Photo, left: Su-35S Super Flanker.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video; in re: What's going on in Europe is a global, civilizational dilemma,
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Kori Schake, Hoover Institution, in re: The Iran deal – the president will release $150 billion for Iran to go forward. Funding he worst of Iranian behavior; and it prevented the Obama Administration from doing anything constructive when Iranian tried to recover their own government. This deal encourages them to cheat 15% from everything in the deal.  NCD Congresswoman votes for deal "even though it does nothing to change Iran's behavior."   What? Cognitive dissonance. These are killers – they've killed Yemenis, Americans, many peoples.  We gave the money to a regime that even the Administration acknowledges will use it for terror and nuclear proliferation.   Saudis and Egyptians yesterday announced a joint "civilian" nuclear cooperation.  "A Japan option." The president has been part of a chain that led to the opposite of what he said he dreamt of: a world without nukes.  The only reliable deterrence of proliferation is for the US to maintain [ ] – we have a good record of preventing our friends' getting nukes, but not of letting our enemies get nukes.  Mearsheimer*, et al., say that since nukes haven't been used since 1945, "nukes are stabilizers."
*John J. Mearsheimer, American professor of political science at the University of Chicago; an international relations theorist. Known for his 2001 book on offensive neorealism, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, Mearsheimer is also known for co-authoring, with Stephen Walt, the New York Times bbestseller, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy** (2007). His 2011 book Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics is described as cataloging "the kinds of lies nations tell each other." According to an interview with Mearsheimer in The Boston Globe, the lesson of the book is: "Lie selectively, lie well, and ultimately be good at what you do."
** The professors maintained that support for Israel damages America's interests in the Middle East, and that the collective activities of Israel's supporters in the United States -- the Israel lobby -- largely determine American policies in the region. Mearsheimer and Walt adamantly defended their thesis and expanded their paper into a bestselling book titled, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.  . . . what distinguishes The Israel Lobby is its claim that advocates and defenders of Israel in the United States shape not just America's close relationship with the Jewish state, but the totality of American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Bill Whalen, Hoover, and Kori Schake, Hoover Institution, in re: The VP will march in the Pittsburgh AFL/CIO Labor Day parade. He may or may no run; can get money  f he does; it's organizational work that he needs. He enjoys dragging it out to the ongoing distress of Mrs Clinton. His natl security policy [will be a joke].  . . .  "John Kerry gives common-man speech from deck of yacht" – The Onion.  – a terrible Plan B. Return to Plan A:  Bill Pagliano – a sort of junior-league Watergate. Cone of Silence.   No fewer than five investigations into Mrs Clinton - some involving  the DOJ, which grinds slow but fine.  And she keeps changing her talking points. SCIF – info is classified not because it's marked "classified" but because it's intrinsically so.  Persons with security clearances take responsibility for protecting classified information. You don't need a server to have a private email address.  The only reason to have a private server is to: ___________. 
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block D: Kori Schake, Hoover Institution, and Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, in re: If you think the Democrats have problems, you haven't visited the Republican Part recently.  Carly Fiorina is a winner because she muscled CNN into changing its rules so that she can speak with the leading candidates. Ben Carson: very articulate, polling 18%; Carson, Fiorina and Trump, who together hold over half the votes (so far) have in common than not one of them has ever held public office for even a day.  GOP and Dems all see that  . . . John Kasich, a big-hearted liberal at the end of the day; important for Ohio electoral votes.  At least fifteen of the seventeen GOP candidates are better on national security than the current president.
Hour Two
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 2, Block A: Daniel Henninger, WSJ, in re: The Biden-Obama Axis  The Obama network wants control of the party they won from the Clintons. Here’s the short reason for the boomlet to get Joe Biden into the race: Hillary’s just not fun anymore.  Set aside whether she ever was. Let’s divide humanity into two groups: normal people and politicians. What makes the political class flutter about Joe Biden is a little different than what excites the rest of us.  On Labor Day weekend, more than 99% of the American population will unwind with family and friends, picnics, the beach and baseball. Not the politicians. Every elected politician in America, from Podunk town mayors to super PAC-backed candidates for the presidency will be pressing flesh with strangers. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to spend Friday afternoon with his new best friends in Contoocook, N.H.   
Why do they do it? Because they love it. Politicking is the only thing they do. And standing nearby in politicking’s upper divisions this weekend will be aides, abandoning normal life for the same reason. They love it.  Where in this great political parade is Joe Biden? Vice President Biden has become the “Where’s Waldo?” of U.S. politics. Is he in the picture or isn’t he?  The case for Joe Biden disembarking permanently from the campaign train is . . .
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 2, Block B:  Eli Lake, Bloomberg View, in re: FBI Scours Clinton Server for Evidence of Spying The FBI has begun a probe into whether foreign intelligence services compromised Hillary Clinton's e-mail server during and after her tenure as secretary of state, according to U.S. intelligence and Congressional officials. The damage assessment, which is part of the bureau's investigation into whether the former secretary and her staff mishandled classified information, will hunt for digital traces of cyber-espionage by foreign governments. Even mundane and unclassified Clinton e-mails could provide important insights into the inner workings of the U.S. government and the actions of its top officials.
