Hillary Clinton: ‘Take my word for it’
Posted: March 11, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Diplomacy, Politics, White House | Tags: Associated Press, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Jennifer Psaki, Message transfer agent, News conference, United Nations, United States Department of State, United States Secretary of State, White House 2 Comments
Michael Barone
writes: So what did we learn from Hillary Clinton’s press conference at the United Nations (scheduled less than 12 hours ago in a forum where reporters typically have to wait 24 hours to get credentials)?
Why did she use only a personal email account? Because she didn’t want to carry around two email devices. Does this pass the laugh test? How hard is it to carry around two cellphones or Blackberries? Especially if you have a purse to put them in?
“Who decided which of Clinton’s emails were personal and would not be handed over to the State Department? Some unnamed individual working for her. Who was told, she said, to err on the side of turning material over if there was any question it was work-related. So just trust Clinton and her unnamed staffer or staffers.”
Was there a risk that her personal account could be hacked? No, she tells us, because President Bill Clinton used it and it never was. We have just her own say-so on this. No corroboration. And even if that’s true, was it prudent in January 2009 to rely on the security of the Chappaqua home brew server rather than the State Department server? I think one can still conclude that secretary-designate was more concerned about concealing things from the American people than from foreign enemies.
Who decided which of Clinton’s emails were personal and would not be handed over to the State Department? Some unnamed individual working for her. Who was told, she said, to err on the side of turning material over if there was any question it was work-related. So just trust Clinton and her unnamed staffer or staffers. Anyway, she deleted the private emails so you’re never going to have a chance to judge whether they were properly classified. And even if some remain undeleted, she’s not going to turn them over.
How many emails were there? As I heard her, she said there were 60,000 in total, and half were work-related. But what she turned over to the State Department was described as 55,000 pages. That leaves the question of how many pages of emails were not turned over and how many destroyed. Read the rest of this entry »
‘But Not For Thee!’ Clinton Internal Cable Forbids Use of Personal Email Accounts?
Posted: March 5, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Barack Obama, Benghazi, Email address, Federal Records, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, Jennifer Psaki, Megyn Kelly, The New York Times, United States Department of State, United States Secretary of State Leave a comment
Fox News has exclusively obtained an internal 2011 State Department cable that shows Secretary of State Clinton’s office told employees not to use personal email for security reasons, while at the same time, HRC conducted all government business on a private account.
[Source – Gretawire]
Sent to Diplomatic and Consular Staff in June 2011, the unclassified cable, with Clinton’s electronic signature, makes clear to “avoid conducting official Department from your personal e-mail accounts” and employees should not “auto-forward Department email to personal email accounts which is prohibited by Department policy.”
The Cable was addressed to all diplomatic and consular posts with the subject line “Securing Personal E-mail Accounts.” Read the rest of this entry »
State Department Official Dan Rosen Arrested, Suspected of Soliciting Sex from Minor
Posted: February 24, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: al Qaeda, Daniel Rosen, Houthis, Jake Tapper, Jennifer Psaki, Oman, Sana'a, Sport utility vehicle, The Pentagon, United States, United States Department of State, Yemen Leave a comment
Christine Mai-Duc reports: A senior State Department official who oversees counter-terrorism programs has been arrested on suspicion of of soliciting sex from a minor, authorities in Virginia said late Tuesday.
“We are aware that a State Department employee has been arrested and charges have been issued…His security clearance will be suspended, and he will be put on administrative leave while this proceeds to its end through any judicial process.”
— State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki
Daniel Rosen was arrested at his home in Washington, D.C., just after noon and is being held in the city’s jail on suspicion of use of a communications device to solicit a juvenile, said Lucy Caldwell, spokeswoman for the Fairfax County Police Department.
Fairfax county VA police confirm arrest of senior State Department official Dan Rosen for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 25, 2015
According to Caldwell, Rosen’s arrest was the result of an online exchange between him and detectives in her agency’s Child Exploitation Unit.
He is expected to be extradited to the Fairfax County jail soon.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Rosen, 44, is the director of counter-terrorism programs and policy for the State Department. Police said they have notified the State Department of his arrest.
