WELL, GOOD: Woman jailed two weeks for recording Chicago P.D.’s internal affairs officers can sue for a Fourth Amendment violation.

See my piece with John Steakley: A Due Process Right To Record the Police for background on this case.

USA TODAY: General: Military should’ve tried Benghazi rescue.

Lovell’s testimony contradicts the story that the Obama administration gave in the early days following the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. Consulate that left four Americans dead, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Back then the administration insisted that the best intelligence it had from CIA and other officials indicated that the attack was a protest against an anti-Islam video that turned violent.

Lovell’s testimony is the first from a member of the military who was at Africa Command at the time of the attack. Lovell was deputy director for intelligence at Africa Command.

This thing continues to stink.

UPDATE: Austin Bay sends this column by way of background. He comments: “Now, I think this is the testimony that influenced McKeon —i.e., his statement that the military did everything it could. Now, I’m basing this on memory, but at least two officers said AFRICOM was not postured to respond effectively. I have my own doubts about that, given the length of time the security team in Benghazi resisted the terrorist attackers.”

EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH: The Catastrophe Of Suicide. Many suicides leave a lot of damage behind. Sometimes that’s the intent.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: How Colleges Waste Your Health Fees. Hint: They often don’t go toward health.

And as an aside, everyone talks about tuition costs, but fees have been growing astronomically. Unsurprisingly, they mostly go toward funding layers of useless administration.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: It’s Not Just For-Profit Schools That Operate For Profit.

Medical students still borrow a lot of money, and the scandal of law-school debt continues. But some of biggest increases came in fields that nobody associates with wealth and fortune. The median debt for master’s degrees in education, for example, grew from $33,910 to $50,879 in four years. Public-school teachers didn’t exactly make out like bandits after the recession. Many took pay cuts or lost their jobs. University-based schools of education appear to be diverting the automatic raises that most teachers receive upon earning a master’s degree into their own coffers.

Median debt for people in the broad fields that grant master-of-arts degrees grew from $43,247 to nearly $59,000. Do you know any recent M.A. graduates with lots of money to burn? Similar numbers appear in the catch-all category of “other” master’s degrees. Many of these have—just like “office management”—weak ties to established professions. Medical schools and history-Ph.D. programs are accountable to the communities of doctors and historians. A one-year master’s program in something like “government” is accountable to no one.

Colleges with selective undergraduate admissions can monetize that prestige by running expensive “professional” master’s programs with lenient admission criteria that are hidden from the public eye. And because there are no hard limits on how much graduate students can borrow from the federal government, the sky’s the limit when it comes to price.

So if you’re a college president overseeing a portfolio of lucrative, heavily marketed, largely unaccountable terminal master’s-degree programs that offer little or no financial aid and charge market prices financed by debt, congratulations: You, too, own a for-profit college! And, unlike your peers at the University of Phoenix, you don’t have to pay taxes on your earnings.

But you get looser regulation, perhaps because the traditional higher education sector ranks at the top of Obama’s donor base, as well as being a source of foot-soldiers and message-echoers.

THIS FROM THE MAN WHO CLAIMED DEDUCTIONS FOR DONATING HIS USED UNDERWEAR: Bill Clinton: ‘I Thank God Every Day That Hillary and I Live in NY and Pay the Highest Aggregate Tax Rate in America.’

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Eleanor Holmes Norton: Iraq could be the most catastrophic war of the 20th century.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard, Dartmouth See Number Of Applications Plunge. “Dartmouth saw the number of students applying drop by a staggering 14%.” Well, not much that’s happened at Dartmouth over the past year makes for a good selling point.

SOUTH CAROLINA COMPTROLLER MAKES STATEMENT IN FAVOR OF INTEGRATED HIGHER EDUCATION, gets attacked by black community.

OBAMA’S MIDEAST LEGACY: “Ideology required that the Iraq War be a failure, even if it needed a nunc pro tunc effort to make it so.”

IN THE ERA OF THE Court Jester Journalists. That’s unfair to Court Jesters. They were willing to mock the King.

BLUE-STATE PARADISE: Poll: Half of Illinois Residents Want To Leave State. The other half work for the state. . . .

IRONY: Food Safety Conference Hit By Food Poisoning.

WHEN THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL, NOTHING IS PURELY PERSONAL: The Shrinking Private Sphere.

SECRETS FOR WE, BUT NOT FOR THEE: Cops Must Swear Silence to Access Vehicle Tracking System.

It’s no secret that police departments around the country are deploying automated license plate readers to build massive databases to identify the location of vehicles. But one company behind this Orwellian tracking system is determined to stay out of the news.

How determined? Vigilant Solutions, founded in 2009, claims to have the nation’s largest repository of license-plate images with nearly 2 billion records stored in its National Vehicle Location Service (NVLS). Despite the enormous implications of the database for the public, any law enforcement agency that signs up for the service is sworn to a vow of silence by the company’s terms of service.

Vigilant is clear about the reason for the secrecy: it’s to prevent customers from “cooperating” with media and calling attention to its database.

That database is used by law enforcement and others to track stolen cars or vehicles used in crimes, as well as to locate illegal immigrants, kidnapping victims and others — though the vast majority of license plates stored belong to ordinary drivers who aren’t suspected of a crime.

Hmm. If they haven’t done anything wrong, they should have nothing to hide. Right?

WELL, THERE’S NO DDT, SO WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING: Even a Few Pills Can Put a Dent in the Malaria Rate. “The tactic, seasonal malaria chemoprevention, involves giving children regular doses of malaria medicine during the rainy season when mosquitoes are everywhere. The doses are too small to cure malaria, but studies by the organization in Mali and Chad showed that they reduced both simple infections and severe malaria by more than 70 percent.” I wonder if this will promote resistance.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Nurses Are Not Doctors. But if you get them to do the same work as doctors, it’s cheaper. If they don’t do it as well, hey, that’s only a problem for the patient.

VIDEO: Security Cameras Show Destruction In Car Dealership As Tornado Passes Through.

ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY: Eric Holder’s Disparate Impact Obsession.

THEY’RE HAVING A BAD WEEK AT THE WHITE HOUSE: New ObamaCare Enrollment Report Shows Death Spiral Is Likely.

MAJOR GARRETT, IN NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama’s Punch and Judy Foreign Policy. “The problem for Obama is the perception here and elsewhere that the most forceful thing he’s done on this trip or since Benghazi has been to explain what he can’t do—not what he can.”

ON MAY 1, remembering communism’s victims.

HMM: CBS Downplays White House Connection Amid Non-Coverage of Benghazi Scandal.