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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Anti-Noise Machine [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)113. That's why shining a noise generator at the press is SO troubling.
Keeping what is said to the rich people who benefit so much from government action secret is undemocratic. Since we don't know what was said, we can't tell if there's anything criminal to worry about.
Here's why I think that there may be something to think about:
The Clintons Have Not Changed: The Clintonian War on the IGs
By William K. Black
February 23, 2016 Bloomington, MN
Secretary Hillary Clinton is asking Democratic voters to believe that she has experienced a Road to Damascus conversion from her roots as a leader of the New Democrats the Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party. When exactly this conversion occurred is never stated, but an interesting fact has emerged that demonstrates it did not occur during her service as the Secretary of State. A Wall Street Journal story provides the key facts, but none of the analysis.
Newly released emails indicate that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top staff were involved in the selection process for the State Departments internal watchdog, a position that ultimately went unfilled throughout her four-year tenure.
The WSJs angle is that such involvement in the selection of the Inspector General (IG) is a threat to the IGs vital independence. True, and also true as the story notes that Hillary was far from rare as an agency or department head in seeking to select behind the scenes the supposedly independent IGs.
The function of the IG is to speak truth to power. Naturally, power hates IGs with a purple passion. Government leaders are most likely to hate having its abuses made public by IG when the government leader is secretly acting in concert with immensely powerful private leaders for their mutual benefit at the expense of the public.
What the WSJ missed is that the Clintons, for decades, have sought to destroy the independence and effectiveness of the IGs precisely because of the threat that they pose of blowing the whistle on these abuses. The Obama administration, of course, is famous for its prosecutions of those who blow the whistle on such abuses. The real story is not that Hillary attempted to select a lap dog as IG the real story is that for her entire tenure as Secretary, four years, she left unfilled the leadership position of the only institution in the State Department dedicated to maintaining integrity and preventing the abuse of public power to aid cronies. That aid, of course, comes with the clear expectation that the cronies will make the head of the State Department wealthy as soon as she or he steps down. There is no possible defense for that, and it does not happen accidentally. The primary blame goes to President Obama, who made no nomination for the position for the entire four years. It wasnt Republican intransigence that explains this scandal.
CONTINUED...
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/03/clintons-not-changed-clintonian-war-igs.html#more-10101
Bill Black is one of "those" economists who won't play ball with the money crowd. Why? He does things in the open. Coincidentally, of course.
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That's the guy that reported it ... There were other members of the press there ...
1StrongBlackMan
Apr 2016
#21
This will simmer much longer as conspiracy theories travel around the world ...
1StrongBlackMan
Apr 2016
#25
I have done a quick internet search and he is the only one reporting having problems ...
1StrongBlackMan
Apr 2016
#35
Well I haven't caught any of our local reporters in a lie yet. I'm still waiting for your
Autumn
Apr 2016
#40
I haven't seen the national corporate media conglomerates cover the Arizona voter suppression
Uncle Joe
Apr 2016
#44
They could I imagine. Maybe they just figured it would be of no interest to their viewers.
Autumn
Apr 2016
#63
Well you are welcome to open the Clinton clip and generate white noise and compare yourself...
GeorgiaPeanuts
Apr 2016
#30
I'm fine with it, when people tell you who they are you should listen to them
Fumesucker
Apr 2016
#3
And yet you bought Capehart's fictions about those protest photos, Capehart not even born when they
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2016
#84
Her message is no secret, it is "Don't pay any attention to what I say on the campaign.We all good"
Vincardog
Apr 2016
#10
Any Democrat who thinks this is acceptable behavior for a candidate is just plain wrong.
EndElectoral
Apr 2016
#62
Yeah, but the Clinton News Network didn't report it, so it's just a conspiracy theory ...
Scuba
Apr 2016
#70
I was 15 when JFK was shot and I figured out our media was lying to us within a few months.
Scuba
Apr 2016
#79
So true, so pointed and so confirmed by the media's broad complicity in smearing him.
Scuba
Apr 2016
#83
But the Hillary supporters would rather freak out over Bernie and the Vatican. nt
retrowire
Apr 2016
#104