Morning Reads: CIA’s Damaging Secrecy; Darrell Issa Torpedoes GOP’s Benghazi Spin
Credit: Kevin Burkett
May 23, 2014

Via Moyers & Company:

Good morning! Happy Friday, and happy Turtle Day, whatever that is. Also, 80 years ago today, the cops finally caught up with Bonnie and Clyde.

Burning down the house –> Alexander Smith and Erik Ortiz report for ABC News that thousands of northern Arizona residents are preparing to flee their homes after a wildfire grew tenfold. AND: The AP’s Seth Borenstein writes that “at least three different studies and reports have warned that wildfires are getting bigger, that man-made climate change is to blame, and it’s only going to get worse with more fires starting earlier in the year.”

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