Leaked Rainbow Lounge Video Raises More Questions Than Answers, John McCain Sees Matthew Shepard Act As Threat To America, Twitter Hacked

In Fort Worth, Texas WFAA TV, leaked documents by the Police Department, reports that the Rainbow Lounge was in fact targeted, but only, officials argue, because police cruiser video shows a man arrested two days earlier for public intoxication after leaving the gay bar. That incident allegedly prompted an inspection from both the Police and the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission, and apparently acts as justification for the raid that fateful Sunday morning. The accompanying audio and video of that inspection, however, tends to suggest that the situation inside the Rainbow Lounge quite quickly deteriorated, with the investigating officials losing control.

The Republican Party is reportedly protesting the inclusion by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act as an amendment to a massive nearly seven hundred billion dollar defense bill. Reid is attaching the Act to the bill in an effort to pass the hate crime legislation because several Republican’s oppose the Act, including Senator John McCain, who said the Act “can harm … the United States of America and its judicial system.”

Twitter – still so ambivalent am I about what it even is supposed to so, let alone its usefulness – was hacked Wednesday, after an employee’s email account was broken into and information about the company was compromised, raising the usual questions about password protection and security.