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This Evidence Could Blow Up Loretta Lynch’s Shocking Role In The Russia Scandal

The investigation into Trump and Russia continues to take surprising turns.

Now the spotlight is on Loretta Lynch and the FBI’s conduct during the investigation.

And one piece of evidence could unravel a massive cover-up.

The Democrat National Committee claims they were hacked by Russia during the 2016 election.

Former FBI Director James Comey accepted that conclusion without the Bureau ever examining the DNC’s servers.

That was left up to CrowdStrike, a third party vendor with a questionable history when it relates to Russia.

Now many in Congress are demanding a full accounting of CrowdStrike’s findings:

“IT IS PERHAPS THE KEY PIECE OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE IN RUSSIA’S SUSPECTED EFFORTS TO SWAY THE NOVEMBER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, BUT FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS HAVE YET TO GET THEIR HANDS ON THE HACKED COMPUTER SERVER THAT HANDLED EMAIL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

INDEED, THE ONLY CYBERSECURITY SPECIALISTS WHO HAVE TAKEN A LOOK AT THE SERVER ARE FROM CROWDSTRIKE, THE IRVINE, CALIFORNIA-BASED PRIVATE CYBERSECURITY COMPANY THAT THE DNC HIRED TO INVESTIGATE THE HACK — BUT WHICH HAS COME UNDER FIRE ITSELF FOR ITS WORK.

SOME CRITICS SAY CROWD STRIKE’S EVIDENCE FOR BLAMING RUSSIA FOR THE HACK IS THIN. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS SAY THEY STILL BELIEVE RUSSIA WAS RESPONSIBLE BUT WONDER WHY THE DNC HAS NEVER ALLOWED FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS TO GET A LOOK AT THE KEY PIECE OF EVIDENCE: THE SERVER. EITHER WAY, A KEY “WITNESS” IN THE POLITICAL SCANDAL CONSUMING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REMAINS BEYOND THE REACH OF INVESTIGATORS.

“I WANT TO FIND OUT FROM THE COMPANY [THAT] DID THE FORENSICS WHAT THEIR FULL FINDINGS WERE,” SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, A SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN WHO IS LEADING THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE’S INQUIRY, TOLD THE WASHINGTON TIMES.

SCRUTINIZING THE DNC SERVER HACK AND CROWDSTRIKE’S ANALYSIS HAS NOT FACTORED HEAVILY IN MULTIPLE PROBES EXPLORING THE RUSSIA ISSUE. BUT BEHIND THE SCENES, DISCUSSIONS ARE GROWING LOUDER, CONGRESSIONAL SOURCES SAY.”

Examining the server could solve one of the great mysteries of the investigation.

Former FBI Director James Comey went public with his findings in Hillary Clinton’s email investigation in July 2016 because the FBI possessed an email from a Democrat staffer claiming Loretta Lynch would handle the inquiry in favorable manner to Clinton.

There have been allegations that this email was faked.

But an easy way to prove it would be for investigators to examine the DNC’s server.

The Washington Times also reports:

“IN RECENT DAYS, QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SERVER HAVE TAKEN ON MORE IMPORTANCE AS ATTENTION HAS FOCUSED ON AN EMAIL SUGGESTING THAT THE DNC AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WERE TRYING TO LIMIT THE SCOPE OF THE FBI’S INVESTIGATION INTO DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON’S SECRET EMAIL ACCOUNT.

MENTIONED IN RECENT REPORTING AND TESTIMONY FROM FIRED FBI DIRECTOR JAMES B. COMEY, THE CORRESPONDENCE REPORTEDLY SHOWS OBAMA-ERA ATTORNEY GENERAL LORETTA E. LYNCH PRIVATELY ASSURING “SOMEONE IN THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN THAT THE EMAIL INVESTIGATION WOULD NOT PUSH TOO DEEPLY INTO THE MATTER.”

Some observers have wondered whether the information is real or is Russian disinformation.”

Is the DNC hiding Lynch’s promise to keep a lid on the Clinton email investigation by refusing investigators access to their server?

ANOTHER Democrat Wants To Impeach Trump

Photo by David McNew/Getty ImagesBY: ELLIOTT HAMILTON

On Sunday, thousands of protesters marched through downtown Los Angeles calling for President Trump's impeachment. According to the Los Angeles Times, people were protesting over the proposed Medicaid cuts, Trump's supposed collusion with the Russians during the 2016 election, and his treatment of now-former FBI Director James Comey.

