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 | March 9, 2015 |
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| CLINTON LATEST |
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Los Angeles Times: Obama And Feinstein Join Debate On Clinton's Private Emails
President Obama said he first learned from news reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private email account while serving as his secretary of State. “The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived,” Obama said in excerpts of an interview with CBS News that aired Sunday. “I'm glad that Hillary's instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed.” Obama’s first comments on the controversy came as a leading Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, said Clinton should speak publicly about her emails or risk damaging her potential 2016 presidential campaign. “She is the leading candidate, whether it be Republican or Democrat, to be the next president, and I think she needs to step up and come out and state exactly what the situation is,” Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think from this point on the … silence is going to hurt her.”Read more..
The Hill: Gowdy: Months Of Clinton Emails Missing
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House select committee investigating Benghazi, said that there is a period of missing Hillary Clinton emails from her time as secretary of State spanning several months. "There are gaps of months, and months and months," Gowdy said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." "If you think to that iconic picture of her on a C-17 flying to Libya – she has sunglasses on and she has her handheld device in her hand – we have no emails from that day. In fact, we have no emails from that trip," Gowdy said. Clinton last week called on the State Department to publicly release the 55,000 pages of documents from her self-selected emails that she turned over for archiving. Read more..
Politico: Colin Powell Says He Doesn’t Have Any Of His State Emails
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, Powell responded to revelations that he used a personal email account, rather than a government one, when he was in charge of the State Department. Questions about his email use arose last week when it was disclosed that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a personal email account during her tenure. “I don’t have any to turn over. I did not keep a cache of them. I did not print them off. I do not have thousands of pages somewhere in my personal files,” Powell said. “A lot of the emails that came out of my personal account went into the State Department system. They were addressed to State Department employees and state.govdomain, but I don’t know if the servers in the State Department captured those or not. “ Powell said it would be inappropriate to comment on Clinton’s email use. The State Department’s policy on personal email accounts dates back to 2005, the year Powell left the administration. Read more..
AP: Bill Clinton Defends Foreign Donations To Foundation
Former President Bill Clinton defended his foundation's acceptance of donations from foreign governments on Saturday, pointing to the track record of his global philanthropy as Hillary Rodham Clinton nears an announcement on a 2016 presidential campaign. In an interview at the Clinton Global Initiative University, the ex-president sought to address critics who have questioned the receipt of donations from foreign governments while the former first lady served in the State Department and after she departed in early 2013. "My theory about all of this is disclose everything and then let people make their judgments," Clinton told moderator Larry Wilmore of the cable channel Comedy Central. "I believe we have done a lot more good than harm and I believe this is a good thing." Read more..
NBC News: Lindsey Graham: I've Never Sent an Email
He's been a U.S. senator for 12 years, and was a Congressman for eight more before that, but South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham says he has never sent an email. In a discussion on NBC's Meet the Press about the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a home-based email server while she was secretary of state, moderate Chuck Todd asked Graham, "Do you have a private e-mail address?" Graham's surprising answer: "I don't email. No, you can have every email I've ever sent. I've never sent one." As Todd chuckled at the incredible notion that someone in 2015 could have never sent an email, Graham said, "I don't know what that makes me, but…" then got back to speaking about Clinton, continuing, "but really, this is big in this regard. Did she communicate on behalf of The Clinton Foundation as Secretary of State?" Read more..
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| SELMA 50TH ANNIVERSARY |
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NYT: Obama, At Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know The March Is Not Yet Over'
As a new generation struggles over race and power in America, President Obama and a host of political figures from both parties came here on Saturday, to the site of one of the most searing days of the civil rights era, to reflect on how far the country has come and how far it still has to go. Fifty years after peaceful protesters trying to cross a bridge were beaten by police officers with billy clubs, shocking the nation and leading to passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, the nation’s first African-American president led a bipartisan, biracial testimonial to the pioneers whose courage helped pave the way for his own election to the highest office of the land. But coming just days after Mr. Obama’s Justice Department excoriated the police department of Ferguson, Mo., as a hotbed of racist oppression, even as it cleared a white officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager, the anniversary seemed more than a commemoration of long-ago events on a black-and-white newsreel. Instead, it provided a moment to measure the country’s far narrower, and yet stubbornly persistent, divide in black-and-white reality. Read more..
