Cause of Action in the News:
Daily Caller – Watchdog Group Hopes To Depose Hillary, State Department Officials
Cause of Action has requested to depose former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Under Secretary of Management for State Patrick Kennedy, the State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Margaret Grafeld, in addition to officials in the National Archives and Records Administration.
Our hope is that if the deposition of these individuals is allowed we will be able to shine a bright light onto the mystery of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. A couple of the questions we plan on asking Mrs. Clinton include why she deleted emails in the first place and why she didn’t turn over electronic copies, which could contain insightful metadata.
In Other News:
Examiner.com – FTC joins EPA, Justice in probes of Volkswagen
In addition to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission has joined the Volkswagen investigation. The FTC is planning on looking into VW’s advertisements. With at least 250 consumer lawsuits in 28 states and criminal probes in other countries this just adds to the car manufacturer’s woes.
Slate – IRS Hasn’t Finished Doing Windows Upgrades Because It Can’t Find a Bunch of Its Computers
Even after spending $128 million upgrading their computers from Windows XP on their computers and Windows 2003 from their servers, the Internal Revenue Service isn’t finished. An audit revealed that almost fifty percent of the servers and over a thousand computers have not yet been upgraded. It was also revealed that the IRS cannot find these computers and servers to upgrade them. “At the conclusion of our fieldwork, the IRS had not accounted for the location or migration status of approximately 1,300 workstations and upgraded only about one-half of its Windows servers.”
Washington Examiner – New EPA climate rules target your air conditioning
The Environmental Protection Agency has introduced new rules that will directly affect the American people in their homes. Air conditioners and refrigerators are the next target the EPA has in its sights. The EPA’s administrator said that the rules would get us closer to meeting the current administration’s climate agenda.
Business Insider – Facebook, Google, Amazon and other big tech companies just slammed a proposed US cybersecurity law
A group of large tech companies have grouped together and have gone after the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which they claim “does not sufficiently protect users’ privacy or appropriately limit the permissible uses of information shared with the government.” The act is supposed to make it easier for the government to get customer information from big tech companies. As of right now, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is being deliberated in Congress.
Wall Street Journal – Clinton Server’s Technical Problems Boosted Use of Personal Accounts (In less than a month, the server appeared to stop functioning at least twice, according to emails the conservative group Citizens United obtained)
By now everyone has heard of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server. What everyone may not know is that after being in use for only a month the server started having technical difficulties. When the server was down the email addresses that it was responsible for weren’t working either, which may have led to the use of personal email accounts to send State Department emails.
