Wherein Rachel Maddow asks: could Christie's "Bridgegate" have been about running up the score?

If you have eighteen minutes, then watch this.

To summarize Rachel Maddow's discussion: Christie claims that he wasn't interested in obtaining Fort Lee Mayor Sokolich's endorsement for his re-election campaign. Could it, then, have been a warning shot across the bow of other New Jersey Democrats, in order to obtain their endorsements, and make a bigger showing in 2013 to make a stronger case for Christie's Presidential run in 2016?

Friday Miscellany! (#Bridgegate, National Security Letters, #Fallujah, @XRAYFM, and more!)

• The FBI is screaming like a frustrated toddler at the suggestion that their "National Security Letter" program might need more oversight


• Despite what whining you might be hearing from your favorite Republican, Democrats are indeed coming to Christie's defense in the wake of "Bridgegate." Meanwhile, his opponents in the GOP are happily throwing him under the bus. Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com, meanwhile, has a more intellectual take-down of Christie here, which is not to say that I agree with him.


• Meanwhile in Iraq, Fallujah locals are fighting off Al Qaeda, but also threatening to fight off the Iraqi government, effectively bidding to become their own autonomous zone a la "Kurdistan" in the north.


• Ford Motor Company knows when you're breaking the law thanks to their cars' internal GPS.


• Mac OS X users aren't getting security updates unless they've updated to Mavericks. Even Microsoft, which is still supporting Vista and Windows 7, isn't that bad.


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