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Hillary Clinton: A Major Gold-Digging Liability

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Lawyers now seeking access to FBI records about Hillary's subterranean server filed a court document that may require the US government to finally turn over the records or admit that the FBI is engaged in a criminal investigation.

As it stands, the FBI says it's an "investigation" while the Clinton machine maintains it's a "security review." FBI Director James Comey remains inscrutable.

These notables could not be more spot on; release all the information you have, now. And it could get worse, much worse, for not totally unrelated reasons -- as a former CIA smuggler exposes the missing link between the Fast and Furious FBI melee and the Benghazi saga.

Of course it may come down to nothing. By now it's public knowledge that Hillary admitted on the record, "we created al-Qaeda." And yet nothing happened.

As a senator, Hillary Clinton voted in favor of the war on Iraq in 2002. At the time she justified it to protect US national security. As Secretary of State, in 2011, she changed her tune significantly; "It's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity."

She was referring specifically to JPMorgan -- which was running an import-export bank -- and ExxonMobil -- which had signed a deal to "redevelop" the large West Qurna 1 oil field. It does not hurt that JPMorgan had donated at least $450,000 to the Clinton Foundation for the proverbial speeches while Exxon Mobil had donated over $1 million.

But then she had to change her tune -- again -- to accommodate the new "business opportunity" mantra. Since last year, in presidential campaign mode, Hillary maintains that her vote for the war was a "mistake."

As it stands, Hillary Clinton is barely navigating a litany of scandals and glaring legal trouble; her astonishing unpopularity levels; those "speaking fees" that simply won't go away (only from April 2013 to March 2015 she collected no less than $21,667,000); Judicial Watch wanting to know in detail what's the real deal with the subterranean email server.

And now Trump beating her nationally -- while Bernie Sanders beats Trump by over 10 points. It's enough to make everyone forget that a President Hillary would convert the whole U.S.A. into a giant Wal-Mart.

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