OH: Intelligence analyst charged with leaking top-secret information to left-wing reporter Jeremy Scahill.

Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested on federal charges Thursday. The reporter that Hale leaked this information to is not named in the indictment, but the charging document identifies him as Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept, an outspoken critic of America’s military activities overseas.

Hale “printed off a series of Secret and Top Secret documents through his position with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, many of which he then provided to the reporter.”

The Intercept is having a bad couple of weeks.

WELL, THEY PRETTY MUCH HAVE TO: Survey: Democrats ignore economic boom in dissing Trump.

RECORD NUMBER OF TEACHERS ATTACKED:  According to a recently released report, a record number of teachers (220,300) were physically attacked in 2015-16 (the most recent year for which data exists).

Given what I’ve written before about the (since withdrawn) Obama Era school discipline policy, I can’t claim to be surprised.

PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH: Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost-Cutting Sacrificed Safety.

Boeing got what it wanted: Pilots moving from a 737-800 to the 737 Max would need at most Level B training, which they could complete in an hour or two on an iPad. That let airlines deploy the $120 million plane more quickly. For Boeing, it was an important selling point that gave customers one less reason to defect to its European rival Airbus SE.

Since the crashes of two Maxes within five months—a Lion Air flight last October and an Ethiopian Airlines flight this March—the pressure and maneuvering around simulator training has struck Ludtke as essential to understanding how an emphasis on costs twisted a process that’s supposed to produce the best, safest planes. “They could have done better and should have done better, but better wasn’t an option,” says Ludtke, who started at Boeing in 1996 and holds two U.S. patents for flight crew alerting systems. Federal investigators probing the Max recently interviewed Ludtke for hours about the connection between simulator requirements and the new software system linked to the crashes, known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS.

Managers didn’t merely insist to employees that no designs should lead to Level D training. They also made their desires known to the FAA team in charge of 737 training requirements, which was led by Stacey Klein, who’d previously been a pilot at now-defunct Skyway Airlines for six years. “She had no engineering background, her airplane experience was very limited,” Ludtke says. “It was just an impossible scenario.”

What a mess.

THIS HAS BEEN ALL OVER SOCIAL MEDIA, MY MILITARY STUDENTS WERE TALKING ABOUT IT LAST WEEK: Crackdown at Lejeune: Inside the 2nd Marine Division commander’s controversial call for discipline.

The breakdown in discipline is a disgrace, and it’s also disgraceful that trying to fix it is “controversial.” What, you want to be the Indian Navy?

WORST GAY-HATING PRESIDENT EVER.

THE SMARTEST PEOPLE HAD ALL ASSURED ME THAT SUNNI AND SHIA WOULD NEVER COOPERATE LIKE THIS: More evidence emerges of Iran-Al Qaeda ties.

Said Qasemi, a now-retired spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told Al Arabiya that IRGC deployed undercover soldiers to Bosnia-Herzegovina during its conflict in the 1990s under the pretense that they were members of Tehran’s state-endorsed Red Crescent.

This is alleged to have been in cooperation with an Al Qaeda unit operating in the region, as confirmed by another IRGC official, whereby the two groups were able to engage in joint weapons training.

IRGC has long and persistently denied long-running claims by the international community, however, of any associations between the two factions — who view the U.S. as a staunch enemy – even as more claims and documents to the contrary have piled up over the years.

They go way back — the enemy of my enemy and all that.

SAD, BUT TRUE.

YOU DON’T SAY: Electric Cars Are Still, Generally, a Plaything of the Wealthy.

Even in the Europe Union, members of which punish drivers of fossil fuel-powered vehicles with high taxes, EVs amounted to just 2 percent of new vehicles registered last year. And yet the EU plans to drastically cut down on greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years.

New data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) shows that the EU’s green dreams will be hard to realize without some sort of massive incentive for the purchase of electric vehicles, as right now those vehicles are only marginally popular in extremely wealthy countries. The EV “people’s car” is still a dream.

The report shows an EV take rate of less than 1 percent in half of the EU’s member states. The lower a country’s per capita GDP, the lower the take rate.

Only two European countries that boast an EV market share above 5 percent are Sweden and the Netherlands. Finland clears the 3.5 percent mark. What all three countries have in common is a per capita GDP greater than $47,000. Those sub-1-percenters? They all have per capita GDPs below $32,500.

ACEA’s findings show that more than 80 percent of the EU’s electric vehicle sales originate in just six countries, all of them wealthy.

Plus: “If governments try to legislate away the existence of ICE-powered vehicles, they just might find themselves facing an angry, carless society. The solution, according to the ACEA, is more government intervention.“

The solution to big, stupid government is always more big, stupid government.

MARK RIPPETOE: Apprenticeship: Regaining Its Rightful Position as the Best Pathway to a Rewarding Career.

First, every kid who gets a job working for a plumber, an electrician, a stonemason, a carpenter, a house framer, a heavy equipment operator, or any other master tradesmen has a great opportunity to learn the skills necessary to become a successful businessman in a trade that’s not going away as long as people are living and working in structures built by somebody else. Some of these apprenticeships are formalized (the electricians have done it this way for decades) and some of them are informal relationships between older professionals and younger kids who have enough sense to know a good opportunity when they see one.

