Two Faced Toomey? Should I Tell. Lying Your Way To the Oval Office? Bridge For Sale! What I have Been Saying For Months! 2017 Rendezvous!
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Dear Abby,
I am a crack dealer in Phoenix, who has recently been diagnosed as a carrier of HIV virus. My parents live in Fort Worth. One of my sisters lives in Pflugerville and is married to a transvestite.
My father and mother have recently been arrested forgrowing and selling marijuana. They are financially dependent on my other two sisters, who are prostitutes in Dallas.
I have 2 brothers: one is currently serving a non-parole life sentence at Huntsville for the murder of a teenage boy in 1994. My other brother is currently in jail awaiting charges of sexual misconduct with his 3 children.
I have recently become engaged to marry a former prostitute who lives in Longview. She is a part time "working girl".
All things considered, my problem is this. I love my fiancé and look forward to bringing her into the family. I certainly want to be totally open and honest with her.
Should I tell her about my cousin who is an Obama supporter?
Sincerely,
Worried About My Reputation
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Our son.along with a large group, pleaded with Sen. Toomey not to vote for the Iran Deal but he did. Now Toomey is playing the other side. Typical politician acting after the fact when things are happening that he ignored. (See 1 and 1a below.)
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"What difference does it make" mattered to a few who were saved, Hillarious!
It is all about lying your way to the Oval Office but, of course, once there, it will stop! Want to buy a large bridge? (See 2 and 2a below.)
What I have been saying for months. My wife has says I am nuts!
If 2b happens and 2c proves also true, it could blow the nomination process wide open for both parties.
Will Obama, faced with this gauntlet, then order his Attorney General, not to prosecute?
Time will tell. Stay tuned. (See 2b and 2c below.)
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Will new perceptions in 2017 change the course of our recent history and put America's train back on the tracks or will we continue into oblivion aka Obama and his predecessors?
All powers lose their power over time. We have done everything , as a nation, to lose our's by spending more than we can now redeem and, in the process, ruining our family structure, diminishing our belief in the fact that our rights came from God not man and/or government, becoming a more lawless society, making bad policy, Congress relinquishing its power and weakening the three legs on which our Republic rests, allowing The Supreme Court to legislate, allowing PC'ism to rule the day and still the voices of patriots etc. (See 3 below.)
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1)Don’t suspend Iran sanctions
By Pat Toomey and Tom Ridge
On Dec. 16, Secretary of State John Kerry certified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Iran is in full compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and that the "suspension of sanctions related to Iran pursuant to the agreement is appropriate . . . and is vital to the national security interests of the United States."
If this delusion results in the imminent lifting of sanctions, Iran will gain immediate access to more than $100 billion; the sanctions regime will be effectively over; and the only incentive for Iran even to pretend to comply with the agreement will be gone.
Instead, President Obama should keep the sanctions in place. Consider just a few of Iran's most egregious offenses since the JCPOA was announced in July.
In October, Iran launched a new, long-range, nuclear-warhead-capable, precision-guided ballistic missile. Even the Obama administration acknowledges that this was a clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Resolutions 1929 and 2231, the latter of which is mandated by the JCPOA, both explicitly prohibit any Iranian ballistic missile testing. So chastened were the Iranians by the Obama administration's response to this flagrant violation that they launched a second illegal ballistic missile in November. These launches were, at least by extension, violations of the JCPOA itself. Clearly, the Iranians are actively developing the ability to deliver nuclear weapons great distances, and equally clear is their contempt for the agreement.
Shortly after the deal was announced, the Iranian leadership demanded that the sanctions had to be permanently lifted rather than indefinitely suspended. The JCPOA language says the United States will "cease the application of sanctions," keeping the framework intact should the sanctions need to be reapplied. The administration has insisted that the enforceability of the entire agreement rests on the possibility of "snapback" sanctions. Yet the Iranians insist that any snapback of any sanctions for any reason will end the deal.
In October, Iran sent weapons to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Russian cargo planes in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1747. Shortly thereafter, Russia delivered to Iran the very sophisticated S-300 air defense system, a dangerous leap forward in Iran's air defense. Both of these developments followed Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani's visit to Moscow, itself a violation of Resolution 1747. Compliance with 1747 is implicitly required by the JCPOA.
