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Hillary Clinton Mocks Gowdy’s Benghazi Committee Report: ‘Move On’

During a Tuesday campaign stop in presidential swing state Colorado, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempted to curb any damage from a newly released House Select Committee report on the September 11, 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, telling the crowd and television cameras that there was nothing new to see and attempting to persuade Americans to “move on.”

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CNN’s Clinton Cash ‘Fact-Check’ Ends in Embarrassment for Cristina Alesci and Laurie Frankel

CNN Money’s “fact-checkers” Cristina Alesci and Laurie Frankel ended up with egg on their faces on Wednesday after they rated as “false” a well-established and proven Clinton Cash fact involving Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. approving the transfer of 20 percent of U.S. uranium to the Russian government, as nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.

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State Dept. Admits 2013 Iran Briefing Footage Was Intentionally Deleted

The State Department has been insisting for months that footage of a 2013 press briefing on the Iran nuclear deal was wiped out by a “technical glitch.” On Wednesday, State Dept. spokesman John Kirby admitted the glitch excuse was untrue, and the footage was deliberately deleted, but the State Dept. allegedly doesn’t know who did it or why.

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First Obama, Now Trump: Can an Independent Judiciary Survive?

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump reassured many doubting conservatives when he released his list of possible Supreme Court nominations earlier this month. But his latest attack on Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel — the federal judge presiding in the Trump University case — raise doubts about his commitment to judicial independence.

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State Dept. Claims It Can’t Find Any Emails From Clinton’s Server Tech

Now the State Department claims it can’t find any of the emails sent by Clinton’s senior IT staffer, Bryan Pagliano, who set up the secret mail server that has become the focus of a massive criminal investigation. “The Department has searched for Mr. Pagliano’s email pst file and has not located one that covers the time period of Secretary Clinton’s tenure,” said State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau, as quoted by ABC News.

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Obama State Department Hid Key Clinton Benghazi Email from Judicial Watch

It has taken several years of persistent legal pressure from Judicial Watch to begin exposing Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Last week, for example, we reported that we could have known about her email games two years ago had the State Department not withheld a key email responsive to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

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