Reason Morning Links: The Return of the Bush Scandals

Jesse Walker | July 13, 2009

• Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings begin today.

• Iran hawks have been fearing a phantom embassy in Managua.

• George W. Bush's surveillance program was bigger than you thought. Also, his administration blocked investigations into a U.S.-backed Afghan warlord's alleged crimes. And the Department of Justice may look into Bush-era torture policies after all -- though it's unclear just how far such a probe would go.

• A Boston zoo is backing down from a fundraising method it borrowed from an old issue of National Lampoon.

• How did yoga schools go unlicensed for so long?