ashton wrote:I'm talking about the 2016 election. Yes Obama sort of came out of nowhere eight years ago, but the point is that the Republicans have a bunch of 50 somethings who contend for the nomination every time, while we talk about whether Joe Biden will swoop in if Hillary falters, because there's no one under 65 who has national exposure.

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:No, Iranians are not inspecting themselves while having large cartoonish bombs behind their backs

This article does nothing to contradict the AP's reporting from yesterday other than to say the AP retracted their story when they didn't.

drsmooth wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:No, Iranians are not inspecting themselves while having large cartoonish bombs behind their backs

This article does nothing to contradict the AP's reporting from yesterday other than to say the AP retracted their story when they didn't.

You sound more like Dick Morris every day. What's your position on podophilia?

But the details included in those "Classified" stamps — which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification — appear to undermine this account, a Reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found.

The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton's emails from her time as the nation's most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go — regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.

In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department's own "Classified" stamps now identify as so-called 'foreign government information.' The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts.

This sort of information, which the department says Clinton both sent and received in her emails, is the only kind that must be "presumed" classified, in part to protect national security and the integrity of diplomatic interactions, according to U.S. regulations examined by Reuters.

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Although it appears to be true for Clinton to say none of her emails included classification markings, a point she and her staff have emphasized, the government's standard nondisclosure agreement warns people authorized to handle classified information that it may not be marked that way and that it may come in oral form.

The State Department disputed Reuters' analysis but declined requests to explain how it was incorrect.

A senior State Department official said that the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, would have "total oversight" of sampling and inspections of Parchin under the agreement between the agency and Iran over access to the site.

"Iran is not self-inspecting," the official said, though this official would not deny that Iranian inspectors will "play a role."

The official noted that the arrangement satisfies the demands of the IAEA.

Youseff wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Hey kudos to jerze for standing up and taking the communal dump thrown at him for his wrongful and irrational political stances

Indeed, kudos to jersey. I think his politics are awful, but then he thinks mine are awful: c'est la vie. People consistently abuse him, whilst arguing in irrationally reactionary ways. I am guilty of this myself at times, which is why I am not nor ever will be a politician. But let's recognize that some of the irrational lefty overreaction here does not help our cause, and that we'd all benefit from honing our abilities to look at things through "dispassionate observer" lenses and not partisan ones. Civility is its own reward, people.

I think that's a fair perspective but he's a dishonest dude who thinks he is/is part of some larger Republican team and would rather represent a pro-team viewpoint than be honest with people he considers friends. that's my main gripe.

jerseyhoya wrote:-docsmooth shuffles in at 1 AM, calls me Dick Morris for saying something anyone who had been following the story online today knew was true 10 hours ago

Reports suggest the election - the fifth in six years - will be called for 20 September.

jerseyhoya wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:No, Iranians are not inspecting themselves while having large cartoonish bombs behind their backs

This article does nothing to contradict the AP's reporting from yesterday other than to say the AP retracted their story when they didn't.

You sound more like Dick Morris every day. What's your position on podophilia?

-AP breaks story yesterday about Iran being largely responsible for carrying out its own inspections at Parchin
-AP overnight edits the copy removing some details to create space to add more reaction quotes for what they send out to their print subscribers
-Liberal sites such as Vox, Talking Points Memo (who said the story sounded eye poppingly scary before the most important details were 'scrubbed'), and pacino's Haaretz link jump all over the edits, claiming AP stealthily retracted the meat of the story
-AP explains they didn't retract anything, the updated online version was what they sent to their print subscribers, and they restore the cut details to the online version of the story
-To quell the continuing complaints for how they handled the story, AP releases the transcript of the draft memo, demonstrating that Iran is largely responsible for carrying out its own inspections at Parchin
-Liberal responses shift to "Oh Parchin isn't that important anyway" and "They can look at it with satellites" (see pacino's reaction...glad I'm the only one who has a team to give him talking points)
-docsmooth shuffles in at 1 AM, calls me Dick Morris for saying something anyone who had been following the story online today knew was true 10 hours ago