In first hours of grilling, Hillary maintains her composure as GOP attack dogs fail to draw blood in partisan hearing…..--Libya today is a failed state, with two “governments” claiming power as UN mediation continues
--in Iraq, first American soldier killed since 2011 during raid that freed 70 prisoners of Islamic State, proof that “advisers and trainers” are really combat troops
--Vladimir Putin accuses US of “double game” in Syria, and he’s right
--at TomDispatch, Peter van Buren recaps America’s strong of Middle East blunders, and on Syria asks, “what if they gave a war and everybody came?”
--Sibel Edmonds offers to testify under oath about former Speaker Dennis Hastert, media and prosecutors aren’t interested, as discussed in new episode of BoilingFrogsPost Roundtable
--FCC orders end to extortion rates for prison phone calls
--top cops from Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles admit that the War on Some Drugs is a total failure, call for sentencing reform
--Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy dodges questions about Homan Square interrogation site where suspects “disappear”
--al Jazeera reports Congress will review the legalities of Stingray and other dragnet spy systems (video)
--did NSA crack the Diffie-Hellman encryption key? San Francisco Chronicle has a theory
--Australia will grab Facebook photos for national surveillance database…are they leading or following the US?
--US finally admits that charges against former Gitmo prisoner now held in Morocco were baseless
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