On Dec. 2, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its report on the previous military dimensions of Iran's nuclear research and development. The IAEA concluded that Iran had been working on nuclear weapons through at least 2009, including neutron triggers for detonation purposes and warhead miniaturization technology. The IAEA further reported that the Iranians had not fully cooperated with the inspections; had repeatedly misled investigators; and had recently sanitized important nuclear research sites, including Parchin, leaving the inspectors uncertain as to exactly how far Iranian weaponization had gone and for how long. The IAEA report confirmed that the Iranians had lied to the United States and the entire world for years, including through the duration of the JCPOA negotiations, by insisting that their nuclear research was always entirely peaceful.
Finally, on Nov. 19, we learned how completely farcical the JCPOA is. In a letter to U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), the State Department acknowledged that Iran has not signed the JCPOA and that it is not legally binding on Iran. According to the State Department, the "JCPOA is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document. The JCPOA reflects political commitments." In addition, the Iranian parliament has refused to ratify the JCPOA, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has forbidden any further negotiations with the United States regarding the JCPOA.
It is long past time for the president to acknowledge the obvious:
Iran is in serial violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions mandated by the JCPOA itself. These violations threaten our national security interests and those of our allies. The Iranian regime has lied to U.S. and other Western negotiators for years, including throughout the JCPOA negotiations, and demonstrated no softening of its hostility toward the United States. In fact, the regime continues to arrest and convict American citizens on fabricated political charges. Most importantly, there is no real agreement - no meeting of the minds and no legally binding document.
For the president to ignore more than 35 years of reality - dating back to the hostage crisis in 1979 and right up to the Iranian arrogance of the past several months - and prepare to lift the sanctions is worse than foolish; it is extremely dangerous.
Iran has repeatedly abandoned its political commitments. Why should we consider its actions to be anything other than in bad faith?
We urge the president to reconsider the path he is on before it is too late. He should not surrender to the fear of losing a so-called political legacy and must maintain the sanctions on Iran.
Pat Toomey (R.) is a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. @SenToomey
Tom Ridge is a former Pennsylvania governor and was the first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. @RidgeGlobal tridge@ridgeglobal.com
The report of a North Korean nuclear test involving a Hydrogen bomb is being greeted with both alarm and skepticism by the world. Experts aren’t sure whether Pyongyang really has the capacity to produce even a small H-bomb while U.S. and South Korea are both saying that the seismic wave detected is inconsistent with one that might result from a thermonuclear test. Yet despite the attempts to maintain calm, there’s little doubt that North Korean’s announcement may represent a dangerous escalation. Even if it isn’t an H-bomb, any nuclear advances for North Korean’s program bring it that much closer to having a viable arsenal that will be in the control of an unstable leader in Kim Jong-il and a maniacal regime that can’t be trusted to behave in a rational manner. Under the circumstances, containment may be difficult if not impossible.
This had led to speculation, such as the piece published today in the New York Times, that a big part of the problem has been that the Obama administration took its eye off the ball in North Korea. The U.S. was concentrating its energies on crafting a nuclear deal with Iran that, at best, kicks the can down the road on that threat for only a decade. But while that was going on, “the North Koreans have been on something of an atomic spending spree while American negotiators were cloistered in Vienna striking deals with the Iranians.” That means that whether or not they have Hydrogen weapons, the North Koreans have almost certainly expanded their arsenal of nukes and “improved the range and mobility” of their missiles.
But the mention of Iran reminds us that there’s one element to this story that much of the mainstream media frenzy over it isn’t touching upon: Iran.
For all of the boasts from the administration and their media cheerleaders at outlets like the Times about the nuclear deal’s effectiveness, the North Korean angle was one of many loopholes that were left open by U.S. negotiators.
Reports about extensive nuclear cooperation between the two rogue states haven’t been verified since we have no way of knowing exactly what goes inside North Korean nuclear facilities. But experts told Congress last July that it was likely that the Iranians would be able to transfer billions in cash on an annual basis to the North Koreans to help pay for nuclear tests that could be conducted in the Hermit Kingdom without worries about United Nations inspectors being able to detect them. Indeed, the nuclear deal was silent about Iranian-North Korean relations making it easy for Tehran to continue banned nuclear work on the side via outsourcing to another rogue regime while other advanced nuclear research was carried out openly with U.S. acquiescence.
