PBC News & Comment: Netanyahu Stoops to Racism, Forgery in Tight Election

As Israelis vote, stench lingers from Netanyahu’s racist comments about Arab citizens, exposure of faked endorsement from minor party’s leader….
--Likud admits it circulated faked recording of endorsement by ex-Likudist Moshe Kahlon
--apartheid policies advanced by Avigdor Lieberman caused Arab parties to close ranks
--new charges that Syrian military used chlorine gas; last week, IS was accused of using chlorine in Iraq
--Judicial Council investigation of Judge Mark Fuller’s domestic violence incident, Bradblog releases full 911 recording which undercuts self-defense claim
--amid latest embarrassment, Secret Service director says agents use booze to relieve stress, and can we have $8 million for a White House mockup?
--CIA director Brennan says social media makes it harder to fight terror
--ACLU sues to force disclosure of Obama’s kill lists and drone strike details
--last week, Wikipedia sued NSA to end surveillance; NYPD routinely sanitizes Wikipedia entries about its brutality
--for first time ever, a prosecutor will go to jail for wrongfully convicting an innocent man, reports HuffPo
--energy-related carbon emissions were flat in 2014, an achievement
--Al Gore is more optimistic about addressing climate change…will he run for president in 2016?
--Martin O’Malley was pretty progressive as Governor of Maryland…will he challenge Hillary?
--Carly Fiorina is a failed CEO who ran bizarre campaign for Senate from California in 2010…why is she running for president?