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We all know Hillary Clinton used a private email address and server for official business when she was Secretary of State. She said she turned over her work-related emails to State, and deleted the ones she deemed personal. Her lawyers said they wouldn’t honor the request by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, to turn over the server to an independent arbiter for review, and that it’s been wiped clean, along with any back up systems connected to the server. This private email scandal has been a nightmare for the Clinton team since it has rehashed all...

Opinion polls show New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is leading in his race for re-election by a 2-to-1 margin, but his fellow Republicans may not take control of the legislature. And, USA Today reports, the potential 2016 presidential candidate, may not want them to. Presenting himself as a leader who can work with Democrats in the legislature and as a Republican who can win Blue State voters could give him more political mileage if he runs for president, the newspaper reported Thursday. Christie is on track to be the first Republican to win more than 50 percent of votes cast...

Will Mitt Romney flip-flop on climate change if he’s elected president? Some big donors are betting on it.Romney and his super PAC have taken millions from funders with strong green streaks — despite the fact that the former Massachusetts governor has run to the right in the primary, proclaiming doubts about global-warming science and trashing President Barack Obama’s greenhouse gas emissions policies.Julian Robertson, founder of the Tiger Management hedge fund, helped put cap-and-trade legislation on the map with $60 million in contributions over the past decade to the Environmental Defense Fund. Now, Robertson has given $1.25 million to Romney’s Restore...

TRENTON — Students in New Jersey, a state that lost about 700 residents in the Sept. 11 attacks, can soon get classroom lessons on the attacks, from the history of terrorism to the heroics of regular people.Acting state Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf is scheduled to join with a volunteer task force Thursday to unveil a curriculum revolving around Sept. 11.Implementing the curriculum, which features lessons for students from kindergarten through high school, will be voluntary and open to schools public and private, in New Jersey or elsewhere. Schools in France and Missouri have expressed interest, organizers say.Donna Gaffney, a co-founder...

BOSTON – Despite the best attempts by a large contingent of local and national media gathered at Logan Airport here, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, co-chairman of the 9/11 commission, declined today to criticize Rudy Giuliani directly. But the mere fact that he officially endorsed Senator John McCain was criticism enough. Mr. Kean said in a brief interview afterward that Mr. Giuliani had sought his endorsement several months ago. But at that point, Mr. Kean said he indicated that he was not going to be backing anyone, which he said he believed at the time. It had been 20...

War On Terror: The co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission buy the Democratic line that the war in Iraq is a diversion from the war on terror and a recruiting tool for al-Qaida . But it's the bad guys who are less safe. In a Washington Post op-ed, 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean and vice chairman Lee Hamilton ponder the question of whether we are safer now than we were on that tragic day. They conclude the war in Iraq has made us less safe. They are wrong. "No conflict" they opine, "drains more time, attention, blood and treasure and support...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Sept. 11 commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by the Pentagon and FAA about their response to the 2001 terror attacks that it considered an investigation into possible deception, the panel's chairmen say in a new book. Republican Thomas Kean and Democrat Lee Hamilton also say in "Without Precedent" that their panel was too soft in questioning former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani - and that the 20-month investigation may have suffered for it. The book, a behind-the-scenes look at the investigation, recounts obstacles the authors say were thrown up by the Bush administration, internal...

I'm trying yet another format change this week.  I have left the background links on the entry for each guest for each show, like last week, but I've broken the Sunday shows out into separate posts to try to make each one more easy to read and discuss.  The Saturday shows will still be posted as one message, then I'll do the ping.  Please me know if this works.And I've put my (expanded) witty commentary here instead of in the ping...The most interesting guest this week should be Secretary Rice, who is on Fox, CBS and ABC, but she probably...

If John Kerry becomes President he will find himself on the horns of a dilemma - which close friend to ditch when he chooses a new Secretary of State. According to today's Washington Post, Kerry would pick his national security team within a few weeks after winning the White House and two of his closest friends, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) or Richard Holbrooke reportedly want the job of running the State Department.

