WOW, u thought of that debating point all by urself??? way to go. hahaha
no wonder ur side has nominated an orangutan.
		Originally Posted by southtown4488
			
		
	
yeah i knew it probably would sail right over your libtard head. next time i'll use something from "Green eggs and Ham". maybe that's something you can comprehend? 
"your side" is about to nominate a criminal who's going to get blackmailed by Vlad Putin. you should be ass-shamed of yourself clown. odd isn't it that absolutely nothing Clinton does is wrong to you? 
nothing. such blind faith! i'm not sure if i should be impressed or appalled. 
http://observer.com/2016/06/vladimir...llary-clinton/
THE WAR ON HONESTY • Opinion
         
Vladimir Putin Has Everything He Needs to Blackmail Hillary Clinton
         American intelligence officers are asking not 'if' but 'when' the Kremlin will dip into its arsenal of Clinton collateral
                     By 
Austin Bay • 06/16/16 8:30am
RUMINT (Rumor Intelligence) is rife with  reports that Russian intelligence agencies are preparing to release  emails “hacked” from Hillary Clinton’s rogue Internet email server.
 Agreed, this sounds a bit like a  blackmail plot in a 1940s radio detective thriller or a soap opera.  Except it isn’t. We live in a world where blood gets spilled. 
I’ve read through several reports about  the possible Russian information release, ranging from the staid,  professional analysis to the wild Hollywood excitement—breathless. One  of the more interesting analyses appeared a few days ago on 
oilprice.com, a site devoted to analyzing the global oil industry and forecasting trends:
 
“Reliable  intelligence sources in the West have indicated that warnings had been  received that the Russian Government could in the near future release  the text of email messages intercepted from U.S. Presidential candidate  Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server from the time she was U.S.  Secretary of State. The release would, the messaging indicated, prove  that Secretary Clinton had, in fact, laid open U.S. secrets to foreign  interception by putting highly-classified Government reports onto a  private server in violation of U.S. law, and that, as suspected, the  server had been targeted and hacked by foreign intelligence services.”
 Close readers will note that staid  paragraph is freighted with two things: (1) speculation, based on  hearsay from unnamed sources; and (2) legitimate worry, based on real  experience and awareness of consequences. The speculation is a scenario,  a “could be.” 
No one doubts that Clinton’s server could  be hacked. Known facts indicate it was probed by hackers and likely  hacked. On June 8 the 
Associated Press published  an article summarizing information gleaned from released emails and  discussing the likelihood that foreign intelligence services had hacked  Clinton’s definitely 
not-approved off-the-record and therefore illegal system.
“…because  both Clinton’s server and the State Department systems were vulnerable  to hacking, the perpetrators could have those original emails, and now  the publicly released, redacted versions showing exactly which sections  refer to CIA personnel.
 “Start  with the entirely plausible view that foreign intelligence services  discovered and rifled Hillary Clinton’s server,” said Stewart Baker, a  Washington lawyer who spent more than three years as an assistant  secretary of the Homeland Security Department and is former legal  counsel for the National Security Agency. If so, those infiltrators  would have copies of all her emails with the names not flagged as being  linked to the agency.”
 The names Baker refers to are those of U.S. intelligence officers. Read the report. He suggests they may have been compromised.
 Writing “Ouch” doesn’t convey my personal dismay. As I noted in an 
earlier Observer essay:
 
