Clinton Rallies and Secured Democratic Vote as Terror Attack Threats Intensifies

In the latest electoral survey, the Republican candidate Donald Trump gained more likely voters. However, the Democratic flag bearer, Hillary Clinton rallies in states which considered to safe for Democrats.

According to BBC, both parties concentrate on convincing their supporters to vote rather than influencing the ‘undecided’.

In an early election, 37 million voters cast their votes.

Threats of Terrorism

US Law enforcements received intelligent reports of any Al-Queda terrorism-related attack. The report “lacks specificity” according to a police spokesman.

However, authorities believed that New York, Texas and Virginia, amongst the potential targets for the attack. They constantly evaluate all possible terror threats prior to major national events

Possible terror attack news intensifies as both Clinton and Trump plan their final campaign march in battleground states across the country.

The two presidential candidates campaign in Ohio and Pennsylvania. According to poll surveys released on Tuesday, the two states are crucial battlegrounds for the election.

Two candidates battle out

In one of his campaign, Trump’s showed his downright opposition to Clinton’s foreign policy on Syria He told a group of supports that Clinton wants “550% increase” of refugees in Syria coming into the US.

The real estate mogul said, “Her plan would mean generations of terrorism, extremism, and radicalism spreading into our schools and communities”.

On the other hand, Clinton’s rebuttal for Trump’s attack on her is his temperament and judgmental comments about women and minority groups. She told her supporters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that Trump was “unfit” to be the next president because of his behavior.

John Podesta, the Democrats campaign head joined the heated rebuttal of the two presidentiables. Podesta said that Trump should ask the New Jersey’s Governor, Chris Christie to resign his post. Christie also acts as the head of the Republican candidate’s transition team.

Christie’s two aides were found guilty in scheming traffic jams in New Jersey. An act considered spreading political turmoil against a local Democratic mayor. Christie denied any participation in the deed.

Trump leads the way in Ohio, according to Real Clear Politics, the state polling agency. Meanwhile, Clinton leads the election in a small fringe in Pennsylvania.

Recent national polls indicate that the Republican candidate gained momentum in several battlegrounds in the last few weeks.

Clinton struggles

Clinton struggles within the last few weeks of the electoral race because of her rough relationship with the FBI. The agency presses on their investigation regarding Clinton’s private email used when she was still the Secretary of State during the Obama administration.

In July, the FBI looked into her private email use but did not charge her for any illegal misconduct. Clinton said she is sure that the new probe will not affect FBI’s original assessment on her.

Furthermore, Clinton’s camp questioned FBI’s ill timing of the announcement of their investigation. Two senior Democrats requested for an investigation of the former New York Mayor and Trump surrogate, Rudy Giuliani’s role in the FBI probe.

On Friday morning, Guiliani’s interview with Fox News indicated he knew about the probe even before FBI announced the news. He said, “I had no role in it. Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it.”

Later that day, Democratic Members, Elijah Cummings and John Conyers, requested the Justice Department to investigate Giuliani’s source of information. In the letter they wrote, “Leaking this information to former FBI officials as a conduit to the Trump campaign is equally intolerable”.

Guiliani told CNN that “No, I’ve spoken to no current FBI agents’, and denied all allegations that he had any knowledge of the investigation.

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FBI Acquires Warrant to Examine Huma Abedin Emails

The Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained a search warrant for the private laptop of Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin. According to the reports of NBC News and ABC News on Sunday, the agency will search Abedin’s emails in relation to their on-going investigation regarding Clinton’s emails.

On Sunday, an official source who has knowledge of the current probe said the FBI and Abedin’s representatives deliberated on getting an approval to search Abedin’s computer. Within Abedin’s computer, agents uncovered new emails which may have links to their previous investigation about Clinton’s email. The search will shed new light on allegations about how Clinton managed classified information when she was still the Secretary of State.

Huma Abedin’s woes started when her disgraced husband, the former New York Representative Anthony Weiner was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old teenager.

The computer used by Weiner was seized during the time of the investigation.

Federal authorities initiated the review of the said computer which was shared by Abedin and her husband because of the current sexual charges probe. Clinton’s controversial emails emerged when authorities started the investigation about Weiner’s sexual charges.

