Sen. Bernie Sanders asks the question we've been pounding for months: are top elected leaders being spied on by NSA?...Click here for free audiobook download that generates $15 to PBC Podcast from Audible!
Here is the link to the video of the satire song, Just Trust Us.
NSA's response to Sanders: members of Congress have same rights as the rest of us, which means, um, not many.
--debate continues about clemency or plea-bargain for Snowden
--new California bill would attempt to limit NSA spying here
--Glenn Greenwald responds to critics about his new media deal with Omidyar and Snowden's stipulation that documents not all be released at once; Sibel Edmonds continues her critique of Greenwald, raising more important questions
--Washington Post and Center for Responsive Politics team up for major expose on latest web of Koch-funded secret networks
--Steve Horn reports that North Dakota rail car oil explosion included other dangerous chemicals
--far-right radio host Laura Ingraham feeds alarums to her fans over non-existant threats to right-wing talk, even as it expands its dominance over commercial talk radio
--desperate California Republicans refocus their hate on transgender students and bathroom insecurities
--Liz Cheney drops out of Wyoming Senate race
--Supreme Court freezes gay marriage in Utah
--Falluja falls again, lazy US media ties fighters there and in Syria to alQaeda
--movie and music producer Saul Zaentz dies
--Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers dies at 74, here is Joel Selvin's candid tribute
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