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Newer News: October 2015

September 2015

• Secret Service officials allowed to participate in probe of leak by agency by Jerry Markon, Washington Post, September 28. "Legal experts and former government investigators said the approach threatens the integrity of the investigation of who at the Secret Service uncovered and leaked material showing that Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) -- chairman of a House committee overseeing the agency -- had once been rejected for a job as an agent."
• George W. Bush's enduring shame: The twisted legal rationales we can't escape, a dozen years later by Paul Rosenberg, Salon, September 19. "We know why W. embraced John Yoo's strategy of hiding and obfuscation. The question is, why must President Obama?"
• Now-classified Clinton emails sitting on Google servers by Josh Gerstein, Politico, September 14. "Classified emails passed through commercial email services like Google and AOL on their path to or from a private server maintained by Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, but so far, the government appears to have done little to retrieve or secure the messages."
• If Republicans really want to hold up the Iran deal, they should send Dick Cheney to jail by Marcy Wheeler, Salon, September 11. "Republicans are right to demand transparency from the executive branch (though in this case, they seem to be asking for things that -- by design -- the president cannot give). But to force the issue, they're also going to have to find a way to criminalize common Republican practice, a practice blessed by John Yoo."
• The Issue Everyone Is Missing In The Clinton Email Scandal by Lauren C. Williams, ThinkProgress, September 11. "While there are legitimate cybersecurity and legal public records concerns regarding Clinton's private email server, there's little mention of the real issue -- an ambiguously complicated and overused government classification system."
• Hillary Clinton's emails: classified or not? by Lauren Carroll, Politifact, September 10. "The situation with Clinton's email is downright confusing though, for several reasons."
• Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, Federal Register, September 8. "This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeks comment on proposals to better protect human subjects involved in research, while facilitating valuable research and reducing burden, delay, and ambiguity for investigators."
• Life Is Complicated For Most Lawyers Who Handle Classified Info by Ali Watkins, Huffington Post, September 4. "Unlike Hillary Clinton's attorney, they don't get safes from the government."
• Are Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden both bitten by 'Schrōdinger's cat'? by Chuck McCutcheon, Christian Science Monitor, September 2. "The phrase 'Schrōdinger's cat' has had more than nine lives, not just in quantum physics but also in the language of political analysis, especially recently."
• More Hillary emails contain foreign governments' information, Reuters, September 2. "A review last month by Reuters of previously released Clinton emails found 30 email threads that the State Department has marked to show they include information shared in confidence by foreign government officials, from prime ministers to spy chiefs."
• Insights, and Redactions, in Latest Release of Hillary Clinton's Emails by Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, September 1. "The State Department said that, after Monday's release, a quarter of Mrs. Clinton's emails have been made public."

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