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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015
© 2015 The New York Times
Clinton Emails U.S. FEARS DATA
Said to Contain TAKEN IN HACKING
Classified Data
MAY EXPOSE SPIES
Unclear if She Knew
They Were Secret
PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
and MATT APUZZO
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
For President in Kenya, a Family Dinner
In Nairobi on an official trip to Africa, President Obama dined between his half sister and his step-grandmother. Page A6.
NO SUICIDE TALK Another Angry Face in the Gunmen’s Gallery
AT N.F.L. FUNCTION
This article is by Campbell
Robertson, Richard Pérez-Peña
and Alan Blinder.
Seau’s Family Is Denied
Speech at Induction
By KEN BELSON
SAN DIEGO — Junior Seau’s
induction into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame was always going to
be awkward, a chance to celebrate a marquee player known
for his bone-crushing career
while not dwelling on the injuries
that might have precipitated his
death.
When his induction was announced at the Super Bowl, his
family rejoiced and started thinking about what to say at the ceremony in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 8.
Seau had told them that if he ever
made it, he wanted his daughter,
Sydney, to introduce him.
But the Hall of Fame does not
plan to let Sydney or anyone else
speak on Seau’s behalf. Instead,
it will show a video commemorating his career, while avoiding
questions about his suicide in
2012 at age 43 and the subsequent
diagnosis of traumatic brain injury that doctors said they believed
was brought on by hits to his
head.
Nor will the video mention the
lawsuit that Seau’s family has
filed against the N.F.L., which is
trying to curb injuries in active
players and address brain disease among its almost 20,000 retired players.
To the Hall of Fame officials,
simply showing the video, which
will not invoke Seau’s suicide,
will keep the focus on his playing
days. To his family still grappling
with his death, though, the decision diminishes the tribute to one
of the sport’s best linebackers
and a highly regarded figure in
Southern California, where he
grew up and played most of his
career.
“It’s frustrating because the induction is for my father and for
the other players, but then to not
be able to speak, it’s painful,”
Sydney said. “I just want to give
the speech he would have given.
It wasn’t going to be about this
mess. My speech was solely
about him.”
The Hall said Seau’s brain injury and suicide had nothing to do
with its decision to show only a
video, but Seau’s death continues
to haunt the N.F.L., which collaborates with the Hall on the induction ceremony and for years
denied any link between repeatContinued on Page D6
LAFAYETTE, La. — It was
about 20 minutes into the 7 p.m.
showing of “Trainwreck” when
moviegoers heard a couple of
pops, like a sound effect glitch.
But when the sounds rang out
again it became horribly clear
that this was something else entirely.
“From the reflection of the
movie, the light, you could see his
gun shining,” said Lucas Knepper, who was seated in the same
mostly empty row as the man in
the short-sleeve, button-down
shirt who had begun firing at the
20 or so people in the theater.
“And then you could see the flash
coming from the chamber.”
Soon two young women lay fatally shot, nine other people were
wounded, and with that, on
Thursday night, Lafayette, which
boasts of being the happiest city
SILENCE AMONG CANDIDATES
The recent mass shootings have
not resonated on the presidential
campaign trail. Page A11.
in the country, joined Chattanooga, Tenn.; Charleston, S.C.;
Aurora, Colo.; Newtown, Conn.,
and so many others on the long
list of cities scarred by gun violence. The gunman, John Russell
Houser, became the latest figure
in a gallery of angry men with
weapons who walked into a movie theater, a church, a school or a
workplace and shattered the
lives of people there.
Accounts from acquaintances,
law enforcement officials and
court records portrayed Mr.
Houser, 59, of Phenix City, Ala.,
who also took his own life, as a
man with a diffuse collection of
troubles and grievances — personal, political and social — who
had a particular anger for women, liberals, the government and
a changing world.
Because he had been accused
of both domestic violence and soliciting arson, though never successfully prosecuted, he was denied a permit to carry a concealed pistol. His family repeatedly described him as violent and
mentally ill; his mental health
had been called into question going back decades, and he spent
time in a hospital receiving psychiatric care. He vandalized the
house he was evicted from last
year, and tampered with the gas
lines in a way that could have
caused a fire or explosion.
