- Three of the five members of a government
privacy board reportedly think that the NSA’s collection of
telephone metadata is illegal and have said that the government
should “purge the database of telephone records that have been
collected and stored during the program’s operation.” - Texas
executed a Mexican national yesterday despite the Mexican
government saying that the execution would violate international
law. Secretary of State John Kerry asked Texan officials to delay
the execution. - Virginia’s attorney general has said that state’s
ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional and that he will not
defend it in federal lawsuits. - Former Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee might be considering a 2016 presidential
run. - Russian law will allow authorities to
spy on all communication in Sochi during the Winter
Olympics. - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has said
“more could have been done” to plow the Upper East Side.
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