The latest developments in the Loughner case

The Loughner file

* Comments from friends and

former classmates bolstered by Loughner's own Internet postings have painted a picture of a social outcast with almost indecipherable beliefs and steeped in mistrust and paranoia. "If you call me a terrorist then the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem," he wrote Dec. 15 in a wide-ranging posting.

* A military official in Washington

said the Army rejected Loughner in 2008 because he had failed a drug test. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because privacy laws prevent the military from disclosing such information about an individual's application. The official did not know what type of drug had been

detected.

* Prosecutors say he scrawled on

an envelope the words "my assassination" and "Giffords" sometime before he took a cab to the Tucson, Ariz., shopping center. Police said he bought the Glock pistol used in the attack at Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson in November.

* The revelation about the high-

capacity ammunition clip led one longtime Senate gun-control advocate, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., to announce plans to re-establish a prohibition that lapsed in 2004 on clips that feed more than 10 rounds at a time.

* Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

delivered her annual State of the State address in Phoenix and scrapped plans to talk about tax reform, instead hailing the work of rescue workers, law enforcers and citizens who helped arrest Loughner at the scene.

"Arizona is in pain," Brewer said. "Our grief is profound."

- Will Bunch and wire services