Tag: Watchdog

Hillary Clinton's sole briefing took place Jan. 22, 2009, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller through a records request of the State Department. (AP Photo)

Report: Clinton got just one briefing on handling classified material as secretary of state

Rudy Takala · March 25, 2016 7:39 pm

The email exchange reveals the confusion State Dept. officials expressed over Clinton's naming of Bryan Pagliano, who set up Clinton's basement server, as a political appointee, elevating him beyond the status of typical IT workers in the department. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Emails indicate State Dept. confusion over Clinton IT aide

Rudy Takala · March 25, 2016 5:54 pm

End-to-end encryption prevents messages from being read by hackers or snooping governments while in transit. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Google takes credit for increasing encrypted emails by 25 percent

Rudy Takala · March 25, 2016 2:41 pm

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is pushing the Justice Department's to release a George W. Bush-era legal opinion on privacy and surveillance. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Wyden demands declassification of Bush-era surveillance ruling

Rudy Takala · March 25, 2016 1:11 pm

More lost Clinton emails unearthed

More lost Clinton emails unearthed

Rudy Takala · March 24, 2016 10:53 pm

Officials reported the software being used was identical to what they agency had been asking Apple to create. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Report: FBI testing encryption-breaking software

Rudy Takala · March 24, 2016 8:31 pm

The officials claimed the indictment will link the hackers directly to the Iranian government, and will focus mainly on a 2013 breach of the Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye Brook, N.Y. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

National Security

Report: Feds set to indict Iranian hackers

Rudy Takala · March 24, 2016 1:28 pm

The House Select Committee on Benghazi has "bungled" its investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the deaths of four Americans in 2012, said the head of a conservative watchdog group. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Conservative group says House Benghazi panel ‘bungled’ investigation

Rudy Takala · March 24, 2016 12:23 pm

Chinese national Su Bin, who was extradited from Canada in February, has been implicated in the theft of designs for Boeing's C-17 Globemaster III. (AP Photo/Kevin P. Casey)

National Security

Chinese national pleads guilty to hacking U.S. military secrets

Rudy Takala · March 24, 2016 12:11 pm

The report said 28 workers were put on leave for "matters related to fitness for duty issues." (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)

Watchdog: DHS paid out millions to workers on paid leave

Curt Mills · March 23, 2016 10:11 pm

Media reports on Tuesday suggested that party might be Cellebrite, an Israeli firm that specializes in data extraction. If that is the case, that poses a problem for U.S. officials, who already sought the company out for assistance hacking an iPhone in a separate drug case as long ago as Feb. 16. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Report: Feds claimed ignorance on iPhone hacking 19 times

Rudy Takala · March 23, 2016 8:35 pm

"I saw that report and I don't know what it's based on," Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz said. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

New bill would prevent 1789 law from applying to iPhones

Rudy Takala · March 23, 2016 7:17 pm