A report commissioned in mid-1999 by Rep. Curt Weldon (R) looks into possible Chinese front companies in the US seeking technology for the Chinese military. Dr. Eileen Preisser and Michael Maloof are commissioned to make the report. Dr. Preisser, who runs the Information Dominance Center at the US Army's Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA) and will later become closely tied to Able Danger, uses LIWA's data mining capabilities to search unclassified information. According to Maloof, their results show Chinese front companies in the US posing as US corporations that acquire technology from US defense contractors. When the study is completed...

In a mock match-up with Menendez, Kean, the son of former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, wins 43 percent versus 34 percent. Against Andrews, Kean captures 46 percent compared to the Democrat’s 36 percent.

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation...is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks...

State Sen. Thomas H. Kean Jr. (R-Westfield), the son of former Governor Tom Kean., is making calls to Republicans informing them that he is opening a federal campaign account and will begin raising money for an ’06 Senate bid.

LifeSite Daily News Monday December 16, 2002 KISSINGER WITHDRAWS FROM 9/11 PROBE Pro-abortion Kean named instead WASHINGTON, December 16, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Henry Kissinger withdrew as head of the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks this weekend after it became clear that his multimillion-dollar consulting business, Kissinger Associates, includes Middle Eastern clients who might have come under commission scrutiny. According to a Dec. 17 Newsmax story "critics said Kissinger was stepping aside because he was not prepared to make public the list of his lucrative contracts, including many with foreign governments and other overseas entities". There has been...

WASHINGTON — President Bush named former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, a moderate Republican with a record of bipartisan cooperation, to replace Henry Kissinger as head of a new investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. "We're not going to leave any stone unturned," said Kean, who knew several people who died in the World Trade Center. Kean will lead a commission of five Republicans and five Democrats authorized to spend up to 18 months looking into the attacks, delving into intelligence issues as well as other areas such as aviation security and immigration. His appointment came three days...

President Bush named former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, Fox News ^ | December 16. 2002 | Fox News Posted on 12/16/2002 9:23 PM PST by ZULU WASHINGTON — President Bush named former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, a moderate Republican with a record of bipartisan cooperation, to replace Henry Kissinger as head of a new investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. "We're not going to leave any stone unturned," said Kean, who knew several people who died in the World Trade Center. Kean will lead a commission of five Republicans and five Democrats authorized to spend up...

Ex-President Bill Clinton has personally assured former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean that he will "cooperate" if the Independent Commission probing the 9/11 attacks seeks his testimony. Kean, the group's chairman, told reporters yesterday that there had been no request so far from the commission for either Clinton and President Bush to testify, but added, "there might be." He then revealed, "Both, by the way, have assured me personally of their full cooperation." On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Bush had "not ruled out" some sort of interview, though it would likely not be under oath....

<p>October 28, 2003 -- THE horrors in Baghdad over the past few days have reminded us of the inhuman nature of our militant Islamic foes - and how their mission now as ever is to dishearten and divide us so that we will eventually run away from Iraq and the Middle East and give them free rein.</p>

<p>April 22, 2004 -- Thomas Kean, the chairman of the 9/11 commission, says that future hearings will be "lower profile." No doubt. The commission has behaved disgracefully under Kean so far; how could this circus get much worse?</p> <p>What was supposed to be a serious, constructive, non-partisan inquiry into "what went wrong" quickly became an orgy of partisanship, with commissioners freely expressing their conclusions on the 9/11 debacle before their investigation was even half over.</p>

Kean: Sept. 11 panel will be more low-key By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Last Updated 5:08 pm PDT Monday, April 19, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the Sept. 11 commission denies panel members are grandstanding or showing partisanship but says they plan a more low-key approach as they put together recommendations for a final report. "There will be a lower profile," Republican chairman Thomas Kean, a former New Jersey governor, said in an interview. "Trying to do anything in Washington is very, very difficult because the atmosphere is so poisonous and there are rockets coming from the right...