{"id":34078,"date":"2016-07-06T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T22:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=34078"},"modified":"2016-07-06T22:04:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T06:04:11","slug":"republicans-actually-good-at-two-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=34078","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Actually Good at TWO Things."},"content":{"rendered":"

Even for White House as toxic and vile as George W. Bush\u2019s sixth year in office, the revelation on April 12, 2007 seemed shocking. Responding to congressional demands for emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the White House announced that as many as five million emails<\/em>, covering a two-year span, had been “lost”, (OR: “deleted”, a violation of the Presidential Records Act).<\/p>\n

Not long after George W. Bush assumed the presidency in 2001, potato head Karl Rove, his top political aide, set up a private email server<\/em> for use in the White House. The stated purpose of the system \u2014 the primary domain name on which was gwb43.com \u2014 was that it would be used exclusively for the sort of political correspondence that Bush and Rove were not permitted to do on the taxpayer\u2019s dime.\u00a0Congressional investigators knew that this private server was being used for government business, including to discuss the firing of one of the U.S. attorneys. The RNC accounts were used by 22 White House staffers, including then-Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who reportedly used his RNC email for 95 percent of his communications.<\/p>\n

Seven years later, Bush and Rove were embroiled in two competing scandals \u2014 the Valerie Plame scandal, in which operatives for Dick Cheney, including Rove and Scooter Libby, were accused of unmasking Valerie Plame, a CIA specialist in the black market for weapons of mass destruction, for purely partisan reasons, (TREASON), and the U.S. Attorney purge, in which Rove operatives ordered Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to purge eight U.S. attorneys who were qualified prosecutors and replace them with political hacks with little or no prosecutorial experience.<\/p>\n

\"BUSH\"<\/p>\n

Rove skated in the Libby case, but Scooter was convicted (Bush quickly commuted the sentence), on March 6, 2007, at the same time Bush and Rove were under fire for purging the U.S. attorneys. During the investigation, it came to light that Rove\u2019s server had been used to send official, non-political emails \u2014 correspondence that was required by law to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act.\u00a0Rove\u2019s operation admitted that it had deleted at least 5 million emails from the server.<\/em><\/p>\n

ASIDE: GOP IT “Guru” Mike Connell was blamed\/credited for being behind the Secret Rove Email Scam, as well as the mishigosh surrounding the\u00a02004 election tally in Ohio. Then Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell had a contract with Connell for IT work on the infamous Election Night 2004, giving\u00a0Connell \u00a0\u201cremote monitoring capabilities\u201d to the computer counting Ohio\u2019s presidential vote, allowing\u00a0Connell\u2019s private, partisan external third party company and a subcontractor to have unfettered secret access to Ohio\u2019s vote tally. On the night of the 2004 election, bizarre discrepancies between exit polls, which showed John Kerry winning handily, and the tabulated results, flipped. Without the machine hacking,\u00a0Buckeye State’s 20 electoral votes would have given Kerry the presidency.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"rove\"In 2008, election protection attorneys and others appeared to be closing in on critical irregularities and illegalities.\u00a0Connell was now on the McCain\/Palin payroll. He was deposed one day before the 2008 election about his actions during the 2004 vote count and his access to Karl Rove\u2019s email files and how they went missing and was\u00a0set to testify in the election tampering case. He\u00a0was killed in a freak small plane crash<\/a><\/span> in December of 2008, a few months after Karl Rove threatened him, telling him that if Connell didn’t “take the fall” Rove would go after his wife for “lobbying processes”.\u00a0Velvet Revolution,<\/a> <\/span>a non-profit investigating Connell\u2019s activities, revealed that Connell had said he was afraid George Bush and Dick Cheney would \u201cthrow [him] under the bus.\u201d Attorney Cliff Arnebeck had also previously alerted Attorney General Michael Mukasey to alleged threats from Karl Rove to Connell if he refused to \u201ctake the fall.\u201d The cause of the crash is unknown, and it remains under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.\u00a0Life is weird! (Death, too.)<\/p>\n

