White House Apologizes for Keeping Taliban Trade Secret, NSA Says Facial Recognition Tools Legal, Girls Plot Murder to Appease Slenderman: P.M. Links

• The White House apologized to
  Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein
  (D-Calif.) for keeping the trade of five Taliban commanders for
  Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
  a secret from the Senate.
• The new head of the National Security Agency says their
  recently revealed
  facial recognition tools are totally legal, so don’t worry
  about it.
• Two 12-year-old girls in Wisconsin stand charged on plotting to
  kill another girl in order to allegedly pay
  homage to Slenderman, a fictional horror villain invented by
  folks on the Internet as a meme. They are being charged as adults,
  despite the ludicrousness of their plan.
• Of course it’s Florida: A
  judge got into a fistfight with a public defender outside a
  courtroom in Brevard County.
• The Pentagon revealed today that a
  Russian jet intercepted an American recon plane over
  international waters in April.
• Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, a former army chief, has been elected
  president of
  Egypt by allegedly 97 percent of the vote. Many boycotted the
  election due to the way the country has treated dissenters and the
  Muslim Brotherhood.

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