I really don’t know if she really believes this, or if it’s the usual lies and spin. But no, “lack of sufficient evidence to prosecute is not “declared innocent.” I’ve been railing about this lying tactic of Clinton defenders for years, and as recently as last year.
[Thursday-morning update]
The ultimate media priviege: Hillary’s lies and corruption versus Trump’s mouth.
The administration has an on-line guide to how to avoid deportation.
Part of defending the Constitution is upholding the law that flows from it, as ruled by the courts (and the courts of ruled against the administration’s lawlessness on this issue). This is exactly the opposite, and should be an impeachable offense against Lynch, if not Obama himself, but the Congress continues to lack feck.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The ATF is illegally hoarding gun owners personal information.
Tar. Feathers.
FWIW Daily Kos says that absent fraud, he would have won by a landslide. Of course, absent fraud, including weaponizing the IRS against the Tea Party, Obama would have lost to Romney.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Hey, Bernie supporters, you poor saps never had a chance.” Well, everyone tried to tell them. The Democrats are a massive racist organized-crime syndicate masquerading as a political party.
As Glenn asks, has there ever before been a convention in which the attendees demanded that the nominee be jailed?
And Jill Stein: “The scary things, the horrific things that Donald Trump says, Hillary Clinton has already done. Whether it’s massively deporting immigrants, whether it’s threatening nuclear warfare…”
Proud, Democrats?
Why won’t they comply with the Congressional Review Act?
Because like the rest of this administration, they’re corrupt lying political hacks who think they’re above the law.
[Sunday-morning update]
Related: If you think that the bureaucracy is the bulwark against tyranny, you should support Donald Trump:
…the bureaucrats — allied with the press, of course — will do more to check misbehavior by Trump than they’ll ever conceivably do to check misbehavior by Hillary. And certainly much more than they’ve done with Obama, who has weaponized the IRS, the EPA, the Department of Justice, and a host of other federal agencies, all the way down to the Park Service, with barely a peep from within the bureaucracy.
So what people worry about with Trump has already happened under Obama. And that’s part of the problem. Obama broke down and devalued a lot of political traditions in this country, to very little objection from the parts of the political class that matter. That opened up a hole for Trump. My main positive expectation for a Trump presidency is that he will remind people of why those political traditions were important.
They only think they’re important when a Republican, even a faux Republican like Trump, is in the White House. Trump also has the potential to arouse Congress to finally exercise and defend its own prerogatives. The Founders didn’t put in the impeachment power with the idea it would never be used.
No, there’s nothing “strange” about them. It’s straightforward destruction of evidence, for which this administration is determined to let her skate.
[Update early afternoon]
Hillary, the Democrats and the problem of trust:
…if you think promoting trust in government is important, you should nominate someone trustworthy. But there are other priorities, apparently, and they outweigh that trustworthiness, or we’d have different nominees.
The other way you promote trust is through transparency and accountability. Voters should be able to tell what politicians and bureaucrats are doing, and when those politicians and bureaucrats do wrong they should face real consequences. We’re not doing very well on that front either.
No, we’re not.
[Update a few minutes later]
The FBI agents involved with the probe had to sign special secrecy agreements. Gee, this doesn’t look like the fix was in to let her of the hook and they were worried about leaks at all.
He finally faces the Galactic Code of Military Justice.
Heather McDonald writes about the myths of the movement:
For starters, fatal police shootings make up a much larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths than black homicide deaths. According to the Post database, in 2015 officers killed 662 whites and Hispanics, and 258 blacks. (The overwhelming majority of all those police-shooting victims were attacking the officer, often with a gun.) Using the 2014 homicide numbers as an approximation of 2015’s, those 662 white and Hispanic victims of police shootings would make up 12% of all white and Hispanic homicide deaths. That is three times the proportion of black deaths that result from police shootings.
The lower proportion of black deaths due to police shootings can be attributed to the lamentable black-on-black homicide rate. There were 6,095 black homicide deaths in 2014—the most recent year for which such data are available—compared with 5,397 homicide deaths for whites and Hispanics combined. Almost all of those black homicide victims had black killers.
Police officers—of all races—are also disproportionately endangered by black assailants. Over the past decade, according to FBI data, 40% of cop killers have been black. Officers are killed by blacks at a rate 2.5 times higher than the rate at which blacks are killed by police.
Some may find evidence of police bias in the fact that blacks make up 26% of the police-shooting victims, compared with their 13% representation in the national population. But as residents of poor black neighborhoods know too well, violent crimes are disproportionately committed by blacks. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, blacks were charged with 62% of all robberies, 57% of murders and 45% of assaults in the 75 largest U.S. counties in 2009, though they made up roughly 15% of the population there.
Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal force.
The Ferguson Effect is going to make life much worse in the black communities.
[Update a while later]
“Black Lives Matter is acting like a racist hate group. You can only imagine how the press would treat Tea Partiers or Trump supporters who acted this way.”
Yes. Oh, and hey remember those New Black Panthers that Eric Holder let off the hook after the case had been essentially won?
[Update a few minutes later]
The Justice Department laughed off the armed New Black Panther Party threat.
The administration also called ISIS the “Jayvee team.”
He’s lost more cases than any modern president.
Obviously, SCOTUS is racist.
This is a decent primer for many young voters who weren’t even born when some of these events occurred. I could say that perhaps it’s too long for the attention spans of some, but it’s hard to shorten it much without leaving out significant examples of her corruption going back to the early 90s.