Clinton herself has dismissed the prospect that her e-mails were hacked. Speaking in March, she said the system used for the private e-mail "was set up for President Clinton's office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches." U.S. officials familiar with the probe tell us the FBI is not so sure. These sources say the damage assessment will be conducted by the FBI's own spy hunters and cyber security experts. The FBI will not hand off the task to the National Counterintelligence & Security Center, the office inside the intelligence community that coordinates counter-intelligence activities. It is conducting the damage assessment of former NSA contractor . . .
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 2, Block C: Devin Nunes  (CA-22), Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in re:   What can be learned from the physical server about foreign agents?  We're responsible for highest clearances; we know that information was taken fro a secret area and put on an unclass server. FBI's counterespionage unit.  members of my Committee are cognizant of the fact that our adversaries are interested in learning what we discuss. Secretaries of State or their counterparts would be foci.  . . . Look for "the patterns of life" – where are you, whom to you talk to, where do you eat? where do you take holidays?  Find vulnerabilities and extract information. This is why the OPM [thefts] are so [horribly important].   . .  . The intell community has been public about the worst adversaries out there: nation-state espionage: Russians, Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans.  Concerns also economic, power grid, computers, banking – you name it.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-wrote-classified-e-mails-sent-using-private-server/2015/09/01/5d456616-50bd-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a_story.html  While she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote and sent at least six e-mails using her private server that contained what government officials now say is classified information, according to thousands of e-mails released by the State Department.
Although government officials deemed the e-mails classified after Clinton left office, they could complicate her efforts to move beyond the political fallout from the controversy. They suggest that her role in distributing sensitive material via her private e-mail system went beyond receiving notes written by others, and appears to contradict earlier public statements in which she denied sending or receiving e-mails containing classified information.
The classified e-mails, contained in thousands of pages of electronic correspondence that the State Department has released, stood out because of the heavy markings blocking out sentences and, in some cases, entire messages. The State Department officials who redacted the material cited national security as the reason for blocking it from public view.
Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, was one of about four dozen State Department officials whose e-mails were redacted because of national security concerns, according to a Washington Post review. Those officials included top aides such as Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills, some of whom would be likely to fill out senior roles in a Clinton administration. All told, 188 of the e-mails the State Department has released contain classified material.
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 2, Block D:  John Fund, NRO, in re: Mrs Cintons servier – why was it in Chappaqua (if it was), or in New Jersey (if it was), or handled by Platte River (if it was)?  "Disappointing " say the Clintons for an IT guy to take the Fifth.  Recall John Dean. M Pagliano was a staffer in the Clinton campaign. He actually went up to Chappaqua to help install the server. He was told things. / The Clinton defense forces: Benghazi as the reason for revelations leading to the server; the Trey Gowdy committee. Cone of Silence: try to keep all the staffers under one cone, all with the same story, same lack of cooperation. Recall Judge Sirica and several committees who were not amused. 
Hillary's Inner Palace Guard - the way she protects them is to go on attack warning Obamaworld she is not unarmed.  Mrs Clinton going to see Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC tomorrow and Bryan Pagliano will be the lead question.  Andrea Mitchell asked in frustration the other day: "When will this go away? When can Mrs Clinton go back to [more important matters]??"  The cone of silence works only if everybody stays under it. Jake Sherman? . . . Mrs Clinton will eventually have to have a Checkers [speech] moment. Alexander Butterfield was responsible for taping inside the White House.  Nixon was advised to burn the tapes [for his own benefit, he erred in not doing so and so resigned the presidency].
Hour Three
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 3, Block A:  John Bolton, AEI, in re: With the entire “European project” under enormous strain because of Greece’s financial crisis;  increasing awareness of the EU’s “democratic deficit” whereby unelected Brussels bureaucrats wield enormous authority with essentially no accountability;  and growing unease about the lack of American international leadership under Barack Obama, it is no surprise Europeans are nervous, many close to panic. The lesson for the United States is that reducing our global influence does not increase international peace and security. Quite the opposite.  Obama’s retreat from the Middle East, whether in the aftermath of Libya, his disinterest in the Islamic State’s continuing rise, or his surrender to Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, are all part of the larger pattern.  Europe’s illegal immigration problem is our problem as well.   John Bolton was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 through 2006. He is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Fox News contributor. this article online.
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 3, Block B: John Butler, Bloomberg Surveillance, in re: Apple asked to not call its new phone the 'iPhone 6s' for the silliest possible reason ; Apple's iPhone 6S: The peak of smartphone boredom?
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 3, Block C: Tyler Rogoway, Foxtrotalpha, in re: Russia's stealthy new fighter was OK, but the Su-35 stole the show at MAKS Russia’s biennial super air show and arms bazaar wrapped up last weekend and the highlight of the show wasn’t Russia’s newish stealthy fighter, the Sukhoi T-50. Instead it was the breathtakingly maneuverable ultimate version of Sukhoi’s renowned Su-27 Flanker series of fighters, the Su-35S Super Flanker. Watch what it can do. . . .
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 3, Block D:   Henry I Miller, Hoover, in re: Feds' Policy Blunders Allow Legionnaire's Disease Outbreaks,
Hour Four
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 4, Block A: Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties, by Kevin M. Schultz (1 of 4)
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 4, Block B: Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties, by Kevin M. Schultz (2 of 4)
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 4, Block C: Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties, by Kevin M. Schultz (3 of 4)
Thursday  6 February 2014 / Hour 4, Block D: Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties