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September 2015 Intelligence News

• If Republicans really want to hold up the Iran deal, they should send Dick Cheney to jail by Marcy Wheeler, Salon, September 11. "Republicans are right to demand transparency from the executive branch (though in this case, they seem to be asking for things that -- by design -- the president cannot give). But to force the issue, they're also going to have to find a way to criminalize common Republican practice, a practice blessed by John Yoo."
• The Issue Everyone Is Missing In The Clinton Email Scandal by Lauren C. Williams, ThinkProgress, September 11. "While there are legitimate cybersecurity and legal public records concerns regarding Clinton's private email server, there's little mention of the real issue -- an ambiguously complicated and overused government classification system."
• Life Is Complicated For Most Lawyers Who Handle Classified Info by Ali Watkins, Huffington Post, September 4. "Unlike Hillary Clinton's attorney, they don't get safes from the government."
• State Department Rescinds Terrorist Designation of November 17 Organization, Federal Register, September 3. "I conclude that the circumstances that were the basis for the designation of the Revolutionary Organization 17 November as a foreign terrorist organization have changed in such a manner as to warrant revocation of the designation."
• Are Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden both bitten by 'Schrōdinger's cat'? by Chuck McCutcheon, Christian Science Monitor, September 2. "The phrase 'Schrōdinger's cat' has had more than nine lives, not just in quantum physics but also in the language of political analysis, especially recently."
• More Hillary emails contain foreign governments' information, Reuters, September 2. "A review last month by Reuters of previously released Clinton emails found 30 email threads that the State Department has marked to show they include information shared in confidence by foreign government officials, from prime ministers to spy chiefs."
• Insights, and Redactions, in Latest Release of Hillary Clinton's Emails by Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, September 1. "The State Department said that, after Monday's release, a quarter of Mrs. Clinton's emails have been made public."