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| IRAN TALKS & OTHER POLITICAL NEWS |
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Huffington Post: Obama Says He'll Walk Away From Deal If Iran Can Make A Nuclear Bomb
President Barack Obama said Sunday his administration would walk away from a deal with Iran if it would allow the regime to develop a nuclear bomb anytime soon. "If there's no deal, then we walk away," Obama told CBS News' Bill Plante. "If we cannot verify that they are not going to obtain a nuclear weapon, that there's a breakout period so that even if they cheated we would be able to have enough time to take action, if we don't have that kind of deal, then we're not going to take it." Secretary of State John Kerry has been negotiating a deal that would ease economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for the Iranian government limiting its nuclear ambitions, which it claims are for only peaceful purposes. Obama said that "if we are able to verify that in fact they are not developing weapons systems, then there's a deal to be had, but that's going to require them to accept the kind of verification and constraints on their program that so far, at least, they have not been willing to say yes to." Read more..
The Hill: Netanyahu To Obama: Remember That Israel Is An Ally
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday acknowledged a White House tweet slamming him last week, suggesting President Obama "remember" Israel as an ally. Days after Netanyahu addressed a packed session of Congress last week, the White House tweeted the link to an article with an "interesting take" from columnist Fareed Zakaria "on why PM Netanyahu's predictions on #Iran have been wrong for 25 years." "You know, the reason that I have been warning for 25 years is because Iran has been trying to get the bomb," Netanyahu said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "If we had let our guard down then Iran would have had the weapon. If we let our guard down now, it will have the weapon," he said. Read more..
Times Of Israel: Tens Of Thousands Fill Rabin Square For Anti-Netanyahu Rally
An estimated 40,000 demonstrators poured into Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square Saturday evening to take part in a rally calling for a change in government. The plaza was filled with posters supporting the left-wing Meretz party and the center-left Zionist Union. Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan headlined the speakers who took to the podium to address the teeming crowd. Having unleashed harsh criticism of the Netanyahu administration in an interview aired Friday, Dagan again attacked the prime minister, saying “we have a leader who fights only one campaign — the campaign for his own political survival.” “In the name of this war, he is dragging us down to a bi-national state and to the end of the Zionist dream,” the former spy chief, 70, said of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more..
NBC News/WSJ Poll: Republicans Are Divided Over Jeb Bush Candidacy
Republican voters are divided in their support for Jeb Bush in the upcoming 2016 presidential race, according to results from a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Forty-nine percent of potential GOP primary voters say they could see themselves supporting Bush, the former Florida governor whose father and brother served as president, versus 42 percent who say they could not back him. But that's a better score than some other possible Republican candidates received in the poll:
- Only 32 percent of Republican voters said they could see themselves supporting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, versus 57 percent who could not (-25);
- Only 20 percent said they could see themselves backing Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., compared with 51 percent who could not (-31);
- And only 23 percent said they could see themselves supporting real-estate mogul Donald Trump, versus 74 percent who could not (-51).
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The Hill: Bush Offers Strenuous Defense Of Immigration Stance In Iowa
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush offered a strenuous defense for a pathway to legalization for immigrants in the country illegally at a summit in Iowa on Saturday. “Immigrants that are here need to have a path to legal status,” Bush said. “Nobody I know has a plan to deal with illegal immigration other than to just say they’re going to be rounded up and taken away.” Bush said those in the country illegally should be given the opportunity to earn legal status if they work, don’t break the law and learn English. “This is the only serious thoughtful way to deal with this,” Bush said. Immigration reform is one of Bush’s biggest liabilities with the base. But in his first political trip to the early-voting state since moving towards a presidential run, Bush forcefully stood his ground on the hot-button issue. He also sought to highlight areas where he and the base agree. “The first thing you do is change presidents,” Bush said. “A president that will undo the executive actions. … This president has used authority he doesn’t have to go way beyond what any president has done before.” Read more..
AP: Kentucky GOP Clears Path For Rand Paul's Bids For Senate And White House
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul took his first step toward running for president with state party leaders on Saturday endorsing his plan for a presidential caucus in 2016. The move clears the way for Paul to run for president and for re-election to his Senate seat without breaking a state law that bans candidates from appearing on the ballot twice in the same election. The state GOP's central committee must still sign off on the proposal in August. But, more importantly for Paul, Saturday's vote by the Republican Party of Kentucky's executive committee was an early endorsement of his unusual plan for dual campaigns ahead of a wide open Republican presidential primary. Read more..
