Does The Kremlin Have Hillary Clinton’s Emails?

The furor over the revelation that Hillary Clinton used a private email account throughout her tenure as secretary of state (and did not even have an official State Department account) misses the point. By behaving in this reckless manner,  Mrs. Clinton has jeopardized our national security. The issue is not what Mrs. Clinton wanted to hide from domestic critics, but whether she risked hacking of confidential and secret State Department information by the cyber-warfare masters of the Kremlin.

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Obama on Benghazi: Believe Me or Your Lying Eyes (Or At Least Wait Until After the Election)

In Duck Soup, Groucho Marx pleads his innocence to his wealthy matronly fiancé, who catches him smooching with a show girl: “Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”

Since September 12, the Obama administration has been asking us to believe him, his press secretary, and his proxies that our Libyan ambassador and three other consulate officials were killed by a spontaneous mob driven into frenzy by an anti-Muslim film produced by an unknown Christian film maker.  He asks that we not believe his state department or top intelligence officials who testify that this narrative is false. Nor should we notice the coincidence of the attack taking place on 9/11 or that this was revenge for the fifteen top al Qaeda leaders killed by drones under Obama. Of course, Obama spiking the “I-killed-Osama” football at the Democrat convention had nothing to do with this either. Nor did the Libyan President warn of impending violence three days earlier.

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Only in Putin’s Russia: Prosecute a Dead Man!

On November 16, 2009, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in a Russian prison. He was jailed for alleged tax evasion, but his mains sins were representing Hermitage Capital’s case against the Russian state and for blowing the whistle against crooked Russian officials. In prison, he was denied medical attention despite repeated requests and died in custody.

Magnitsky case became an international incident. The U.S. State Department has issued a list of Russian officials involved in the case whom are to be denied visas. Russian justice authorities cleared the prosecutor who handled the Magnitsky case and even awarded him a medal. Russian authorities are preparing a list of U.S. officials to be denied visas to Russia.

In a possible Kremlin rift, President Medvedev named a human rights commission to look into the case. They concluded that Magnitsky’s arrest contravened the European Human Rights Convention, the case against him was fabricated and pursued by the same Interior Ministry officials he accused of a $230 million theft from the Russian Treasury, and he was beaten immediately before his death in custody. The Russian interior ministry rejected these findings.

On August 5, the Russian Interior Ministry announced they plan to prosecute  Magnitsky for alleged tax evasion, although  he has been dead for twenty months. They justified this bizarre action as a humanitarian move to give Magnitsky’s family the satisfaction of a chance to clear his name. This  claim was rejected by Magnitsky’s mother, who said: "To put a man on trial after he was killed, when he can no longer defend himself, is an evil and base act. It goes against all human morals, and law."