The notion of North Korean involvement with Middle East threats is not theoretical. In addition to their ties with Iran, they were behind the Syrian nuclear program that was short-circuited by an Israeli bombing mission in 2007.
That raises the question of whether Iranian expertise or funding is behind the North Korean test. Even more to the point, this could mean just the beginning of an expanded nuclear program there that could also be part of Iran’s eventual build up once the deal with the West expires.
Throughout the debate about the Iran deal, critics pointed out that previous diplomatic efforts to prevent North Korea from going nuclear were abysmal failures. Indeed, the head of Obama’s negotiating team, State Department staffer Wendy Sherman also was in charge of President Bill Clinton’s disastrous North Korean pact. Those fears were dismissed by the administration. They claimed the Iran deal would be much tougher and much easier to enforce. Given the numerous concessions the West made in order to get the agreement and the less than rigorous inspection regime that will be put in place, those claims must be viewed with considerable skepticism.
But instead of focusing on Sherman’s poor track record, perhaps we should have also been devoting more attention to the possibility that North Korea would be the mechanism by which Iran would successfully cheat its way to a bomb while inspectors report no violations inside of its borders. The administration had no interest in closing off the Iran-North Korea nuclear pipeline when negotiating the deal. But as Asia worries about what will follow Kim Jong-il’s latest boast, perhaps the key to understanding this seemingly intractable problem may lie in Tehran, rather than solely in Pyongyang.
BREAKING: Benghazi Survivors Drop Bombshell About How They Defied Hillary’s Orders, Then Saved Lives
In light of the upcoming movie “13 Hours,” which depicts the account of what happened on Sept. 11, 2012, during the terror attack in Benghazi, Lybia, Fox News anchorMegan Kelly interviewedthree men who lived through the horrific ordeal. Their story is one that should make former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hide in shame.
Security operators Mark Geist, Kris Paronto and John Tiegen were at the secret CIA annex about one mile from the diplomatic compound when the attack began.
They were ready to offer assistance but were told by a CIA officer to stand down even as distress calls were coming in from the facility.
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What This Navy SEAL Told Hillary Clinton To Her Face Will Make You Proud To Be An American
- See more at: http://americanactionnews.com/articles/what-this-navy-seal-told-hillary-clinton-to-her-face-will-make-you-proud-to-be-an-american#sthash.2oGBQSKw.dpufNavy SEALS aren’t timid. They’re used to taking on America’s enemies.
And one, former SEAL officer Dan Raso, took it directly to Hillary Clinton, for lying about facing sniper fire in Bosnia.
According to American News, Raso began by calling Clinton out for a lie she told an audience “in order to make herself appear as courageous as American soldiers.” Of course, he was referring to the lie Clinton told about dodging enemy fire in Bosnia.
“I remember landing under sniper fire,” Clinton once said. “There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicle to get to our base. It was a moment of great pride for me.”
Raso pointed out that video footage proves Clinton was greeted warmly with handshakes that day. She tried to blame her lie on a mistake, calling it a “misstatement.”
“In my 12-year military career, I never heard an excuse like that from my leadership,” Raso told reporters. “It’s impossible to even imagine that happening.”
“Only someone completely arrogant, ignorant and disrespectful of what happens in war could say something like that,” he concluded. “Hillary was willing to lie in order to take advantage of that feeling of gratitude and awe Americans have for those who serve.”
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Former U.S. Attorney: Hillary Clinton Could Face Criminal Indictment in Next 60 Days
A former U.S. attorney predicted this week that Hillary Clinton "will not make it to the finish line" in 2016 because she will soon be facing a criminal indictment from the FBI. During an appearance on Laura Ingraham's radio show Tuesday, famed attorney Joseph DiGenova said that the FBI has "reached a critical mass in their investigation of the secretary and all of her senior staff" and predicted that it would come to a head "in the next 60 days."