Politico: McConnell: It's Reid's Call On Menendez
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday it’s up to Democrats to decide if Sen. Robert Menendez keeps his party’s top spot on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee if he faces federal corruption charges. The Justice Department is preparing to bring corruption charges against the New Jersey Democrat for allegedly using his office to do political favors for a donor, POLITICO reported Friday. Menendez says he plans to retain his Senate seat and fight any charges. But the GOP Senate leader from Kentucky said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Mendendez’s post as the ranking member on the powerful committee is in the hands of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Read more..
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| BOKO HARAM SWEARS ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS & OTHER STORIES FOR THIS MONDAY MORNING... |
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NBC News: FBI Investigates Purported ISIS Hacks Of Several Western Sites
The FBI is investigating the hacking of several U.S. websites by someone claiming to be affiliated with ISIS over the weekend, which spread to Europe on Sunday night. Authorities generally said they suspected no link to the Islamist terrorist group, however. The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in Ireland was the latest site to be defaced, it's homepage topped by a picture of the black ISIS flag and the words "hacked by ISIS, we are everywhere," with a Facebook address that doesn't exist. A Flash audio plugin played what appeared to be a song in Arabic. The same imagery appeared Saturday on the homepage of Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, owned by NASCAR star Tony Stewart, a church in Canada and a Goodwill center in St. Louis. "The FBI is aware of the reported incidents and is contacting the impacted parties," the agency said. "All of a sudden, our website was taken over by a hacker that took over a header stating that the website was now under the control of the Islamic State," said Eldora Speedway General Manager Roger Slack told NBC station WLWT of Cincinnati. Read more..
NPR: Boko Haram Reportedly Swears Allegiance To The Islamic State
Nigeria's Boko Haram has reportedly announced formal allegiance with the self-declared Islamic State, according to an English-language translation of an Arabic message posted to Twitter. "We announce our allegiance to the Caliph ... and will hear and obey in times of difficulty and prosperity, in hardship and ease," according to a translation of a message purporting to be by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. "We call upon Muslims everywhere to pledge allegiance to the Caliph." It was not immediately clear if the message was a video or audio only. The translation was provided by SITE Intel Group, an organization that monitors Islamist extremist groups. However, NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton cautions that the message has yet to be authenticated. Read more..
USA Today: Ohio Terror Suspect Speaks To TV Station
If he ever gets out of jail, the 20-year-old Ohio man accused of plotting to plant pipe bombs in the U.S. Capitol "would put bullets in President Obama's head," he told a Cincinnati television reporter in a recent phone interview. But it took a two-day battle in federal court for the public to hear those comments from Christopher Cornell. That's because Cornell's legal counsel never wanted the public to hear him talk about the alleged plan that got him indicted for attempted murder of government employees and officials, solicitation to commit a crime of violence and possession of a firearm in an attempted crime of violence. Read more..
Daily Beast: In Nemtsov Murder: Five Suspects Taken Alive, Another Blows Himself Up
The head of Russia’s spy agency announces the names of suspects in the brazen murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. All appear to have Chechen connections. On Sunday, the ninth day since the murder of Russian opposition leader and former vice prime minister Boris Nemtsov, the list of suspected and detained assassins had included names of six men, one of whom allegedly blew himself up with a grenade. Not a single one of the suspects’ names sounded Russian. All were said to have come form the North Caucasus, and one of the key suspects, Zaur Dadayev, reportedly served as a deputy commander of an interior ministry battalion in Chechnya. Dadayev admitted his involvement in Nemtsov’s murder, according to a spokeswoman at the Basmanny court in Moscow on Sunday. The court formally arrested Dadayev. The other four detained suspects, Anzor Gubashev, Shagid Gubashaev, Tamerlan Eskerkhanov and Khamzat Bakhayev denied their involvement in the crime. It was remarkable, some Moscow experts noted, that most of the information about detainees came not from the offices of judicial officials but from Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB) the major security agency in charge of investigating, among other things, crimes committed by so called “Islamic underground.” The FSB is the successor organization to the old Soviet KGB. Read more..
