Afternoon Round-Up

National Security
What’s behind the door to Room 4944 at FBI Headquarters? That’s the return address on most of the bureau’s national security letters to phone companies requesting their records. They’re sent by Larry Mefford, the bureau’s Executive Assistant Director in charge of the Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence Division.

Scandal Sheet
Did John Kerry and Raytheon collude to get the Justice Department to investigate British defense conglomerate BAE Systems PLC?

Corporate Capers
Fees for overdraft loans ($17.5 billion) are bigger than the amount of the loans themselves ($15.8 billion), says the Center for Responsive Lending.

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