Where Torture is Justified, Justice is Torture...Marcy Wheeler on Risen Roulette

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Interview with emptywheel's Marcy Wheeler on James Risen

My guest today, Marcy Wheeler has been blasting awat, chip by byte att he judicial-industrial complex...
Letting the air out of its tires, so to speak.  And today, after floating through the weekend  zeitgeist, comes this:  Former director of the National Security Agency  Michael Hayden, says he doesn't see the need for the U.S. government to prosecute the New York Times reporter who revealed the agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans.
Michael Hayden says he is "conflicted" about whether reporter James Risen should be compelled to reveal his sources.
Risen is facing potential jail time as he battles government efforts to force him to testify at the trial of a former CIA officer accused of leaking classified information.

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Thousands of protestors converged at 250 demonstrations throughout the world to call for a global moratorium against fracking yesterday.
The global day of action, Global Frackdown, was called for the third year in a row by Food and Water Watch.
Thousands convened throughout the British Isles and Europe as well. Hundreds attended protests in Wales, London, and Lancashire, while the "frack head puppet" emerged at Holyrood in Scotland. Protests also occurred in Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Spain. Reports from one protest in Madrid saw miles of people of marching in the street.

There is a 2,500 square mile methane hot spot — located near the Four Corners border of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah — is spewing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that is 20 times more effective at causing global warming than carbon dioxide. The methane is likely not from fracking, NASA said, since the data analyzed is from 2003 to 2008, before the fracking boom. Instead, the scientists hypothesize that the leaks are coming from coalbed methane extraction, a process of getting natural gas from underground coal beds.


A fiery CN train derailment in rural Saskatchewan has many people asking what could have happened if the accident occurred in a more populated area.
The 100-car freight train derailed Tuesday about 190 kilometres east of Saskatoon. Twenty-six cars left the track, including six carrying dangerous goods. Two cars containing petroleum distillate caught fire, sending 30-metre flames into the air. Several explosions were also confirmed.

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