CIA

* Wanna get really mad this morning? Read this decision on unjust seizures. [Tech Dirt]

* DeSantis is facing legal troubles over his special way of bypassing prosecutorial discretion. [Guardian]

* Planning on getting a JD and going straight to the CIA? Give this podcast a listen first, Georgetown students. [Variety]

* Army reservist sentenced to 4 years for being part of insurrection light [The Hill]

* Precinct Chief arrested on prostitution charges. We really have to do better background checks on the people who are supposed to be upholding the law. [Click2Houston]

* First they came for “CRT” and no one cared. Next, they came for the scientists. [WRAL]

* Climate laws are benefiting Korean firms. [Bloomberg]

* Who needs climate change laws when you have trees? No seriously, that’s a Senate candidate’s platform. [Wa Po]

* How bad was Trump’s FBI and CIA document pirating anyway? Oh…like 300 documents big? [NYT]

* Surprising no one, Bremerton was just the start. [Baptist News]

How does this guy still have a license to practice law?

* The Ohio Bar has denied an applicant for bar admission in part because of her student loan debt. [Forbes]

* A man who recovered money in a racial discrimination case was allegedly discriminated against when trying to deposit his settlement check. Sounds like he may have another lawsuit. [Buzzfeed News]

* Some commentators are noting how Lev Parnas’ strategy is similar to the one employed by Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen. [NPR]

* An ex-CIA lawyer has stated that the Soleimani hit was a homicide under US law. [Daily Beast]

* The man charged in murdering prominent lawyer Randy Gori has pleaded not guilty. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

* A Wisconsin man who was wrongfully convicted has been sworn in as an attorney of the Wisconsin Bar. [Wisconsin Public Radio]

* You can shake a female co-worker’s hand and not get cooties, I promise. [Adequate Man]

* Why did you decide to go to law school? [Corporette]

* A Freedom of Information Act request has revealed the stunning way the Department of Homeland Security ordered its agents to treat Congresspeople and lawyers in the aftermath of the travel ban. [Daily Beast]

* How will you survive if your legal job is replaced by artificial intelligence? [Law and More]

* Oliver Stone has gotten to the CIA. [Politico]

* Like true crime TV shows? You’ll appreciate Netflix’s new spoof. [Salon]

* The Trump administration does not understand the whole concept of popularity. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]

* Who can help Governor Cuomo solve his transit woes? [Cityland]

* Fantastic analogy, now all the geeks love you. [io9]

* The Senate wants an update from the FBI and Justice Department on exactly what went down with Mike Flynn’s resignation. [Daily Kos]

* Fox News settled sexual harassment claims, but did they violate SEC rules in the process? [Law and More]

* What Neil Gorsuch will really be like on the Supreme Court. [The Onion]

* Was a narcoleptic CIA agent discriminated against because of their disability? [Wake Forest Law Review]

* The IRS is moving against Obamacare. [TaxProf Blog]

* SiriusXM’s big Second Circuit victory. [Hollywood Reporter]

* Well, this warms my calloused heart: Chief Justice Roberts learned some sign language to swear 12 deaf and hard of hearing lawyers into the Supreme Court. [Washington Post]

* An enlightening interview with an attorney that proves lawyers can have entrepreneurial spirit, Richard Nacht. [Law and More]

* Professor Rick Hasen’s analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Arizona redistricting case. [Election Law Blog]

* An interview with Matt Delmont, author of Why Busing Failed (affiliate link), on the continued segregation of schools. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* Did lawyer Linda Shi just help design a revolution in air conditioning? The product is being funded through Kickstarter, and the size of the unit makes me think it’d be welcomed in many NYC apartments this summer. [Kickstarter]

* Economists and tax law professors are getting behind Elizabeth Warren’s tax filing simplification bill. [MassLive]

* An in-depth look at black sites — CIA secret prisons, used in the U.S.’s War on Terror. [Slate]

* Our very own David Lat shares cybersecurity tips with host David Lesch on “Today’s Verdict.” [BronxNet]

* Modern Family star Ariel Winter wants to go to law school. Aw, that’s a shame — she seems so smart. [E!]