After the march, several individuals gave impassioned speeches, including Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA). Sherman is the Left's latest hero because he began drafting and circulating articles of impeachment a few months ago. Here is an excerpt of Sherman's speech at the rally:

I served with Mike Pence in Congress for 12 years and I disagree with him on just about everything. I never dreamed I would be standing on a stage advocating an action that would put him in the White House. But it is time to start the process. Not to change America’s policy. We will do that in 2018. We will do that in 2020. But we have to act now to begin a process to protect our country from abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and impulsive, ignorant incompetence.

Sherman joined Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Rep. Al Green (D-TX) in calls to remove the President.

As we used to say in poker, “That’s three of a kind that beats a full house.”

Raise the flag… +220,000 Jobs in June; Record 153,168,000 Employed

By Susan Jones

(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. economy added 220,000 jobs in June, the best showing since February and well above analysts' expectations of 174,000.

The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics also said the number of employed Americans -- which set records in February, March and April -- set another record in June, at 153,168,000 employed.

And the number of Americans not in the labor force -- after four straight monthly gains – dropped a bit to 94,813,000.

People age 16 and older who are not institutionalized or in the military are counted as “not in the labor force” if they are neither working nor looking for work. This number includes retirees, students, homemakers, the disabled, and others who have stopped looking for work for whatever reason.

The labor force participation rate rose a tenth of a point to 62.8 percent in June, which is within two-tenths of a point where it's been since January. As BLS has noted, the participation rate shows no clear trend.

(The participation rate hit a record high of 67.3 percent in early 2000, plunging to a 38-year low of 62.4 percent in September 2015.)

The June unemployment rate increased a tenth of a point to 4.4 percent, which is near historic lows.

"Really great numbers on jobs & the economy! Trump tweeted on July 3. "Things are starting to kick in now, and we have just begun! Don't like steel & aluminum dumping!"

He was talking about a July 3 report showing that U.S. manufacturers grew at their fastest pace in three years. In Friday’s report, BLS said the economy added 1,000 manufacturing jobs last month, for a total of 12,396,000.

In June, the nation’s civilian noninstitutionalized population, consisting of all people age 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, reached 254,957,000. Of those, 160,145,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one.

The 160,145,000 who participated in the labor force equaled 62.8 percent of the  254,957,000 civilian noninstitutionalized population.

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for April was revised up from +174,000 to +207,000; and the change for May was revised up from +138,000 to +152,000.

BLS noted that with these revisions, employment gains in April and May combined were 47,000 more than previously reported. Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.

Over the past 3 months, job gains have averaged 194,000 per month.

In a June 29, 2017 update, the Congressional Budget Office said it expects the U.S. labor market to tighten in the next two years, as greater demand for workers will push the unemployment rate down and the labor force participation rate up.

The projected demand for workers will encourage more people to participate in the labor force, temporarily offsetting the projected decline in participation arising from such factors as the ongoing retirement of baby boomers.

CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain around 4.3 percent by the end of 2017 and then drop further to 4.2 percent in early 2018.

According to the CBO update:

-- The labor force participation rate (the share of the civilian noninstitutionalized population age 16 or over who either have jobs or are available for work and actively seeking employment) will remain relatively constant over the next two years.

-- Further tightening of the labor market will boost the growth of wages and salaries over the next two years.

-- Price inflation is expected to continue rising over the remainder of this year, and interest rates will rise as well.

-- Over the next decade, labor force growth will be constrained by slow population growth and by the aging and retirement of the baby-boom generation.

Scientist to Scour Grand Canyon to Prove Biblical Flood

By Bill Hoffmann

A geologist attempting to prove that the great flood described in the Bible really happened has been granted permission to collect rock samples from the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

"The Grand Canyon is the gold standard for geologists," Andrew Snelling, who believes in the literal interpretation of the Bible, told The Australian.

"It's important because it's the largest and deepest canyon in the world … The walls are stacked like pancakes: shale, sandstone, limestone, mud. There are more rock layers exposed there than anywhere else."

In 2014, Snelling — director of research at Answers in Genesis, a Kentucky-based group of Christian scientists — asked the Department of the Interior to let him remove 50 to 60 "fist-sized" rock samples.

