Monday, May 13, 2019

One loser, one hero

Turns out the Obama WH knew Crooked Hillary was using a private email system for official business THREE YEARS before Obama said “I found out the same time as everyone else.”



Why did Barack have to be such a liar:

Top officials working in the White House under former President Barack Obama knew Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was using a private email system for official government business three years before it became public, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch.
“WH [White House] called—have we received a FOIA request from CREW on the topic of personal use of email by senior officials?
“Apparently other agencies have. If we have it, can you give me the details so I can call the WH back? I think they’d like it on quick turnaround. Thanks! Sheryl,” read a Dec. 20, 2012 email from Sheryl L. Walter, then-director of the Department of State’s Office of Information Programs and Services. Her email was addressed to several of her subordinates.
She was referring to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request her office received from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which, like Judicial Watch, is a Washington-based non-profit that advocates for transparency in government.
In the same email thread, Walters forwarded the CREW request to Heather Samuelson, who was then Clinton’s liaison to the Obama White House.
“Hi Heather—Copy attached, it was in our significant weekly FOIA report that we send to L and S/ES also. Do you want us to add you to that list? It’s a subset of things like this that we think likely to be of broader department interest. More detail below re this request.
“As a practical matter given our workload, it won’t be processed for some months. Let me know if there are any particular sensitivities. If we don’t talk later, happy holidays! All the best, Sheryl,” Walter told Samuelson.
The email was among 44 pages of documents in the latest batch that Judicial Watch has obtained in discovery ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth.
There are multiple references within the documents that indicate White House knowledge of Clinton’s non-secure email use, according to Judicial Watch.
Barack really was a disgrace.

Cynthia McKinney, however, is a personal hero.  I'm so glad she's in France helping to raise awareness in the US on what's going on over there.


  1. Already got surrounded by about 6 police; they took a photo of my passport; told me to remove my Yellow Vest. I told them: "Today, you stop me, but tomorrow you join us because Yellow Vests are for the people." They responded," Yes, we know." Macron is an imperial stooge. FREXIT!
  2. I'm in Paris, France to support the Yellow Vests!!
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Macron is hideous and, if you don't remember, he was endorsed by Barack.
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Monday, May 13, 2019.

Sixteen years into this wave of the Iraq War and success!  No, kidding.  Just more failure.  The latest sign of how poorly the never-ending war is going?  The US Embassy in Baghdad issued the following:


Security Alert – U. S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq (May 12, 2019)




Event:  The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad advises all U.S. citizens of heightened tensions in Iraq and the requirement to remain vigilant.
Actions to Take:

  • Do not travel to Iraq
  • Avoid places known as U.S. citizen gathering points.
  • Keep a low profile
  • Be aware of your surroundings
Assistance:
U.S. Embassy Baghdad
Al-Kindi Street, International Zone, Baghdad
Telephone (during business hours)
From Iraq:  0760-030-3000;
From the United States:  301-985-8841
U.S. Citizen Emergency After-Hours Telephone (ask for the duty officer)
From Iraq:  0760-030-3000;
From the United States:  301-985-8841



Nothing spells success for the US government like an advisory that US citizens "do not travel to Iraq."

Lies started the Iraq War, lies continue around the Iraq War.

The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces said he hoped American troops would stay in Syria, pointing to the American departure from Iraq in 2011, which was followed by the rise of Islamic State. “They must not make the same mistake,” he warned.
 
 


No surprise that the nonsense would appear in THE NEW YORK TIMES -- no outlet did more to sell the Iraq War.  No, Judith Miller was not the only one selling it at that paper.

The US departure in 2011 did not allow for the rise of ISIS.  Nouri al-Maliki is responsible for that.  The Iraqi people saw a crazed tyrant and they turned out, in March 2010, to vote him out as prime minister.  The election was in March.  When did Iraq get a prime minister that year?  November.  Why?

Because Nouri refused to step down and idiots like the then-US Ambassador to Iraq Chris Hill, idiots like Samantha Power and idiots like Susan Rice advised Barack Obama that Nouri was their guy.  Idiot Barack went along with it.  Instead of insisting that Nouri honor the democratic election results, Barack tasked US diplomats with negotiating The Erbil Agreement which nullified the will of the people, set aside the actual vote and gave Nouri a second term.

