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Hillary Clinton: Russia Got Help From Americans in Election Meddling Wall Street Journal (subscription) Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said she believes that Russians likely received help from inside the U.S. on how to effectively use the information that intelligence agencies say was gathered to meddle in last year's presidential election, which she lost ...

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Hillary Clinton warned that the technological forces that conspired to sabotage her presidential bid in 2016 are still very much at play in an interview Wednesday at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.

"I think it's important to learn the real lessons from this last campaign," she said. "The forces aren't just interested in influencing elections and politics. They're going after the economy and our unity as a nation."

Clinton spoke in great detail about how a massive Russian-led misinformation campaign scuttled her chances with the help of social networks that weren't properly empowered to combat fake news.

"What we saw in this election particularly the first time we had the tech revolution really weaponized politically," Clinton told Code Conference interviewees Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. "It was aimed at me but it's a much deeper more persistent effort to literally turn the clock back on so much of what we have achieved as a country."

Clinton also singled out Vladimir Putin for having big ambitions that go way beyond her in his pursuit of destablizing the country.

"It is important that Americans, that people in tech and business understand that Putin wants to bring us down," she warned. "He is an old KGB agent."

Clinton addressed the incident last week in which Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte div-slammed a reporter days before the election he ended up winning. Citing a report that an NBC affiliate in Montana declined to use the audio of the incident in its coverage as part of a broader mandate by stations owned by Sinclair Group to keep its programming conservative-friendly, she commented, "I find that terrifying. Because local TV is still incredibly powerful."

Just because Clinton lost the election shouldn't give anyone the impression she is about to exit the political scene. "I am not going anywhere," she said. "I am very unbowed and unbroken about what happened because I don't want it to happen to anyone else. I don't want it to happen to the values and institutions i care about in America."

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There's a sucker born every minute, goes the old saying, and several hundred of them gathered at Wellesley College last Thursday to cheer Hillary Clinton as she rehashed, complained about and justified her electoral loss by saying in different ways over and over that she is simply too good for this world. Seriously, just how addled does one have to be to take this nepot and parasite as an inspiration for women, and as a model of how one should build her career?

To follow Clinton's career path, one has to first attack then-Sen. Edward Brooke, R-Mass., at your graduation from Wellesley. Second, proceed to Yale Law School to meet and marry a skilled politician. Third, follow him home to suppress bimbo eruptions and otherwise serve as first lady of Arkansas. And fourth, wait for the day he's elected as president, so that you are first lady for real.

Having done that, one can start at the top, being given control of his healthcare reform plan, which you run into the ground 18 months later, just in time for a staggering wipeout in Congress in which he loses the Senate and House. And how does one manage to get this much power? One lies on "60 Minutes" on the eve of the New Hampshire primary about a woman in Arkansas who claimed that she and one's husband had had an affair.

If you had any doubts as to how she got to run healthcare, Carl Bernstein explains it to you on page 218 of A Woman In Charge, the book that he wrote about Hillary. "He was president in no small measure because she stood by him in the Gennifer Flowers mess," he quotes Bill's aide as saying. "He had to pay her back. This is what she wanted, and he couldn't figure out how not to give it to her. And so he hoped for the best." What he got was the worst, while Hillary built her career on trying to discount what Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick had accused Bill of doing, while joining Anita Hill and others in running against Clarence Thomas, for what Hillary had claimed that he said.

Having gotten so much because Bill misbehaved with one woman, Hillary got even more five years later, when it turned out he misbehaved with three more: In the course of a suit brought by Paula Jones (who charged that Bill asked her to "kiss it" in a hotel room in Little Rock), it came out that he had an affair with a 24-year-old intern, and had also molested an aide in the White House on the day that her husband had died.

As this broke new ground on the Richter scale of spouse mortification, the public was happy enough to allow her to run for the Senate from New York, a state that she had never lived in in order to start life anew. Hillary, who got one big job by covering up for her husband's philandering, got another because he had strayed once again (and been impeached in the process), while the three jobs she held that required executive competence healthcare reform and her two runs for president could be studied in as examples of cosmic mismanagement.

So, of course, she is now the ideal of millions of women, who swear she's the soul of self-made girl power, who would in due course have made a great president if only men had given her a chance.

Noemie Emery, a Washington Examiner columnist, is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and author of "Great Expectations: The Troubled Lives of Political Families."

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Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel seemed a bit irked that CNNs Dana Bash was asking him about the possibility of Hillary Clinton mounting a third presidential run would be good for the party, noting that it wasnt a good question. Emanuel said that he loves Hillary, and that she has lost to offerbut the decision about a 2020 run is best left with her. Also, were not even close to the 2018 midterm elections (via The Hill):

"I know, but I asked the question. Do you think she should," CNN's Dana Bash responded.

"Well it's not I love you. It's not a good question, OK," he said.

"Why not?" Bash asked.

"It's not a good question," he reiterated.

When pressed further, Emanuel said he happens to "love" Clinton, adding that he thinks she's "full of energy."

"We have a lot of time between now and the presidential election of 2020," he said.

Emanuel said Clinton has a "lot to offer," but the main question is whether Clinton wants to launch a bid in 2020.

