A.M. Links: Majority on Govt. Privacy Board Say NSA Data Collection is Illegal, Huckabee May Run in 2016, Texas Executes Mexican Citizen

  • 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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