The HuffPost Show has the terrific segment Senator Elizabeth Warren Interview.  Below is the blurb for the show on YouTube.

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How anyone can watch this interview, compare Elizabeth Warren to Hillary Clinton, and still think they want Hillary Clinton, is just beyond what I can understand. The only explanation that makes sense to me is that the Clinton fans have a phantasy about who Hillary Clinton is that is completely disconnected from her actual record. I know what the Clinton record is, and it is diametrically opposed to everything that Elizabeth Warren talked about in this interview.

The interview starts off with some of Warren’s life story.  If you are as big a fan of Elizabeth Warren as I am, you’ve probably heard this a million times.  Yet, she tells it so engagingly and with variations each time, that I never tire of hearing her tell it.  Of course the story ties in with the important issues that she goes on to discuss.  If you haven’t heard this, then you really need to watch this video.

By the end of the interview, Elizabeth Warren had the audience and me all fired up to fight for what we believe in.

In a previous post, Bill Black: HSBC Violates its Sweetheart Deal and Loretta Lynch Praises It, I wondered what Elizabeth Warren knew about this story and how she reacts to it.  She answered that question in spades in the interview.  She did not mention what she thinks of Loretta Lynch, though.

When she got to the discussion on Iran, it was the first time that I had some strong objection to her point of view. I made the following comment on the YouTube posting:

I am a huge fan of Elizabeth Warren, and I liked everything she had to say until she said that sanctions against Iran worked.  Even the President said that continuing with sanctions would only harden the Iranians’ position.  I have a blog post that puts the numbers to Obama’s assertion.

Netanyahu enters never-never land

We could have gotten an even better deal than we just got, and we could have gotten it years ago, if President Bush had accepted an Iranian proposal instead of rejecting it in favor of imposing sanctions.

See my previous post Liberals Bernie Sanders And Al Franken Stand With Obama In Support Of Iran Nuclear Deal. That post has a quote from the President mentioning a third alternative to the negotiated settlement.

Third, we could pull out of negotiations, try to get other countries to go along and continue sanctions that are currently in place or add additional ones, and hope for the best — knowing that every time we have done so, Iran has not capitulated but instead has advanced its program.

I hope that Elizabeth Warren will fix her understanding on Iran sanctions, and I hope she will start talking openly about the nomination of Loretta Lynch for Attorney General.

First Look has the article Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess.

I’ll quote just enough of the article to give you a hint at how secure it is and how different it is from what you may be thinking.

In other words, if an attacker knows that you are using a seven-word Diceware passphrase, and they pick seven random words from the Diceware word list to guess, there is a one in 1,719,070,799,748,422,591,028,658,176 chance that they’ll pick your passphrase each try.

At one trillion guesses per second — per Edward Snowden’s January 2013 warning — it would take an average of 27 million years to guess this passphrase.

Not too bad for a passphrase like “bolt vat frisky fob land hazy rigid,” which is entirely possible for most people to memorize. Compare that to “d07;oj7MgLz’%v,” a random password that contains slightly less entropy than the seven-word Diceware passphrase but is significantly more difficult to memorize.

I am thinking about using this technique myself.  Just remember, if you use the exact pass phrase quoted above, it will not be secure at all.  You have to use the technique to generate your own random pass phrase.

Naked Capitalism has the article Bill Black: HSBC Violates its Sweetheart Deal and Loretta Lynch Praises It.

There can be no more incriminating indictment of the Nation’s leading federal prosecutors than the fact that even the sycophantic DealBook admits that on Holder and Lynch’s watch a “pattern” of recurrent frauds by our most elite CEOs has emerged – and those frauds commonly involve profiting from the banks aiding the funding of mass murderers. The administration has managed to turn into reality all those bad novels they sell in airport book stores that describe networks of criminal elite bankers financing terrorists, drug gangs, and venal and brutal kleptocrats with impunity from the laws.

What is it going to take to make progressive Senators wake up to the fact that Loretta Lynch is an awful choice to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General?  The Republicans are dong us a favor by not allowing a vote on her nomination.  Of course, it would be a big favor if it weren’t for the fact that Holder stays in office as long as Lynch is not confirmed.

I would expect that at least Elizabeth Warren would be sounding the alarm bells.  She seems strangely silent about an issue that is in her area of expertise.