When the agency rejected his proposal saying it lacked scientific merit, Snelling filed suit claiming religious discrimination. But this week, he agreed to drop his legal action in exchange for permission to proceed with the excavations.

"Even if I don't find the evidence I think I will find, it wouldn't assault my core beliefs. We already have evidence that is consistent with a great flood that swept the world," Snelling said.

The great flood, described in the Bible's Book of Genesis, tells of God's decision to flood the Earth and start anew because its inhabitants had become evil and wicked. According to the Bible, God told Noah to build an ark and stock it with every species of animal.

Cato’s Dan Mitchell: ‘Trump Should Learn from Maine’s Gov. Paul LePage How to Win a Government Shutdown Fight’

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by SEAN MORAN

The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell argues that if President Donald Trump wants to “win big league” on his upcoming budget battle, he should learn from Maine’s Gov. Paul LePage’s budget victory.

Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage said last week that he would reject the latest budget deal from a bipartisan group of legislators, warning that state government would shut down if Democrats do not agree to cut taxes and reduce spending.

Gov. LePage demanded that the two-year budget proposal rescind a three-percent surcharge tax on household income more than $200,000 that voters approved in a referendum last fall. The proposed budget would also increase education funding by $162 million.

Both the leaders of the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and Republican-controlled Senate supported the compromise budget. However, pundits remain unsure whether the budget proposal has the support to pass through both chambers.

Amazingly, the Democrats in the state legislature agreed to repeal the three-percent surcharge tax increase on wealthy Maine citizens as well as an increase in the state’s lodging tax.

Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, argued that President Trump should take the offense when negotiating with Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Mitchell explained:

One of the lessons is to stake out the high ground. Have the fight over something important. LePage wanted to kill the lodging tax and the referendum surtax. Since those taxes were so damaging, it was very easy for the Governor to justify his position.

Another lesson is to go on offense. Republicans in Maine explained that higher taxes would make the state less competitive.

The Cato senior fellow contends that Trump should employ similar tactics against the Democrats. Mitchell said:

Trump should do something similar. The fight later this year in DC (assuming the President is willing to fight) will be about spending levels. And leftists will be complaining about “savage” and “draconian” cuts.

So the Trump Administration should respond with charts showing that the other side is being hysterical and inaccurate since he’s merely trying to slow down the growth of government.

But the most important lesson of all is that Trump holds a veto pen. And that means he (just like Gov. LePage in Maine) controls the situation. He can veto bad budget legislation. And when the interest groups start to squeal that the spending faucet is no longer dispensing goodies because of a shutdown, he should understand that those interest groups feeling the pinch generally will be on the left. And when they complain, it is the big spenders in Congress who will feel the most pressure to capitulate in order to reopen the faucet. Moreover, the longer the government is shut down, the greater the pinch on the pro-spending lobbies.

Mitchell concluded, “Trump has the leverage, if he is willing to use it.”

Tax Cuts Now

Originally published at Fox News.

To pass a tax cut bill this year, Congressional Republicans should start outlining and explaining their plan for deep tax cuts now. Their survival in the 2018 elections will depend on it.

Republicans must ensure that they create a level of economic growth that stands in stark contrast to the weak Democratic economy of the past years (which has been the slowest economy in modern times). But if voters only hear about planned prosperity, the GOP message will fall flat.

Only substantial tax cuts will trigger the rapid job growth needed for Republican success in 2018. But time is running out and to pass tax cuts this year, action is needed now.

Consider what we have learned from the first six months of the effort to repeal Obamacare – an issue Republicans have been virtually unanimous on for seven years, and we still have no real replacement plan capable of passing the House and the Senate.

Republicans, in theory, have been discussing and thinking about this for seven years, yet their communications strategy has been so ineffective, confusing, and disorganized, that the Republican House version of the bill is now less popular than Obamacare – which is actively imploding.

So, the obvious lesson from the first six months of the President Trump-Congressional Republican system is that everything takes longer, is harder to legislate, and is even more difficult to communicate than anyone expected on January 20 at the Inaugural.

Despite this tough lesson, the senior leadership continues to talk and plan as though things will be dramatically easier for the Republican tax bill.

There is talk of describing a tax bill in September, holding hearings in October, and passing it in November.

