The Democratic Primary Goes Hot

Chaos in Nevada:

Contentious supporters of the two rivals for the Democratic nomination turned the selection of Nevada’s national delegates this weekend into a virtual battlefield, with the chairman gaveling the proceeding to a peremptory close and fleeing the stage while armed guards cleared the meeting venue.

Boxer got a taste of amygdala in the tussle:

Sen. Barbara Boxer, a veteran of Democratic politics, says she never saw anything quite like this before.

Loud cursing, shouting, obscene gestures and vile insults, including crude comments about the female anatomy. It was all on display over the weekend as supporters of Bernie Sanders turned the Nevada State Democratic Convention into chaos.

“I was not able to stop these people for doing what they did,” Boxer, a Hillary Clinton supporter, told CNN. “Apparently they’ve done it before. …. This group of about 100 were very vocal, and I can’t describe it — disrespectful doesn’t even explain it, it was worse than that.”

Sanders had shots fired into his campaign office:

Bernie Sanders revealed Tuesday that shots were fired into his Nevada campaign office and that an “apartment housing complex my campaign staff lived in was broken into and ransacked.” The Democratic presidential candidate did not explicitly blame his rival, Hillary Clinton, for the actions.

Although the delegate selection events could be linked to Bernie’s rabbits with enhanced amygdala activation scaring Hillary’s more wealthy rabbits, Bernie’s situation might be something more ominous.

Hillary has long understood the power of intelligence operations and playing dirty. Throughout Bill’s Presidency she employed private eyes such as Terry Lenzner to gather information and intimidate anyone who posed a political threat.

Starr reportedly suspects that Lenzner’s group was asked to dig up derogatory information on members of the prosecutor’s legal team as a way to discredit the investigation of the president. Such an effort, the independent counsel asserts, could amount to impeding his investigation and thus to obstruction of justice.

I would assume that would include in-person coverage to look for drug or prostitute issues, and Starr’s people seeing it was what led to the suspicions. I’ll give her credit. Putting in-person surveillance coverage on lawyers in a Special Prosecutor’s office that is investigating you, to see if they can be caught in indiscreet situations would take balls. I’m not surprised her pantsuits are so baggy.

Years later, the man Kathleen Willey reportedly identified as the jogger who bumped into her in the park and asked about her missing cat, her slashed tires, and her children’s well being, turned up as part of the unofficial intelligence gathering operation Hillary ran in Libya:

Who is Cody Shearer? This Slate article from 1999 provides a lot of background on him, none of which is reassuring… In 1998, just before Kathleen Willey — who claimed she was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton — was to testify in the Paula Jones trial, Willey reportedly had a disturbing encounter where she was approached by a jogger near her home. The complete stranger asked her menacing questions about her children, before Willey blurted out “What do you want? What is it you want to know? Who are you and what do you want to know?” According to Willey, “I’ll never forget that look in his eyes … He just looked at me and he said, ‘You’re just not getting the message, are you?'” On Hardball in 1999, MSNBC host Chris Matthews identified the mysterious jogger as Cody Shearer…

If Hillary Clinton’s “secret spy network” involved the likes of Blumenthal, Drumheller, and Shearer — men whose past deeds suggest they may not be trustworthy — this ought to because for serious alarm… Bear in mind, this team wasn’t just sending Hillary Clinton intelligence briefings. They had contracted out to a company, Osprey Global Solutions, run by a former General and Delta Force member, David L. Grange, to do fieldwork and intelligence gathering in Tunisia.

We know this spy ring was not secure — after all, Blumenthal’s emails were hacked and the intelligence reports Clinton was receiving were leaked a year before the State Department asked for Clinton’s emails. Other questions remain: Since Blumenthal, Drumheller, and Shearer were not acting in an official capacity, who was paying for their efforts?

One theory I saw implied Hillary’s Libyan efforts were a personal operation, and probably self-funded, looking to locate Libyan gold in country during the chaos, surely so it could be returned to the Libyan people. Since the Clinton Foundation has taken in $100 Million just from Arab potentates, funding such an operation is not a big deal for her.

But think about that for a minute. Hillary was running a full fledged intel op with ex-CIA and Delta operators on the ground in a war-torn foreign country, and it appears it was wholly her personal op, probably funded by her, and only known about by her. Nobody would know about it today had Guccifer not hacked Blumenthal’s emails. What else has she deployed a private intelligence operation on? What do you think Hillary is doing intelligence-wise domestically, now that the Presidency, her entire life’s ambition, is hanging in the balance?

To her, Bernie is a big deal. My guess is there is a machine out there, right now, focused upon his campaign, the likes of which nobody would believe. I’ll bet there are trained intelligence pros heading it up, who will walk circles around him without him even knowing. The only advantage Sanders will have is that his Secret Service will keep him in a pretty tight bubble. But Sander’s workers are probably being spied on every minute of every day.

I’d actually root for him, if I didn’t want to see Trump put Hillary’s career to bed, once and for all, in grand fashion. Hillary is dangerous, because she knows how to play dirty, like a professional.