his son’s action “does not surprise me.” “I wish that the leadership in the White House had the same level of moral courage and heroism that my son displayed“.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/father-seal-killed-in-libya-says-clinton-vowed-to-arrest-and-prosecute/?intcmp=trending#ixzz2ARAbXpMm

Go to my previous post Mises’ “Human Action” Explains The Lies About Libya, for more articles from SOFREP.com.

Read October 31, 2012 article, Mind-Melting Breakdown of the Bengahzi Attack Build-Up at SOFREP.com.

Categories: Government and Politics
Tags: Benghazi, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Woods, Tyrone Woods, White House

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Mises’ “Human Action” Explains Lies About Libya.

October 25, 2012

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The way last month’s attack in Libya, resulting in the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans including two former SEALs,  has been used by politicians and the media is why I loathe politics. I linked to articles on SOFREP.com which were written one day after the attack which said this was a “planned and coordinated para-military attack”. They are in a post from this site on September 14. As I stated in that post SOFREP  stands for Special Operations Forces Situational Report and is run by former SEAL Brandon Webb. One of the contributors was former SEAL Glen Doherty who was killed in the Benghazi attack read more here. This site has insight and information about military operations, rules of engagement, foreign policy, and much more. It should be the first place you go to get the unvarnished truth. Their allegiance is to their brothers in the military, not to any politicians. Read October 31 2012 post Mind-Melting Breakdown of the Benghazei Attack Build Up.

Here is how “Human Action” by Ludwig von Mises helps us analyze the Libyan situation. Human action is purposeful behavior. Action is not simply verbal preference, it is the individual choosing and acting to reach a particular end. Action is a tangible thing and cannot be confused with wishes or hopes or after the fact quarterbacking. Men act to substitute what they think will be a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory state. We wouldn’t want to change our existing state of affairs if we didn’t think the result would be better. Our action reveals the correctness of our thinking. When a baseball manager makes a decision during a game (more…)

Categories: Econ. 201, Government and Politics, Hall of Fame
Tags: Benghazi, Foreign Affairs, Human Action, Libya, Ludwig von Mises, Political Power, Praxeology

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Thomas Sowell - "The free market works best when there is a level playing field but politicians win more votes by tilting the playing field to favor particular groups."

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Thomas Sowell - "However dramatic or attractive a particular vision may be, ultimately everyone must live in the world of reality. To the extent that reality has been filtered to fit a vision, this filtered information is a misleading guide to making decisions in an unforgiving reality, to which we must all adjust because it is not going to adjust to us."

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Thomas Sowell - "Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name "Social Justice"."

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Murray Rothbard - "Bureaucracy incompetent enough to plan a stationary system, is vastly more incompetent at planning a progressing one."

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Ludwig von Mises - "Freedom is incompatible with equality of wealth and income. Men are born unequal and it is precisely their inequality that generates social cooperation and civilization."

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Murray Rothbard - "Government subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation (plundering)."

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Francisco Capella - "The right of property is a negative right of noninterference. Humans do not have natural positive rights that imply that others must do something for them, and there is no natural duties towards others (present and future). Positive rights and duties arise by means of contracts."

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Victor Davis Hanson - "Social justice sees the Government's proper moral obligation not as ensuring equality out of the starting gate, but as guaranteeing that we will all reach the finish line at the same exact moment."

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F.A. Hayek - "A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a Government with totalitarian powers."

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Thomas Sowell - "People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge." "Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance."

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Thomas Sowell - "People have to be aware of the dangers in letting economic decisions be made through political processes."

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Winston Churchill - "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

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George Gilder - "Socialist and totalitarian Governments are doomed to support the past, because creativity is unpredictable, it is also uncontrollable. If the politicians want to have central planning and command, they can not have dynamism and life. A managed economy is almost by definition a barren one.

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George Gilder - "The ambitious agenda of contemporary liberalism simply ensures that Government will do nothing well, except to expand itself as an obstacle of growth and innovation. Government best supports the future by refraining as much as possible from trying unduly to shape it."

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Francisco Capella - "Markets are never perfect because human beings are limited in their abilities; proposing state fixes to alleged problems that individuals cannot solve freely seems to forget that the state is also made up of humans; and perhaps not the best ones. ( Bureaucrats are not disinterested angels, and the worst might get to the top.)"

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George Washington - "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force, like fire it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master."

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Thomas Jefferson -- "I think we have more machinery of Government than is necessary, to many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

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Thomas Jefferson -- "I sincerely believe with you that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, it's but swindling futurity on a large scale."

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Thomas Jefferson -- "The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."

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