DiGenova, who rose to national prominence during the Clinton scandals of the '90s, told Ingraham that if Attorney General Loretta Lynch refuses to indict Clinton, there will be a "massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an Attorney General."
FBI Director James Comey has not indicated when his agents will wrap up their months-long probe into Clinton's possibly illegal "homebrew" email server, butduring a Senate hearing last month, he said the FBI doesn’t “give a rip about politics” and that President Obama has not been briefed on the investigation.
DiGenova said that the FBI already "has so much information about criminal conduct by her and her staff that there is no way that they walk away from this."
And if Jim Comey, the FBI director, is doing his job, which I expect him to do as an honorable man, she cannot be the nominee of the Democratic Party.
She’s going to have to be charged with the crime. It’s going to be a very complex matter for the Department of Justice, but they’re not going to be able to walk away from it. She and her staff have committed numerous federal crimes involving the negligent and improper handling of classified information. They are now at over 1,200 classified emails. And, that’s just for the ones we know about from the State Department. That does not include the ones that the FBI is, in fact, recovering from her hard drives.
Ingraham expressed doubt that Lynch would be willing to indict Hillary Clinton, given her loyalty to the president, but DiGenova pointed to “vitriol of an intense amount” developing among the intelligence community who will “fight to the death” to make sure Hillary and her staff face justice for mishandling classified information. In fact, according to two of his sources in the FBI, “they are already in the process of gearing themselves to basically revolt if she refuses to bring charges.”
It should be noted that DiGenova has a pretty decent track record when it comes to prognosticating. He accurately predicted that President Barack Obama would shed tears during his press conference Tuesday announcing his executive actions on guns. "We're going to get a tearful presentation from the president some time in the next 24 hours," he said on WMAL Monday.
2c)
Law Enforcement Officials, Medical Professionals: There’s Something Seriously Wrong With Hillary Clinton’s Health
Democrat front runner Hillary Clinton’s disappearance from the debate stage last month left people speculating that the former First Lady took a long bathroom break, but now a law-enforcement source with inside connections is alleging that Clinton was missing from the stage due to health issues stemming from a previous brain injury.
These long-lasting symptoms stemming from a concussion and blood clot, according to a neurologist, suggest Clinton is suffering from post-concussion syndrome, which can severely impact her cognitive abilities.
All that said, however, Clinton’s campaign maintained to Breitbart News that she is in good health and can serve as President of the United States.
“Strong source just told me something I suspected. Hillary’s debate ‘bathroom break’ wasn’t that, but flare up of problems from brain injury,” wrote John Cardillo on Twitter.
Cardillo, who previously worked as an officer who provided VIP security details for the New York Police Department (NYPD), told Breitbart News that he knows of two additional sources who have commented about Clinton’s health problems, which have even impacted her ability to walk to her car after delivering a speech.
“I got this from both a [federal agent] … and I also got it from a New York [NYPD] guy who worked security at a Hillary event in New York City,” Cardillo told Breitbart News, adding:
These are two people that aren’t just personal friends. I worked with one and then post law-enforcement worked with another on some related things. So, these aren’t anonymous people. These are good friends. Both of them told me the same thing, that after her speeches, whether she did a talk or a policy speech, she had to sit behind – she would come off the podium backstage – and have to sit and rest before making it back to the car because she was so fatigued, dizzy and disoriented.
Cardillo said these two security officials don’t know each other and do not live in the same state, but “their stories were almost identical.”
One of the men told him that Clinton was “very pale, kind of disoriented. He said she looked like she was about to faint. She was very pale, almost sweaty.”
Cardillo said one of the incidents occurred while she was Secretary of State. The event worked by the NYPD official was roughly a year ago.
Veteran Republican strategist Roger Stone, who previously worked with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, told Breitbart News that he has also heard about Clinton’s long-term health problems.
“A number of New York Democrats, very prominent, well-known, wealthy New York Democrats, told me last year that Hillary had very significant health issues and that they were surprised that she was running in view of her health problems and her lack of stamina,” Stone told Breitbart News. “So far, she’s run a very controlled campaign,”
“I don’t think she has the physical stamina to be president,” he stated. “I have no doubt that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) won’t call her on it, but Trump certainly would.”
