All this angers Americans with experience in our military and intelligence services who understand what Ms. Clinton and her staff did—and that they would be held to far harsher standards for attempting anything similar. They know that brave Americans have given their lives protecting Top Secret Codeword information. They know that in every American embassy around the world, our diplomatic outposts that worked for Hillary Clinton, Marine guards have standing orders to fight to the death to protect the classified information that’s inside those embassies. That Hillary Clinton gave similar information away, by choice, is something she needs to explain if she expects to be our next Commander-in-Chief.
She has no explanation, at least not one that doesn’t make it look even worse.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Her disregard wasn’t casual. It was a conscious and involved scheme to avoid the Freedom of Information Act, and possibly also Obama Administration scrutiny of her actions. She put the nation as a whole at risk, along with individual lives of intelligence sources, for political reasons: to avoid accountability.”
As she’s been doing, and gotten away with, for decades. Why wouldn’t she assume that she’d continue to not be held to account?
[Update a while later]
The FBI director would like to indict both Clinton and Abedin.
Analysis: Likely.
Category Archives: War Commentary
Resiliency In Milspace
I haven’t read the whole thing, but there’s a new white paper out about it.
McCain’s Folly
He had a hearing this morning to try to restrict RD-180 use again. Michael Listner has the story.
I don’t understand why Kevin McCarthy is going along with this nonsense.
Hillary’s Server
So her staff cut and pasted data off a top-secret server so they could send it in the clear to Hillary’s email address on her unsecured server?
Someone will be or is being threatened by the FBI with a long vacation in Club Fed over this. I suspect that someone isn’t going to be willing to take the fall for Her Highness.
600,000 Refugees
Germany can’t account for them.
A significant percentage of them are men of military age. This is like an invading army.
Hillary’s Server
..had emails on it containing information beyond top secret.
After what happened to Petraeus (and is currently happening), if she isn’t indicted for this, it will be beyond a travesty. And the end of the rule of law in this country.
[Update a few minutes later]
And the State Department has “found” thousands of new documents under FOIA from Judicial Watch.
[Update a while later]
Good lord, the IG had to be read into the program in order to read the emails.
I’m sure that the media is thrilled that Sarah Palin is endorsing Trump today, so they don’t have to report on this.
[Friday-morning update]
Michael Mukasey’s take: A criminal charge is justified. More than one, I’d say.
[Bumped]
[Afternoon update]
Hillary’s unsecured server may have exposed a human intelligence asset.
The Refugee Problem In Europe
Stand by for a collision:
When the problem was largely confined to Middle Eastern women it is easy to understand why it was ignored. Now that taharrush has come to Europe it is easier still. Events are being covered up because it runs counter to the Narrative peddled by the Western left. The Narrative is the source of their moral authority, the justification for their special graft.
What makes the pathological denial so catastrophic is that a vast, almost unstoppable torrent of refugees is already on the way to Germany, the fragments of collapsing Islamic countries. Cologne is but a skirmish with the vanguard. The main host is still on its way.
In belated mea culpa former senior adviser to president Obama Dennis Ross at last took his boss to task in an article titled: “How Obama Created a Mideast Vacuum”. It’s too late Dennis. What “too late” means was driven home years ago when one of the volunteer members of the Philippine Airlines cadaver recovery team described an accident which took the lives of 5 members of a university mountaineering club. The party was trekking along a dry riverbed on the lower slope of an 8,000 foot volcano in Mindoro. The weather was fine and the mountaineers were doomed. Unknown to them a squall had dumped a slug of rain on the peak high above them. The first warning they had of oncoming tons of water was a rumbling sound round the corner of the gorge. Then the flood came and only those fast enough to clamber up the riverbanks survived.
In the same way the present calm in Europe can be deceiving. Even if its leaders were somehow to reconstitute its borders, a gigantic flood from that vacuum upstream of the old continent is already rushing with irresistible force upon it. The UNHCR says refugee numbers are expected to increase in 2016. Some estimates say as many as 10 million more are on the way. From the beaches of North Africa to the overcrowded camps in Jordan and Lebanon; from every nook and cranny in MENA — they are on the way. One way or the other a terrible smash is now in train.
