A.M. Links: VA Scandal Keeps Growing, Edward Snowden Gets His Own Comic Book, Russian Prime Minister Says ‘Second Cold War’ Approaching

The
scandal over alleged mismanagement at the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs
keeps growing.

The NSA
is recording every cellphone call in the Bahamas. Meanwhile, a
new comic book
about NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden will hit the shelves
tomorrow.

In a commencement speech at Baltimore’s Morgan State University,
Attorney General Eric Holder
criticized the U.S. Supreme Court, and Chief Justice John
Roberts in particular, for failing “to take account of racial
inequality, especially in its less obvious forms.”

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
says “we are slowly but surely approaching a second cold
war.”

Martial law has been
declared in Thailand.

Police in the Michigan town of Brighton have started ticketing
people for
swearing in public.