The Verge: Former NSA contractor to plead guilty over claims he stole 50TB of classified data
Techdirt: DHS expands license plate dragnet, streams collection to US law enforcement agencies
Reason: California is taxing the hell out of pot, but Washington is even greedier
A more humorous take from FEE: California pulls a California on legal marijuana
Also Reason: Trillion-dollar deficit deja vu
NextGov: The Pentagon’s Cloud strategy is “evolving”
FCW: DATA Act review finds errors in $2 billion of DHS transactions
Rare: The Founders would never have trusted the President with sole power to wage nuclear war
Antiwar.com: Pakistan fumes as US announces aid cutoff. Why not cut off “aid” to every country, everywhere?
Electronic Intifada: Is Israel testing new types of tear gas in Bethlehem?
NewsOK: Medical marijuana vote set for June
Inside Edition: $1.3 million bottle of vodka-made of gold, silver, and diamonds-stolen from Danish bar
The Week: Why January is secretly the best month for ghost movies
Newsweek: Ancient cave in China filled with 45,000 year-old tools
