The new website for the newly-created military branch The Space Force is live: spaceforce.mil. Spaceforce.mil went up after President Donald Trump signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act last week. Approximately 16,000 active-duty soldiers and and civilians who were part of the military’s Air Force Space Command have now been assigned to the Space Force. What will the […]
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The Senate’s “Secret Holds”
In the odd inner workings of Congress, there’s something called a “legislative hold.” It gives any individual senator the power to stop a nominee or a bill— put a hold on them. The idea is to encourage negotiations between those for and against. But sometimes the Senator making the hold keeps his name secret. Senator […]
FBI official gets short jail sentence for spying on U.S. citizen
An FBI official who illegally spied on a political rival to Special Counsel Robert Mueller will serve a week in jail. The sentence came Friday after 60-year old Mark Tolson, then an FBI analyst, admitted illegally accessing the computer of a political rival of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in October 2018 during the investigation into […]
WATCH: Mexican cartels recruit teens to “mule” drugs
The following is a transcript of my cover story investigation on “Full Measure.” Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the page. We begin with an important border issue you probably don’t know much about. Under longstanding federal policy, when underage kids are caught smuggling drugs from Mexico into the U.S., […]
READ: New FISA court order to FBI re: Trump campaign-related surveillance
We don’t yet have the FBI’s response, but we now know that on December 5, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered a review of wiretap applications touched by an FBI attorney. The attorney got caught by the Department of Justice Inspector General allegedly doctoring information provided to the court for the surveillance of former Trump […]
Lara Logan sues New York magazine and writer for $25 million
Logan claims a 2015 article about her was designed to harm her career New York Media (which owns New York magazine) stands by its reporting Former 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan is suing the author and publisher of a story that she says destroyed her earning capacity at CBS News. The article by Joe Hagan […]
University of Phoenix to pay $191 million to settle false advertising claims
The University of Phoenix will pay $50 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and cancel $141 in student debt to settle false advertising charges, according to Reuters. In ads targeting military and Hispanic students, the university allegedly falsely claimed to have relationships with several large corporations that could translate to jobs for graduates. According […]
Is U.S. Attorney Durham coming for ex-CIA Chief Brennan?
There’s a new report from the New York Times that U.S Attorney John Durham is seeking to obtain emails and other communications belonging to ex-CIA Director John Brennan as part of the criminal investigation into the intelligence community’s actions in the Trump-Russia probe. A caution: The New York Times cites anonymous sources (and has proven […]