Second, colleges and universities have really dropped the ball here. Historically, universities insisted that they were not vocational schools, but rather Institutions of Higher Education, concerned with preparing the human mind. It’s difficult to understand how an accounting or engineering degree is other than vocational, but the haughty attitude was dragged out when it was useful – like when we asked about jobs in a depressed market.

But our Geology degree was not Philosophy. We were there to learn a trade, and markets change. But we got a hard science education – with chemistry, physics, calculus, and labs – and hard science is more useful than soft arts. If you have to have calculus to graduate, your job prospects are pretty good because, as it turns out, employers are always looking for people who can complete difficult tasks.

But don’t fall into the Barack Obama trap of dissing Art History, which is a substantive field with, as Virginia Postrel pointed out, a lot of practical applications.

But even Obama was right to acknowledge the importance of the skilled trades.

CHANGE: Data Show Poorest Americans Are Benefiting Most from Strong Economy: The powers of good policy are increasing employment and wages and decreasing wage inequality.

HOSTILE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: Students Cleared in College Rape Say School Discriminates Against Men.

THEN I’D WAGER IT’S FOR NOTHING GOOD: NY State Using Facial Recognition Tech but Won’t Say for What.

TRIGGER WARNING: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (of which I am a beleaguered member) held an all-day briefing yesterday entitled “Federal Me Too: Examining Sexual Harassment in Government Workplaces.” Over a dozen witnesses testified.

Posted on the wall was the following notice: “MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST ON-SITE TODAY: Persons who need assistance may go to the reception area and see persons wearing a badge or ask a Commission staff person. In addition, you may reach a mental health specialist by email, phone call, or text message ….”

All during the briefing two licensed therapists sat in the room waiting for somebody to have an emotional breakdown. We’ve had dozens of briefings like this during my tenure on the Commission. This is the first time we’ve brought in therapists. Not one, but two.

No one seems to notice the Commission is suggesting that female employees are a bunch of fragile neurotics. Why would anybody want to hire such a person?

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Disney put more than $400 million into Vice Media. Now it says that investment is worthless.

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TWO NBCs IN ONE! Back in April, as NewsBusters noted, NBC sent Al Roker “to Alaska’s ‘Ground Zero for Climate Change:’”

As his taped report began, Roker narrated: “It’s the top of the world, and for scientists, Utqiagvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow, is ground zero for climate change.” Talking to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientist Bryan Thomas, the meteorologist asked: “As a planet, we make a commitment to change something, that you can reverse damage that has been done?”

NBC doesn’t seem to be in too much of a hurry to reverse its own carbon footprint. The Hollywood Reporter noted last year that “Indy 500 Race Moving to NBC in 2019 After 54 Years on ABC.”

Evidently, the network wants to be in the running to win the “Grand Champion Carbonator” award for Iowahawk’s annual Earth Week Cruise-In.

As Glenn likes to say, I’ll believe that global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves.

LIFE IN THE CRAZY YEARS: 8th Place: A High School Girl’s Life After Transgender Students Join Her Sport.

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Liquid Death sells water to tech bros who are too cool for alcohol.

A 12-pack of Liquid Death 16.9-ounce tallboys is $21.99 on Amazon.

What’s in the cans festooned with dripping golden skulls and the tagline “murder your thirst”? It’s 100% non-carbonated mountain water sourced and canned in the Alps. No flavoring but with a slightly alkaline pH of 8.2.

It’s the latest venture from former Netflix Creative Director Mike Cessario, a product designed to resonate with “extreme” teetotaling crowds that eschew alcohol and drugs.

On Tuesday, Cessario announced he had raised an additional $1.6 million for his canned-water startup from big names in tech including Dollar Shave Club founder and CEO Michael Dubin, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Away co-founder Jen Rubio, bringing total funding to $2.25 million.

The announcement follows a growing trend in the U.S. beverage market. Bottled water was the most successful mass market beverage category in 2018, with nearly 14 billion gallons sold.

Still though, as Sonny Bunch tweets, “I would watch eight years of a Mad Men style prestige drama that culminated in this ad being the final scene.”

OPEN THREAD: Hit me with your best shot.

JONATHAN TURLEY: Could the House Dem contempt charge on Barr possibly be any weaker?

THE NEW SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE: 6th grade survivor: ‘I was going to go down fighting.’

Related: The Hero Solution to the Mass-Shooting Contagion. “We’re now remembering the heroes’ names more than the shooters. The shooters failed in two of their core missions — to kill large numbers of victims and achieve enduring fame. And if they keep failing, I wonder . . . could the mass-shooting contagion finally start to break?”

Plus: “Why in the world would I let this coward get what he wants? I’m not a victim,” he said. “I refuse to be a victim. Kendrick refused to be a victim.”

ON THE 10 BLOCKS PODCAST, Myron Magnet discusses his new book, Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution.

JAMES COMEY: ‘Spying? I Have No Idea What Barr’s Talking About. The FBI Doesn’t Spy …’

As Eli Lake of Bloomberg deadpans on Twitter, “Also the Air Force doesn’t bomb.”