The twitter announcement yesterday of the arrival of baby Isaiah to pop music superstar Carrie Underwood sparked a political firestorm. And late today another controversy threatened to drag Underwood further into the public spotlight.

Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, acknowledged this afternoon that contrary to federal guidelines she used a personal e-mail account for all correspondence during her tenure at State. The unsecure nature of the account led ultimately to its being hacking by “Guciffer”, a Romanian who is responsible for a number of high-level security breaches involving both current and former members of the United States government.

Some of the leaked e-mails indicate that Clinton had Underwood’s e-mail address and had sent e-mails to her as recently as February of this year. Already speculation is rampant as to why Clinton, former Secretary of State and Senator from New York, would be in contact with Underwood. A spokesperson responding to the emerging controversy issued a statement indicating that Hillary is a huge country music fan, has followed Carrie’s career closely since her debut on American idol and would frequently reach out to the singer with gushing admiration.

However anonymous sources within the Clinton camp have intimated that Underwood’s performance in the Sound of Music Live was so disturbing that Secretary Clinton at the time was concerned it would trigger a worldwide backlash against American interests. After unsuccessfully dissuading her from attempting to reprise Julie Andrew’s iconic roll, Clinton immediately warned her she might be the target of violent extremists. And in this case they were likely to be non-Islamic and homegrown.

Leaked e-mails show that specific instructions to heighten security were forwarded to embassies in Austria and the UK immediately following the live broadcast and to prepare for “in-country” workplace violence. The State Department even went as far as preparing talking points for Susan Rice in the event things did get out of control and they needed someone to respond on the weekly Sunday talk shows. According to these sources, State was determined to avoid any hint of US involvement and was prepared to link any attacks directly to Underwood’s performance.

Congressional oversight committees are anxious to investigate these e-mails to determine if the heightened security was indeed linked to Underwood and was truly warranted. Congressman Tray Gowdy (R-Tx) insisted, “It matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.” Gowdy indicated that some of the tweets attributed to former cast members of the original Sound of Music may have actually been from Clinton or her former staff under a pseudonym.   He expressed deep reservations that Kym Karath, who played the original Greti Von Trapp , would characterize Carrie’s performance as “painful to watch” or that “She delivered her spoken lines with all the inflection and spontaneity of an in-flight safety video.”