memeorandum: BREAKING: Clinton says it ‘might have been smarter’ to use State e-mails (Washington Post)

8:05 PM ET, March 10, 2015

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Bill Clinton Still Doesn't Use Email — If Hillary Clinton's emails are eventually cracked open, don't expect to see any juicy correspondence with her husband—or any correspondence at all. Bill Clinton doesn't use email. — The former president, who does regularly use Twitter …

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Washington Post:

BREAKING: Clinton says it ‘might have been smarter’ to use State e-mails — UNITED NATIONS — Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged Tuesday that she had erred in using only a private e-mail server for work correspondence at the State Department, saying that she sent about 60,000 e-mails …

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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:

Hillary said she emailed with Bill, but the thing is ... Bill Clinton doesn't use email. — At a press conference on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton said the server that housed her emails while she was secretary of state (that was reportedly housed at her home in New York) was set up for President Bill Clinton.

Discussion: Twitchy and The Gateway Pundit

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Clinton press conference threatens to be a media fiasco — Amid intense media scrutiny over her use of a private email account at the State Department, Hillary Clinton has finally agreed to take questions from the press: On Tuesday, she will hold a brief media avail at the United Nations …

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Politico:

Hillary Clinton: I used private email account for ‘convenience’ — She admits deleting thousands of personal emails in her first remarks on the controversy. — UNITED NATIONS — Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign began on terms set by her adversaries …

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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:

Does Bill Clinton email? It depends whom you ask — Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that personal emails between her and her husband, former President Clinton, exist on a private account. But the former commander-in-chief's spokesman has said Clinton has only sent two email messages in his lifetime …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Tim / America Rising:
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton Admits To Having Two Phones

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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Condoleezza Rice Used a State Department Email Address

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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Reveals She Didn't Save Trove Of Personal Emails

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Clinton E-mails / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Press Conference: The Live Blog

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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
What Hillary Clinton Says About Her Private Emails

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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Defends E-mail Practices, and Draws a Line

Discussion: Bloomberg View

New York Times:
Clinton Tries to Quell Email Controversy

Discussion: Political Wire

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Credentials for Hillary Press Avail Needed to Be Requested 24 Hours Ahead of Time

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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Hillary's Choice

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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton Decision to Hold News Conference at U.N. Irks Press Corps

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:

Republicans May Have Undermined Their Own Cause Against Iran — The letter drafted by the freshman Senator Tom Cotton, and signed by 46 of his Republican colleagues, warning Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that any deal he makes with U.S. Non-Supreme Leader Barack Obama might soon …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Washington Monthly and Guardian

Kendall Breitman / Politico:

Cotton fires back at Biden over Iran letter — Sen. Tom Cotton is firing back at Vice President Joe Biden's criticism of his letter to Iran, saying: What does he know about foreign policy? — “Joe Biden, as [President] Barack Obama's own secretary of defense has said …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, ABC News and The PJ Tatler

Kristina Wong / The Hill:

Iran bill author faults White House for GOP pushback on talks — Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, suggested Tuesday that the reason Republicans wrote an open-letter to Iran is due to the White House's resistance to congressional involvement in ongoing nuclear talks.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Hullabaloo and Politico

New York Times:

Republican Moves Imperil Democratic Cooperation on Iran — WASHINGTON — The open letter that 47 Senate Republicans sent to Iran's leadership on Monday warning about making a nuclear agreement with President Obama is forcing Democrats to choose between confronting Tehran and rallying around …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Politico

Politico:

GOP dissenters: Iran letter could backfire — Republicans could alienate Democrats whose votes are needed to override an Iran sanctions veto. — Not every Senate Republican signed on to Sen. Tom Cotton's extraordinary letter to Iran's leaders, and several of those who didn't are fuming …

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Michael Crowley / Politico: Was the GOP's Iran letter really unprecedented?

Bloomberg Business:
Tom Cotton Says Republicans Are Not Traitors for Letter to Iran

Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and ABC News

en.mfa.ir:
Dr. Zarif's Response to the Letter of US Senators

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Editorials / NY Daily News:
Un-patriot games as GOP senators undermine President on Iran

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Tom Cotton hands Dems an easy way of siding with Obama on Iran

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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:

No, it's not constitutional for the University of Oklahoma to expel students for racist speech [UPDATED in light of the students' expulsion] — Some University of Oklahoma students in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity were videorecorded singing (as best I and others can tell),

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Kelly Ogle / news9.com KWTV:

SAE House Mom And Coach Switzer Get Emotional Over Controversial Video — NORMAN, Oklahoma - — Monday night as SAE members scrambled to empty their belongings out of the closed fraternity house their 79-year-old house mother, a longtime friend of Barry Switzer, did the same thing.

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ATF:

Notice to those Commenting on the Armor Piercing Ammunition Exemption Framework — Thank you for your interest in ATF's proposed framework for determining whether certain projectiles are “primarily intended for sporting purposes” within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(17)(C).

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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
ATF shelves bullet ban proposal

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, National Review and The Federalist

Jack Quann / newstalk.com:

Bishop of Elphin: Gay parents of children are not necessarily parents — LISTEN: Kevin Doran says homosexuality is not “what God intended” — A Catholic Bishop's view that gay couples with children “are not parents” has been described as “a nonsense”. — The Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran …

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Wikimedia blog:

Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance — Justice presides with her scale and sword at Frankfurt am Main. — Photo by Roland Meinecke, licensed under a Free Art license. — Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is filing suit …

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New York Times:
Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users

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Steve Vladeck / Lawfare:

The Iran Letter and the Logan Act — Please like our Facebook page and follow Lawfare on Twitter: — The second-day story about the letter by 47 Republican Senators to the government of Iran that Jack's discussed here and here has shifted to whether these Senators have violated the Logan Act …