Aug 16, 2013
Top talk of the day: new(-ish) revelations about NSA overreach. And that figures into Greg Dworkin's round-up, along with the hilarious Jennifer Rubin story and Chris Christie's continued tip-toe toward his 2016 bid. We're then joined by Monte Frank of Team 26 for an update on the activities of the coalition of gun responsibility activists, the post-12/14 spike in permitting and gun sales, legal challenges to Connecticut's new gun laws, international views of gun issues, and plans to follow up with an investment group that had once promised to divest from gun-makers. Armando joined in later for discussion of the NSA stories of the day, we look under the hood from several different angles, sharpen his points about the need for stricter scrutiny and particularization by the FISC, and look back at the history of similar revelations over the years.