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IdaBriggs

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76. Please explain the nonsense part.
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 09:30 AM
Mar 2016

I have been trying to keep to facts, but interpretation is obviously key.

Do you find the $120k a year Clinton Foundation payments to Blumenthal innocuous and justifiable? Etc. Please share.

I am not a politician, and I could be wrong. Please share where the logic train breaks down.

so now Bernie fans are upset about Hillary getting emails advising geek tragedy Mar 2016 #1
Read to the end - INFLUENCE PEDDLING. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #2
Wow former Sanders supporters UglyGreed Mar 2016 #11
Dude, I think a lot more is explained about why the "Independent" IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #17
I hear you UglyGreed Mar 2016 #18
Why don't you just say, "so now YOU..." Instead of Bernie fans? morningfog Mar 2016 #7
Two things nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #10
"UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05797723 " nt geek tragedy Mar 2016 #12
No, he was handing confidencial NO FOR nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #14
Does this mean I am REALLY understanding this? IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #24
I have talked with people who have nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #25
Also, I feel very stupid for missing this... IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #26
you really haven't been paying any attention, have you? geek tragedy Mar 2016 #27
I thought it was an unsecured private network? IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #29
Did you miss the part where 840high Mar 2016 #53
The email scandal pales in comparison but I'm fully expecting the State Dept to whitewash Skwmom Mar 2016 #3
I think all of us are so used to ignoring the Republican outrage machine IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #8
Well, as an American is was thrilling to hear a foreign dictator (or one of his staff) when asked Skwmom Mar 2016 #73
The email scandal is a fig leaf... grasswire Mar 2016 #67
Do you believe we will learn FlatBaroque Mar 2016 #89
I imagine a White House where Lanny Davis, Syd Blumenthal, Debbie Wasserman FlatBaroque Mar 2016 #4
don't forget arne fuckup duncan elehhhhna Mar 2016 #5
don't forget "doctor" kissinger Raster Mar 2016 #52
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz leftofcool Mar 2016 #6
I understand. It's COMPLICATED and complicated things are boring. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #15
Yes, all of this; but, additionally, even Syd were not on any payrolls, it was unacceptable to amborin Mar 2016 #86
All I know is Hillary's policies in the middle east lead to spread of ISIS and terrorism everywhere Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 #9
And caused horror and suffering we can never even imagine for millions. polly7 Mar 2016 #23
And Haiti. nt grasswire Mar 2016 #68
and led to genocide against black Africans in Libya, etc. amborin Mar 2016 #87
K & R !!! WillyT Mar 2016 #13
Hillary using the GOP playbook. Not surprised... think Mar 2016 #16
"He brings a kinife, you bring a gun. He brings a gun , you bring a bazooka." DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #20
The OP is about Obama banning Sidney Blumenthal from having any involvement in the govt think Mar 2016 #21
El Sid was offering advice to screw the Rethuglicans. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #22
That was ONE of the many emails; he was a BANNED person IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #31
Do you/did you ask your boss who you can be friends with? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #32
I do not discuss confidential information about my job with my friends. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #33
Do I what? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #34
Do you share confidential information from your job with friends? IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #35
I solicit advice from everyone. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #36
I don't when it comes to confidential information. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #37
Maybe because he genuinely likes her and doesn't look for picayune reasons to crucify her? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #38
I think there is more going on, but I don't know what. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #39
What is the Clinton foundation doing? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #40
If I understand this correctly (and I may be wrong) IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #41
Res ipsa loquitur DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #43
Ha! Found one of the DU links! IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #44
I will rely on a neutral agency and not value laden posters with ideological axes to grind. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #45
There is a link to the source - that article is not written by the DUer. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #46
Why should I accept the word of this or that writer and not the word... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #47
That question is answered in The Atlantic article link I gave you. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #48
You are giving me the subjective analysis of a value laden author. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #49
I think the quote I provided addressed the issues you raised. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #79
I am not surprised by the callousness of the comfortable toward the afflicted. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #82
Sigh. Except for... IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #83
In my initial post I conceded that there is "cronyism" involved in foundation administration. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #84
I understand. And maybe this is all just how "business" is done. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #88
+1 840high Mar 2016 #56
I sincerely doubt that. 840high Mar 2016 #55
Are you friend with President Obama DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #58
Are you? 840high Mar 2016 #61
I asked you first. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #62
My opinion was formed by 840high Mar 2016 #64
By reading articles and DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #72
OK that SoS was taking advice from a crony w/o any creds, who had biz interests in Libya? amborin Mar 2016 #85
He specifically did with Sid. 840high Mar 2016 #54
you must be very naive.. grasswire Mar 2016 #69
Great way to live one's life. Yea, you bet. pangaia Mar 2016 #78
K&R, Ida Briggs...K&R... nenagh Mar 2016 #19
They don't care what the Clinton's were doing with our tax dollars Kittycat Mar 2016 #28
They view Clinton first and country last. 840high Mar 2016 #57
You get to the nub of things at the end of your post Babel_17 Mar 2016 #30
K&R EndElectoral Mar 2016 #42
Hillary would have been fired by Obama if he knew this then ViseGrip Mar 2016 #50
You are forgetting his legacy 840high Mar 2016 #59
Duplicity Is As Duplicity Does cantbeserious Mar 2016 #51
Drip, Drip, Drip,,,, gush... drip... drip.. Gush.... kristopher Mar 2016 #60
I can't either. How can 840high Mar 2016 #63
I guess if you believed this nonsense, it would be hard to understand. nt BreakfastClub Mar 2016 #70
What nonsense? kristopher Mar 2016 #71
Please explain the nonsense part. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #76
Jeez. AzDar Mar 2016 #65
plus...the intel on Libya that Blumenthal was feeding to Hillary was faulty. grasswire Mar 2016 #66
Can I get a link for that? IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #80
Here's one... Oilwellian Mar 2016 #90
Recommend, Plus: Ida's and others links about Blumenthal. KoKo Mar 2016 #93
this is all so outrageoulsy bad amborin Mar 2016 #95
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #74
Most welcome, Uncle Joe. IdaBriggs Mar 2016 #75
You did fine by me. Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #77
The sharks are all planning another feeding frenzy of graft, Waiting For Everyman Mar 2016 #81
I think Obama is scared of Watergate Gwhittey Mar 2016 #91
well, he is in some jeopardy grasswire Mar 2016 #94
Kicked. nt MaeScott Mar 2016 #92
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