Army captains Edward Mallue Jr. and Natalie Heimel sent a courtesy invitation to President Obama to attend their wedding near the 16th hole of the Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course in Hawaii. He politely declined, then decided he wanted to play the course, forcing the couple to change well-laid plans and move their ceremony to another location.

The ACLU was delighted with a Christmas Eve document dump by the NSA in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. But how juicy was information such as this: "On (redacted) (redacted) used the US SIGINT System (USSS) to locate (redacted) believed to be kidnapped (redacted).

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The U.S. State Department made a $450,000 grant to support women's cricket in Afghanistan. It's uncertain whether any of the money was spent since the Islamic nation opposes development of the sport.