"The core question is not whether I think she would be a good candidate. It's whether she wants to run," he said.

Well, I agree that it is up to Clinton about whether she wants to run again. At the same time, shes a two-time presidential loser, a substantial proportion of the Democratic base is moving more towards the left and away from her positions on policy, and they werent thrilled that she won the nomination in 2016.

The emails from the Democratic National Committee showing staffers mulling ways to undercut Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) primary campaign only confirmed what many in that camp thought: the establishment was fixing the game. It caused the DNC a lot of heartburn going into their national convention in Philadelphia last year. There isnt much there to create a good give me anther shot pitch. Many in the vocal progressive wing of the Democratic Party feel that its imperative that Clinton goes away in order for the party to move forward. The left inability to truly have an introspective analysis of why they lost in 2016 also hamstrings them from that goaland it doesnt help that Clinton is part of this behavior as well.

She has yet to fully take responsibility for her 2016 loss, instead pivoting to blaming the Russians and former FBI Director James Comey. She will never get past her other handicaps as well that were cemented in the minds of the electorate long before the 2016 campaign, which are that she (along with Bill) are secretive, and that they play by a different set of rules. These two conceptions were incredibly damaging, with the ethical questions surrounding the Clinton Foundation and her private email system embodying those criticisms. It was a throwback to the 1990s; voters viewed Clinton as untrustworthy and dishonest.

Also, the talk of Clinton 2020 also seems to highlight another problem Democrats have for the next presidential election. They dont have a deep bench concerning candidates anymore.

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Richard Nixon was the only president in U.S. history to resign from office doing so on Aug. 9, 1974, amid the Watergate scandal but he was not, as is often stated, impeached by the House of Representatives.

The issue has become current again withgrowing comparisons being made between Nixons obstruction of justice in the Watergate scandal and President Trumps efforts to get law enforcement authorities to end an FBI probe into whether members of his campaign had colluded withRussia during the 2016 election.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said in a commencement speech at Wellesley College last week that Nixon was impeached. Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), her running mate inthe presidential campaign, said the same thing during a September 2016 interview with CBSs This Morning show. The Telegraph, a British newspaper, had this headline on a May 20, 2017, report: What was Watergate and why was Nixon impeached? The story says in part:

In July [1974] the Supreme Court ordered Nixon to turn over the remaining tapes, which he again tried to resist.

The House of Representatives lost patience, voting to impeach Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, criminal cover-up and several violations of the Constitution.

Clinton who served on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee during its investigation of Nixon said this in her recent Wellesley speech, referring to her graduation from the same school in 1969:

We didnt trust government, authority figures or really anyone over 30, in large part thanks to years of heavy casualties and dishonest official statements about Vietnam, and deep differences over civil rights and poverty here at home. We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.

And, by the way, we were furious about the past presidential election of a man [Nixon] whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice after firing the person running the investigation into him at the Department of Justice.

No, the House did not impeach Nixon. The House Judiciary Committee, in July 1974, approved three articles of impeachment (see below) and sent them to the full House. But Nixon resigned before there was a trial in the House.

The two presidents who were impeached by the House were Clintons husband, Bill Clinton, in 1998, and Andrew Johnson in 1868 though both were acquitted by the Senate.

Impeachment is the job of the full House, not a committee. The impeachment process against Nixon did lead to his resignation, but he wasnt formally impeached. Heres how Joy Hakim, author of the American history series A History of US, explained it in the last volume, All the People:

In the House of Representatives, articles of impeachment were prepared. President Nixon was charged with lying, obstructing justice, and using the Internal Revenue Service (the tax office) and other government agencies illegally. Nixon was going to be impeached. After that, he would face a trial in the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors. He chose to leave the presidency instead. He resigned as president of the United States (the only man ever to do so).

In England, an editor of the London Spectator wrote that the U.S. presidency had gone from George Washington, who could not tell a lie, to Richard Nixon, who could not tell the truth.

Here are the three articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee in July 1974:

Article 1

RESOLVED, That Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours, and that the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate:

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST RICHARD M. NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF ITS IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS.

Article 1

In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that:

On June 17, 1972, and prior thereto, agents of the Committee for the Re-election of the President committed unlawful entry of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of securing political intelligence. Subsequent thereto, Richard M. Nixon, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his close subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of such illegal entry; to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities.

The means used to implement this course of conduct or plan included one or more of the following:

In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

Article 2

Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies.

This conduct has included one or more of the following:

In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

Article 3

In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, contrary to his oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has failed without lawful cause or excuse to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas issued by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on April 11, 1974, May 15, 1974, May 30, 1974, and June 24, 1974, and willfully disobeyed such subpoenas. The subpoenaed papers and things were deemed necessary by the Committee in order to resolve by direct evidence fundamental, factual questions relating to Presidential direction, knowledge or approval of actions demonstrated by other evidence to be substantial grounds for impeachment of the President. In refusing to produce these papers and things Richard M. Nixon, substituting his judgment as to what materials were necessary for the inquiry, interposed the powers of the Presidency against the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, thereby assuming to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the sole power of impeachment vested by the Constitution in the House of Representatives.

In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore, Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

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