Forty-seven Senate Republicans may have broken the law this week. We’ll look at the surprising move the made against the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton’s email scandal continues develop & we’ll look at the pressure she’s getting from top Democrats.
Plus a high note you won’t want to miss, an ISIS Update, cracking iPhones & much more!
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Tell Them to Pass the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act.
No Iran Nuclear Treaty Without Congressional Approval.
Hillary Clinton reveals she deleted 30,000 ‘personal’ emails
“Looking back, it would have been better if I’d simply used a second email account,” Clinton said during a press conference after her keynote address at the annual United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles meeting. “At the time, this didn’t seem like an issue.”
The press conference was Clinton’s attempt to calm a media firestorm stemming from a New York Times report that she did not use or even have a government email account while serving as President Obama‘s first Secretary of State and that her aides had not taken any measures to preserve four years’ worth of emails that were supposed to be archived for public review under federal record-keeping law.
Hillary Clinton Says ‘No’ to Independent Investigation of Her Family’s Home Email Server
But Clinton also refused to yield to calls for an independent investigator to examine the home server, which she said contains “personal communications from my husband and me, and I believe I have met all my responsibilities.
“And the server will remain private,” she said.
Prepare for Confidence-Shaking Cyber Attack: FBI’s Taddeo – YouTube
NY FBI Special Agent for Cyber, Special Operations Leo Taddeo discusses the increase in cyber security threats, how companies are combating cybercrime and the level of sophistication of data hacks.
US sending Humvees, radars, and drones to Ukraine’s front lines
The U.S. will provide more substantial arms and military equipment to Ukraine in the form of $75 million worth of armored Humvees, drones and counter-mortar radars. Much of it will help the Ukrainian military with situational awareness and targeting enemy artillery, but the list of goods does not include “lethal aid” that members of Congress and Ukraine supporters have asked President Barack Obama to authorize.
“This new assistance is part of our ongoing efforts to help sustain Ukraine’s defense and internal security operations and resist further aggression,” a senior administration official told reporters in an email. Missing from the announcement were Javelin portable anti-tank missiles requested by the Ukrainian military.
The announcement comes after months of pressure from Ukrainian officials and a recent push from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
“I think the administration has felt political pressure to do something…. This may well be a response to that political pressure,” Steven Pifer, Brookings senior fellow and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told Defense One. Pifer co-authored a report last month that is based on interviews with front line commanders in the Ukrainian military and argued that the U.S. should provide anti-tank and anti-battery weapons, but especially radars and unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, to detect enemy positions.
Putin reveals secrets of Russia’s Crimea takeover plot
Vladimir Putin has admitted for the first time that the plan to annex Crimea was ordered weeks before the referendum on self-determination.
Crimea was formally absorbed into Russia on 18 March, to international condemnation, after unidentified gunmen took over the peninsula.
Mr Putin said on TV he had ordered work on “returning Crimea” to begin at an all-night meeting on 22 February.
The meeting was called after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted.
Speaking last year, Mr Putin had said only that he took his final decision about Crimea after secret, undated opinion polls showed 80% of Crimeans favoured joining Russia.
The findings of these polls were borne out by the outcome of the referendum on 16 March, he told Russian state TV last April.
U.S.-backed Rebel Now ISIL’s Man in Libya
The leader of the al-Qaeda-linked rebel forces that brought down Moammar Gadhafi is now the Islamic State’s top man in Libya, according to various media reports, indicating a further unraveling of the Pyrrhic victory achieved by the U.S. and NATO air war on Libya in 2011.
Abdelhakim Belhadj, a Libyan known in the jihadi world as Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq, is the former head of the Libya Islamic Fighting Group and the Tripoli Military Council.
High-Note:
Big changes made to marijuana bill | Local News – KTUU.com Anchorage
Senate bill 30 is supposed to change the law to reflect a voter initiative legalizing marijuana which took effect last month.