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Defense Department Tells MuckRock It Will Need To Come Up With $660 Million To Cover FOIA Request Fees

Published March 8, 2016

Nothing quite tells the public to mind its own business like attaching a ridiculous fee demand to an FOIA response. It’s pretty easy to price the public out of the transparency market, seeing as it doesn’t have access to the monetary resources its tax dollars are paying for. We’ve covered a few of the more […]

8 of 11 Remaining ObamaCare Exchanges are Struggling. WARNING: Contains Archived Cartoons

Published March 1, 2016

Spencer Irvine — March 1, 2016 – Accuracy in Media Not good news for taxpayers’ wallets: An official with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told lawmakers last week that eight of the 11 remaining Obamacare co-ops have been selected for “corrective action plans” and “enhanced oversight.” Twenty-three co-ops were created under the […]

State Dept. releases final batch of Clinton emails

Published March 1, 2016

State Department officials released 3,800 pages of Hillary Clinton’s private emails Monday, ending a months-long process of reviewing and redacting the former secretary of state’s records. The pages made public Monday were among the most complicated records in Clinton’s collection, as each email required approval from at least one outside agency before the State Department […]

IRS says number of taxpayers hacked exceeds 700,000 – TWICE the previous estimate

Published February 28, 2016

Published: 18:06 EST, 26 February 2016 | Updated: 09:28 EST, 27 February 2016- The Daily Mail – By Associated Press The IRS said on Friday that the number of taxpayers whose tax information may have been stolen by computer hackers now exceeds 700,000 — more than double the agency’s previous estimate. The tax collecting agency […]

Senator Pat Roberts Introduces New GMO Labeling Legislation

Published February 26, 2016

By Derrick Broze – Feb 24, 2016 – Truth in Media This article is republished with permission from our friends at Truth in Media Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) has introduced new legislation that would prohibit states from creating their own labeling laws for foods that contain genetically modified or engineered ingredients. Genetically modified or engineered […]

Administration Looks to rewrite history and erase Castro’s Worst Crimes

Published February 26, 2016

John Suarez / February 24, 2016 / The Daily Signal Even before President Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba next month, his administration has looked to rewrite the history of the Castros’ worst crimes. An example of this was in 2014, when the Obama administration commuted the double life sentence of Gerardo Hernández. Hernández had been […]

Obama’s Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay Leaves Out Key Details

Published February 24, 2016

Cully Stimson / February 23, 2016 / The Daily Signal As President Barack Obama delivered his speech on closing Guantanamo from the Roosevelt Room in the White House, his plan to close the terrorist detention facility was delivered to lawmakers. The 9-page plan–read together with the administration’s legal analysis of the immigration consequences if some […]

Why McAfee Says FBI Really Wants To End Encryption, Not Hack Just One iPhone

Published February 24, 2016

By Ben Swann – Feb 24, 2016 – Truth in Media This article is republished with permission from our friends at Truth in Media. Click Here to see Video By now you know that the FBI is demanding and a federal magistrate judge is ordering Apple to build a backdoor to its operating system. The […]

The FBI’s War on Phones Is Bigger Than You Think

Published February 24, 2016

James Comey, the director of the FBI, has insisted that his agency’s ongoing conflict with Apple over a terrorist’s phone is just that: a conflict over one phone. In a letter posted to the Lawfare blog over the weekend, Comey called the legal issue at hand “quite narrow,” and said the FBI sought only “limited” help. Experts […]

Wikileaks Releases Proof Of NSA Spying On Merkel, Netanyahu, Berlusconi And Others

Published February 23, 2016

In a shocking new set of cables released by Julian Assange’s Wikileaks organization, highly classified documents show that the NSA bugged meetings between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (over climate change); between Israel prime minister Netanyahu and Italian prime minister Berlusconi (begging for help to deal with Obama); between key […]

National Debt Per Household Set to Total Nearly $200K in 2026.

Published February 23, 2016

Rachel Greszler / February 23, 2016 / The Daily Signal Spending in Washington is out of control. Accountability has disappeared. Federal programs run on autopilot. Policymakers identify endless new spending “needs” without ever evaluating the effectiveness of existing programs. As individuals and families work to put food on their table, pay a mortgage or […]

Obama presents plan to close Guantanamo, move detainees to US

Published February 23, 2016

President Obama on Tuesday presented the four-point plan that he has given Congress to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that includes releasing more detainees and transferring the most dangerous of them to U.S. soil The president presented the plan in his last months of office, in perhaps a final effort to […]

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