Pressure builds for AG Holder to step down, and PBC reluctantly agrees with House GOP leaders, it's time to resign...Christian Science Monitor says some in White House want Holder out.
--Day 2 of Manning court martial is well covered by Kevin Gozstola at FireDogLake; he will join us to recap the first week this Friday
--Steve Horn has important new stories on a new pro-fracking movie and defects in the southern leg of Keystone XL pipeline
--Chris Hedges hammers the new anti-Wikileaks film by the formerly respectable Alex Gibney
--military chiefs balk at independent prosecutors for military sex crimes
--accused Ft. Hood shooter, Army psychiatrist Major Hasan, fires attorneys and advances kooky defense strategy
--judge accepts insanity plea from James Holmes, accused of the shooting spree in Colorado at the Batman premier
--study finds 33,000 mentally ill in California prisons, and they are too often brutally disciplined by guards
--NJ Gov. Christie sets October date for special Senate election, protection his hoped-for landslide re-election in November
--this letter from a professor in Turkey details the widespread protests
--and here is an informative letter from John Kiriakou, the former CIA agent who is serving federal prison time
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