* Five major banks will plead guilty to felony charges over allegations they illegally manipulated the dollar/euro exchange rate and pay over $5 billion in fines. Attorney General Loretta Lynch described the scheme as “brazenly illegal.” [National Law Journal]

* Preet Bharara is making the rounds as a law school commencement speaker, find out why Lat calls him, “surprisingly entertaining for a prosecutor.” [Wall Street Journal]

* Despite release of several hundred pages of the report on CIA abuse and torture a federal judge will not require the disclosure of the full report citing evidence that Congress intended to “retain control” over it. [Legal Times]

* Stay at home moms with JD are now commanding “bonuses” from their spouses —  at least on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. [American Lawyer]

* Bail is set at $1 million for each of the bikers arrested in Waco after the deadly brawl. [CNN]

* ConAgra Foods will plead guilty to criminal charges over a 2007 outbreak of salmonella that was traced back to peanut butter. [NPR]

* With fewer and fewer students applying to law school, acceptance rates have skyrocketed. Some, like GW Law, have even been accused of “laundering [their] credentials” by padding their enrollment numbers with transfers. [GW Hatchet]

* “People don’t graduate from law school understanding the business of law.” That’s just one of the reasons recent grads are having such a tough time getting jobs as associates. Suffolk Law thinks it can help change that. [Boston Business Journal]

* “This is an example of the system working as intended”: Hundreds of thousands of dollars are due to successful plaintiffs in same-sex marriage cases, and millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees for that work is racking up interest. [National Law Journal]

* James Risen, the New York Times reporter who refused to out his source as part of a CIA investigation, has won the right to keep his journalistic integrity intact after a long legal battle. Prosecutors have officially dropped him as a witness. [Bloomberg]

* After much talk about partners heading for the exits before, during, and after the Patton Boggs and Squire Sanders merger, and Bob Luskin has finally left the building for Paul Hastings. We hope his parting wasn’t “painful” for him. [WSJ Law Blog]

To argue that the CIA's prolific use of torture and waterboarding has had no impact on how groups treat captured Americans seems like a stretch.

* The CIA official at the heart of accusations of intimidation made by Senator Feinstein is a lawyer. This marks the first time this guy has been called intimidating. [Al Jazeera] * Check out these awesome graphs showing the change in the USNWR rankings of the top 50 law schools over the last six years. [LawyerWrit] * Justin Bieber’s lawyer says his behavior in his video deposition is our fault. Of course it is. [New Day / CNN] * “Dear Texas courthouse… We’ve been tapping your phones. Love, FBI” [San Antonio Express-News] * Google's getting sued for pushing addictive games with in-app purchases. [IT-Lex] * The prosecution of Zachary Warren, who was 24 and only a few months into his job, for Dewey’s fall seems to be taking it a bit too far. [ Belly of the Beast] * A pair of lawyers are accused of tax credit fraud for going a bit too Hollywood. [The Times-Picayune] * Lee Pacchia talks with Kent Zimmermann about the warning sent to struggling firms by the Dewey charges. Embedded after the jump… [Mimesis Law]

* Man tried to rob a convenience store so he could go back to prison. And he almost screwed that up… [KMOV] * The CIA’s former lawyer explains how torture came to be a go-to national policy. According to John Rizzo, author of the forthcoming Company Man (affiliate link), George W. Bush basically had no conception of what was going on, which makes a lot of sense anyway. [The New Yorker] * Brooklyn Law’s Dean Nick Allard makes predictions for law schools in 2014. “[P]eople will look back at 2014 and say it marked the start of the new world of law: a renaissance where the respect and reputation of lawyers and law schools began to rise by measurable benchmarks.” Go ahead and laugh, I’ll wait. [TaxProf Blog] * Paul, Weiss picks up tax partner Scott Sontag from Weil Gotshal. (Congrats to both firms, by the way, on tying for the #9 spot in our list of top-ranked law firms for 2013.) [Paul, Weiss] * Nooooooooooooo! Judge Richard Kopf is ending his blog. [Hercules and the Umpire] * And the hits keep on coming. Professor Kyle Graham is also leaving the blogosphere. [Non Curat Lex] * The Ninth Circuit will start streaming all of its oral arguments next week. If you want to help them out, tune in. No promises that the panel will excoriate any prosecutors this time. [Ninth Circuit]

Conservatives, liberals, and reporters alike have little room to seriously complain

Who's representing whom in the fallout over the David Petraeus / Paula Broadwell affair? Every power lawyer in D.C., it seems.

Imagine what would have happened if the Obama administration had been running things immediately following 9/11. After their “arrest,” we would have read [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] and [Abu Faraj al-Libi] their Miranda rights, provided them legal counsel, sent them to the U.S. for detention, and granted them all the rights provided a U.S. citizen in […]

The satirical Onion News Network recently reported on new government funding for that “massive online surveillance program run by the CIA,” known as Facebook — dreamed up by “secret C.I.A. agent Mark Zuckerberg.” The report made light of how much information we’re willing to make available to a third party — information that we would […]