• In an attempt to coax alleged 911 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohmmed back to sanity after scrambling his psyche with waterboarding and other torture, the CIA designed an occupational therapy program which involved letting him redesign a vaccuum cleaner and host tea parties for CIA agents. It is an open question who drove whom insane. 
• Back to the drawing board: Whistleblower Edward Snowden renews his bid for asylum in Russia.
• Virigina Governor Bob McDonnell and his family received at least $145,000 in undisclosed gifts from a donor connected to the tobacco-company-turned-patent-medicine-firm, Star Scientific. 
• Scott Lemieux of Lawyers Guns & Money explains why defenders of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act are confused about the Constitution 

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