A.M. Links: U.S. Government Asks for Private Information More Than Once Per Minute, EPA Office Accuses EPA Office of Blocking Investigations, Michael Jordan Considered Himself a Racist in His Youth

  • sports!The
    U.S. government is reportedly pinging
    Verizon and AT&T
    more than once per minute in search of
    private customer information.
  • The House is expected to take two votes related to the
    Internal Revenue Service
    (IRS) this week; it will vote today on
    whether to hold Lois Lerner in contempt and tomorrow on a
    resolution urging Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special
    counsel to investigate the IRS.
  • The Office of the Inspector General at the
    Environmental Protection Agency
    (EPA) is accusing the agency’s
    Office of Homeland Security of illegally blocking its
    investigations.
  • The New Jersey Board of Pensions rejected an application by a

    Camden
    police officer who staged a shooting with his wife. One
    member of the board wondered why no charges more seriously than
    “disorderly conduct” were brought against the officer for the
    apparent fraud.
  • In a recently released biography,
    Michael Jordan
    reveals that he considered himself a racist
    against white people in his youth.
  • Vietnam claims a vessel from
    China
    intentionally rammed two of its own in a disputed region
    of the South China Sea. 

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