Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

FOX News First: March 17, 2015
By Chris Stirewalt



STATE DEPARTMENT STONEWALL STILL STANDING ON HILLARY DOC

Did Hillary Clinton sign a form upon leaving the State Department that said she had handed over all work-related documents before departing? This would seem to be an easy question to answer. Check the drawer for form OF 109 and if Clinton signed, hers should be the first one in the drawer. But the Democratic frontrunner wouldn't say when Fox News tracked her to a campaign event Monday. And her former agency has gone nearly a week without responding to a Freedom of Information Act Request. Saying that she did sign would be bad news because it would mean that she maintained her trove of government emails despite swearing that she had given everything up. Saying she didn’t sign would be another embarrassing lapse in security and records management for an agency with big problems on the front. The third option – that Clinton signed but the form cannot be found – would simply add to the list of too-convenient deletions and omissions in this ongoing email scandal.



Teacher Union Chief: 'Yes,' I Knew About Hillary’s Private Email

The Weekly Standard: “Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, says that she knew about Hillary Clinton’s private email. Weingarten made the comment in Twitter, in response to a question from a Jeb Bush spokesman. Tim Miller, the Bush spokesman, tweeted, ‘@rweingarten also if not secret - did you know about the private email before the NYT story?’ Weingarten responded, ‘yes.’”


[The latest CNN/ORC poll finds Americans split on Hillary’s email problems. 51 percent call the use of personal email as a very or somewhat serious problem while 48 percent don’t find much of a problem with it.](Can They Say State Secrets?)


White House Office to Delete its FOIA Regulations - USA Today:

“The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office. The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the t***sparency law. The office handles, among other things, White House record-keeping duties like the archiving of e-mails. But the timing of the move raised eyebrows among t***sparency advocates, coming on National Freedom of Information Day and during a national debate over the preservation of Obama administration records. It's also Sunshine Week, an effort by news organizations and watchdog groups to highlight issues of government t***sparency.”


Hillary Looks to Shut Out Challengers in Early Primaries - AP:

“Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to run a primary campaign for the Democratic p**********l nomination focused on the four traditional early-to-v**e states, forgoing the chance to parlay her dominant position into an early start in the swing states key to the general e******n. Data-driven grassroots organizing in states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, along with fundraising, will be the focus when Clinton launches her p**********l campaign, probably in early April, according to people familiar with the strategy…”


Hillary Billed Taxpayers $527,000 For Charter Flights As Senator - USA Today:

“Before her 2006 Senate re-e******n campaign and 2008 p**********l bid, then-senator Hillary Rodham Clinton dramatically increased her use of taxpayer-funded charter flights, becoming the Senate's biggest spender on reported charter airfare. … The figure rose to $527,000 when the cost of the staff who flew with her is included.”


Foreign Aid Recipients Among Clinton Donors - NRO:

“Algeria and the Dominican Republic, which both contributed to the Clinton Foundation, receive hundreds of millions of dollars yearly in foreign aid - including from the U.S. government…It took $8.6 million in assistance from the U.S. government the same year that it made the donation. And in 2011, a typical year for the North African country, it received $190 million in aid from foreign governments worldwide…The Dominican Republic gave a much larger donation to the Clinton Foundation, somewhere between $10 and $25 million in a grant to the organization’s HIV/AIDS program (the Foundation’s website does not provide exact grant numbers). The Caribbean nation received $35.5 million from the U.S. government in 2010, and the next year raked in $225 million from foreign governments around the world.”


OBAMA TRADE PUSH A HEADACHE FOR HILLARY

While President Obama has been taking heat from House Democrats over his request for expanded authority to make trade deals, Obama’s push has become a problem for Hillary Clinton. The 2016 Democratic frontrunner is under pressure from liberals to oppose her former boss’s push and are concerned about Clinton’s own complicated record on trade the Hill reports. “While some reports indicate Clinton backed [the North American Free Trade Agreement] internally during her husband’s years in the White House, she told a union audience in 2008 that she raised the ‘yellow caution f**g’ against the pact….As Obama’s secretary of State, she supported a controversial Colombia trade agreement that organized labor vehemently opposed. She also v**ed in 2002 against giving President George W. Bush fast-track authority — the same authority Bill Clinton employed during the 1990s and that Obama is now requesting….‘Sen. Clinton has only not been a fan of the NAFTA-style trade agreements when it has been politically necessary to adopt fair trade rhetoric,’ said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, which opposes giving Obama fast-track.”

Tariff-ically complicated - Bloomberg’s Mike Dorning takes a deep dive into the mystery of Hillary Clinton’s stance on free-trade and other issues that divide Democrats.


JEB TESTS COMMON CORE MESSAGE ON FIRST S.C. SWING:

I find myself in the same "kettle of fish" so many of you found yourselves in the e******ns of '08 & '12, disliking both guys for wh**ever reason and stayed home rather than v**e for someone you couldn't stand... I find myself right there right now, I just have no use for Jeb, none... Then I hear he makes 'snide remarks' about "W" and that even piss me off more... I sure hope he backs off, but I don't think his ego will let him... Don D.