Tag: Watchdog

A Romanian hacker who claimed to have accessed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server will plead guilty in a court hearing Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

‘Guccifer,’ accused Clinton hacker, to plead guilty

Sarah Bedford · May 23, 2016 5:22 pm

Leaders at the agency overseeing the Pentagon lied to a judge and improperly destroyed documents, a former official is claiming. (iStock)

National Security

Claim: Top Pentagon officials engaged in obstruction of justice to expose whistleblowers

Rudy Takala · May 23, 2016 5:21 pm

The report notes that 2,353 new rules were issued in 2015, while the administration's regulators have proposed more than 2,000 new rules for passage before President Obama leaves office next year. (AP Photo)

Record year: Cost of Obama regulations surpasses $100 billion for first time

Rudy Takala · May 23, 2016 5:12 pm

VA secretary: Disney doesn’t measure wait times, so why should VA?

VA secretary: Disney doesn’t measure wait times, so why should VA?

Sarah Bedford · May 23, 2016 2:59 pm

Kirk: VA wait times ‘nothing compared to a day at Disneyland’

Sarah Bedford · May 23, 2016 12:52 pm

"I couldn't believe that after Republicans took the majority in the election in 1994 ... that we never did end this practice of having an automatic increase in every federal department's budget every year," said Louie Gohmert. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Gohmert: Waging war against Washington spending

Rudy Takala · May 23, 2016 4:01 am

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

On Facebook, critics see long pattern of discrimination

Rudy Takala · May 23, 2016 4:01 am

The "Stop Mass Hacking Act," proposed on Thursday by Wyden and a bipartisan group of his colleagues, is aimed chiefly at preventing the FBI from hacking thousands of computers via so-called "botnets" using a single warrant. (iStock photo)

National Security

Nonprofits and trade group support bill to prevent mass hacking by feds

Rudy Takala · May 20, 2016 8:03 pm

Man says his team could have provided reinforcements to the Americans under attack in September 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Benghazi Republicans turn to unlikely source in defense of Gowdy

Sarah Bedford · May 20, 2016 6:49 pm

Ben and Jerry's co-founders Ben Cohen, left, and Jerry Greenfield, second from right, unveil a new ice cream flavor called "Empower Mint." (Kaitlin McKeown/The Herald-Sun via AP)

Ben and Jerry’s calls on consumers to combat male oppression with ice cream

Rudy Takala · May 20, 2016 2:35 pm

DNC officials are preparing to offer Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters a chance to shape the party’s platform at the convention in July. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Report: DNC to offer Sanders olive branch at convention

Sarah Bedford · May 20, 2016 2:12 pm

A federal court is taking more time than normal to release a ruling on the legality of "net neutrality" regulations passed by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015, intensifying the speculation of the outcome on both sides of the argument. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Critics hope ‘net neutrality’ dies through delays

Rudy Takala · May 20, 2016 4:01 am