SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET:

ARMY WARNS TROOPS – From the Washington Times:  "The U.S. Army has issued a worldwide urgent 'security awareness message' to soldiers on how to protect their social media accounts, and their homes, from attacks by the Islamic State terrorists or other extremists.  The message lists over a dozen safety steps, including making sure personnel check the door peephole before letting someone in their homes, fortifying doors, holding family meetings on security and toning down social media postings so terrorists do not know personal connections or daily comings and goings.  The Army issued the warning on Friday in reaction to the Islamic State, also called ISIL and ISIS, publishing the names of 100 U.S. military personnel as targets for assassination."  And yet the Pentagon still lists the terror attack at Fort Hood as "workplace violence."

QUESTIONS ABOUT HILLARY'S HILLARY – From Fox:  "Senate Republicans are renewing efforts to learn why Huma Abedin, a top assistant to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was allowed to keep working at the agency under a special, part-time status while also being employed at a politically-connected consulting firm.  The new requests are being made by Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, following revelations that both women used a private Internet server and email accounts for State Department correspondence.  Grassley says the earlier requests to the department have been largely ignored, so the new ones have gone to the department’s inspector general and to Secretary of State John Kerry, seeking their involvement."  Abedin has been close to Clinton for years.  She's married to disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner.  She is also said to have connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.  I want to know how much influence she has.

DEFECTION – From London's Telegraph:  "A close media aide to Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, has sought political asylum in Switzerland after travelling to Lausanne to cover the nuclear talks between Tehran and the West.  Amir Hossein Motaghi, who managed public relations for Mr Rouhani during his 2013 election campaign, was said by Iranian news agencies to have quit his job at the Iran Student Correspondents Association (ISCA).  He then appeared on an opposition television channel based in London to say he no longer saw any 'sense' in his profession as a journalist as he could only write what he was told.  'There are a number of people attending on the Iranian side at the negotiations who are said to be journalists reporting on the negotiations,' he told Irane Farda television. 'But they are not journalists and their main job is to make sure that all the news fed back to Iran goes through their channels.'"  Let's see if our mainstream news organizations show the slightest interest in this man.  Don't hold your breath.

March 28,  2015