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Moving On From the Convention, A Real Cliff Hanger... What Happens Now?

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  • "Mr. Gabler, you are still doing it. The press, more than any other American institution, relies on Freedom of Information Act requests to hold our government officials accountable for their actions. Let's break this down: HRC, while SOS, installed and exclusively used a secret private server in her home to conduct government business -- she has admitted this. When caught, she had private legal staff review and subsequently delete over 30k emails. This is indisputable and she has admitted to this, as well. By installing and exclusively relying upon her secret server, she created a shield, allowing her to perform in a vacuum, free from public scrutiny or accountability, and she rendered her emails inaccessible via FOIA requests. This is unprecedented. No cabinet level official in our history has gone to such lengths to hide his/her behaviors. Now ask yourself why. What possible excuse was there for the use of the secret server? There was only one -- to frustrate the FOIA process. This showed utter contempt for government regulations, contempt for the press, and contempt for every American citizen. Now let's look at what she did when she was caught -- rather than simply producing the hidden documents, she had her own lawyers review and then delete countless documents. I am a former government lawyer with significant training in how to properly handle FOIA requests and I can assure you that the focus of her private attorneys (namely her fifth amendment privilege(s)) would not have been a concern for State Department lawyers tasked with fulfilling a FOIA request. Her decision to delete over thirty thousand documents is absolutely unprecedented and makes Nixon look like a paragon of openness and accountability. I ask you, as a member of the press, WHY AREN'T YOU SHOUTING THIS STORY FROM THE ROOFTOPS? The possible precedence being set (assuming her connections enable bet [her] to avoid indictment) should have every self-respecting journalist ready to tattoo this story to their collective foreheads! How is this not daily headline news? What incident in journalistic history even comes close to comprising such a threat to unfettered journalistic freedom?

    Even in an article that purports to take the media to task for its bias, you leave out of the equation the most blatant and obvious example of why she is utterly unfit to hold public office. You failed, yet again."

    Should you want to read the article in its entirety,

    http://billmoyers.com/story/press-take-bernie-sanders/

Helen Davis Chaitman; partner of Chaitman LLP. Swindled by Bernie Madoff, Chaitman has written an expose on the corrupt association of JP Morgan and the others intimately involved with the largest scam in U.S. History. Two other individuals were let off and kept billions of dollars while so many others lost their fortunes. One revelation in reading a portion of her book was that New York Senator Charles "Chuck" Schumer made frequent fundraising visits over the years to Bernie Madoff's office. When asked by the media about it, his comment was "no comment." This was particularly interesting in that the letter to Preet Bharara went unanswered and it was Senator Chuck Schumer who recommended Bharara to President Barack Obama.

JPMadoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/10/new-book-senator-schumer-was-regular-visitor-to-madoff-offices/

Stephen Fox; presently owns an art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and for several years was

editor of the New Mexico Sun News and the Santa Fe Sun News. Fox, a political activist, has written numerous articles, maintains an active on-line presence at Opednews.com and has familiarity with hundreds of FaceBook accounts nationwide from which he has been blocked or censored on several occasions by the misdeeds of Hillary Trolls. He started a FaceBook account titled Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies on How To Win

https://www.facebook.com/groups/592985284186083/

Alison Landes; health care advocate for Parkinson's and Single-Payer Medicare for All, primary caregiver for 3 family members, author of two letters concerning the corrupt New York Primary, both published on Opednews.com, the first to U.S. Attorney for Southern New York, Preet Bharara and getting nowhere with him or the Associated Press, wrote to New York County District Attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. and got no response from him either. Bharara with all his self aggrandizement about no one being too famous or too powerful for justice to prevail did nothing when obviously there is so much corruption surrounding the New York Primary.

How is it that with 20,000 leaked emails proving that the DNC undermined Bernie Sanders campaign, which Progressives have known for months and the media ignored, and although Debbie Wasserman Schultz is booed off stage at the Florida Delegates Breakfast MSNBC puts caption as DWS is cheered, Hillary Clinton makes Wasserman-Schultz the honorary chair of her 50-state program and President Obama praises her for having his back and called her to express his gratitude? And how is it with a class action lawsuit against Wasserman Schultz and the DNC, the nation watches a multi-million dollar extravaganza with all the bells and whistles and special effects to cover the flaws and shortcomings of Hillary Clinton?

A Perfect Symbol of Media Capture: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Booed, MSNBC Caption Says "Cheered"

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