Given his history, he should not
have been allowed to own a gun,
said Sheriff Heath D. Taylor of
Russell County, where Mr. Houser lived.
President Obama has said repeatedly that each mass shooting
cries out for stricter controls to
keep mentally ill people and
criminals from obtaining guns,
Continued on Page A12
WASHINGTON — Government investigators said Friday
that they had discovered classified information on the private
email account that Hillary Rodham Clinton used while secretary
of state, stating unequivocally
that those secrets never should
have been stored outside of secure government computer systems.
Mrs. Clinton has said for
months that she kept no classified information on the private
server that she set up in her
house so she would not have to
carry both a personal phone and
a work phone. Her campaign said
Friday that any government secrets found on the server had
been classified after the fact.
But the inspectors general of
the State Department and the nation’s intelligence agencies said
the information they found was
classified when it was sent and
remains so now. Information is
considered classified if its disclosure would likely harm national security, and such information
can be sent or stored only on
computer networks with special
safeguards.
“This classified information
never should have been transmitted via an unclassified personal
system,” Steve A. Linick, the
State Department inspector general, said in a statement signed
by him and I. Charles McCullough III, the inspector general
for the intelligence community.
The findings by the two inspectors general raise new questions about Mrs. Clinton’s use of
her personal email at the State
Department, a practice that since
March has been criticized by her
Republican adversaries as well
as advocates of open government, and has made some Democrats uneasy. Voters, however, do
not appear swayed by the issue,
according to polls.
In their joint statement, the inspectors general said the classified information had originated
with the nation’s intelligence
Continued on Page A14
Trove for China Could
Drive Officers From
Overseas Postings
By MARK MAZZETTI
and DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON — American
officials are concerned that the
Chinese government could use
the stolen records of millions of
federal workers and contractors
to piece together the identities of
intelligence officers secretly
posted in China over the years.
The potential exposure of the
intelligence officers could prevent a large cadre of American
spies from ever being posted
abroad again, current and former
intelligence officials said. It
would be a significant setback for
intelligence agencies already
concerned that a recent data
breach at the Office of Personnel
Management is a major windfall
for Chinese espionage efforts.
In the days after the breach of
records of millions of federal
workers and contractors became
public last month, some officials
in the Obama administration said
that the theft was not as damaging as it might have been because
the Chinese hackers did not gain
access to the identities of American undercover spies.
The records of the C.I.A. and
some other intelligence agencies,
they said, were never part of the
personnel office’s databases, and
were protected during the
breach. Officials said intelligence
agencies were taking steps to try
to mitigate the damage, but it is
unclear what they are specifically doing.
But intelligence and congressional officials now say there is
great concern that the hackers —
who government officials are
now reluctant to say publicly
were working for the Chinese
government — could still use the
vast trove of information to identify American spies by a process
of elimination. By combining the
stolen data with information they
Continued on Page A10
Gap Widening
As Top Workers
Reap the Raises
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
DIGITALGLOBE VIA GOOGLE EARTH
BROKE OUT El Chapo escaped the Altipla-
ESCAPED The drug kingpin’s first escape
3 OF A KIND The Matamoros lockup has an
no maximum-security prison this month.
was from Puente Grande prison in 2001.
almost identical layout to the other two.
Prison ‘Chapo’ Fled Has Replicas (He Escaped One of Them, Too)
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
MEXICO CITY — Ever since
the powerful drug lord known as
El Chapo escaped from a maximum-security prison through a
mile-long tunnel that opened
right into the shower of his cell,
Mexico has been wondering how
his accomplices got their hands
on the blueprints to operate with
such pinpoint precision.
The answer could be quite simple: They may have had them for
years.
It turns out that the prison is a
virtual replica of another lockup
that El Chapo, whose real name
is Joaquín Guzmán Loera, broke
out of in 2001 in an almost equally
audacious escape.