Europe as we know it may already be lost. Martel weeps.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The European media and the sexual assaults:
Scally’s bizarre use of “groping” is close to the worst imaginable example of PC disinformation from Orwell’s Ministry of Truth. “Groping” is a word better reserved for the awkward and/or unwanted advances of an adolescent teenager in regard to someone roughly his or her own age. Here, instead, we have (if Scally’s sources are to be believed) 30 adult men who organized a premeditated attack on a child—not a “young woman” as Scally mischaracterizes her—a child—a person under 18. (18 is the age of majority in most of Europe, including Germany.) This child was not “groped”—I had fingers at every orifice—she was the victim of sexual assault, rape, and attempted rape by multiple perpetrators. Again, groping generally refers to wanted or unwanted touching or fondling. The victim here did not describe “groping;” she described something far more serious: sexual assault and rape.
It’s almost as thought they’re trying to minimize the crimes for political reasons.
Don’t Cry For Me, Syria
My thoughts on what Barack Obama cries about, and what he does not, over at PJMedia.
The Lamest Duck
“I don’t question Obama’s sincerity. I question his sanity.”
“We Want Our Safety Back”
Women protest their insane government in Cologne.
As I noted on Twitter yesterday, this was the biggest mass rape of German women since the Soviets invaded.
[Update Saturday afternoon]
This seems related somehow: Swedish women request segregated jacuzzis, due to being groped. It seems to be a recent problem, for some reason that just has me scratching my head.
[Sunday-morning update]
Another report of hundreds of “Arabic” men attacking women on New Years Eve.
Nope, nothing coordinated about this at all.
[Update Sunday afternoon]
Why we can’t remain silent about the Cologne assaults:
Street sexual violence is also—obviously—not exclusive to Arab and Muslim-majority countries. Indeed, among the worst offenders is Papua New Guinea, where two-thirds of women are subjected to some kind of physical or sexual violence, and rapists from “raskol” gangs are happy to pose for photos after their latest rape.
Having said that, what is infuriating and totally counterproductive is to deny that a specifically cultural problem around immigration patterns and European sexual norms has been steadily rising across the continent. To pretend this is not the case only further stigmatizes us brown Muslim men. That the problem requires attention is clear.
German police unions and women’s right groups have recently accused authorities of underplaying cases of rape at refugee shelters. “There is a lot of glossing over going on. But this doesn’t represent reality,” police union chief Rainer Wendt told Reuters. Henry Ove Berg, who was a police chief during Norway’s recent spike in rape cases, said, “people from some parts of the world have never seen a girl in a miniskirt, only in a burqa… when they get to Norway, something happens in their heads.” He added that “there was a link but not a very clear link” between the rape cases in Norway and immigrants. Hanne Kristin Rohde, former head of the violent crime section of the Oslo Police Department, was criticized in 2011 when she went public with data suggesting that immigrants committed a hugely disproportionate number of rapes. “This was a big problem… but it was difficult to talk about,” she remarked. There was “a clear statistical connection between sexual violence and male migrants.”
Any solution to this emerging issue must simultaneously seek to deny the far right the ammunition it desires while preserving Europe’s hard-earned progressive social values.
This is all controversial, but it must be said. Anecdotal attitudes point to the same conclusion. Abdu Osman Kelifa, an Eritrean asylum seeker to Norway, recently told The New York Times that in his home country, “if someone wants a lady, he can just take her and he will not be punished.” He confessed that it was still hard for him to accept that a woman could accuse her husband of rape.Between denying the problem and using it to fuel bigoted far-right rhetoric, an approach grounded in data and a level head is vital. Any solution to this emerging issue must simultaneously seek to deny the far right the ammunition it desires while preserving—not reneging on—Europe’s hard-earned progressive social values.
I hope it’s not too late.
[Update a few minutes later]
The tension between the forces of political correctness and the pent-up forces of repressed cultural traditions is now bursting like a spring wound up beyond containment. Things may start slowly at first but ramp up rapidly, mirroring Cornelius Ryan’s famous description of the Berlin Philharmonic’s last performance as the Red Army stood at the gates of Berlin.
…Seventy years later, the question facing people caught in the middle is where to run. There is nowhere obvious. In Europe, Ross Douthat argues, all exits are temporarily blocked. The left has destroyed the middle, leaving only a choice of extremes. “Just last week Merkel rejected a proposal to cap refugee admissions (which topped one million last year) at 200,000 in 2016.”
…Everywhere one looks the matches are being lit. The sudden outburst of resistance comes the end of what Jonah Goldberg called “a bad day” for the Narrative. A bad sequence of decades since 2001, more like it.
These will be the worst days for Europe in seventy years, I’m afraid. As he notes, the Constitution may save us, but it doesn’t help that the left has trampled all over it for a century, and continue to do so.
[Update a while later]
Sex crimes across Germany. The cover up unravels.