“We are aware that a State Department employee has been arrested and charges have been issued,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. Psaki declined to name the employee or the charges, citing privacy reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] FAILING UP: The Worst of Jen Psaki
Posted: February 20, 2015 Filed under: Diplomacy, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, hashtag diplomacy, Jennifer Psaki, John Kerry, Lee Zeldin, media, Ukraine, United States Department of State, Washington Free Beacon, White House Communications Director Leave a comment
Jen Psaki is leaving after two years as State Department spokesperson to become White House communications director,..
Her time as John Kerry’s top PR flack included countless moments of sputtering to explain the Obama administration’s foreign policy missteps, a moment of hashtag diplomacy unparalleled in its cringe factor, and daily verbal floggings by dogged Associated Press reporter Matt Lee…
Source: Washington Free Beacon
Obama ‘Owes the Jews of Europe an Apology’
Posted: February 10, 2015 Filed under: Diplomacy, Religion, War Room, White House | Tags: @PressSec, Antisemitism, Barack Obama, Jennifer Psaki, Jews, Josh Earnest, Paris, President of the United States, White House, White House Press Secretary 3 Comments
In response to a remark President Obama made about terrorists “randomly” targeting the Paris kosher market, Fox’s Dana Perino said the president should apologize to every single Jewish person in Europe.
“I actually think that the president owes the Jews of Europe an apology. They deserve better from the President of the United States. Anti-semitism is on the rise, and somebody must stick up for them.”
— Dana Perino
[Also see – Re: ‘There Were People Other than Just Jews Who Were in that Deli’ – Jonah Goldberg, The Corner]
As a former White House press secretary herself, she was “nearly unable to breathe” after seeing Josh Earnest trying to explain that comment from the president, only to then backtrack on Twitter.
Perino also thought the White House should have realized weeks ago, when the interview in question was filmed, that they had a brewing crisis on their hands, but instead they weren’t ready for it….(read more)
Kevin D. Williamson: The Obama Administration’s Curious Cable Jihad
Posted: September 5, 2014 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly, enemies list, Fox News Channel, James Rosen, Jen Psaki, Jennifer Psaki, Kevin D. Williamson, Richard Nixon, United States State Department 1 Comment
“Mr. O’Reilly became an enemy of State when he conducted an interview with Fox News reporter James Rosen, who had some mildly unflattering things to say about Ms. Harf’s superior, Jen Psaki, the witless off-brand Pippi Longstocking who is the current media face of the American diplomatic project.”
National Review‘s Kevin D. Williamson
writes: Marie Harf, whose career has alternated between government jobs and campaign jobs, is the deputy spokesman for the State Department, and if her recent communications are any indication, the face of the most acute foreign-policy crisis facing these United States is Bill O’Reilly’s — an admittedly self-satisfied visage, to be sure, out of which pours a 
stream of apparently inexhaustible glibness. But he’s never beheaded anybody, so far as I know.
“Ms. Psaki was something less than convincing in trying to explain what exactly the administration has been up to between that group’s beheading.”
Mr. O’Reilly became an enemy of State when he conducted an interview with Fox News reporter James Rosen, who had some mildly unflattering things to say about Ms. Harf’s superior, Jen Psaki, the witless off-brand Pippi Longstocking who is the current media face of the American diplomatic project.
“Instead of a philosophy, the Left has an enemies list”
The Obama administration is, to be charitable, currently unsure of how to go about dealing with the Islamic State, and Ms. Psaki was something less than convincing in trying to explain what exactly the administration has been up to between that group’s beheadings.
Ms. Harf proclaimed (here I’ll translate from the Twitterese): “Jen Psaki explains foreign policy with intelligence and class. Too bad we can’t say the same about Bill O’Reilly.”
[If you haven’t read Kevin D. Williamson’s “The End Is Near and It’s Going to Be Awesome” then your Global Panic checklist is incomplete. Fear not, it’s available at Amazon]
This is not a new thing for the Obama administration, for Democrats, and for the Left. White House communications director Anita Dunn denounced Fox News in the early days of the Obama administration, and Megyn Kelly has recently been elevated to the status of sacred hate totem for Democrats.
