NY Times reports that CIA is arming rebels in Syria via third parties; Ann Wright and Coleen Rowley raise important questions about new head of Amnesty International, Suzanne Nossel Read the Wright/Rowley commentary here.
Also:
--UN advocate challenges US over legality of drone kills with almost no captures
--National Security Archive releases CIA documents that show 7 warnings of al Qaeda attack plans, and two drone sightings of bin Laden in 2000
--Pakistan arrests suspect linked to Mohammed Atta
--Supreme Courts dismisses FCC fines for nudity and fleeting expletives, but declines to rule on obscenity ban
--Food bill includes protections for Monsanto GMO's
--U of Virginia fired its president, who may have opposed a corporate agenda
--PBC podcast tomorrow on solitary confinement for up to 40 years in California supermax prisons. We hear Dr. Terry Kupers on the mental health impact of long-term isolation
--SF Chronicle's token conservative has the right take on the effort to remove Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi
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