A man being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings was shot and killed in Orlando, Fl., Tuesday by an FBI agent. "There was some sort of aggressive movement that led the FBI agent to believe he was under threat and he opened fire," a law enforcement official told ABC News. Ibragim Todashev, 27, knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were mixed-martial arts fighters, said Khusen Taramov, who was being questioned by the FBI at the same time as Todashev. Taramov said he and Todashev were questioned for three hours when "something went wrong." read more
Daniel Fisher, Forbes: The myth of a U.S. Supreme Court hopelessly divided along liberal/conservative lines took another hit today as Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas split with their fellow conservatives to rule that police can't use a drug-sniffing dog to establish probable cause for a search warrant. The sniffing of the dog outside the homeowner's door was itself a search, the court ruled in an opinion written by Scalia, and thus it was prohibited under the Fourth Amendment guaranteeing citizens be secure in their homes and property.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) raised questions on Tuesday about the effects of sequestration while invoking the training accident that killed seven Marines and left several injured at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada. "It's very important we continue training our military, so important. But one of the things in sequester is we cut back in training and maintenance," Reid said on the Senate floor. "These men and women, our Marines were training there in Hawthorne. And with this sequester, it's going to cut back this stuff."
A 75-year-old Japanese man died after 25 hospitals refused to admit him to their emergency rooms 36 times over two hours, citing lack of beds or doctors to treat him, an official said Tuesday. read more
He never tried to keep the troops in Iraq, that was what others were saying
If by "others" you mean "respected journalists at the Atlantic and Washington Post," then yeah...I guess "others" were saying that. And they were right.
President Obama's speech formally declaring that the last 43,000 U.S. troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year was designed to mask an unpleasant truth: The troops aren't being withdrawn because the U.S. wants them out. They're leaving because the Iraqi government refused to let them stay. Obama campaigned on ending the war in Iraq but had instead spent the past few months trying to extend itOh well. Just more hyper-partisanship and denial of reality from Danni.
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Sort of like the Corkys of the world who say that opposing drone strikes on Americans means you want to give roses to the terrorists.