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Former top-ranking NSA insiders write open memo to Obama detailing failures and fraud at NSA, along with 21-point agenda for reform.
--reforms include repeal of the blank check--AUMF--given Bush and successors after 9/11; Sen. Rand Paul is introducing repeal bill
--as we hear in this excerpt from the latest Processing Distortion podcast, CIA veteran Philip Giraldi predicts that FISA court may be shut down
--NJ Gov. Chris Christie in full damage control mode, sacking underlings and apologizing for political-payback traffic jams in Ft. Lee
--California Gov. Jerry Brown has first healthy budget in years, paying down Arnold's wall of debt
--Gov. Andrew Cuomo of NY offers wimpy medical marijuana distribution, at just 20 locations in his sprawling state
--Alaska voters qualify initiative to legalize weed
--in email screw-up, Navy FOIA reviewers reveal how they try to limit responses to freedom of information act requests
--bills introduced in House and Senate to "fast track" approval of Trans-Pacific Partnership may not pass in either house
--State Department designates one individual and two groups "terrorists" in Benghazi; NY Times published detailed recap of the attack in 2012, confirming no connection to al Qaeda, an actual connection to the anti-Muslim video, and that the coverup was driven by CIA covert ops
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