02/12/18 Overnight Links

NextBigFuture: China’s techno-Police State will identify any face within 3 seconds by 2020 using billions of cameras

Politico: The Grassley Letter that everyone is ignoring is far more important that the Nunes Memo

Daily Beast: U.S. intelligence shuts down damning report on whistleblower retaliation

Consortium News: US intelligence crisis poses a threat to the world

Activist Post: Convictions thrown out after police caught paying labs for positive DUI test results

OC Register: “Attacking” the FBI is an unalienable American right

The Federalist: The GOP budget deal throws fiscal sanity out the Overton Window

Inquisitr: Scientists warn that potential FDA kratom ban could worsen America’s opioid epidemic

CounterPunch: Afghan civilians keep paying the price for the so-called ‘War on Terror’

Zero Hedge: Nassim Taleb explains why people who make money are usually wrong

Wired: The downsides of AI and deep learning

Science News: 50 years on, nuclear fusion still hasn’t delivered clean energy

Author: S. Smith