10k Troops Will Stay in Afghanistan After Official Pullout, White House Supports Hong Kong Protests, Judge Says Detroit Water Shutoffs to Continue: P.M. Links

Nearly
10,000 American troops will remain in Afghanistan after 2014,
promises the country’s newly elected president Ashraf Ghani
Ahmadzai. The U.S. will also likely keep its
secret prisoners when the war “ends.”
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says that when
President Barack Obama said his administration “underestimated” the
threat of ISIS he
didn’t really mean it. We’ve “long been tracking this,” she
insists. So, we knew what was happening and just dropped the
ball?
Grab your popcorn: The White House gave
a thumbs up to the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which
are
still growing in spite of tear gas and officials’ demands.
The bankruptcy judge overseeing Detroit’s woes said that

shutting off water to non-paying customers can continue,
because he has no jurisdiction to act otherwise.
Elizabeth Warren wants a
congressional investigation of the New York Federal Reserve
after recently secret recordings suggest some foul play by the
financial authority.
American consumer spending rose 0.5 percent last month. The

housing sector remained an exception, and not in a good
way.
Top Obama adviser Valarie Jarrett apparently isn’t busy. She
made her debut on a television drama this weekend, and it
was pretty
ugly.