[Yahoo! News]
Air Force Col. Moe Davis, the former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals, has testified that the tribunals were tainted by political influence and evidence obtained through prisoner abuse.

[The New York Times]
By a now-expected 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has ruled that military personnel cannot sue the government or superior officers for damages even for gross and deliberate violations of their constitutional rights. It also held that military personnel may be court-martialed for crimes unrelated to their service.

[The Wall Street Journal]
Barack Obama is poised to run the first privately financed general-election presidential campaign since Watergate, giving him more control over his own operations than any candidate since 1972.

[Yahoo! News]
The Supreme Court has declared that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law.

[Wired]
In 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned the country about the "unwarranted influence" of the "military-industrial complex." But back then, only a relative handful of companies did business with the Pentagon. Today, the military-industrial web is everywhere.

[AlterNet]
60 years of enormous military spending is taking a dramatic toll on the rest of the economy.

[News.com]
The FBI has called for new legislation that would allow federal police to monitor the Internet for "illegal activity."

[Breitbart.com]
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin turns his back on network neutrality, saying there's no need for new regulation of the internet, and that his agency has all the authority it needs to prevent discrimination by internet service providers.

[Reuters]
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has warned Tehran that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.

[ThinkProgress]
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says fingerprints aren't personal data: Well, first of all, a fingerprint is hardly personal data because you leave it on glasses and silverware and articles all over the world, they’re like footprints. They’re not particularly private.

Of course, the same argument could be made for DNA samples.

[Guardian.co.uk]
The former head of interrogations at Guantánamo Bay found that records of an al-Qaida suspect tortured at the prison camp were mysteriously lost by the US military.

[The New York Times]
Pentagon uses "military experts" on television news channels for war propaganda.

[Yahoo! News]
A new study shows that about 300,000 U.S. troops are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, with about half receiving no care.

[Time]
What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics—the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial.

[Associated Press]
The federal government wants to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone who is arrested by a federal law enforcement agency. That would be a departure from the current practice of collecting samples only from convicted felons.

[The New York Times]
Do you vote what you eat?

[Miller-McCune]
How Europe's trade model could solve America's immigration problem.

[Los Angeles Times]
What Americans don't know about Muslims.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
Local Afghan farmers are no longer concentrating all their energies on producing heroin and are beginning to sow wheat instead of poppy. This change of heart results not because they've suddenly been converted to the argument that producing heroin is not in the national interest, but because market forces have become the deciding factor: with wheat prices doubling in the past year, and the street price of heroin falling, it is now more cost effective to grow wheat.

[ABC News]
Bush admits having approved torture techniques.

[The New York Times]
In a major shift of policy, the Justice Department, once known for taking down giant corporations, has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years. Instead, many companies, from boutique outfits to immense corporations like American Express, have avoided the cost and stigma of defending themselves against criminal charges with a so-called deferred prosecution agreement, which allows the government to collect fines and appoint an outside monitor to impose internal reforms without going through a trial. In many cases, the name of the monitor and the details of the agreement are kept secret.

[The New York Times]
Securing the nation’s borders is so important, Congress says, that Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, must have the power to ignore any laws that stand in the way of building a border fence. Any laws at all. Last week, Chertoff issued waivers suspending more than 30 laws he said could interfere with "the expeditious construction of barriers" in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.

[LiveScience]
The stereotype of a cranky old man, set in his ways, getting more conservative by the day, is an enduring one. But new research has debunked the myth that people become more conservative as they age. By comparing surveys of various age groups taken over a span of more than 30 years, sociologists found that in general, Americans' opinions veer toward the liberal as they grow older.