[Above image: a seedhead of Opium Poppy Papaver somniferum with white latex] Despite $8.2 billion U.S. tax dollars poured into counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan, that country remains the world's leader in the illicit opium trade. That's according to a new report just released from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. Not only does Afghanistan produce […]
Inspectors General Want Criminal Probe Re: Republican Presidential Candidate
(Not really. It's Hillary Clinton who is targeted...) The following is a news opinion and analysis I call it the "Substitution Game" in my book Stonewalled. It refers to how the news media sometimes disparately treats comparable news, depending on the subject and how the news outlet or reporter feels about it. According to the New York Times, "Two […]
"Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson" Debuts Oct. 4
Our new Sunday morning program focusing on accountability reporting debuts Oct. 4 available to 43 million households on Sinclair Broadcasting's ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW and Telemundo affiliates. It will also be live streamed. In Washington DC, "Full Measure" will appear at 9:30am on WJLA ABC Channel 7 and also on NewsChannel 8. Station map […]
Iran promises never to seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons
[quote]"Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons."[/quote] Read the proposed US-Iran nuclear deal yourself. 159 pages. PREFACE The E3/EU+3 (China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) and the […]
DC Conference Highlights Whistleblowers: Heroes Under Assault
Join this year's Whistle Blower Summit on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. July 29-31 to celebrate the collective achievements of whistleblowers and their advocates. Meet and hear from whistleblowers in the public and private sector who have stood up for the public good and suffered severe retaliation. Registration on site: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 9:00am-10:00am […]
Judge Questions Govt. Delays in Attkisson v. HHS
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan calls speed of government response “unreasonable” When government offers to double the speed its response, Judge Chutkan replies: “But that will take us to, what, seven years instead of 14?” I’ve been seeking public information on HealthCare.gov since the fall of 2013. Under Freedom of Information (FOI) law, the government is […]
The Center for Public Integrity Sues Feds
The federal government is spending more of your tax dollars defending yet another lawsuit for its unlawful response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. According to watchdog The Center for Public Integrity: "The Center for Public Integrity [yesterday] filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission — an agency that exists to enforce […]
5 Years after BP Oil Spill: Lingering Problems and Scorched Earth
NBC's Kerry Sanders finds lingering problems and scorched earth five years after BP's oil spill. [button link="http://www.today.com/video/has-gulf-recovered-5-years-after-bp-oil-spill-430694979703"]Watch NBC's BP Oil Spill Report[/button] See some of my previous reporting on BP. The first report is a reminder of how difficult it was to get the first subsea images, which revealed what BP and the Coast Guard had […]
