Poland and Germany will likely
launch some
sanctions against Russia next week if it doesn’t back off
Crimea.- CIA Director John Brennan’s response to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s
accusations that his employees had
spied on congressional staff computers connected to an
investigation of the CIA’s torture methods under the Bush
Administration was to say, “Nothing could be further from the
truth. We wouldn’t do that.” Since Feinstein referenced an actual
meeting with Brennan where he revealed the searches, this means
that either the head of the CIA or the head of the Senate
Intelligence Committee is outright lying, so that’s fun. - President Barack Obama added more than
1,600 acres of California coastline to a national monument,
bypassing Congress in the process. - The European Union wants to ban the use of European names like
Parmesan and feta on cheese made in the United States in an
especially blatant effort at product protectionism to reduce
competition.
Twitter went down for a little while, which media outlets are
dutifully reporting so that they’ll appear hip about social media.
#TwitterOutage- More protests are coming to Turkey after a teen boy struck in
the head by a tear gas canister during last summer’s protests
died
this morning in a hospital.
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