2016 presidential election

Under Clinton, State’s cybersecurity suffered

Under Clinton, State’s cybersecurity suffered

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department was among the worst agencies in the federal government at protecting its computer networks while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary from 2009 to 2013, a situation that continued to deteriorate as John Kerry took office and Russian hackers breached the department's email system, according to independent audits and interviews.

The State Department's compliance with federal cybersecurity standards was below average when Clinton took over but grew worse in each year of her tenure, according to an annual report card compiled by the White House based on audits by agency watchdogs. Network security continued to slip after Kerry replaced Clinton in February 2013, and remains substandard, according to the State Department inspector general.

In history of Jewish lawyers, Alan Dershowitz and Abraham are two of a kind
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In history of Jewish lawyers, Alan Dershowitz and Abraham are two of a kind

Jewish News Service

In his latest sharp-witted work, perhaps the world's most well-known Jewish lawyer profiles the man he considers to the first-ever Jewish lawyer: the biblical patriarch Abraham.

Retired Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer" and one of its "most distinguished defenders of individual rights," on Oct. 6 came out with Abraham: The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer. The attorney and Israel advocate says he has essentially been working on the book for 70 of his 79 years.

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