Journalists Glenn Greenwald and
Laura Poitras, responsible for providing us the initial burst of
reporting of Edward Snowden’s documents about National Security
Agency surveillance tactics, have
returned to United States soil for the first time since the
scandal broke. They’re here to collect an award for their reporting
and have not been detained or arrested yet.- A federal court has
tossed out the conviction of “hacker” Andrew “weev” Aurnheimer.
He was convicted of violating federal law for publicizing and
revealing data about AT&T customers that was publicly available
on their site if you knew where to look or how to plug in the right
url. In other words, he didn’t actually hack anything. The
dismissal of the case, though, has nothing to do with the
legitimacy of the prosecution. It’s because he was apparently tried
in the wrong court.
Pope Francis is asking for forgiveness for the damage caused by
priests who have sexually abused children.- In a perfect final paragraph to the
final chapter of Kathleen Sebelius’ term as head of Health and
Human Services, during her farewell speech, she discovered a page
was missing. - The White House announced today the United States will not
offer a visa to
Iran’s choice for ambassador to the United Nations, agreeing
with Congress not to allow Hamid Abutalebi, alleged to have
participated in the 1979 hostage crisis in Tehran, on American
soil. - African-American congresswomen are asking the Army to
reconsider its ban on certain hairstyles as discriminatory, but
the Army is responding that African-American female soldiers helped
craft the policy in the first place.
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