Reason Morning Links: TSA Offers Buyouts, Republicans Oppose Extending Payroll Tax Cut, Orange Count

1. Facing a budget crunch, the TSA wants to offer buyouts to 3,000 administrators.

2. In an impressive about-face, congressional Republicans say extending the payroll tax cut "adds needlessly to the nation's budget deficit."

3. The CIA wants to take a black marker to an FBI agent's account of 9/11.

4. Citing death threats, the Orange County D.A. is refusing to release the names of the Fullerton police officers who beat Kelly Thomas into a life-ending coma.

5. Cartel gunmen in Monterrey, once Mexico's safest city, burned 53 people alive in a casino yesterday.

6. On reforming the witness ID system: "Of 273 convictions that have been overturned because DNA showed authorities had the wrong person, eyewitnesses had pointed to the wrong person 75 percent of the time."

7. DOJ raids Gibson Guitars. Again.

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