“We also know that in the emails, of course, Huma Abedin… says that she is easily confused,” Stone added, referencing Clinton’s close confidant Abedin comment in an email, “She’s often confused,” referring to Clinton.
Trump, Stone’s former boss, certainly hasn’t been shy in questioning whether Clinton has the “stamina” to be president.
“She goes out and she sees you guys for about 10 minutes, she sees you for a little while, it’s all rehearsed and staged,” Trump said in a recent interview on Fox News’ Media Buzz.
“They’ll pick a couple of people out of the audience that are like, you know, 100 percent. She’ll sit around a little plastic table, they’ll talk to the people for a while. It’s ridiculous,” Trump added. “And then she goes away for five or six days and you don’t see her. She goes to sleep.”
Trump, Stone’s former boss, certainly hasn’t been shy in questioning whether Clinton has the “stamina” to be president.
“She goes out and she sees you guys for about 10 minutes, she sees you for a little while, it’s all rehearsed and staged,” Trump said in a recent interview on Fox News’ Media Buzz.
“They’ll pick a couple of people out of the audience that are like, you know, 100 percent. She’ll sit around a little plastic table, they’ll talk to the people for a while. It’s ridiculous,” Trump added. “And then she goes away for five or six days and you don’t see her. She goes to sleep.”
Neurologist Dr. Daniel Kassicieh, D.O., reviewed news reports of Clinton’s head injury in light of the recent information revealed from the security sources that are raising questions about her current health status.
Kassicieh, who has run his own Sarasota, Florida, practice for 20 years, is a board-certified neurologist and the medical director of the Florida Headache and Movement Disorder Center. He is a doctor of osteopathic medicine, which is similar to a medical doctor but can involve at a minimum of 100 more classroom hours of specific training. That additional training is focused on the osteopathic—or the musculoskeletal system—aspects of medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN) and a Fellow of the American College of Neuro-psychiatrists (FACN). Kassicieh is a registered Republican in Sarasota, but his purely medical analysis is troubling for Clinton.
“They were trying to poo-poo this off as a minor concussion, but I would just say that reading it and trying to take all the politics out of it, and just read it purely from a medical standpoint,” Kassicieh explained:
Considering the point of what happened with Hillary over this time period… the timeline… and then what has happened here more recently… the break at the debate, I saw that and even the commentators that were sitting there made a comment that, ‘Gee, that seems awful long for a break.’ Just looking at it from a neurological standpoint, the risk factors for developing post-concussion syndrome, one of them is age, and she was 65 when this happened… just from a physiologic standpoint that’s an older individual. Being female is a risk factor for post-concussion syndrome as well.
“For someone who has treated many post-concussion syndrome patients and that’s what I really believe she’s suffering from based on reading these reports and reading what’s happened,” Kassicieh said. “I think she has latent post-concussion syndrome, and I can understand that as a politician they would want to be covering that up.” He stated:
I would say as a neurologist having seen many post-concussion syndrome patients that I would not want a president who I knew had post-concussion syndrome being president because their super high-level cognitive abilities are clearly impaired and even their routine multitasking high-stress abilities are affected because post-concussion syndrome patients in general don’t tolerate even moderate work, stress-related environments.
Kassicieh added that if suffering from post concussion syndrome, Clinton’s symptoms could appear “well beyond a year” after her concussion.
“A transverse sinus thrombosis [blood clot] is a rare condition of a clot forming in the venous sinus cavities surrounding the brain,” Kassicieh told Breitbart News, referencing an ABC News report from 2012 that detailed Clinton’s head injury and blood clot following a fall. He explained:
These venous sinuses drain blood out of the brain. The [injury] incidence is only about 3 per 1,000,000 adults. The transverse sinus is less commonly affected than the main sagittal venous sinus. The cause of transverse sinus clots is not well understood although trauma and dehydration have been described as risk factors. Mrs. Clinton suffered from both.
