In case you missed it, there was a big ‘scoop’ on Saturday evening from CNET, purporting to report that Rep. Jerry Nadler revealed that he’d been told in a classified briefing that NSA analysts could choose to listen to domestic phone calls simply on the basis of their decision that they were worth listening to – no warrant, no national security letter. Read More
Conservative Christian college expels female student after finding out she was in a relationship with another woman, but still wants to keep her tuition.
Latest news out of the IRS investigation based on partial transcripts leaked by House GOP investigators.
Dunno, but a “detox cleanse” sounds more like something I’d expect a Democratic governor to be sticking the state with a tab for.
Get ready. At 10 AM the Supreme Court is going to release a new batch of cases. Since we’ve gone a few Mondays without any of the perceived really big cases, it seems likely we’ll see some this morning. What we’re hearing is that it’s not likely the big marriage equality decision comes down. More focus on affirmative action and the voting rights act. But then again, who knows? Anything could happen. We’ll bring it all to you at the top of the hour.
McCain, Graham and Rubio reportedly got a top GOP constituency group, Fox News, on board with immigration reform.
Nebraska Christian college expels woman for lesbian relationship, still charges her full tuition.
We now have a statement from Rep. Nadler which seems to debunk the CNET piece which I discussed in the earlier post.
“I am pleased that the administration has reiterated that, as I have always believed, the NSA cannot listen to the content of Americans’ phone calls without a specific warrant.”
This is needless to say still a somewhat cryptic quote, leaving unclear who misunderstood who. But it seems to say definitively that the central claim in the CNET article is incorrect.
They say money talks and bullshit walks. But, in fact, as we know, bullshit runs and fairly fast and frequently faster than something more accurate trying to catch up with it. Which brings me to this article published by CNET that reports that in a classified briefing the NSA admitted that its analysts are able to move on from metadata analysis to actually listening to the contents of a US/domestic phone call based not on a warrant or national security letter but simply their own judgement that it’s worth listening to. Read More