WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Tuesday that John Kerry, when he was a senator, used a private email account to send information now deemed classified to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her personal server.
Spokesman John Kirby said then-Senator Kerry used a "non-official account" to send a May 19, 2011, message to Clinton and then-national security adviser Tom Donilon. Portions of the message were classified as "secret" last week and censored when it was released along with about another 1,000 of Clinton's emails on Friday. The non-redacted portions of the message in question refer to developments in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
CATONSVILLE, Md. — President Barack Obama paid his first visit to a U.S. mosque on Wednesday, but he chose one that has ties with controversial teachers and leaders, including one who has preached that homosexuality is immoral and "something which we despise."
A former leader of the mosque, Imam Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh, has been tied to an al-Qaeda front group, and left the Baltimore mosque to lead the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, where radical American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki had preached, Fox News reported Monday. Al-Awlaki went on to Yemen, where he recruited for a branch of al-Qaeda before he was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011.