Dr. Nicholas C. Bambakidis also analyzed the facts for Breitbart News. He is he director of cerebrovascular and skull base surgery, and the program director of neurological surgery at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and a professor of neurosurgery and radiology at the CWRU School of Medicine in Cleveland,
“These types of clots are usually formed spontaneously without an obvious cause,” Bambakidis said in an email:
They can be associated with dehydration, a predisposition to blood clotting disorders, are more common in women and may be associated with oral contraceptive medication, severe head trauma, brain surgery, or infection. If untreated, they can progress and lead to bleeding in the brain or swelling, and a stroke or even death. The treatment is generally anticoagulation and treatment of any underlying cause.
Bambakidis said that if treated early and quickly, there are no longstanding issues with a person’s health.
“Typically, if caught early and treated adequately (as seems to have been done in this incident) there is a full recovery without any consequences (normal cognition, memory, etc),” he said.
Dr. Jane Orient, the executive director of the politically conservative Association of American Physicians and Surgeons also reviewed the 2012 ABC News report about Clinton’s concussion and blood clot. She said she thought the ABC report appeared medically accurate.
“Factors predisposing to clots include air travel, dehydration, hormones, immobilization as during surgery, blood abnormalities, cancer,” Orient said. “Concussions can cause long-term damage including cognitive problems, even when standard studies including CT or MRI look normal.”
“Not saying Mrs. Clinton has any of the above–just speaking generally and hypothetically,” she clarified.
One former member of Orient’s group is
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
, an ophthalmologist. He was a member of AAPS for more than 20 years before his election to the U.S. Senate. He is now also running for president on the Republican side in 2016.
Neurologist Kassicieh agreed with Orient about the possibility of Clinton suffering from long-term cognitive symptoms.
“Concussions in older adults can be more serious, resulting in a condition known as post-concussion syndrome. This condition can be characterized by symptoms of persistent dizziness, complaints of memory difficulties, forgetfulness, loss of ability to focus on complex tasks or concepts and indecisiveness,” Kassicieh explained. He added, “Latent depression and overt anxiety are also common in this condition.”
Kassicieh noted that although a Clinton spokesperson told the press that Clinton “got over this quickly,” another ABC report quotes former President Bill Clinton saying that his wife’s injury “required six months of very serious work to get over.”
“Other reports in the same article show an interesting timeline for Hillary over the next several months, showing that she was not fully functional in her capacity as [Secretary of State],” Kassicieh added:
As a neurologist, I would interpret these and more recent events involving Hillary as possibly showing signs of post-concussion syndrome. This condition could have serious impact on the cognitive and intellectual functioning of an individual, particularly a high level job as [President of the United States].
Dr. Drew Pinsky, a nationally syndicated talk show host and internal medical physician, also spoke to Breitbart News about Clinton’s health and explained that experiencing symptoms for more than a year after a head injury is very serious.
“In my clinical experience, it’s very common for them to have six months and even up to a year of exercise intolerance, and sort of [needing] frequent rest, and can easily get overwhelmed,” he said of head injury patients. “But after a year, that’s something else.”
He said symptoms like Clinton’s, as an elderly person in her 60s, “are very serious.”
“Those are not trivial symptoms,” Pinsky stressed:
If my patient came in with that, the first thing I would do is put them on a treadmill. I would get a sleep study, make sure they don’t have sleep apnea. I would do all sorts of metabolic studies and make sure there wasn’t something metabolic. I would actually do some extensive cancer screenings. Why is this person suddenly having exercise intolerance?
Pinsky added that if Clinton is overworking herself, “I hope she has a medical team attending to her.”
Breitbart News sent a detailed set of questions regarding these questions raised by law enforcement and medical professionals to Clinton’s campaign.
The specific questions sent to Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton, include:
1.) Does Secretary Clinton have difficulty with fatigue, dizziness and being disoriented? Does she have difficulty after speeches and during debates continuing for lengthy periods of time–or for instance walking back to her car after events?
2.) Is she suffering from latent post concussion syndrome?
3.) Is she being completely honest with the public about her health? Does she have a clean bill of health?
4.) Is she able to conduct high level cognitive abilities on the same level she has been able to throughout her life? Is she able to conduct routine multitasking high stress abilities on the same level she has been able to throughout her life?
5.) Does she have or did she have a transverse sinus thrombosis, or blood clot?
6.) Is she capable of serving as President of the United States with these conditions and symptoms?
