The right to inspect your own FBI file is guaranteed under the law. So why won't the FBI show me mine, as the law requires? My FBI file trail dates back to the mid 1990s. At that time, I underwent an FBI background check to obtain what's known as a "HARD PASS" to cover the White House […]
When the FBI lied about Wen Ho Lee's polygraph
In 2000, I reported on the FBI's misrepresentation of the polygraph results of an accused spy for the Chinese: Wen Ho Lee. Later in the case, after Lee had been held in solitary confinement, the judge apologized to him and admonished the government for its misconduct and misrepresentations in the case. Lee was eventually paid […]
5 Reasons to Watch "Full Measure"
This Sunday: 1. Billions of your tax dollars fund the G.I. bill to pay for college military vets. So why are billions more potentially going to help students allegedly defrauded by for-profit colleges? 2. Scott Thuman tracks the failing Obamacare non-profit co-ops to Nevada as more than a half million are bumped off their insurance plans […]
For-Profit College Scams? Full Measure This Week
Reasons to watch Full Measure this Sunday: We investigate for-profit colleges that allegedly prey on military troops. Your tax dollars may end up paying for the fraud. The report will feature a soldier left feeling cheated and in debt; and interviews with Sen. Dick Durbin, a whistleblower who worked at one for profit college, and an advocate for the […]
Project Censored's Most Censored News Stories 2016
[Above image: Satellite image of damage after earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima Dai Ichi Power Plant, Japan March 16, 2011 (credit: DigitalGlobe)] Project Censored (The News That Didn't Make News) is out with Censored 2016: its new annual list of Most Censored news stories. Among them, says the journalism watchdog: The Fukushima, Japan nuclear meltdown continues despite claims. […]
The "other" Fast & Furious, headed to a theatre near you
[Above image: Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, murdered by illegal Mexican bandits armed with Fast and Furious rifles] Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Special Agent John Dodson blew the whistle on the Department of Justice (DOJ) ill-fated "Fast and Furious" operation in an interview with me in 2011. Dodson explained that the U.S. government had […]
Hillary Clinton's public vs. private Benghazi facts
Hillary Clinton presented one set of Benghazi facts to her own family; another to the family of the victims and the American public. Within hours of the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Clinton emailed her daughter, Chelsea, that Americans had died at the hands of an al-Qaeda like group. Al-Qaeda is the Islamic […]
Illegal Immigration: 3 reasons to watch Full Measure Sunday
The news media is full of stories about deserving illegal immigrants who come to the U.S. and are law-abiding contributors to society. But there's a flip side to illegal immigration and it's not well covered in the news media: tens of thousands of illegal immigrants committing serious crimes - including murdering American citizens - on […]