That legislative schedule is a recipe for disaster. It leaves no room for error and assumes every Republican will blindly get on board. The odds are overwhelming that such a tax bill would not pass until the Spring of 2018, at the earliest, which is too late to impact economic growth and job creation before the mid-term elections.

Worse, it seems as though Republicans are inclined to take a complicated approach that has a lot of moving parts. This will result in various groups getting hit with tax increases, complicated deductions, and other so-called reforms.

This also sets the stage for a significant amount of opposition – including a tremendous effort by K Street lobbyists to ensure the protection of their clients.

The current Republican communications system has failed to explain and sell the repeal of Obamacare. Does anyone think they will have better luck explaining and selling a complicated tax bill?

If Republicans really want a tax cut bill signed into law in 2017, (the highest priority for those who wish to survive their next elections) they need to completely rethink the current schedule and the proposed complexity.

Here is an alternative, month-by-month, strategy that would have the greatest likelihood of succeeding.

By the end of July, Republicans should be able to easily describe the basics of a simple, but large tax cut bill. For example, it could include:

• a 20 percent corporate tax rate;
• a modest but real middle-class tax cut;
• and a consistent system for businesses to regularly repatriate foreign earnings from overseas.

Combined, these policies should have a substantial job creation and economic growth impact, and I detail each of them in my new # 1 New York Times bestseller, Understanding Trump (see above).

Additionally, as I wrote last month, tax cuts should be paid for through spending reforms and with increased government revenue from assets and economic growth.

That’s right, tax cuts can increase federal revenue. The Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office claimed in 1997 that cuts in the Republican-drafted Taxpayer Relief Act would add $27.9 billion to the deficit by 2000. However, we passed the law and brought in $346 billion in revenue – creating a $290 billion surplus by 2000.

So, if Republicans craft a simple, explainable, consensus tax bill – without throwing in controversial policies – they can set the stage for effective communications.

To kick off the public campaign, Republicans should then proclaim August "Job Creation and Economic Growth Month." They should coordinate with their delegations and hold town hall meetings about job creation and economic growth in their districts. The best way to build support for the Republican agenda is to organize grassroots efforts at home. Republicans should petition support from every group that would win with this bill.

The President, Vice President, and every cabinet member should also give at least three speeches in favor of the 2017 Job Creation and Economic Growth Act to maintain the national focus.

By September, Republicans should hold parallel hearings in the House and Senate. The first week of October should be spent moving the tax cut bill through the House. Then they should spend the next three weeks getting it passed in the Senate.

Finally, in November, the House and Senate should conference the bill and pass it by mid-month in time for a Thanksgiving week signing ceremony.

Any strategy that includes a longer timeline and a more complex bill will almost assuredly doom a 2017 tax cut. That will make the 2018 election very tough for the GOP.

Your Friend,

Newt Gingrich

Fmr Obama DNI Clapper: Only 3 or 4 Intelligence Agencies Agreed on Russian Interference — ‘It Wasn’t 17’

by JEFF POOR

Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called into question a key talking point regularly used by those alleging Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Some Trump critics and members of the media have claimed 17 intelligence agencies were in agreement about the Russian allegations. However, Clapper told “Situation Room” fill-in host Jim Sciutto the real number was three or four and that he did not know how that “narrative” of 17 agencies got out there.

Partial transcript as follows:

JIM SCIUTTO: First on the big picture, In a foreign country next to a foreign leader the day before he meets Russia, the president of Russia, did he just throw the U.S. intelligence community under the bus?

GEN. JAMES CLAPPER, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Well, it is hard not to reach that conclusion that, exactly so. First of all, on the number of components in the international community, yes, there are 17; the 16 components by law plus the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

When then president-elect Trump was briefed on this on the 6th of January, there were four of us — meaning the directors of NSA, FBI and CIA and myself. That’s all. And we explained who did the report.

So how this narrative got out there about 17 components being involved, I don’t know. But the report itself makes it clear that it was the three agencies plus the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that put this intelligence community assessment together.

As far as others doing this, boy, that’s news to me. We saw no evidence whatsoever there was other — there was anyone involved in this other than the Russians.

As far as the infamous weapons of mass destruction, the national intelligence assessment that was done in October of 2002, I remember it because my fingerprints were on it. It was 15 years ago. The intelligence community has done a lot of things to make sure that never happens again.

And so, yes, it’s true; that was a big mistake. But we have learned from it and inserted — the intelligence community has, I should say — injected a lot of safeguards to prevent that from ever happening again.