Massive number of Emails to be processed

The computer contains as much as 650,000 emails according to The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. However, authorities are uncertain of how many emails are related to their current “Clinton email server” investigation.

The FBI Director, James Comey said on Friday that the agency discovered new emails. This new batch may be associated with their inquiry of the private email Clinton used. In July, Comey confirmed that Clinton mistreated classified information on her private email. However, he would not suggest filing any criminal charges against the democratic candidate.

The Democratic supporters, infuriated by Comey’s statement on Friday, questioned the bureau on why they are examining more emails. For them, the bureau provided insufficient details which subsequently lead to a range of conspiracy theories against Clinton.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch pleaded Comey not to disclose the new findings on Clinton’s email. She said it will interfere with the election, which is a violation of the Justice Department’s policy.

Meanwhile, the Republican candidate, Donald Trump was pleased with Comey’s statement concerning  the latest email review. For Trump, America needs to know more of the candidate’s behavior prior to voting.

The FBI has not made any formal communication to either Clinton’s or Abedin’s camp.

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Clinton Requests For Facts of New FBI Email Investigation

Hillary Clinton has insisted the FBI clarify without delay why it is implementing a new investigation into her use of emails.

 She said that Americans “deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately”.

The FBI says it has new emails about her use of a private server when she was secretary of state.

The new investigation was announced 11 days before the election. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the move was the “biggest political scandal since Watergate”.

A probe into the separated husband of top Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, led to the discovery of the latest emails.

The FBI earlier launched an investigation into whether former high-flying congressman Anthony Weiner forwarded sexually explicit emails to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Consequently, devices belonging to Abedin and Weiner were appropriated.

FBI director James Comey disclosed the discovery of the new emails in a letter to Congress on Friday.

The director said that he did not know yet the implication of the findings. But the FBI would investigate if any of the emails held confidential information.

Democrat presidential candidate Mrs. Clinton said she was assured the investigation into the emails would not alter the FBI’s initial finding in July.

The FBI determined she should not be incriminated for her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Clinton held the position from 2009 to 2013.

She told reporters on the campaign trail in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday: “It’s imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay,”

While James Rubin, a senior media adviser to Clinton’s campaign, told the BBC on Saturday that “when all of this is over, this is going to be a gigantic tempest in a teapot”.

He also insinuated that to avoid the FBI from being criticized by the Republicans after the election, they decided to send the letter now.

On the other side, Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters at a rally in Iowa: “It’s everybody’s hope that justice, at last, can be delivered.”

“The FBI would never have reopened this case at this time unless it were a most egregious criminal offense.”

He likened the latest incident to that of the 1970s Watergate scandal that swamped former Republican President Richard Nixon.

The FBI has already determined the Democratic candidate had confidential information on a private email server.

In July, Comey cleared Clinton of any criminal wrongdoing. However, he said Mrs. Clinton’s managing of confidential material during her time as secretary of state was “extremely careless”.

The disclosure that she held sensitive material while violating federal rules by operating her own email server out of her upstate New York home has stalked her campaign since last year.

John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, condemned the FBI’s “exceptional” timing.

Paul Ryan, the House of Representatives Speaker, described the FBI pronouncement “long overdue”.

The highest-ranked elected Republican repeated his call for the Director of National Intelligence. He asked him again to stop classified updates for the Democratic candidate.

“She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information,” he said.

She said sorry

The New York Times first disclosed the then-secretary of state’s private email server in March 2015.

She did not immediately convey regret. She stated that “convenience” was the main reason for her “hdr22@clintonemail.com” address.

Shortly after that, she apologized in an interview with ABC News. She has since said sorry to voters several times.

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Huge blow for Clinton as FBI dramatically reopens ‘secret server’ email probe

Hillary Clinton was dealt a potentially devastating blow to her presidential campaign today when the FBI dramatically re-opened their ‘secret server’ email probe.

With just 11 days to go before America votes for its next president, the news could hardly have come at a worse time.

The Clinton campaign said the decision to revisit the case so close to the election was “extraordinary,” and urged the FBI to provide more details.

This shock development has come after devices belonging to Clinton’s chief aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner were seized.

