- Feinstein asks White House to edit torture report
- CIA's 'Harsh Interrogations' Exceeded Legal Authority: Report NYT
- Revealed: Senate report contains new details on CIA black sites
- Chairman Satisfied With Military on Benghazi—"The GOP chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Thursday he is satisfied with how the military responded to the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya." Republicans desperately need this to attack Hillary with.
- TSA bars mute stroke victim from flight, forces 8-hour bus ride
- TSA defies audit, quietly expands behavior screening activity
- Your Local Police Force’s Next Vehicle: Tanks. Actual Tanks—"But now there will be more tanks than ever coming to law enforcement. Congress set aside $436 million on tanks last year, only to be told that the military doesn’t need or want them. They were built anyway because their primary contractor, General Dynamics, spent $11 million lobbying Congress the year beforehand"
- Another intense floor flight between Sens. Vitter and Sanders over veterans' clinics—"'If you think it's too expensive, then don't send them off to war,' Sanders said in his verbal joust with Vitter. 'Taking care of veterans is a cost of the war. They (veterans) paid for it.'" Gotta love Sanders.
- VA stonewalling hurts veterans
- Recording shows that Army punished soldiers who asked for help—"Civilian advocates who work with wounded soldiers when they are being discharged are targeted by the Army."
- VA Hides Names of Hospitals Where Vets Died From Delays
- Commemorating Suicides, Vets Plant 1,892 Flags on National Mall
- How Can Government Battle a 'Suicide Epidemic' Among Veterans?
- Vietnam Vet Mistaken As Homeless, Kicked Out Of Walgreens
- A rising number of children are dying from U.S. explosives littering Afghan land—"Because Afghanistan is not a signatory to the U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, U.S. officials say they are not legally obligated to clear any of the unexploded ordnance." WaPo
- 7 Million Afghans Just Dealt a Blow to the Taliban
- Afghan probe begins in attack on AP journalists
- Kerry focuses blame on Israel for collapse of talks—"Secretary of state highlights both sides’ 'unhelpful moves' but indicates crisis began with failure to release prisoners."
- Israel Says It Is 'Deeply Disappointed' by Kerry's Remarks on Peace Talks NYT
- Netanyahu Orders Israeli Ministers To Stop Meeting Palestinian Counterparts
- Palestinians can join Geneva Conventions on rules of war, Switzerland says
- Congressmen Say James Clapper Should Be Arrested for Lying About NSA Spying
- NSA reforms: Obama's playing a Fourth Amendment shell game—"President Obama has proposed a new authority that could force private corporations to act as government spies, circumventing constitutional privacy safeguards in the process."
- Merkel denied access to own NSA file
- German NSA Panel's Chairman Quits in Spat Over Snowden—"The chairman of a new German parliamentary panel probing mass surveillance by the NSA abruptly quit on Wednesday, rejecting opposition demands that the body question fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden."
- Stop Comparing the NSA to 1984 (and Start Comparing It to Philip K. Dick)—"Writers overwhelmingly use Orwell's novel to describe the surveillance state—which makes it easy to forget who's really oppressed today."
- The Feds Cut a Deal With In-Flight Wi-Fi Providers, and Privacy Groups Are Worried
- Spy-happy Condoleezza Rice joins Dropbox board as privacy adviser—What are your alternatives?
- BuzzFeed Quizzes: What Data Set Do You Belong To?
- Russia takes Voice of America radio off air
- Al-Jazeera trial: Defendants denounce 'joke' hearing
- Turkey's prime minister wants Twitter ban reinstated
- China: Television newscaster replaced on air for lashing out at corrupt officials+
- Internet freedom in Myanmar: A curse or an opportunity?—"With Myanmar's recently acquired internet freedom, questions arise about hate speech and incitement to violence online."
