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HILLARY CLINTON LET AMERICANS DIE IN BENGHAZI
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Though they "might not be as glamorous as presidential elections," Hillary Clinton said Friday, the upcoming November midterms are "crucial" in concocting Democratic makeups both on Capitol Hill and at states' helms. That, in turn, will advance progress on issues relating specifically to women, she said.
During her remarks to the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum Conference in Washington, D.C., the former secretary of state offered up endorsements to almost every female Democrat running statewide in 2014.
"We have so many reasons to be hopeful," she said. "Mary Burke gives me hope. Maggie Hassan gives me hope. Martha Coakley and Wendy Davis give me hope. Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kay Hagan, Mary Landrieu, Michelle Nunn, Jeanne Shaheen, Natalie Tennant - they all give me hope."
Democratic women running for House or Senate this year number over 100, and six are engaged in bids for governorship. "If I could vote for all of them, I would!" Clinton exclaimed.
Though Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has in recent weeks shouldered scrutiny for her questionable leadership and a recent cringe-worthy remark comparing the tea party's handling of women's concerns to domestic violence, Clinton embraced her - both literally and in verbal praise. "Debbie wears so many hats so well: DNC chair, trusted friend, congresswoman, mom," Clinton said.
Speaking just hours before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell would go on record conceding the league has been "wrong" on handling issues of domestic violence, Clinton grieved that commemoration of the Violence Against Women Act's anniversary "was tempered by troubling news on many fronts, from the outrages of the NFL to assaults against women in uniform and on college campuses."
Clinton also took on a Supreme Court ruling over the summer that said closely held companies like Hobby Lobby don't have to follow President Obama's Affordable Care Act mandate that requires large firms to help pay for their employees' birth control. It "pulled the rug out from America's women" just as the new health care law was taking effect, Clinton argued.
Some of her broader points, like supporting a minimum wage boost and equal pay for women, echoed those she made during her highly publicized return to Iowa last weekend. And to be sure, Clinton's remarks - while tailored to women's rights - were merely the latest cog in the campaign machine her team is building ahead of a likely 2016 presidential run.
One riff in particular foreshadowed what could well become a permanent addition to her future stump speech during a harrowing time of unprecedented partisan gridlock.
"When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out far and wide," she said. "Weren't you proud when a coalition of women senators broke the logjam during last year's government shutdown?" she said. Drawing on advice she once got from Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, she added: "You work together and you get the best outcome that you can."
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Hillary Clinton urges women to turn out for 2014 midterms
At a time when so much attention is focused on her own political future, Hillary Clinton made a vigorous pitch Friday for women candidates running in the midterm elections, saying If I could vote for all of them I would.
Mrs. Clinton, a likely candidate in the 2016 presidential election, said at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington, D.C. that midterms matter and that the elections will come down to those who make the effort to show up and vote.
She mentioned the recent spate of domestic violence cases in the NFL as an example of the abuses still suffered by women a generation after her husband, former president Bill Clinton, signed the Violence Against Womens Act.
She said that celebration of this anniversary was tempered by troubling news on many fronts: From the outrages of the NFL to more assaults against women in uniform and on college campuses, the former secretary of state said.
Mrs. Clintons own political future has occasionally overshadowed the midterm elections in November. More than 200 journalists showed up for her appearance Sunday at a Democratic fundraising event in Iowa, her first visit to the state since she finished third in the 2008 Democratic caucus.
Im baaack, she told the friendly crowd of thousands of potential Iowa caucus-goers.
In her speech Friday, Mrs. Clinton kept the focus squarely on the midterm elections, making no allusions to her possible ambitions.
She ticked off a long list of women running for congressional and gubernatorial seats. Knowing they are on the ballot, she said, gives me hope.
She singled out Democrat Mary Burke, who is running for governor in Wisconsin against incumbent Scott Walker, a Republican.
Should he win re-election, Mr. Walker would be positioned to vie for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
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Civics- The Fifth Amendment (Sarah Hutchinson)
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Civics- The Fifth Amendment (Sarah Hutchinson) - Video
Apple is really serious about privacy, guys.
Apple Apple wants the world to know that its really, really serious about privacy. Accompanying the launch of the iPhone 6 and iOS 8 was a personal letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook about the companys commitment to privacy and a new, revamped page about all-things-privacy on iDevices and a how-to guide for setting preferences to up your privacy if youre an iUser. Apple has long used privacy to differentiate itself from the competition; back in 2010, Steve Jobs said Apple always had a very different view of privacy than some of our colleagues in the Valley. We take privacy extremely seriously. Cook repeated the sentiment more strongly in his letter, taking direct aim at Google Google, saying Apple doesnt build a profile of its users or read their messages to get information to market to you.
Apple is getting serious about privacy because it has to. It wants the iPhone to become the only thing you need beyond oxygen. The iPhone is not just for communication and web browsing anymore. It wants to track your health (with HealthKit), be your wallet (with Apple Pay), and control the devices in your home (with HomeKit). Depending on how personalized the iPhone 6s vibration capabilities get, it could be your iSignificantOther. This is all set against the backdrop of concern about tech companies guardianship of our personal information amid the Snowden leaks. So Apple did something very smart. It announced that with iOS 8, the data encrypted on iPhones will only be able to be unlocked with your passcode. Unlike ourcompetitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data, Apple wrote on its privacy page. So its not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS8.
So now, if law enforcement wants into your phone, theyll need to get you to enter your passcode. One Apple competitor felt the heat. Google-owned Android quickly issued an us, too! announcement, saying that its next operating system will also encrypt data on smartphones by default for those using a passcode. Privacy advocates are thrilled. Its not just about making it easier to protect civil liberties in the U.S. but exporting it to countries with restrictive governments where it will now be harder to get dissidents iPhone chats.
But former federal prosecutor and legal expert Orin Kerr was not thrilled. He says that if the po-po have a warrant, they should be able to get into a phone, and that Apple is making it harder for them to conduct lawful searches. People encrypting the content of their devices is not common practice now, but moving forward, it could become widespread, and law enforcement will have to force people to hand over or enter their passcodes in order to get evidence from those devices. Thats where the legal showdown will happen.
If the government obtains a subpoena ordering the person to enter in the passcode, and the person refuses or falsely claims not to know the passcode, a person can be held in contempt for failure to comply, writes Kerr.
Thats actually disputed legal territory. Back in 2012, Hanni Fakhoury, a lawyer at civil liberties group EFF, explored the issue of decryption as a Fifth Amendment issue. Is refusing to enter the passcode to your device the same as refusing to give incriminating testimony and pleading the Fifth? There is conflicting law on the issue.
A district court judge in Colorado ruled(PDF) that Ramona Fricosu could be forced to decryptinformation on a computer seized by law enforcement in connection with a mortgage fraud case.But the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled (PDF) that the 5th Amendment prevented the government from forcing a suspect in a child pornography investigation to decrypt the contents of several computers and drives seized by law enforcement.
In one case, the court ruled that law enforcement already knew what it wanted off the computer and could get it. In the other, the court ruled that law enforcement was trying to force the alleged child porn possessor to testify against himself by performing the decryption.
Kerr thinks the Fifth Amendment shouldnt protect people against decrypting evidence that will be used against them, citing a 2009 case from Vermont, but suggests that if this turns out to be a problem, Congress should pass a new law upping the penalties beyond a simple contempt charge for people who wont hand over their passcodes, or pass a law forcing tech companies to design their systems in such a way that they can bypass the passcode.
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Apple And Google Will Force A Legal Battle Over The Privacy Of Your Passcode