FBI

The devices in question formed part of an FBI investigation into sex texts that Weiner allegedly sent to a 15-year-old girl.

FBI director James Comey told Congress that new emails “that appear to be pertinent to the [Clinton] investigation” have been discovered.

He said that an investigative team is seeking to determine whether classified information was contained in the emails and whether any of them were ‘significant’.

Clinton was apparently totally unaware of this breaking news story as she traveled by air to a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this morning.

The plane she was traveling in had no Internet coverage and she remained silent when reporters, waiting on the tarmac as her plane landed, shouted questions about the re-opened email investigation.

She simply smiled and waved to reporters as she disembarked from the aircraft and got into her Secret Service SUV.

Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine, campaigning in Tallahassee, Tennessee, today would only say when asked to comment: “I’ve got to read a little more.”

“Bigger than Watergate” – Trump

President Obama also ignored reporters’ questions about the story as he left the White House to board Marine Force One today.

Republican rival Donald Trump was quick to seize on the news saying it was “bigger than Watergate.”

As he spoke in Manchester, New Hampshire, supporters would be heard chanting “lock her up!”

Trump told the rally: “The FBI has just sent a letter to Congress informing them that they have discovered new emails pertaining to the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s investigation

Criminal

“And they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of the United States of America.

“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office. This is bigger than Watergate.”

FBI chief Comey sent the letter to a number of people including  the heads of the of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Judiciary Committees, the House’s Oversight Committee and the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee.

He wrote: “In connection with an unrelated case the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.

Classified

“[T]he FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to access their importance to our investigation.”

In Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Trump’s running mate Mike Pence was cheered as he told a rally: ‘We commend the FBI for having the courage to re-open this case because no-one is above the law.’

Pence later tweeted: ‘We call on the FBI to immediately release all emails pertinent to their investigation. Americans have the right to know before Election Day.’

BREAKING NEWS → The FBI is reopening its investigation into Secretary Hillary Clinton.

My full statement ⇩ http://pic.twitter.com/LHfyg46dWk

— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) October 28, 2016

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Clinton had “nobody but herself to blame” and added: “She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information.

Reckless

“This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators.

“I renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is fully resolved.”

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused Clinton of a “fundamental lack of judgment and disregard for protecting and handling our nation’s highly classified secrets.”

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Clinton’s Leaked Email on $12 Million Dollar Morocco Donation

Hillary Clinton’s leaked emails keep piling up on her. Recently, Huma Abedin’s email was in the spotlight and amongst the 4,000 emails posted by WikiLeaks on Thursday. The controversial email made public involving a $12 million donation from a government that her State Department deemed to be corrupt.

The Clinton Foundation received the massive amount of $12 million as a donation from the Moroccan King Mohammed VI. The king only had one condition; Clinton must agree to be a major speaker at a convention in Morocco to be conducted in May 2015. The State Department under Clinton’s control accused the Moroccan government of “arbitrary arrests and corruption”.

The convention was scheduled just after a month when Clinton announced her bid for the presidency. According to the leaked email, when Clinton finally realized her predicament, she believed that the “mess” could cost her the presidential campaign.

In an email excerpt exposed by WikiLeaks from Clinton’s top adviser, Huma Abedin said, “No matter what happens, she will be in Morocco hosting CGI (Clinton Global Initiative) on May 5-7, 2015. Her presence was a condition for the Moroccans to proceed so there is no going back on this”. The statement taken from a November 2014 email sent to Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook.

The Moroccan King made sure that Clinton would honor the deal. In another email, Abedin notified Mook that the $12 million would be forfeited if Clinton disregards the convention.

In a January 2015 email, Abedin wrote to Mook and another campaign manager John Podesta. She said, “Just to give you some context, the condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If HRC was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter”.

The email also describes that “CGI also wasn’t pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn’t their first choice. This was HRC’s idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believed they are doing this at her request. The King has personally committed approx. $12 million both for the [foundation’s] endowment and to support the meeting”.

Abedin shockingly admitted in the email that “It will break a lot of china to back out now when we had so many opportunities to do it in the past few months. She created this mess and she knows it.”

Appallingly, the deal came off as a quid-pro-quo agreement in the king’s donation for the Clinton Foundation and for the CGI Summit. Similarly, significant dignitaries were notified that Clinton would be a keynote speaker at the convention.