- Aspiring TV producer mistakenly killed by deputies in West Hollywood
- Lawsuit: Police academy instructors punished after whistleblowing
- Ex-Markham deputy police chief raped a prisoner, gets 5 years in prison
- Cop arrested for bumping man with car, then threatening him with gun
- Cop Pulls Gun On Fifth Graders Building Tree Fort—"Police forced a group of fifth graders to the ground at gunpoint this week as they attempted to build a tree fort in their own neighborhood."
- D.A. drops charge against woman who accused officer of excessive force
- Pakistan: Nine-month-old boy accused of planning murder—"A nine-month-old boy has appeared in court in Pakistan on charges of planning a murder, threatening police and interfering in state affairs, it appears."
- Justice: Albuquerque police use 'excessive force'
- Feds slam use of deadly force by Albuquerque police
- US inquiry may order Albuquerque police oversight
- Mississippi Woman Faces Execution For Crime Her Son Admitted To
- US man cleared of Brooklyn killing after 25 years in jail—"Jonathan Fleming, 51, walks free after new evidence placed him in Florida on night of 1989 murder in New York."
- Woman, 74, freed after 32 years in prison for murder she didn't commit
- World's longest-serving death inmate freed over evidence doubts—"The Shizuoka District Court suspended the death sentence and ordered a retrial for 78-year-old Iwao Hakamada, who had been convicted in a 1966 murder."
- Dallas police dash camera video shows incident that led to man's $1.1M settlement with city
- Attorneys skeptical of Oklahoma dash-cam bill—"Some attorneys who specialize in obtaining arrest videos from police are concerned that a bill to make Highway Patrol dash-cam videos open to the public could actually have the opposite effect and limit the public's ability to see the videos."
- Arizona Police Investigating Video of Officer Attacking Woman
- LAPD officers tampered with in-car recording equipment, records show—"An inspection by LAPD investigators found about half of the estimated 80 cars in one South L.A. patrol division were missing antennas."
- Fundraising effort surpasses $100,000 for man assaulted by angry crowd in Detroit
- Detroit Nurse Hailed A Hero; Stepping In To Stop The Attack On Driver Beaten By Mob
- Detroit police arrest 2 more suspects in beating of driver who hit boy
- Detroit police not ruling out hate crime in mob attack on Steven Utash, white motorist who struck boy with pickup
- Toyota admits deceiving consumers; $1.2-billion penalty is record—"Carmaker says it misled consumers and regulators about two defects that caused sudden-acceleration incidents. 'Toyota put sales over safety, and profit over principle,' FBI says."
- On Heels Of GM, Toyota Recalls More Than 6 Million Vehicles
- Ford to recall about 434,000 vehicles
- Is your car infested with spiders? Mazda has a software update for that
- GM knew of faulty ignition switch, court documents show—"Engineers say automaker believed drivers would be able to control car if ignition failed."
- G.M. Secrecy on Crashes Adds to Families' Pain—"Relatives of people killed in accidents involving recalled General Motors cars find it hard to get information partly because of how G.M. defines victims, and the technology of 'black boxes.'" NYT
- Angry families want GM prosecuted for defects
- Two Reasons The GM Recall Is Unlike Any Recall We've Ever Seen—First, regulators twice failed to do their jobs. And second, GM attempts to escape liability by changing their company name.
- GM's Barra: 'I cannot tell you why it took years for a safety defect to be announced' WaPo
- The Ignition Switch General Motors Didn't Want to Replace Costs 57-Cents
- An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a G.M. Flaw NYT
- Man gets 14 years for 'lasing' helicopter—Harsh sentence due to his unceasing pattern of bad behavior.
- LAX baggage-heist case may be one of airport's largest
- Airlines Got Fewer Complaints But Bungled More Bags
- SaharaTV Releases Video of Passengers Aboard New York Bound Arik Air Plane… Without Airconditioning!
- Flipside: Spontaneous protest on plane halts deportation—"In an expression of spontaneous protest against the deportation of a young Iranian man, passengers aboard a flight from Östersund refused to fasten their seat belts, which, by law, prevented the pilots from taking off."
