Spy agency mouthpiece Michael Hayden yesterday criticized Sen. Dianne Feinstein for showing "deep, emotional feeling" about the Senate's report on the CIA's torture program. Michael Hayden is really something (a torture apologist).

Amid a growing controversy surrounding reports that the U.S. monitored the personal phone calls of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Obama may order the NSA to end its spying program that targets allied heads of state, though no final decision has been made.

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Today, she takes a crack at defending the NSA's domestic phone record spying program. She can't come up with one decent justification.

Bloomberg had a few things to say about gun violence on Meet the Press today:

If you're General David Petraeus, you're probably not having a very relaxing Sunday morning. And if General Petraeus was tuning into Fox News this morning, he's probably having a bit less of anything resembling a good morning.

Marijuana brownies and other edibles may carry double the jail time and double the fines thanks to a vague new law aimed at drugs "marketed or packaged to appear similar to a candy product." The U.S. Senate: Harshing your buzz.

Defeated birther Orly Taitz now wants to challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein, saying, "[Feinstein] used to be an attorney, married to a surgeon. I am an attorney and I am also a dental surgeon." How could she not run, knowing this?

Meryl Streep celebrates her 60th birthday today. Cyndi Lauper is turning 56. Rob Wiesenthal, Sony's No. 2 exec, is 43. Legendary M&A attorney Marty Lipton is turning 78. Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for NYC, is 63. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California turns 76. Carson Daly is turning 36. Author Dan Brown is 45. Tracy Pollan, the actress and wife of Michael J. Fox, is turning 49. Actress Amy Brenneman is 45. TV personality Jai Rodriguez turns 30. Erin Brockovich is 49. Donald Faison of Scrubs is 35. Kurt Warner, the former Giants quarterback, is turning 38. Singer and drag queen Kevin Aviance is 41. And Lindsay Wagner of Bionic Woman fame is 60 today.

On the menu for the traditional post-inauguration luncheon hosted by Congress: "seafood, pheasant, duck, and apple-cinnamon sponge cake," a menu inspired by Lincoln, served on a "replica of the Lincoln china," according to this clip.