7.) Has she done tests with a doctor on a treadmill? Has she gotten a doctor-supervised sleep study? Has she worked with a doctor on metabolic studies? Has she gotten cancer screenings?
8.) Does she have a medical team attending to her? What are the details of that?
In response, Merrill told Breitbart News that Clinton’s doctors have already answered the questions in Clinton’s health statement.
“These questions are all addressed in her health statement,” Merrill told Breitbart News, referring to a letter from Clinton’s doctor, Dr. Lisa Bardack—the chair of internal medicine at the Mount Kisco Medical Group in New York.
The letter, labeled a “healthcare statement” and dated on July 28, 2015—which was released along with Clinton’s tax filings—is two full pages long and includes a complete description from Dr. Bardack clearing Clinton as fit to serve as president.
“This letter summarizes the health history and current medical evaluation of Hillary Rodham Clinton,” Dr. Bardack wrote. “I am an internist and the Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Mount Kisco Medical Group in Mount Kisco, New York. I have served as Mrs. Clinton’s personal physician since 2001, during which time I have been involved in all aspects of her healthcare.”
The letter states that Clinton is a “healthy 67-year-old female whose current medical conditions include hypothyroidism and seasonal pollen allergies.”
“Her past medical history is notable for a deep vein thrombosis in 1998 and in 2009, an elbow fracture in 2009 and a concussion in 2012,” Dr. Bardack continues.
“In December of 2012, Mrs. Clinton suffered a stomach virus after traveling, became dehydrated, fainted and sustained a concussion,” the doctor wrote:
During follow-up evaluations, Mrs. Clinton was found to have a transverse sinus venous thrombosis and began anti-coagulation therapy to dissolve the clot. As a result of the concussion, Mrs. Clinton also experienced double vision for a period of time and benefitted from wearing glasses with a Fresnel Prism. Her concussion symptoms, including the double vision, resolved within two months and she discontinued the use of the prism. She had follow-up testing in 2013, which revealed complete resolution of the effects of the concussion as well as total dissolution of the thrombosis. Mrs. Clinton also tested negative for all clotting disorders. As a precaution however, it was decided to continue her on daily anticoagulation.
The letter continues by detailing her current medication list, which includes Armour Thyroid—a hormone used to treat an under-active thyroid– plus various antihistamines, Vitamin B12 and the blood-thinner Coumadin.
“She was also advised in 1998 to take Lovenox, a short-acting blood thinner, when she took extended flights; this medication was discontinued when she began Coumadin,” Dr. Bardack continued:
Her Coumadin dose is monitored regularly and she has experienced no side effects from her medications. She takes no other medications on a regular basis and has no known drug allergies. She does not smoke and drinks alcohol occasionally. She does not use illicit drugs or tobacco products. She eats a diet rich in lean protein, vegetables and fruits. She exercises regularly, including yoga, swimming, walking and weight training.
Dr. Bardack noted that Clinton’s family history also complicates matters: her father “lived into his 80s and died after having a stroke” while her mother “lived into her 90s and passed away after having congestive heart failure.” One of her brothers—it’s not clear whether it’s Tony or Hugh Rodham, according to this letter—“had premature heart disease,” Dr. Bardack wrote.
“Due to her family history, she underwent a full cardiac evaluation, which was negative,” the doctor wrote. “She had a coronary calcium score of zero and a normal carotid ultrasound.”
She’s also had cancer screenings: “Her routine health maintenance is up to date, and has included a normal colonoscopy, gynecologic exam, mammogram, and breast ultrasound.”
She had a physical on March 21, 2015, which revealed, according to Dr. Bardack, that Clinton was in top-notch health.
“In summary, Mrs. Clinton is a healthy female with hypothyroidism and seasonal allergies, on long-term anticoagulation,” Dr. Bardack wrote. “She participates in a healthy lifestyle and has had a full medical evaluation, which reveals no evidence of additional medical issues or cardiovascular disease. Her cancer screening evaluations are all negative. She is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as President of the United States.”
Clinton’s own campaign manager Robby Mook wouldn’t commit during a mid-June 2015 interview on CBS’s Face The Nation to release Clinton’s full health records.