And because of that experience and my having lived through it, that is why my confidence level is so high and the veracity and the fidelity of the information that went into that international community assessment.

Only 3 Million Would Lose Private Coverage If ObamaCare Is Repealed

By DICK MORRIS  DickMorris.com

Fear mongering liberals have widely broadcast a phony statistic: That repealing ObamaCare would deprive 20 million people of insurance.

Nonsense.

According to the Heritage Foundation, the total number of people now covered by some form of health insurance is 14 million higher than before ObamaCare took effect --- not 20 million.

And, 11.5 million of the 14 million got coverage not through policies purchased on the Exchanges but through old-fashioned Medicaid, a welfare program pure and simple.

So the total that would lose insurance if ObamaCare were repealed is closer to 2-3 million people.

And, of the 11.5 million newly covered by Medicaid, about 70 percent got covered not because of any increase in eligibility standards.  They had always been eligible, even under the old Medicaid program, but only now did they think to apply.  The vast PR campaign to get insurance sucked them in.  Repealing the Affordable Care Act would not affect them at all.

So, the total "cost" of a full repeal of the ACA would be less than 3 million people losing private insurance and 5 million losing Medicaid.

Senator Ted Cruz' plan to replace ObamaCare would offer everyone bare bones coverage at low premiums if they wanted these policies but it would also create an entitlement for sick people to get highly subsidized policies to meet their needs.  These replacements should deal with the problems of those who would lose their current coverage.

As to the Medicaid population, the key here is to institute utilization controls.

With Medicaid having been expanded to people above the poverty line, nominal copayments of, for example, $10 for an emergency room visit, (now SNAP) and found utilization dropped by more than 80%.

So, let's not be intimidated by the scare tactics.  Repealing ObamaCare without a replacement is both feasible and humane. And Sen. Cruz' plan for replacement will do the trick nicely.

Gene Conley, a ‘genial giant’ Two-sport athlete won titles with Celtics and Braves

Joe Fitzgerald Friday, July 07, 2017

Though it’s been awhile since you’ve seen his name in the papers, Gene Conley should not die unnoticed in Boston where he helped author some of the bellwether chapters of local sports history.

The genial giant, who died Wednesday at 86, was not unique in playing two professional sports. Bo Jackson did it. So did Deion Sanders, and Dave DeBusschere, and don’t forget Danny Ainge once played third for the Toronto Blue Jays.

But only Conley, 6-foot-8, earned championship rings in two sports, including the three he collected as Bill Russell’s backup center during a second tenure with the Shamrocks.

In 1961, just 14 days after helping the C’s vanquish St. Louis, the towering righty pitched the Red Sox to a 6-1 victory with Celtic teammates cheering him on from the stands.

Back in 1954 he had been third in the National League’s Rookie of the Year voting, beating out Hank Aaron. A year later he was an All-Star sensation, coming on in the 12th to mow down Al Kaline, Mickey Vernon and Al Rosen.

He was still with the Braves when they beat the Yankees in the storied 1957 World Series, and in 1959 he went 12-7 for the last-place Phillies, striking out Ted Williams in the All-Star game.

But in this town he will always be remembered for the way Red Auer­bach deployed him to get inside Wilt Chamberlain’s head.

“Red knew exactly how and when to use us,” Conley recalled years later, laughing. “He’d have me so mad I was within seconds of wanting to pop him.

“One night we knew it was going to be an easy win, so I got taped, which I never did. Everybody’s playing, except me. With a minute to go Red yells, ‘Conley, get out there so Russell can get an ovation!’

“That was just too much. I’m furious, throwing tape around the locker room, when he comes over and asks if I’d like to go for some Chinese food. I told him what he could do with his Chinese food, then stormed out, slamming the door.

“But the next night we were playing the Warriors and I was still so mad I beat on Wilt all game long while Russell was clearing the boards. I didn’t have enough sense to realize Red was grooming me for the big one, getting me rested and infuriated.”

No, you won’t find him included among the legends lining the Garden’s rafters, but make no mistake: Gene Conley was the essence of Celtics lore.

Goodbye, good friend, and God bless.

Moe - Ed. comment… Gene was one of my first childhood heroes. I met him a few times. He will be remembered as a genuine ‘good guy’.

G’day…Ciao…….
Helen and Moe Lauzier

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