In his second term, he only grew worse.  He is the reason for the rise of ISIS.  He was the one arresting innocent people without an arrest warrant, throwing them into secret prisons and torture chambers, he was the one ordering the abuse of Iraqi girls and women, he was the one calling on Iraqi people to kill suspected lesbians and gays, he was the one having the press arrested, he was the one bombing residential areas of Falluja, he was the one arresting protesters . . .  We'd need several snapshots just to review all that he did.

Nouri is responsible for the rise of ISIS.

As for the ridiculous Syrian Democratic Forces?  Uh, aren't you fighters?  Why do you need the US to breast feed you?  Are you not able to stand up on your own?

Barack had the US fighting ISIS and al Qaeda in Iraq while supporting it in Syria.  That's a policy screw up that he will never escape.

On the topic of ISIS, RT has a documentary about what life was like under ISIS in Iraq.







Meanwhile, AL-MANAR reports:

Iraq’s Hashd Shaabi volunteer forces announced on Sunday a plan to redeploy in Nineveh governorate.
A commander in the Hashd, which is also known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Raed Al-Karawi, said the PMF is to redeploy across the governorate, noting that coordination with the Iraqi army and security forces are going on.


This move takes place as Nineveh has a new governor.  RUDAW reports:


The Nineveh Provincial Council elected Mansour Marid as its new governor on Monday.

He is from the Ataa Movement that confirmed the news.

The 39-member provincial council voted him in with 28 votes.

The political group is close to the Hashd al-Shaabi and Iraqi National Security Advisor Falah al-Fayyadh.



How long Mansour Marid will be in office is anyone's guess.  If the past is any indication, he's highly likely to be removed from office as happened to his immediate predecessors Nawfal Hamadi and Atheel al-Nujaifi.  Nujaifi was kicked out by the Baghdad-based central government because Mosul was seized by ISIS.  That was the excuse, anyway.  Two years prior to that, Nouri al-Maliki was trying to remove Atheel from office.  Ramadi, Mosul, Falluja, etc. were seized by ISIS and the person sacked for that was the governor of Nineveh?  Not the prime minister of Iraq?

As for Nawfal Hamadi, he was also part of a long effort to force him out of office.  The council voted him out of office long before the ferry disaster earlier this year.

RUDAW notes there was an effort to stop the vote:r.

Doubts over the Council’s ability to elect a new governor are rife. The Council, whose role includes overseeing governorate budget plans, itself faces accusations of corruption following an investigation launched by Iraq's Integrity Commission, with many calling for its dissolution. It was found that nearly $64 million from funds allocated for reconstruction projects had been embezzled.

[. . .]

In the run up to the vote that was supposed to take place in an Iraqi parliament session on May 2, a video statement was released by a group of Nineveh MPs, which said "Our people in the province of Nineveh are awaiting the decision of the Iraqi parliament to dissolve, members of who directly or indirectly deliberately caused in wasting funds or stealing them on part of the local government."

But parliament allegedly removed the vote on the fate of the Council from its agenda, much to the MPs' dismay.


New governor Mansour Marid is backed by the Ataa Movement that is close to Hashd al-Shaabi and NSA Al-Fayyadh
 
 



Mustafa Habib details other issues with the election.

Dangerous developments in . While the city suffers of destruction, needs reconstruction. Big political crisis has begun over governor's post, today is scheduled to be elected governor but hundreds of protesters gathered around provincial building to prevent that (1
 
 
  • Protesters are demanding the staying of the interim administration of Mosul headed by Muzahim al-Khayat. Some say that rival parties participated in the protests (2)
     
     
  • Iraqi parliament has sent order to Nineveh provincial council to postpone governor's election due to corruption by sale of the post to some parties, but members of the provincial council refuse to postpone (3)
     
     
    Now, Moqtada al-Sadr calls the president and the prime minister to intervene to resolve the crisis by dismissing members of the provincial council (4)
     
     
    Breaking: elect Mansour al-Maraid to governor of Ninewa, he is close to "Fatah" alliance led by Hadi al-Amiri and he supported by Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)
     
     
  • Former Prime Minister Haider Abbadi criticizes election of the new governor of Nineveh, and says: "we will stand against the corrupt and treacherous who paved the way by their corruption to ISIS control on
     
     




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