PROBLEMS WITH Obama’s NLRB Nominee.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Self-Congratulation And Faculty Scholarship.

ANN ALTHOUSE COMPARES NEW YORK TIMES REPORTERS to the Westboro Baptist Church. “The reporters at the funeral call to mind the Westboro Church protesters, who target funerals and love to stand their ground, exercising free speech rights, as if their very purpose was to cause some emotionally overwrought mourner to lash out physically.”

GRAPHIC: How The Benghazi Talking Points Were Changed.

UPDATE: Flashback — Ed Markey called Benghazi talking-point concerns “bogus.”

CBS NEWS: Official: We knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack “from the get-go.”

But the Administration still blamed filmmaker Nakoula, who is still in jail. They did this to keep the Benghazi debacle from exploding before the election. It worked. And filmmaker Nakoula is still in jail.

Related: Dem Rep. Stephen Lynch on Benghazi Talking Points: ‘It Was Scrubbed … It Was False Information. There’s No Excuse For That.’

UPDATE: Benghazi Plot Thickens.

(Above reposted from yesterday.) But here are some further lines of investigation. Some Obama-defenders will note that Nakoula was jailed for probation violations, of which he may have even been guilty. But, as I note in my Due Process When Everything Is A Crime piece — to be published next month, in substantially revised and updated form, by the Columbia Law Review — prosecutors can always find a reason to put someone away if they really want to. The question is, why, exactly, were they so eager to put Nakoula away?

The fast-tracking of Nakoula’s jailing was highly irregular. Among other things, I’d like to see the Congressional investigators get Nakoula’s prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Dugdale — and perhaps his boss, U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. — under oath about communications from the White House or the Justice Department regarding this case.

Because what it’s looking like is that Nakoula was targeted and jailed so as to provide a scapegoat/villain in a politically motivated cover story that the White House knew was false. If that’s the case, it’s extremely serious indeed, and in some ways more significant than whatever lapses and screwups took place in Benghazi. I’d also be interested in hearing from Nakoula’s attorney, Steven Seiden, about any threats made by the government to secure a plea deal.

If there’s an impeachable offense anywhere in the Benghazi affair — and at this point, I’m not saying there is — it’s more likely in what happened with Nakoula than in the problems abroad, which by all appearances are simple incompetence, rather than something culpable. Railroading someone in to jail to support a political story, on the other hand, is an abuse of power and a breach of trust.

MAYBE MIKE BLOOMBERG SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON THIS INSTEAD OF SOFT DRINKS: Postal workers too scared to deliver mail in crime-ridden Brownsville, Brooklyn.

I’M SURE THE NRA IS AT FAULT, OR SARAH PALIN. OR MAYBE GEORGE W. BUSH. Whose Ideas Inspired the Tsarnaev Brothers To Hate America?

POLITICO TRYING TO fly cover for Democrats on gun issue again.

SALENA ZITO: When Will America Burst D.C.’s Bubble? “America’s capital seems bubble-wrapped in its own vibrant economic boom, while great chunks of the nation struggle with uncertainty about how to keep the engine going. In fact, six of the 10 wealthiest American counties are Washington suburbs. Washington once was the manifest of power. Now you can add ‘center of wealth’ to its portfolio, crystallizing the elite institutional disconnect between it and the rest of the country.”

It’s like The Hunger Games or something.

READER BOOK PLUG: Reader David Accord asks a mention for his book, When Mars Attacked: Orson Welles, The War of the Worlds & the Radio Broadcast That Changed America Forever.

IMPOTENCE IS CONSIDERED VIRTUE THESE DAYS, IN SOME CIRCLES: 3D-Printed Handgun Prompts Congressman To Propose Impotent Legislation.