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According to an article written by Ben Dimiero for Media Matters titled “ NY Times Issues Second Major Correction To Botched Report On Clinton's Emails” it is reported that “ this morning, the New York Times issued a second substantial correction to its anonymously-sourced report that originally hyped a potential Department of Justice investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of personal email. The paper has now removed the claim -- which appeared in both the article's headline and first sentence -- that two inspectors general were seeking a "criminal" investigation into the handling of Clinton's emails. The paper has not addressed numerous lingering questions about both the sourcing and vetting of its report, with their corrections instead blaming the errors on "information from senior government officials" who remain anonymous. Times public editor Margaret Sullivan indicated on Twitter that she plans to weigh in on the s...

The debate today is the balance between keeping America safe from terrorists to honoring the privacy of all Americans.   With the NSA now being exposed to have mined billions of data which can be considered extremely private by some are now being looked at as being only personal by many.   The questions now are how to and what would you call a real balance between the two. For those who might think this is criminal and should be stopped immediately, the first question must be what do you have to hide?   Are you cheating on your wife or partner and wish not to be discovered?   Are you afraid that if you say anything negative about your government, you would soon be followed by the Men in Black or hear black helicopters? Or are you just an average person who feels that the government should be prohibited from mining your data without your permission?   What would you say if I told you that all the government receives are a group of phones numbers and no con...

Lawrence O’Donnell from the Last Word on MSNBC was speaking about the damage that Donald Trump could be causing with his newly regurgitated spin on President Obama’s birth certificate or lack there of.   I had not given it much thought until I came across this article written by Gillian Flaccus of the Associated Press titled Head of OC GOP says email sender should resign and learned that “ Marilyn Davenport spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday and said she considered the email depicting Obama as a chimpanzee political satire — not racism.   The email depicts Obama's face superimposed over the baby chimp's and the text under the image reads, "Now you know why — No birth certificate!" The article further reported that “Davenport, who is serving her fourth two-year term, acknowledged that she didn't send the email to some friends because she felt they would be offended. She added, however, that she only saw the image as political satire about "all that...