{"id":181087,"date":"2016-10-06T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/06\/nothing-to-see-here-move-along-2\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T00:08:00","slug":"nothing-to-see-here-move-along-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/06\/nothing-to-see-here-move-along-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to See Here, Move Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/10\/marc-turi-libyan-rebels-hillary-clinton-229115\">dropped charges against a man accused of illegal weapons transfers to Libyan rebels because it raises uncomfortable questions about Hillary&#8217;s role in the Libya clusterf%$#<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Obama administration is moving to dismiss charges against an arms dealer it had accused of selling weapons that were destined for Libyan rebels.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Lawyers for the Justice Department on Monday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000157-90b1-d51f-adf7-bef1bbc80002\">filed a motion<\/a> in federal court in Phoenix to drop the case against the arms dealer, an American named Marc Turi, whose lawyers also signed the motion.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton\u2019s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Government lawyers were facing a Wednesday deadline to produce documents to Turi\u2019s legal team, and the trial was officially set to begin on Election Day, although it likely would have been delayed by protracted disputes about classified information in the case.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Turi associate asserted that the government dropped the case because the proceedings could have embarrassed Clinton and President Barack Obama by calling attention to the reported role of their administration in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/06\/world\/africa\/weapons-sent-to-libyan-rebels-with-us-approval-fell-into-islamist-hands.html?_r=1\">supplying weapons<\/a> that fell into the hands of Islamic extremist militants.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThey don\u2019t want this stuff to come out because it will look really bad for Obama and Clinton just before the election,\u201d said the associate.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice has dropped charges against a man accused of illegal weapons transfers to Libyan rebels because it raises uncomfortable questions about Hillary&#8217;s role in the Libya clusterf%$#: The Obama administration is moving to dismiss charges against an arms dealer it had accused of selling weapons that were destined for Libyan rebels.Lawyers for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[761,783,833,831,943],"class_list":["post-181087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-international-commerce","tag-justice","tag-terrorism","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}