THEN-PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON and Jeffrey Epstein in September 1993 (WIkipedia).

Bill and Hillary Clinton have spoken to a House of Representatives committee on the investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal and each denied any significant ties to the man or his misconduct.

The former president insisted he “did nothing wrong” in his relationship with Epstein. The former First Lady and secretary of state testified that she had no knowledge of his crimes – which involved providing underage girls to men for sexual purposes – and doesn’t remember ever even meeting him.

According to the Associated Press, neither of them have been accused of any wrongdoing. Bill Clinton’s deposition was on Friday and Hillary Clinton’s was on Thursday.

The testimony was in a closed-door session in Chappaqua, New York.

Epstein was a wealthy financier who provided tax and estate services to billionaires. He was awaiting trial on sex trafficking in a New York City jail in 2019 when he committed suicide by hanging.

Anthropic pushes back on Pentagon demands

Artificial intelligence, A.I, is a powerful tool for making videos and de-aging your photos, but also has wide possible warmaking uses.

The Department of Defense is seeking to use a classified version of Anthropic’s A.I. model, Claude, which would be a $200 million contract.

According to The New York Times, Anthropic insists that it must imbed safeguards to prevent its use for mass domestic surveillance of Americans or in “fully autonomous” weapons that could act on their own.

The Pentagon wants those safeguards eliminated from the product, and a deadline of Friday was set for an agreement.

The outcome was not available at our deadline.

Pakistan at war with Afghanistan?

Pakistan has declared that it was in “open war” with Afghanistan, a neighboring nation.

According to United Press International, Pakistani forces conducted air strikes on the capital city of Kabul and Kandahar, the second-largest city in Afghanistan.

Pakistan military officials claim that it’s forces had killed 133 Afghan Taliban fighters and wounded over 200 more. Twenty-seven Afghan military posts were also destroyed, they said.

The Taliban denied this and said it had suffered no casualties. Pakistan’s attack followed Afghanistan’s attack on Pakistani border outposts, an assault which was said to be in retaliation for Pakistani attacks on seven Taliban camps.

Afghanistan has been accused by Pakistan of harboring terrorists seeking to overthrow their government.

Weather: Hot and then warm

February is ending and March is arriving, giving us in the West Orange County cities summery temperatures ranging from pretty warm to mildly toasty. The forecast for Saturday is for a daytime high of 83 with an overnight low of 53. Sunday will cool to 78 (54), followed by Monday’s even cooler numbers of 70 (51). Tuesday will warm a bit to 73 (51). Partly cloudy conditions are expected all that time.

Great Thoughts (education)

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Albert Einstein

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain

“Children must be taught how to think not what to think.”
– Margaret Mead