Cheat Sheet - White House Prepares for Russian Retaliation

March 14, 2014 COME AND GET IT 1. White House Prepares for Russian Retaliation Money is what makes the world go round. Josh Rogin reports that the White House expects Moscow to strike back if the U.S. moves to sanction Putin and his pals after Crimea votes on joining Russia this Sunday. What the economic Cold War would look like. Read it at The Daily Beast INTO THIN AIR 2. Flight 370 Is Just the Start The dreadful search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 should remind us that Asia is trying to reach a level of air safety in 10 years that took the West 50 years to achieve, writes Clive Irving. Confused investigators, spotty technology, and inexperienced pilots plague the continent. Read it at The Daily Beast LET IT GO 3. CIA Lawyer: Release the Torture Report The architect of CIA rules, which sanctioned secret prisons and brutal interrogations, tells Eli Lake that the Senate report on both should be released. John Rizzo was the CIA's top lawyer in 2002 when the agency's controversial programs were created, and no one may have more to lose from the report than him. Read it at The Daily Beast not a crash test 4. GM Air Bags Blamed for 303 Deaths Between 2003 and 2012, 303 people died after the air bags of two models of General Motors car failed to deploy. Last month GM recalled those models, the 2003-5 Chevrolet Cobalts and the 2003-2007 Saturn Ions, along with four other models in a 1.6-million-car recall. The review of air-bag-linked deaths was carried out by Friedman Research, which did not evaluate the causes of the crashes, and commissioned by the Center for Auto Safety. A GM spokesman criticized the database for only tracking raw data and not rigorously analyzing it. Read it at The New York Times GREEN ENVY 5. Old Pot Convictions Can Be Quashed The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that the state's legalization law, Amendment 64, can be applied retroactively to minor drug offenses, but only if convicted drug users had already started appealing when the new law came into force. The decision came in a case from 2010 when a woman was convicted of possessing small amounts of pot, which is now legal. "The fact that a court in Colorado, one of the first two states to do this, came to this conclusion will hopefully have some impact on how courts in other places look at this," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. However the ruling will not affect convictions from decades ago. Read it at The New York Times STEP BACKWARDS Iraq May Legalize Child-Marriage And require wives to submit to husbands. OH THAT'S NICE Japan Backs Down on Rape Claims Won't withdraw apology for army of sex slaves. YOU AGAIN U.S. Lets BP Drill in Gulf Again And bid on government contracts. DOOM Soros: Ukraine Could Ruin E.U. Russia proves Europe can't act. Déjà Vu 5 Dead In New China Knife Attack Local media blaming Uighur separatists GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. Are You 'Divergent?' As Veronica Roth's bestselling young adult novel hits the big screen with Shailene Woodley, we take a numerical look at dystopia, fear, and what it means to belong. More Videos Who Is Burning Down Detroit's Street Art? by James Fassinger Georgia Legislators Think Felons Should Be Able To Shoot You by Cliff Schecter The First 'True Detective' by Jimmy So

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