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--Jason Leopold's remarkable report for al Jazeera exposes 2 versions with different redactions of the same Gitmo document, and the stupid, arbitrary standards used to black out info
--US reveals that worldwide terror alert was triggered by intercept of communication between al Zawahiri and the al Qaeda leader in Yemen
--London's Telegraph gives more credibility to reports that CIA station in Benghazi was running Libyan weapons to Syria
--good news for Bradley Manning, fast-talking judge rules that similar counts can be merged, reduces max sentence from 136 to 90 years
--court martial of Col. Hasan, the admitted Fort Hood shooter, gets underway
--Glenn Greenwald dismantles the Obama claim that NSA surveillance gets proper oversight from Congress
--federal judge extends injunction blocking Wisconsin's new abortion restriction law
--"Justice" Dept. said to be investigating improper evidence sharing between NSA and DEA
--CNN and NBC plans for Hillary bioflicks draw threats from GOP leader, as PBC reminds us that Citizens United case was originally about a movie that slammed Mrs. Clinton
--as your humble host prepares to submit to the airport grope as he leaves for vacation, we learn about TSA mission creep--they don't just do airport security theater
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