NBC News: MH370 Report: Missing Plane's Underwater Locator Beacon Battery Had Expired
The first comprehensive report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 showed that the jet's underwater locator beacon's battery had expired — but offered few other clues on the one-year anniversary of the plane's disappearance. Malaysia's prime minister said Sunday that the country remains committed to finding MH370, which disappeared with 239 people aboard. "The lack of answers and definitive proof — such as aircraft wreckage — has made this more difficult to bear," Najib Razak. "Malaysia remains committed to the search, and hopeful that MH370 will be found." The Malaysian team investigating the disappearance of MH370 released a 584-page interim report on its progress on Sunday — much of which focused the ordinary nature of the flight.Read more..
TIME: Madison Police Urge ‘Calm’ After Shooting Of Black Teen
Police in Madison, Wisc., are urging locals to “exercise restraint” after the fatal police shooting of a 19-year-old black man on Friday sparked multiple protests, including a sit-in at city hall. “In light of so much things that have happened not just across the country, but in our own community, it’s understandable that the reaction at the scene and of some of our citizens is extremely volatile, emotional and upsetting,” Police Chief Mike Koval said Saturday, the Detroit Free Press reports. “That’s absolutely appropriate under these circumstances. We would urge, obviously, that everyone exercise restraint, calm and allow the Division of Criminal Investigation to conduct their affairs.” Read more..
NBC News: Priceless Michelangelo Documents Held For Ransom, Vatican Says
The Vatican said Sunday that two priceless documents handwritten by Michelangelo Buonarotti were being held ransom for more than $100,000 — the first time their theft from the Vatican archives in 1997 has ever been disclosed. The Rome newspaper Il Messaggero on Sunday reported the ransom demand for one of the documents, believed to be the only existing letter solely handwritten by the artist, sculptor and scientist who painted the ceiling of Sistine Chapel. The letter is considered to be of unmatched historical importance because Michelangelo usually dictated his communications to be written by others, the Vatican said. Read more..
BBC News: Arrest After Man Spends Night On Roof Of Parliament
A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and trespassing after spending several hours on the roof of Parliament. Negotiators, police and the Fire Brigade were called to the scene after being made aware of the incident at 21:15 GMT on Saturday. Scotland Yard said it was too early to know why the man had been on the roof. He was arrested at 05:00 GMT on Sunday and was taken to a central London police station. Read more..
TIME: ‘Strong Evidence Of Foul Play’ In Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Drowning, Aunt Says
Bobbi Kristina Brown’s aunt, Leolah Brown, publicly claimed on Saturday that her niece’s boyfriend, Nick Gordon, is under investigation for “attempted murder” in connection with the 22-year-old’s near drowning. Brown made the claim on Facebook after it was revealed that Gordon would be taking part in an intervention that will be aired during an episode of The Dr. Phil Show on March 11. A source told PEOPLE that a “distraught” Brown had already checked into rehab following the appearance. Read more..
Reuters: Toddler Rescued From Car 14 Hours After Utah River Plunge
A toddler who was rescued after being trapped for more than 14 hours inside a car that had plunged into a Utah river was in stable but critical condition on Sunday, police said. The 18-month-old girl was flown to hospital after she was discovered by a fisherman on Saturday, Spanish Fork Police Department Lieutenant Matt Johnson said. Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck, the girl's 25-year-old mother, who was the driver, died in the accident. Police said the accident appears to have occurred at around 10:30 p.m. local time on Friday as Groesbeck and her daughter were driving home to Springville, a suburb of Provo. A witness near the site heard a noise and investigated but observed nothing at the time, police said. Read more..
NYT: Report Says Doping Was Ignored To Shield Lance Armstrong
For years, cycling’s top officials turned a blind eye to doping, operating in deference primarily to one rider — Lance Armstrong — according to a reform commission that spent the past year excavating the sport’s doping problems. The three-member commission issued a scathing indictment of the sport’s officials Sunday, laying much of the blame on a governing body that, it said, had interests that ran counter to any genuine efforts to expose doping. The 227-page report detailed how Mr. Armstrong’s extraordinary influence had not only compelled officials to ignore drug use but had also enabled his lawyer to secretly write and edit the report of an earlier investigation into Mr. Armstrong’s doping practices. The panel was appointed by the main target of its criticism, the International Cycling Union, commonly known as U.C.I., in January 2014 as part of an effort by its newly elected president to rebuild the sport after revelations of the sophisticated doping program of Mr. Armstrong and his team. In October 2012, the United States Anti-Doping Agency exposed Mr. Armstrong’s years of cheating in devastating breadth and detail. Read more..
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