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PBC News & Comment: Game On: CIA Gets FBI to Investigate Senate

FBI enters the fray, as CIA and Senate intel trade accusations: it's a full-on, spy vs. spy clusterf**k over torture report....Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and generate $15 to the PBC Podcast!

--in Gen. Sinclair court-martial, sex assault victim becomes the target

--Chris Hayes reports Crimean Parliament was 97% re-stocked with pro-Russians last week , as Putin threatens to shut off gas to Ukraine

----debate over Oakland’s spy center exposes Google’s role as major military-surveillance contractor, Pando report here

--also at Pando, David Sirota’s latest expose on PBS shows that NewsHour is owned by conservative John Malone

--NYT and NewsHour pundit David Brooks opposes solitary confinement, as I discussed with author Dan Berger in this Processing Distortion podcast

NYT follows Maddow in reporting on closure of half of abortion clinics in Texas

--at IRS hearing Issa shuts down Cummings, sparking major protest by Dems

--Rutgers faculty and students oppose Condi Rice as paid commencement speaker

--FreedomPop offers encrypted “Snowden Phone”