ProPublica's Jeff Gerth gives us another list outlining Hillary Clinton's "clashes over secrecy." Gerth: "Here are five examples covering the last two decades. Some are drawn from a 2007 book I did, with Don Van Natta Jr., entitled "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton.... 1) 1992: The Commodity Trades During Bill […]
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Breaking Down Walls: The Fight for Open Government
The following is a reprint of a "University of Florida News" article Investigative journalist and author Sharyl Attkisson will speak on "The Rightful Owners of Public Information" on Thursday, March 26, at 6 p.m. in Weimer Hall's Gannett Auditorium on the University of Florida campus. Attkisson's speech will kickoff "Breaking Down Walls: The Fight for […]
Lisa Myers: TV journalism deteriorating
Lisa Myers sounds like me. She is also a former network news investigative journalist. She left her longtime job at NBC about the time I left my longtime job at CBS. To me, it is interesting that some of our experiences and thoughts are so similar. I expressed many of mine in Stonewalled. From an […]
Terrorism-related stories
Here are some of my terrorism-related articles linked in one place: How Arab Spring Opened The Door To Terrorism's Ugly March Suing to Stop Terror Funding Arab Bank Accused of Helping Reward Suicide Bombers Suicide Bomber's Paycheck: $5,300 US Terrorism Victims Win Landmark Lawsuit Against Bank Thousands of Qaddafi-era Missiles Missing in Libya
19 Times The Govt. Withheld Docs It Didn't Want You To See
Lost and missing government records are not isolated to one administration or political party. The list below includes 19 examples of public files that went missing, were withheld or lost and then found. It includes the most recent example of former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Maxwell’s account of Benghazi documents... [button link="http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/15/19-times-documents-went-missing-government-didnt-want-know/"]Read Article […]
8 Times Obama Says He Was Way Out of the Loop
It’s a remarkable irony: the same U.S. president whose administration has gone to great lengths to monitor journalists, whistleblowers and the public, claims to be oddly in the dark regarding basic information on some of his biggest controversies. Here are eight instances in which President Obama said he heard it on the news—or way after-the-fact—just […]
Alleged Suppression of Investigative Reporting? Sounds Familiar...
New York Magazine's account of the alleged "suppression" of investigative stories at NBC News sounds familiar -- and much like my own experience as told in Stonewalled. For example, at precisely the same time my producer and I suddenly began hitting a brick wall when offering investigative stories on Obamacare to the CBS News broadcasts, in October of […]
Did Attorney General Eric Holder Use Personal Email Address?
According to a new survey of high-ranking federal officials, it is common practice for agency officials to use personal email and also to fail to preserve the documents. With that in mind, we asked the Department of Justice if Attorney General Eric Holder has ever used a personal email account for government business. Read my […]