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ASIDE ASIDE: In May of 2012, a catastrophic miscarriage of justice took place in the South Bronx tens of thousands of \u00a0votes were lost in the 2010 races for both Senate seats and and the Governor\u2019s mansion (luckily South Bronx is full of Poors). In response to the very serious problem of the losing of 30% of votes cast, the state Board of Election and the electronic voting machines\u2019 manufacturer ES&S (n\u00e9e Diebold<\/a>)<\/span> assembled a crack team of experts to figure out what went wrong and they came up with this:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s some kind of defect in these machines that when they overheat they can create what they\u2019re calling phantom votes,\u201d said Larry Norden, a deputy director with the Brennan Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"computer_old\"<\/p>\n

You know, sometimes my computer starts to overheat. Sometimes it shuts down. Sometimes applications die.\u00a0I have never once seen my computer malfunction such that the a very limited and targeted segment memory was corrupted in such a way that the application was otherwise stable except for a few key variables.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, in 2009, two Washington, D.C. watchdog groups sued the White House for the release of the mysteriously vanishing,\u00a0obviously incriminating \u00a0records of daily operations under Bush\/Cheney, and whaddya know, “lost” doesn’t mean “lost” and \u00a0delete doesn’t always mean delete<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0The emails run from 2003 to 2005, covering some of Bush’s biggest scandals and decisions, from the outing of Valerie Plame to the early days of the Iraq War.\u00a0In 2009, some \u201cWhite House contractors\u201d located 22 million emails<\/em> missing from the Bush Administration\u2019s eight-year crime spree,\u00a0probably on a thumb drive in a condom in Alberto Gonzales\u2019 anal cavity.\u00a0Once cleansed by technicians at the National Archives, all references to plotting and perpetuating 9\/11, Iraq, Katrina and the assassination of Dumbledore will be wiped.\u00a0We will not see all the emails from that period restored, only thse from 94 specific dates,<\/em> some of which were chosen at random. The Washington Post reports that this is because restoring the emails from old backup tapes is an expensive and time-consuming process.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kickstarter to release them all, please.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under federal law, the White House is required to maintain records, including e-mails, involving presidential decision- making and deliberations. But suddenly millions of the private RNC emails had gone missing; emails that were seen as potentially crucial evidence by Congressional investigators.<\/p>\n

The White House email story broke on a Wednesday. Yet on that Sunday\u2019s Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and Fox News Sunday, the topic of millions of missing White House emails did not come up. At all. Fox News seemed utterly uninterested in the Bush email SCANDAL. Fox News contributor and gay basher was quoted as saying “deleted emails? who cares?’ and one other mention simply accused Democrats of engineering a \u201cfishing expedition.\u201d That was all.<\/p>\n

Republicans are wielding power much the same way they did then when they controlled the White House and Congress under George W. Bush: ineptly \u2014 examples: 1, 2 etc. 2007, when Congress asked the Bush administration for emails surrounding the firing of the eight U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales revealed that many of the emails requested could not be produced because they were sent on a non-government email server. The officials had used the private domain gwb43.com, a server run by the Republican National Committee.\u00a0So, the Bush\/Cheney crime syndicate had been routing their email though a PRIVATE REPUBLICAN COMPANY. A PRIVATE REPUBLICAN COMPANY was \u201chandling\u201d the Bush-Cheney crime correspondence, so it wasn\u2019t even routed through the White House mail servers \u00a0<\/em>(<\/em>the same server that housed the Ohio Secretary of State’s backup voter tabulation system that could run in tandem with the actual system on election night so that, if the actual system went down, no data would be lost).<\/p>\n

Not only did every network Sunday news show this week<\/em> cover the story about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emails, but they were drowning in commentary. Between Meet the Press, Face The Nation, This Week, and Fox News Sunday, Clinton\u2019s \u201cemail\u201d or \u201cemails\u201d were referenced more than 100 times on the programs, according to Nexis transcripts. Relentless, saturation coverage,\u00a0with the Beltway press barely pausing to catch its breath before unloading yet another round of \u201canalysis,\u201d most of which provides little insight but does allow journalists to vent about the Clintons.\u00a0riggering a firestorm (a guttural roar) that raged for days and consumed the Beltway chattering class the way the D.C. media has become obsessed with the Clinton email story? Absolutely not. Not even close.<\/p>\n

