Reason Morning Links: TSA Offers Buyouts, Republicans Oppose Extending Payroll Tax Cut, Orange County D.A. Protects the Identities of Kelly Thomas' Killers

• Facing a budget crunch, the TSA wants to offer buyouts to 3,000 administrators. 
• In an impressive about-face, congressional Republicans say extending the payroll tax cut "adds needlessly to the nation's budget deficit."
• The CIA wants to take a black marker to an FBI agent's account of 9/11. 
• Citing death threats, the Orange County D.A. is refusing to release the names of the Fullerton police officers who beat Kelly Thomas into a life-ending coma. 
• Cartel gunmen in Monterrey, once Mexico's safest city, burned 53 people alive in a casino yesterday. 
• On reforming the witness ID system: "Of 273 convictions that have been overturned because DNA showed authorities had the wrong person, eyewitnesses had pointed to the wrong person 75 percent of the time." 
• DOJ raids Gibson Guitars. Again. 

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