In other words, he essentially
broke out of the same prison
twice.
The authorities believe that for
his first escape — by some accounts, he sneaked out in a laundry cart — Mr. Guzmán had the
help of a top prison security official who went on to become a
trusted member of his Sinaloa
cartel.
Investigators think that the
Layouts Virtual Match
— Breakout in ’01
Set Stage
confederate, Dámaso López, may
have taken a copy of the blueprints for the other prison when
he left his job around the time of
Mr. Guzmán’s earlier escape, a
senior Mexican law enforcement
official said.
And since the layout of the two
prisons is virtually identical,
those blueprints could have come
in handy when planning this
month’s breakout.
The official said that Mr. López
was now a prime suspect in the
hunt for the people who planned
and carried out this month’s escape. Beyond the possible blueprints, Mr. López is believed to
have close knowledge of the layout of the prisons and security
procedures. The tunnel makers
may have also had the GPS coordinates for Mr. Guzmán’s
Continued on Page A6
The same scene plays out in
Robert DeMeola’s Midtown Manhattan office every few weeks
now — not that it ever gets any
easier. In walks a director or senior accountant, job offer in hand,
threatening to leave for a hedge
fund or big bank unless Mr.
DeMeola can deliver a raise of 30
percent, sometimes more.
“It used to be once a quarter.
Now it’s every month,” said Mr.
DeMeola, chief operating officer
of CohnReznick, a national accounting, tax and advisory firm
headquartered in New York.
“They expect you to negotiate.”
For much less senior workers
at CohnReznick, even those with
a college degree or other postsecondary education, it is another
story. “We never like to lose
someone good, but it’s easy to
teach someone those skills, and
there are others in the marketplace who want those jobs,” Mr.
DeMeola said.
The very different treatment
accorded employees at the very
top versus those in the bottom or
middle ranks has become a fact
of life at corporate offices, law
and accounting firms, and other
Continued on Page A3
NATIONAL A11-16
INTERNATIONAL A4-10
OBITUARIES B7-8
BUSINESS DAY B1-6
THE MAGAZINE
Shining More Light on Pluto
U.S. Won’t Block Release of Spy
Ingrid Sischy Is Dead
A Car Recall, for Software
Scientists have
been able to
see the atmosphere of Pluto,
backlit by the
sun, in photos
from the New
Horizons mission. They
found molecules in its atmosphere have
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fallen by half in two years.
American officials said they would not
object if Jonathan J. Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, was
granted parole in November. PAGE A10
The editor and
cultural critic
had long ties
with Interview
magazine, The
New Yorker
and Vanity
Fair. She was
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63.
Concern that computer hackers could
gain control of its vehicles led Fiat
Chrysler to a first-of-its-kind recall to repair a computer vulnerability. PAGE B1
California
Bagel Quest
Turkey Strikes ISIS in Syria
To try to pre-empt an attack, Turkey
carried out airstrikes on three Islamic
PAGE A10
State targets inside Syria.
Costly Cholesterol Remedy
A new drug that can sharply lower cholesterol is likely to heat up the debate on
PAGE B1
fast-rising drug prices.
The possibility of
a New York bagel
still arouses
yearning in transplanted Easterners.
THIS WEEKEND
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21
NEW YORK A17-19
ARTS C1-7
SPORTSSATURDAY D1-6
Sanders Is a Brooklyn Boy
A Dining Space’s New Faces
A ‘Daily Show’ Dispute on Race
Steeper Climb for Tour Leader
As Bernie Sanders runs for president,
his Brooklyn background is a point of
pride to some in the borough. PAGE A15
The space housing the Four Seasons
restaurant will be taken over by young
PAGE A17
trendsetters.
A former writer for “The Daily Show”
recalled a debate he and the host, Jon
Stewart, had in 2011 about race. PAGE C1
In the Alps, Chris Froome’s lead was cut
by 32 seconds going into the next-to-last
PAGE D5
stage of the Tour de France.
Joe Nocera
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