Miscellaneosity

• Alexa O'Brien has a searchable database of the filings, rulings, and transcripts in the Bradley Manning case.  (Hat tip to Daisy.)  This, for example, is a transcript of the hearing held 6/26/13 (yesterday as of this writing), examining a witness; catch the disclaimer (p. 3).
• Low-tech spying, agents provocateurs, dirty tricks; your government at work.

  Sometimes, “intelligence” moves in the opposite direction -- from private corporations to public agencies. Among the collectors of such “intelligence” are entities that, like the various intelligence and law enforcement outfits, do not make distinctions between terrorists and nonviolent protesters. ConsiderTransCanada, the corporation that plans to build the 1,179 mile Keystone-XL tar sands pipeline across the U. S. and in the process realize its “vision to become the leading energy infrastructure company in North America.“ The anti-pipeline group Bold Nebraska filed a successful Freedom of Information Act request with the Nebraska State Patrol and so was able to putTransCanada’s briefing slideshow up online.
  
  So it can be documented in living color that the company lectured federal agents and local police to look into the use of “anti-terrorism statutes” against peaceful anti-Keystone activists.

  Todd Gitlin at TomDispatch, via AlterNet.
• The dangers of Big Anything by Richard Eskow, AlterNet.
• Terrance Heath, Republic of T, on When It Changed.  (Sorry; I couldn't help it.)
• Why "getting rid of Fannie and Freddie" is unrealistic (Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism).
• Driftglass, just because this paragraph cracked me up:

  But history runs in two directions, and so having already conquered the past and scrubbed it of any reference of the actual, ugly Conservatism that shaped so much of recent American history and gave David Brooks a career, today Mr. Brooks turned his attention to America's bright, multicultural future where, apparently, the entire Republican Party has wandered off into the woods and been eaten by bears.

• Saddle up that gnat; I'm putting any respect I might have for the governor of Texas on its back along with a gnat-size ham sandwich.  Which is, by the way, larger.