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Administration Officials Want Your Secrets, Jeb Taunts Hillary, Saudi Bombs Away in Yemen: P.M. Links

J.D. Tuccille | 4.22.2015 4:30 PM

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    White House and Homeland Security officials don't like it when you keep secrets from them. They want to mandate restrictions on encryption and ensure government access to private information.

  • Presidential almost-hopeful Jeb Bush called out Hillary Clinton for backtracking on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Swords at dawn you two?
  • Oh yeah. Today is Earth Day. President Obama went to the Florida Everglades and told his audience that his policies will save us all.
  • Reform the PATRIOT Act? Not if Mitch McConnell has his way. The Senate majority leader says it's just fine as is and should be reauthorized until 2020.
  • Take the next Grexit! German officials say they have little hope for a deal with the flat-broke and reality-challenged Greek government.
  • Saudi Arabia is back to blowing stuff—and people—up in Yemen.
  • A drone containing traces of radioactive material was found on the roof of the residence of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. I hear glowing things about him.

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