The Clinton email story isn\u2019t about lawbreaking,she violated no laws. Clinton violated federal laws. Still, the scandal machine churns on determined to treat the story as a political blockbuster, when it’s just not. The\u00a0millions of missing .actually incriminating of evil-doing<\/em>\u00a0Bush White House emails were treated as a 24-hour story. It was dutifully noted and tossed aside like so many Democratic votes in Florida in 2001.<\/p>\n

Then. as now, it\u2019s clear that the only thing Republicans do very well is crookery and inflaming the media with bogus scandals \u2014 which is a handy way to distract attention from their crookery and ineptitude.<\/p>\n

Just to repeat: In 2007, the story was about millions of missing White House emails that were sought in connection to a Congressional investigation. Yet somehow the archiving of Clinton\u2019s emails today requires exponentially more coverage, and exceedingly more critical coverage.<\/p>\n

In the Bush emails we have lots of incriminating evidence in the correspondence that tied Rove and others to the treasonous exposure of Agent Plame, the U.S. attorneys\u2019 purge, the inquiry into charges that Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff had used his entre with others in the GOP to bribe government officials, and God only knows what other scandals. I don’t even know if I want to know. One thing is clear, it is a\u00a0prima facie case (or, rather, 22 million cases) of obstruction of justice aka the crime Pres. Richard Nixon was charged with by the House of Representatives in 1974 that prompted him to resign being President. In Hillary’s emails of\u00a0Sexplosion Of Benghazi Lies, Betrayal And Glamour Shots, well, we already know what was in those so-called \u201cpersonal\u201d emails anyway. Just a bunch of Snapchats with Sid Blumenthal and Huma and the breaking news that Lindsay Graham is gay and John Boehner is an alcoholic.<\/p>\n

\"colin-powell-makes-his-pr-007\"<\/p>\n

\"Mrs_Dash_Original_Seasoning_Blend\"Both Colin Cancer Powell \u00a0– seen here waving a bottle of Mrs. Dash in front of the senate and calling it Anthrax – and staff members of Secretary Condoleezza Rice received emails during their tenures that were later deemed to be classified, just like Hillary did. Unlike Hillary,\u00a0Colin Powell turned over exactly zero docs from when he was SOS despite being asked to do so.<\/p>\n

So, basically they all did Benghazi. And Vince Foster too. Why won\u2019t Condoleezza Rice stop murdering Vince Foster, that\u2019s what we\u2019d like to know.\u00a0Indeed, the report\u2019s conclusion cites \u201clongstanding, systemic weaknesses\u201d in electronic record-keeping \u201cthat go well beyond the tenure of any one secretary of state.\u201d\u00a0Gotcha.<\/p>\n

This Republican pattern of mendacity would not seem quite so crazy (although it’s pretty friggin’ crazy) were it not for the fact that most of the Beltway political press has spent quality time validating it for the last twenty years. The political press is now coalescing around the notion that, whereas Hillary might have gotten away with winning the White House if she’d been indicted, now that she hasn’t been indicted and isn’t guilty, she’s in REAL trouble.\u00a0Republicans\u2019 objective in using its lapdogs in the \u201cliberal media\u201d to exaggerate the Clinton emails controversy is to damage her image in advance of her run for the presidency.<\/p>\n

Maybe when this gets even more boring, we can get on with investigating allegations of Trump raping an underage girl, Trump scamming money using the Trump University, Trump not paying his vendors, Trump not paying any taxes, Trump benefiting from bankruptcies leaving others high and dry, Trump using white supremacy memes to be racist, Trump false claims of donating charity, Trump bribing attorneys general, Trump soliciting political funds from foreign powers, ad infinitum.<\/p>\n

Fun Fact: When Bill Clinton left office, his staff removed all the “W” keys from the White House keyboards, necessitating a year-long Congressional investigation.\u00a0When George W Bush left office, his team cold stole all of the hard drives in every computer in the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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