Hillary's Email Scandal 2 - Staffers Participate in Email Coverup

How did Hillary actually set up an email server in her home?  Well, first she used the IT guy that was assigned as her tame computer expert.  Then she used her staff to manage her emails.

So, did all of these people know that they were doing something wrong and contrary to Federal Code (including 18USC798) and State Department rules?  Of course they did.  But, you don't disagree with Hillary and risk facing her mean and vindictive anger.  And, as far as I have seen, none of her staff held sufficient security clearances to handle her mail.

First:  More proof of criminal intent:  clinton-asked-diplomat-to-send-classified-intel-to-my-personal-email

IT Guy: Bryan Pagliano.  His State Dept. job was to be Hillary's IT expert.  He worked as her IT director during her 2008 campaign.  Then he was hired by State in May 2009 as special projects manager to the Chief Tech Officer.  He had responsibility for setup and maintenance of her personal servers.  The proof that he knew about the impropriety is that he has now invoked his 5th Amendment right to not self-incriminate himself after being subpoenaed by Trey Gowdy's House Select Committee on Benghazi.  In addition, he did not report on his taxes or ethics forms about the income.  He left this job when she finished as Secretary.  See here:  Former-staffer-who-maintained-hillary-clintons-private-email-server-to-plead-the-fifth

Staffer 1:  Huma Mahmood Abedin, wife of Anthony Wiener.  Close confidant.  Deputy Chief of Staff to Clinton as a special government employee." At the same time, she was a consultant at the Teneo consulting firm and a paid consultant for the Clinton Foundation.  Can you say " Multiple allegiances?"  See Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huma_Abedin

Staffer 2:  Cheryl Mills - She helped to delete emails from the infamous 70,000.  No sufficient security clearance?  See here:  aides-hillary-clinton-testify-benghazi   She gave nine hours of closed testimony on September 3, 2015.

Lawyer:  David Kendall has known both Clintons since their days at Yale.  He defended Bill during his impeachment hearings.  Kendall is known to have held, in a safe delivered by the State Dept, thumb drive(s) containing copies of Hillary's email server data.  Kendall similarly does not hold sufficient security clearance to have these in his possession.

So, how many people are potentially in trouble for handling, modifying, passing on sensitive emails?  At the least we have Pagliano, Mills, Abedin, and Hillary's lawyer.  There must be many others in State and other groups.   Someone removed the "Secret" banners from several emails (felony).  Many must have selected emails for Hillary to manage the flow of traffic (misdemeanor or felony depending on classification).  Several at State obviously knew she had the personal servers and didn't report the offenses (felonies?).  And on and on...

See here:  Hillary-clintons-aides-could-face-prosecution-for-mishandling-classified-material

Smart Aid for the World's Poor - Matt Ridley at WSJ

This is one of the most important articles I have read in years.  Matt Ridley is a UK Parliamentarian with an outspoken attitude and often right-on ideas. 

Context:  Since 1990, the number of the world's extreme poor has decreased by 50% because of globalization, free markets and the spread of easy to access energy and technology. 

To continue this trend, Ridley asks what are the five most important things people can do to continue the improvement.  He suggests the United Nations needs new goals that are discrete, quantitative and achievable.  He suggests using a method from Bjorn Lomborg, who has brought together 60 economists and asked that very question.

Ridley picks his own list of five, which I can agree with.  However, I would add number zero:  A massive improvement in sanitation, especially in countries like India, where malnutrition caused by chronic diseases is endemic and cultural. 

The entire article is at the WSJ for July 26-27, 2014.   
      Smart Aid for the World's Poor,  How can rich countries best help poor ones? 
See article here at WSJ:  smart-aid-for-the-worlds-poor

Ridley proposes these five ideas:

"What would my own list of five 2030 goals look like, based on the work of the Copenhagen Consensus group?

1. Reduce malnutrition. When children get better food, they develop their brains, stay in school longer and end up becoming far more productive members of society. Every dollar spent to alleviate malnutrition brings $59 of benefits.

2. Tackle malaria and tuberculosis. These two diseases debilitate huge populations in poor countries, but they are largely preventable and curable. In the most harshly affected countries, two people often do one person's work because one of them is sick. Benefit to cost ratio: 35 to 1.

3. Boost preprimary education, which costs little and has lifelong benefits by getting children started on learning. 30 to 1.

4. Provide universal access to sexual and reproductive health, which would save the lives of mothers and infants while enabling women to be more economically productive. It would also lower birthrates (when fewer children die, people have fewer children). Benefits could be as high as 150.

5. Expand free trade. This isn't considered sexy in the development industry, and it may seem remote from humanitarian issues, but free trade often delivers phenomenal improvements to the welfare of the poor in surprisingly quick time, as the example of China has demonstrated in recent years. One of the discoveries of the Copenhagen Consensus process is that incremental goals such as expanding free trade are often better than supposedly "transformational" goals. A successful Doha Round of the World Trade Organization could deliver annual benefits of $3 trillion for the developing world by 2020, rising to $100 trillion by the end of the century."

Some articles about sanitation in India:  

This article got me linking these two article.  Especially look at the chart comparing countries:  http://www.delhifoodbanking.org/index.php/latest-news/60-poor-sanitation-in-india-may-afflict-well-fed-children-with-malnutrition.html

or here at NYT:   http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/asia/poor-sanitation-in-india-may-afflict-well-fed-children-with-malnutrition.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0 

 

More articles:

poor-sanitation-not-malnutrition-may-be-to-blame-for-indias-notoriously-stunted-children/ 

how-indian-states-stack-up-on-access-to-toilets

half-billion-indians-still-need-better-access-to-toilets

health-nutrition-unicef-india

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Next-Great-Opportunity-Sanitation-for-Indias-Poor

11 Facts that Show We Live in a Country Run By Idiots

The following list has been attributed to comedian Jeff Foxworthy.  But Snopes says Foxworthy is not the author.

The original compiler is apparently a man named Fritz Edmunds.
1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.
2. If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion, you live in a country run by idiots.
3. If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote on who runs the government, you live in a country run by idiots.
4. If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy leaders in Egypt, you live in a country run by idiots.
5. If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat, you live in a country run by idiots.
6. If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched, you live in a country run by idiots.
7. If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more, you live in a country run by idiots.

8. If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of grade school for saying his teacher's "cute," but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you live in a country run by idiots.
9. If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell phones, you live in a country run by idiots.
10. If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working, with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can't find work, you live in a country run by idiots.
11. If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more "safe" according to the government, you live in a country run by idiots.
If you are offended by this article,  you probably voted for the idiots who are running our country into the ground.

Here's a video with a slightly different list:  Idiots List