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The State Department is lying when it says it didn’t know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal e-mails and a private server to conduct official business — because it never set up an agency e-mail address for her in the first place, the department’s former top watchdog says. “This was all planned in advance” to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency’s inspector general from 2005 to 2008.

Washington, Jul 15 - Reps. Trey Gowdy and Steve Southerland introduced legislation today that puts America’s seniors, veterans and active duty military first in the event a debt limit agreement is not reached by the President’s August 2nd deadline. H.R. 2534, the Ensuring America’s Promises Act of 2011, would require the federal government to pay Social Security, Medicare and veterans benefits, active duty military salary, and interest on the federal debt before meeting other spending obligations.