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Nieman Reports Nieman Storyboard  A reporter’s tool | Are
regulations killing jobs? Here’s how to find out. NYU Law
School’s Institute for Policy Integrity has put out a tip sheet
for reporters to get to the bottom of assertions that government
regulations, such as ones by EPA, are killing jobs. And also to
check on claims to the opposite – that regulations are creating
jobs.  No investigation | Will the reasons for the Iraq war ever
be known? Tersely, Gil Cranberg links the voluminous findings in
the Penn State probe into the Sandusky sex scandal to the
failure – and circumscription – of a government inquiry into the
possibly illegal invasion of Iraq, and the very costly war
there.  National security | What about whistleblowers? And why
the big Obama turnaround on state secrets? In the last two
weeks, the Obama administration announced lie-detector tests on
leaking, and House members introduced a state secrets bill that
Obama has notably failed t