- Rolling Stone Portrays Alleged Boston Bomber As Dreamy Teen Heartthrob
- Rolling Stone cover with Boston Bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev, aka Jahar, is good journalism
- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Rolling Stone Cover and Cultural Self-Censorship
- Rolling Stone defends Boston bomb suspect cover
- Rolling Stone's Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover gets parodied—Colbert weighs in. Salon
- Photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev released after Rolling Stone complaints
- Mass killers have always been heartthrobs—"Long before #freejahar, women swooned over the Haymarket bomber and Franz Ferdinand's assassin." Salon
- Pakistani girl shot by Taliban claims triumph over terrorists
- A Taliban Commander Writes to Malala Yousafzai
- Dear Taliban leader, thank you for your letter to Malala Yousafzai—"You were big enough to admit that your comrades tried to kill a young girl, but I would advise against picking a fight with women."
- Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism—"NSA apologists say spying is only used for menaces like 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'terror.' But those terms have been radically redefined."
- Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA
- Obama's secret kill list – the disposition matrix—"The disposition matrix is a complex grid of suspected terrorists to be traced then targeted in drone strikes or captured and interrogated. And the British government appears to be colluding in it."
- The Case for Abolishing the DHS
- FBI blocks release of autopsy on Boston suspects' pal
- Police guard London mosque where thousands of Muslims gathered to condemn murder of soldier Lee Rigby—The voices of moderate Muslims denouncing extremists should grow stronger.
- Political Violence and Privilege—"Violent right-wing extremism doesn't scare Americans."
- TSA searches valet parked car—How dare this cow complain? If she had nothing to hide she had nothing to worry about. Giving up liberty for a false sense of security is sooo worth it.
- TSA Educating Fliers About Ramadan - Another Swing and a Miss
- TSA Expanding Expedited Screening Program at John Wayne Airport—Those who are not registered frequent flyers in one of the 5 airlines "must apply for acceptance through the Global Entry Trusted Traveler program and pay a $100 fee." So, just needs a little elbow grease.
- Get ready for 'random' screening by TSA—"An electronic device will randomly direct fliers to different screening lines to help cut down accusations of passenger-profiling by TSA staff."
- Opposed to 'security theater,' U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett seeks to limit TSA's random search authority
- Ex-CIA Milan chief held in Panama over cleric abduction—"The cleric, known as Abu Omar, was allegedly flown to Egypt and tortured."
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11 mastermind, allowed to build vacuum in CIA prison—"CIA handlers allowed him to tinker in the hopes he wouldn't go nuts while in a secret prison in Romania."
- The American Way of Torture: The Rule of Law Went and Never Returned
- UK provided more support for CIA rendition flights than thought – study—"The Rendition Project suggests aircraft associated with secret detention operations landed at British airports 1,622 times."
- Second 'Prisoner X' held in top secret in Israel
- The Drone that Killed my Grandson—"The government has killed a 16-year-old American boy. Shouldn't it at least have to explain why?" NYT
- It Is Now Common Knowledge That US Drones Bomb Civilian Rescuers
- U.S. Border Agency Has Considered Weaponizing Domestic Drones to "Immobilize" People—Dead people are "immobile" too, right?
- Colorado town ponders bounty for shooting down drones—"Residents would have to salvage the nose or tail to qualify for $100 reward under quixotic proposal."
- Air Force drone crash closes remote Florida highway—Feeling safer yet?
- Wounded Soldier Writes Letter About Pain And Being Forced To Commit War Crimes In Iraq . . . Then Commits Suicide
- Release the Cleared Guantanamo Detainees to End the Hunger Strike
- MIA work 'acutely dysfunctional'—"The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from 'dysfunction to total failure,' according to an internal study suppressed by military officials."
- Hagel orders 20 percent cut in Pentagon top brass, senior civilians
- Chart of the Day: "Current Military Spending Is Lapping at Historic Highs, Not Lows."
- This Is Why People Hate the Federal Government—"Sequestration is threatening our safety and security, or so Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Congress (again)...."
- The Drone That Wouldn't Die: How a Defense Contractor Bested the Pentagon—"The Air Force was ready to drop the RQ-4B Block 30, but a Northrup Grumman lobbying campaign convinced Congress to resuscitate it."
- US Government Accountability Office: Improved controls, processes, and systems are needed for accurate and reliable financial information for the Department of Defense
- Israel plans on approving over 900 new settlement homes in West Bank
- EU takes tougher stance on Israeli settlements—"'Earthquake' directive will prohibit EU states from signing deals with Israel unless settlement exclusion clause is include."
- EU officially publishes settlement guidelines despite Israeli objections
- Homeland Security Threatens Legal Action Against Employees Who Read News About Leaks
- Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter call for transparency on NSA spying
- Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands
- Privacy group warns against California plan for digital license plates
- New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data NYT
