Tag: Watchdog

That high number of abandoned calls is raising questions about whether the VA is doing all it can to fix up the suicide hotline, which has been criticized as the latest part of the VA that is failing veterans. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Savior of VA’s suicide hotline dropped 1.4M calls from vets

Pete Kasperowicz · March 9, 2016 10:56 pm

—œWe have a right to see these documents, we have a right to the same information that any other group out there has a right to see.—? (AP File Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

RNC head defends lawsuit seeking Clinton records

Rudy Takala · March 9, 2016 10:55 pm

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said, "For too long the State Department has undermined the public and the media's legitimate right to records under the Freedom of Information Act, and it's time it complies with the law." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

RNC sues State Department for Clinton records

Sarah Bedford · March 9, 2016 4:22 pm

Heather Higginbottom, deputy secretary of state for management and resources, said that the State Department received 22,000 FOIA requests in 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

State Dept. wants more money after Clinton email scandal

Sarah Bedford · March 8, 2016 7:25 pm

"My point is to bring to the American public the problem that the FBI is trying to [fool] the American public," John McAfee said. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz/File)

McAfee claims he lied about hacking iPhone to get a ‘s—load of attention’

Rudy Takala · March 8, 2016 5:57 pm

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley pressed Attorney General Loretta Lynch in a letter for a copy of the immunity agreement offered to Clinton aide Bryan Pagliano. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Grassley, Johnson request copy of immunity agreement with Clinton aide

Sarah Bedford · March 8, 2016 3:55 pm

Sen. John Cornyn has repeatedly called on the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the Hillary Clinton email case. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Cornyn blasts Clinton for avoiding ‘important laws’

Sarah Bedford · March 8, 2016 3:10 pm

Privacy advocates warn that Apple being forced to unlock a device will establish a precedent for the future. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Feds seek to force Apple cooperation in New York drug case

Rudy Takala · March 8, 2016 3:02 am

The Department of Commerce cites what it calls ZTE's "planned and organized ... scheme to establish, control, and use a series of [shell] companies to illicitly re-export controlled items to Iran" in contravention of U.S. law. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez/File)

U.S. to sanction Chinese telecom company amid concerns over spying

Rudy Takala · March 7, 2016 8:34 pm

National security officials in South Korea will hold an emergency meeting on cybersecurity on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

National Security

South Korea to convene emergency meeting on cybersecurity

Rudy Takala · March 7, 2016 6:48 pm

"We have had policies that are certainly questionable and I disagree with them, but China is in a whole different league in terms of its behavior and in terms of what it does in censoring its citizens, harming its citizens," FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly.

FCC commissioner: ‘We are moving in the wrong direction’ on free speech

Rudy Takala · March 7, 2016 2:35 pm

Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., a Marine Corps Reserve veteran who represents the military-heavy region around Virginia Beach, penned an open letter calling on Republicans to oppose Trump "based on his judgment, temperament and character." (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Surveillance hawks agree with Trump, but don’t support him

Rudy Takala · March 7, 2016 5:01 am