“Freedom is not free” — a US veteran’s ground-level perspective on life in wartime Ukraine Former Special Ops officer-turned-journalist Nolan Peterson did what good journalists do: he got on a plane and headed to Ukraine for firsthand reporting on the […]
Should a special counsel take over the Justice Department probe of lost IRS emails and the targeting of conservative tax-exempt groups? Attorney General Eric Holder says there’s no need: his Justice Department is conducting a thorough and fair investigation. But can the Justice
The federal government continues to maintain a great deal of secrecy around the influx of what it calls “unaccompanied alien children” or UAC. At the same time, U.S. taxpayers are being asked to fund programs to process and care for
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As I reported on August 14, an email obtained by Congress shows the top official for Healthcare.gov at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Department of Health and Human Services, Marilyn Tavenner, instructed the agency’s top spokesman
Why delete an email? And: HealthCare.gov resignations galore. Read More »
Update: Sgt. Rob Richards, depicted in a video of U.S. Marine snipers urinating on Taliban corpses, was found dead at his home Aug. 13 in Jacksonville, North Carolina. No cause of death has been publicly reported, but his acquaintances have
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The House Oversight Committee today issued a subpoena to the White House for documents involving the White House political office, which reopened after two members of President Obama’s cabinet were found to have violated laws intended to separate taxpayer functions from
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David Sirota reports on “How Government Blacklists Journalists From Accessing the Truth” stating that “The public is being systematically divorced from public policy, which is exactly what too many elected officials want.” The article at alternet.org addresses a phenomenon many of
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Paycheck for terrorism? It may not sound like a lot but it’s four times the annual income of the average Palestinian: $5,300. That’s according to records obtained by U.S. terrorism victims in their lawsuit against Arab Bank. The trial is