Unshaken by the king’s demand, Clinton sent her husband Bill and her daughter Chelsea Clinton to the convention while she continued to campaign in Nevada and California.

Even though Clinton did not honor the King’s demand the deal went on. However, it was uncertain how much went to the summit directly, and to the Clinton Foundation. According to the emails, the total sum was $12 million.

Lavish Accommodation

The May 2015 CGI summit attendees stayed in the luxurious five-star Selman-Marrakesh hotel which is well known for featuring Arabian horses and extravagant amenities. The media was barred from covering the convention.

The Quid-pro-Quo Deal

Surprisingly the convention was sponsored by a Moroccan government-owned mining company, OCP. The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice filed a case of “serious human-rights violations against the company.

Other allegations regarding human rights violations besieged the company. Human rights advocates accused OCP’s mined minerals as “blood phosphates”. This is a term similar to “blood diamonds”, denoting the precious stones unearthed were used to finance war conflicts.

In April 2013, Washington emissary Mohamed Yeslem Beisat said, “OCP is the first beneficiary of the war and the first beneficiary of the occupation — it is the one that cashes in on the misery of thousands of refugees and hundreds of political detainees for the past 40 years.” The self-described, “government in exile”, Polisario Front told US News & World Report.

As for the deal struck, Beisat remarked, “They’re doing this because they know Hillary has some chances of being President of the United States. And they want her to support their brutal occupation of Western Sahara.”

Nonetheless, the US financed Export-Import Bank granted OCP a $92 million loan during Clinton’s tenure as the Secretary of State.

Pointing Fingers

The leaked emails were presumed to originate from Podesta, who believed some may have been falsified.

Nevertheless, US intelligence agencies pointed out that the Russian government was behind the hack. Indicating the Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to rig the election in favor of Donald Trump’s victory.

Trump asserted during the Wednesday final presidential debate that “no one knows” who hacked the emails.

Clinton accused Trump of urging the Russians to hack her emails during her tenure as the Secretary of State.

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Is WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Dead…and what do those strange emails mean?

Could it be that Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange is dead?

The internet is awash with rumors that he has been assassinated, sparked by three cryptic messages posted on the official WikiLeaks Twitter account.

The twitter messages refer to US Secretary of State John Kerry, Ecuador and the UK Foreign Office and each contain a long series of numbers and lowercase letters.

Social media users have speculated that they may be a “dead man’s switch” which was automatically triggered following the death of Assange.

Coded

It is believed that prominent figures who fear for their lives, have programmed their communication channels to send out coded messages upon their deaths which make sense only to a select few people.

The speculation was increased because immediately after the mystery messages were posted, WikiLeaks tweeted: “Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. We have activated the appropriate contingency plans.”

All four messages have since been retweeted several thousand times by followers of Mr Assange.

pre-commitment 1: John Kerry 4bb96075acadc3d80b5ac872874c3037a386f4f595fe99e687439aabd0219809

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 16, 2016

pre-commitment 2: Ecuador
eae5c9b064ed649ba468f0800abf8b56ae5cfe355b93b1ce90a1b92a48a9ab72

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 16, 2016

pre-commitment 3: UK FCO f33a6de5c627e3270ed3e02f62cd0c857467a780cf6123d2172d80d02a072f74

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 16, 2016

Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. We have activated the appropriate contingency plans.

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 17, 2016

Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for more than three years to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex assault allegations.

He fears that if he is deported to Sweden he could then be extradited to the US to face charges over WikiLeaks’ activities.

Concerns about his safety intensified earlier this month after it emerged that Hillary Clinton allegedly asked whether the US military could “drone” Mr Assange whilst she was Secretary of State.

In addition WikiLeaks has repeatedly vowed to release information which it says could torpedo the Democrat nominee’s bid for the White House.

False

In response to the speculation, WikiLeaks volunteer Kelly Kolisnik tweeted a message denying that their founder was dead.

The tweet said: “Julian Assange is alive and well. Rumors circulating that he tweeted out a ‘Dead Mans’ switch are completely false and baseless.”

The problem is, that for now at least, the denial has had little effect on stopping the online social media rumor mill.

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