[Also see – Failed Messenger: State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki’s Smirking Contempt punditfromanotherplanet.com]
Failed Messenger: State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki’s Smirking Contempt
Posted: September 3, 2014 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Fox News Channel, Iraq, James Rosen, Jen Psaki, Jennifer Psaki, Rosen, United States, United States Department of State, Washington Free Beacon 2 Comments
Washington Free Beacon captures this:
…“At one time,” recounted Rosen, “he spoke about wanting to destroy and degrade ISIS. At another point he spoke about wanting to roll them back. And at still another point he talked about wanting to shrink its sphere of influence to the point where it would be a manageable problem.”
“Am I correct in identifying those three iterations as markedly different from each other?” Rosen asked.
“Well, I think it’s important for everybody, including people at home who watch Fox, to look at the context of the remarks that the — that the president made,” Psaki replied–smirking as she mentioned Fox…(read more)
Increased Violence Leads State Department To Issue Advisory For Americans Traveling To 1861
Posted: August 26, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, History, Humor | Tags: Jen Psaki, Jennifer Psaki, RUSSIA, State Department, Ukraine, United States, United States Department of State, US State Department, Washington Leave a comment
“Events are developing quickly in 1861 and the potential for widespread violence is high, so we recommend that all citizens planning to visit that year exercise abundant caution and make proper arrangements.”
— State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Responding to reports of political turmoil and growing instability, officials from the U.S. State Department issued an advisory on Tuesday for all Americans traveling to the year 1861. “Events are developing quickly in 1861 and the potential for widespread violence is high, so we recommend that all citizens planning to visit that year exercise abundant caution and make proper arrangements,” said State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki, strongly advising against any non-essential travel to 1861 and the broader time period of the early 1860s in general. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] State Department Briefing’s ‘Routine Matters’: Shepard Smith ‘Highly Inappropriate’
Posted: July 17, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Afghanistan, Jen Psaki, Jennifer Psaki, Psaki, Shepard Smith, State Department, Ukraine, United States Department of State Leave a commentGood capture from The Blaze: Shepard Smith could not hide his disgust regarding how State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki began the agency’s daily press briefing on the heels of a Malaysian Airlines plane going down over Ukraine.
“Well this is just highly inappropriate I would say…”
Smith said. He was reacting to Psaki starting the press briefing going over normal business and talking bout elections in Afghanistan instead of starting with reaction to the breaking crash news.
[Also see – Video: Shep Smith incredulous as State Department opens briefing … by ignoring Ukraine plane crash]
“Each day the State Department has a briefing. Each day there are State Department reporters who are there, that is their beat, they are assigned to be there. And you get a long list of things that are going on over the world and then you get to ask questions…”
Will: I Can’t Believe Adults Use Hashtag Foreign Policy, ‘An Exercise in Self-Esteem’
Posted: May 11, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Boko Haram, George Will, Jennifer Psaki, Michelle Obama, Nigeria, Obama administration, Twitter, Ukraine 2 Comments“Are these barbarians in the wilds of Nigeria supposed to check their Twitter accounts and say, ‘Uh oh, Michelle Obama is very cross with us — we better change our behavior’?”
George Will doesn’t quite understand the thinking behind the first lady’s recent tweet in which she used the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, referencing the Boko Haram kidnapping of Nigerian girls.
“It’s an exercise in self-esteem. I do not know how adults stand there, facing a camera, and say, ‘Bring back our girls.’”
In March, the State Department engaged in a similar strategy to signal its support for Ukraine by tweeting a picture of spokeswoman Jen Psaki with the hashtag #UnitedForUkraine.
“Power is the ability to achieve intended effects, and this is not intended to have any effect on the real world.”
To echo @BarackObama today-proud to stand #UnitedForUkraine World should stand together with one voice pic.twitter.com/VeMt578UdY
— Jen Psaki (@statedeptspox) March 26, 2014
AP reporter Matt Lee to Jen Psaki: ‘Was there some kind of spine removal procedure at the White House over the weekend?’
Posted: September 5, 2013 Filed under: War Room | Tags: Congress, Jennifer Psaki, Matt Lee, Syria, United States Congress, United States Department of State, White House 1 CommentColor Associated Press reporter Matt Lee unimpressed with Barack Obama’s supposed courage in asking Congress for authorization to conduct a war against Syria. Via Business Insider, Lee asked Jen Psaki whether there was a “group spine removal procedure at the White House over the weekend”:
Okay, that’s not the actual video, sorry, it’s this one:
–The Butcher
