BALTIMORE, Maryland February 13, 2016 - Reluctantly complying with a judicial order, the State Department, within the last 90 minutes, has released an additional 1,012 pages of emails involving former Secretary of State and current Democratic Candidate for President Hillary Clinton and her wholesale violation of portions of Federal Espionage Statutes. At least 15% of the documents have been marked "secret" by the State Department. The release is so recent that major news organizations have yet to report on the content of almost all of the newly released documents. However, it is generally understood that the State Department has been holding back some of the most incriminating documents for the latest possible release. The department tried to gain additional time for this release, only to be denied by federal Judge Rudolph Contreras. According to the Washington Times, Judge Contreras ordered the State Department to release the Clinton's email messages in installments, with Saturday’s being the first of a series that will last until February 29 (this being a leap year).
It has been learned, the Washington Times reported, that one of the documents in today's release is "an extensive missive from David Satterfield, a top U.S. diplomat to Egypt, who told top officials in both the White House and State Department about negotiations in the Sinai. The entire contents of the messages are now deemed “secret,” though there is no indication they were marked as such at the time. The message was forwarded to Mrs. Clinton by top aide Jacob Sullivan."
Left-leaning pro-Democratic media outlets have been so desperate to shield its candidates - in particular Mrs. Clinton - from the humiliation of running the nation's highest office while under threat of a criminal indictment that they have actually refused to pose questions about the federal probe to Mrs. Clinton during her debates with her only viable rival, Vermont Senator and admitted Socialist Bernie Sanders.
Even as late as this past Thursday night (February 11), the entire debate with Mr. Sanders passed without the federal probe being broached, even in passing.
Tonight in Charleston, South Carolina the six remaining viable Republican Candidates for President will engage in yet another televised debate. One week from today - on February 20, 2016 - the Republican voters of South Carolina will head to the polls to vote in the South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary Election. While an unidentified public opinion poll showed Ted Cruz had pulled to within six percentage points of Donald Trump in South Carolina (32% to 26% but see Credible and Incisive on February 11 and February 12) other polls have Trump's lead significantly larger. Trump leads the GOP pack in delegates, but his lead there is hardly significant with so many more to be decided in upcoming primaries.
With so much on the line, and with political attack ads filling the state's televisions, it is inevitable that the debate will include sniping at the two perceived leaders in the campaign, Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
On the Democratic side, the situation is so tenuous that staunchly left media outlets such as NPR, NBC and The Hill.com are literally hedging their bets. All three avoid reporting on Hillary Clinton's ongoing legal problems and the increasing likelyhood that the FBI will recommend that Ms. Clinton be indicted on espionage-related charges arising out of her gross misuse of an illegal web browser. That browser is banned by law and expressly prohibited by documents signed by Ms. Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. Emails released - and still to be released - by the State Department have proved to be an ongoing nightmare for Clinton's downbound campaign.
In actual voting so far, Sanders won a huge victory over Clinton in the New Hampshire Primary, while Clinton is still being credited with a razor-thin victory in the Iowa Caucuses. This, even as several precinct victories appear to have been wrongly awarded to Mrs. Clinton. In one very small precinct, the only voter hand-wrote a ballot for Sanders, only to discover later that the precinct had been awarded to Clinton. The largest and most influential newspaper in the Iowa, the Des hghMoines Regester, has called for a complete of the Democratic voting results, a highly embarassing call for the Democratic Party.
As was reported earlier in Credible and Incisive, Clinton's large delegate lead to date is based almost solely on her schmoozing of so-called superdelegates. In the Democratic race for the party's Presidential nomination, as many as 30% of the delegate votes needed to win may be cast by party insiders who are appointed by the party organization without ever being submitted to the public. The Associated Press has reported that Clinton has locked up over 300 of the 712 superdelegates, compared to only 8 by Sanders. The Sanders campaign has demanded that superdelegates follow the will of the public as it is expressed in primary and caucus voting around the country in the coming months.
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