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Sectarian warfare killed 1000 people in Iraq in May.
This is the continuation of Bush's invasion, so the question of how many Iraqis he killed has an answer that keeps changing.
US citizens: call for an end to "signature strikes", a term used, perversely, when they don't know who is being attacked.
A discussion between a congressman and an official suggests that NSA analysts looking at people's metadata are allowed to decide on their own which of those people fit a pre-approved general criterion, and then wiretap them.
This supports Snowden's statement that he could listen to anyone's phone calls. Perhaps he would not have been authorized to do this arbitrarily, but he could have done it.
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose increasing the US military budget.
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