“I will let Hillary decide that,” Mook replied when John Dickerson asked him if Clinton would release her full healthcare records. “But I can tell you she has been hitting the campaign trail hard.”
The letter from Clinton’s doctor—not her full healthcare records, but just a mere statement—came after that Mook interview
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3) Rendezvous with Reality in 2016 By Victor Davis Hanson Changes of administrations usually mark dicey times in American foreign policy. But transitional hazards will never be greater than in 2016.
Over a span of just a few months in mid-1945, new president Harry Truman lost all trust in Soviet Union strongman Josef Stalin -- in a way that Truman's predecessor, the ailing Franklin Delano Roosevelt, never had during nearly four years of World War II.
Ensuing American foreign policy jerked from a pragmatic Lend-Lease alliance with a duplicitous communist superpower to a tense Cold War.
President John F. Kennedy was young, idealistic, cocky -- and without the military reputation of his predecessor, the much more experienced former general Dwight D. Eisenhower. Soon after JFK's inauguration in 1961, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev predictably began testing Kennedy's mettle as commander in chief, from Berlin to Cuba.
Kennedy's eventual restoration of American deterrence during the Cuban blockade marked the scariest phase in Cold War history.
By 1980, as lame duck Jimmy Carter neared the end of his first and only term, the Russians had sought to absorb Afghanistan. Communist insurrections kept spreading in Central America. China went into Vietnam. The new theocracy in Iran still held American diplomats and employees hostages.
Most aggressors had logically accelerated their risk-taking before the newly elected, mostly unknown (but volatile-sounding) Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.
The world's bullies are now wagering on whether 2016 likewise offers one final opportunity to consolidate their easy recent winnings. Or, in their hubris, might they ramp up their belligerence one last time before the arrival of a new president who will be more likely be supportive of the U.S.-led postwar order?
China, with impunity, has fortified seven newly created artificial islands located in the hotly disputed Spratlys archipelago, a strategic pathway positioned in the heart of the South China Sea. Has China now set a precedent that any nation can build artificial but sovereign islands in the Pacific, replete with automatic territorial claims to surrounding waters?
If so, will Iran or Russia in 2016 create new islands out of thin air in the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean or the Atlantic? Or will the next president have to warn the Chinese that no nation can in godlike fashion birth permanent fortified islands in the middle of international sea lanes?
Will Beijing seek to push the envelope even more in 2016, fearful that the next president in 2017 -- whether Hillary Clinton or a Republican -- could be more like Truman or Reagan than Carter or Barack Obama?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has come to expect that his border aggressions do not risk much Western pushback. Will Putin continue to take risks after the departure of Obama, who would rather lecture the Russian leader than stop Russian aggression, more worried about keeping intact his legacy as a Nobel Peace Prize winner than preserving post-Cold War borders?
The Islamic State is only about two years old, but it already has already carved out huge swaths from Syria and Iraq in its dreams of a new Islamic caliphate that will remake the entire Middle East. So far, Western responses have been anemic.
But can the Islamic State afford to gamble that under the next president, 75 percent of U.S. combat missions against ISIS will return to their base without firing a shot or dropping their bombs, as has been the case under the Obama administration? Prepare for stepped-up Islamic State offensives during a last-chance year of the Obama presidency.
Over the last seven years, the world has become acclimatized to the lead-from-behind role of the United States. Under Obama, friends and enemies bet that America was conflicted about the wisdom and morality of the entire American-led postwar global enterprise and reacted accordingly.
But -- who knows? -- the next American president may identify radical Islam as the catalyst for terrorism directed at the West.
Cuba in 2017 may no longer be seen as a newfound friend but as an old-time violator of human rights.
Next year, will the Islamic State still be seen as a "jayvee" organization, or as an existential danger to the U.S. homeland?
In all of these cases, uncertainty rather than assured continuity in present U.S. foreign policy is likely -- largely because the stubborn and tone-deaf Obama administration has lost the support of the American public on almost all of its foreign policy initiatives, from signing the Iran pact, to dealing with terrorism, to handling China and Russia.
Unfortunately, the predictable corrections under a new president in 2017 will make 2016 more dangerous than any year since 1980.
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