It’s being hyped to great effect by Senators Feinstein and Burr to force anti-encryption legislation upon the tech sector. Ars Technica

According to the Pentagon.  The hour-long airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan last year killed 42 people, but it’s not a war crime, according to the side that committed it.  Reason

Anti-vaxxers still blamed. SELF

She sees Hillary for the war hawk she’s always been. Raw Story

To protect against radiation from a possible ISIS dirty bomb. The Telegraph

Bob Bates, sugar daddy of the Tulsa Sheriff’s Office, has been found guilty for the “accidental” shooting death of Eric Harris.  The jury recommended four years behind bars for him. Daily Beast

Kids, ages 6 to 12, were arrested for not stopping a fight that happened off school grounds.  “I am so saddened, and I’m so sorry this incident happened”, police chief Karl Durr said in an interview.  Will they lose their jobs? No. Mashable

From The Guardian. Read the entire thing.

Zakaria trots out all the familiar scary scenarios of bad guys exploiting encryption to evade the cops, arguments that Snowden rips apart with ease.  The Intercept

There is no trade-off between liberty and security.

They might get shot by a trigger-happy cop.  Cleveland will pay Tamir’s family $6 million for the shooting death of their 12-year old by a cop who opened fire immediately after he got out of his patrol car.  Perversely, that cop’s police union is now saying the family should spend the money educating kids about the dangers of playing with toy guns.  Sounds like an admission that cops will probably open fire if they see a kid with a toy gun.  The Intercept

A note: police unions, like other public-sector unions, are nothing more than organized parasites at a trough filled with taxpayer billions and liberties.  They protect their members no matter the circumstances, while the public, who are held hostage to their demands, picks up the tab in the form of higher taxes while being forced to deal with a choleric, irascible, unaccountable police force.