Maggie's Farm

Unsubstantiated claims: D'Amato may have commented past his personal information, but at least it's a reasonable supposition unlike Harry Reid's claim that Romney didn't pay any taxes. The MSM was more than happy to repeat that claim without equating it to McCarthyite tactics. It was actually worse, because it was a personal attack against a presidential candidate. I suppose none of the [s]left wing[/s] inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist blogs.

I'll be anxiously awaiting the lefty non-echo chamber tell us how Hillary did nothing wrong or unusual with her private email server after Comey's press conference today.

Z: Russia doesn't want Iran to have nukes, for obvious reasons.

Since Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani met Putin flouting a UN travel ban, it is logical to assume that Iran and Russia are closer than many are willing to believe.

Just what are the "obvious" reasons for Russian not wanting Iran to have nukes?

Z: Merely saying something is so, doesn't make it so. Echoing it doesn't make the claim more substantial.

Correct, but that point is lost on those who do not follow politics closely. The assertion that a presidential candidate didn't pay taxes was damaging even though there was no substantiation. When the press discusses what possible damage it might cause rather than that Reid trafficked in innuendo worse than the McCarthy (the boogey man for the left). So the leftist echo chamber spread the innuendo.

The same thing will happen with Clinton's 'exoneration' by Comey. The fact that he said there was evidence that she has been lying through her teeth since this thing began, will be lost by the MSM and the leftist blogs. The lefty echochamber will drown out the negative information.

Z: That was overlooked by the West as it concerned attempts to stabilize Syria.

So... How does that dispute the relationship between Russia and Iran?

Z: ... nuclear weapons would significantly change the balance of power in the region, reducing Russia's influence. Not to mention, Russia is in missile range.

The balance of power would swing toward Iran. Russian and Iran, being allies, would redound to Russia's benefit. Since they are friends, the fact that Russia is in missile range is immaterial. The more important fact is that much of Europe and all of Israel is also in missile range. If Russia has designs on parts of Europe, what better thing than an unhinged ally to do the dirty work for you?

Z: Saying someone legally avoided paying taxes is not "innuendo worse" than accusing people of being communists.

Really? Specifically ho was McCarthy accusing of being a communist?

Z: The claim was that she had broken the law, which was almost certainly not the case

Comey said that there was evidence that she broke the law and that all her statements about her handling of classified documents were lies.

Z: That doesn't mean they want Iran or other countries to acquire nuclear weapons. Keep in mind that Russia was part of P5+1.

The P5+1 nuke deal at best delays an Iranian nuke and rescues the Iranian economy by lifting international sanctions against a known sponsor of terror. It doesn't indicate any real desire to keep Iran from having a nuke.

mudbug: Specifically [w]ho was McCarthy accusing of being a communist?

Z: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mccarthy-says-communists-are-in-state-department

You didn't answer my question, but your link did. He did not name a single State Department person of being a communist. That was the thing that made what he did so bad - he said he had a list of communists in the State Department but would never say who they were or why he believed there were communists in the State Department.

Z: The closest statement by Comey to support your contention was "Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."

Clinton was required to turn over all work-related documents but:


Clinton said there were no classified information on her servers (we now know there was more than one), but:


The law pertaining to Clinton's email issue states:


And Comey said:


"extremely careless" is another way of saying that they were grossly negligent.

And Comey said:

Handling classified information in a way that could allow hostile actors access to it is more than gross negligence since if she had used the State Department servers as she was expected to, this situation would not have occurred.

The FBI investigates. It does not decide whether there should be a prosecution. That is the job of a prosecutor. It seems to me that he overstepped his bounds in making a judgement on whether something should be prosecuted.

You are just another voice in the lefty echo chamber defending Clinton against the undefensible.