“I carried  a Top Secret clearance for over three decades. I understand the system  we have in place to protect national security information. The system  has excesses and inadequacies, but there are common sense procedures for  dealing with mistakes, excesses and inadequacies. I respect the  system’s purpose because I know the stakes. The system exists for a  reason: the world is a dangerous place. Freedom is precious and fragile.  Defending America—which still means defending freedom, and I’ll take on  anyone who disagrees—requires keeping secrets.”
 I also discussed the possibility that Clinton’s rogue communication system could have 
compromised  the identities of U.S. intelligence officers and human intelligence  assets (HUMINT, human intelligence sources, i.e., flesh and blood,  people who risk their lives to provide the U.S. with intelligence  information).
 That essay mentions the Valerie Plame  case where a CIA officer’s name was identified by Bush Administration  White House aide Scooter Libby. Plame was no longer working under cover.  Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald convicted Libby on 
perjury charges, not  for revealing Plame’s name. However, Fitzgerald thought his prosecution  served a national security purpose. “The notion,” Fitzgerald said,  “that someone’s identity could be compromised lightly, to me,  compromises the ability to recruit [i.e., for the US to recruit  intelligence officers].”
 I agreed with Fitzgerald. Covert  intelligence work is difficult. Intelligence officers—who by the very  nature of their work are fully engaged in protecting U.S. national security—are vulnerable.
 In Hillary Clinton’s judgment, protecting her political viability was more important than protecting U.S. national security. Keeping her work-related communications from the clutches of federal record maintenance laws and the  Freedom  of Information Act was more important than following the laws  protecting the handling of national security-related information.
 Remember, in the 2008, Clinton claimed she’s prepared to answer the emergency phone call in the wee hours of the morning. Huh?
But let’s get back to Vlad Putin. It’s  now evident to all but the willfully stupid that in their 2012  presidential campaign debate Mitt Romney was right about Russia and  Barack Obama wrong: Russia led by Vladimir Putin is a geo-political  adversary, if not quite a 
dyed-in-the-wool enemy.
 Obama mocked him. In February 2014,  Putin-led Russia invaded Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. In March 2014 the  Kremlin annexed the region. That smashed the 1994 Budapest Accord, one  of the documents that provided the diplomatic framework for political  stability in post-Cold War eastern Europe. The Clinton Administration  backed the Budapest Accord.
 I think Vladimir Putin has demonstrated a willingness to do anything that gains him an advantage, especially with little risk.
 The FBI is allegedly interested in the  Clinton Foundation and is looking for emails on Clinton’s rogue system  that may relate to Clinton Foundation business. Agreed, that’s more  speculation. 
American Thinker, commenting on a 
Washington Examiner report, pointed out that known facts regarding the 
Clinton Global Initiative (a Foundation initiative) are 
rather damning  and if the Clintons were Republicans we would be treated to a constant  torrent of reports about possible corruption. Is it fair to speculate  that the Kremlin is also interested in the Clinton Foundation? 
The Examiner  reported on June 13 that “Less than half of the projects undertaken by  the Clinton Global Initiative (since 2005) have been completed…” The 
American Thinker wonders if New York’s attorney general will investigate.
 More troublesome are characters like Canadian investor 
Victor Dahdaleh. 
 Yahoo.com notes that Dahdaleh claims to be a trustee of the Clinton Foundation—at least his website says so. A 
Toronto Star investigation of the 
Panama Papers connects Dahdaleh to a global bribery case.
 Dahdaleh’s involvement with the Clinton  Foundation does not appear to be illegal. However, shady characters do  shady things, and when the intelligence services of foreign adversaries  can connect the leaders of democracies—to say nothing of a sitting U.S.  president—to crooked activities, blackmail becomes a strategic tool,  even if it is used as a threat.
 This is a speculation, a scenario.  However, the U.S. military and NATO regularly use speculative scenarios  to analyze verifiable as well as potential threats. They use scenarios  to create 
field exercises to train troops for potential operations in non-speculative, for damn real on-going wars.
 The truth is, Hillary Clinton doesn’t  know what the Russians may or may not know—nor does Barack Obama. The  FBI and CIA might have some good guesses, but they don’t know for  certain. In the mirror world of intelligence, it is possible the Kremlin  doesn’t know what it knows.
 Russian blackmail classifies as a  potential threat, and another reason I believe a full and complete  investigation of Hillary Clinton’s national security crime requires a special prosecutor. By the way, on June 14 U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan referred to the 
FBI investigation as  a “criminal investigation,” confirming what White House Press Secretary  Josh Earnest said June 9. The executive and judicial branches are now  in agreement.
 So. Will Vlad blackmail Hillary? Or,  “When Will Vlad blackmail Hillary?” Sure, it’s speculation. It’s a  scenario. It’s like a radio-era detective serial. 
Stay tuned for the next episode.
Austin Bay is a contributing editor at StrategyPage.com  and adjunct professor at the University of Texas in Austin. His most  recent book is a biography of Kemal Ataturk (Macmillan 2011). Mr. Bay is  a retired US Army Reserve colonel and Iraq veteran. He has a PhD in  Comparative Literature from Columbia University.