Pope, Steven Rosenthal, Brennan: 3 Stories You Should Read August 20, 2018
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In the category of: Here we go again.
Family, Protesters Demand Answers Following Death of 15-Year-Old Black Teen Who Police Say Killed Himself Following Foot Chase
Police say that officers tried to question the teen after seeing him with the weapon just before 7 p.m. on Friday. The teen ran, officers gave chase, and a short time later, Rosenthal had sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the head, the Chicago Tribune reports. The medical examiner’s office ruled the death a suicide.
“Steven was on the stairwell of his grandmother’s house on the West Side of Chicago when police officers stormed up the stairwell chasing,” the family’s attorney, Andrew Stroth, said at a news conference before Sunday’s protest. “Within moments, these officers, without cause or provocation, shot and killed 15-year-old Steven. … Based on several eyewitness accounts, these officers ended the hopes and the dreams of a talented young man with a bright future.”
In the category of: Picking on the wrong patriot.
John Brennan’s Choice to Confront Trump
In the end, the group of former senior intelligence officers reached a consensus on a letter that criticized Trump’s unprecedented decision to strip Brennan of his clearance as an attack on free speech and an attempt to intimidate others. But the letter stopped short of endorsing Brennan’s decision, as a former professional intelligence officer, to publicly confront the President in such personal terms.
“I don’t think he’s being very effective or serving the country well,” Blair, the former director of National Intelligence, told me of Brennan’s confrontational approach with Trump. But Blair said that he signed on to the letter because he believed the former C.I.A. director “had a right to say what he said.”
Others have been more supportive of Brennan’s approach, including William McRaven, a retired Navy admiral who oversaw the 2011 Navy seal raid that killed Osama bin Laden. McRaven wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post, “I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.”
In the category of: The darkest secret everyone already knew.
Pope on Pennsylvania sex abuse report: We abandoned the little ones
Pope Francis has acknowledged “with shame and repentance” the Catholic Church’s failure to act over sexual abuse by clerics against minors going back decades, writing “we showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them.”
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