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Today Salon has upped the ante with a study of how the intelligence-gathering arm of the government has also been outsourced to private contractors:
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales continued to discuss the process that resulted in the firing of 8 US Attorneys with members of his staff after Justice Dept. offices began an internal investigation into the matter. Gonzales had insisted that he did
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Only 354 of 90,000 police caught on camera speeding or jumping red lights last year were punished. Last night forces were accused of double standards after it emerged that only one in 200 officers was fined or given points, compared with 84 per cent
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she followed all Senate rules when she accepted rides on a private jet from a longtime benefactor. "Whatever I've done, I complied with Senate rules at the time. That's the way every senator operates,
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Federal agents are looking into Sen. Ted Stevens' role in the ongoing investigation into the remodeling of his Alaska home, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the probe.
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What do you do when your son asks you a question about the world and the way it is? You answer the question.
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The law licenses of two former Internal Revenue Service (income tax) lawyers have been suspended for two years after a federal court ruling last year that they defrauded the U.S. Courts so that the I.R.S. could win 1,300 tax shelter cases. W. Kenneth
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The city of Springfield, Missouri prepared for the installation of a red light camera system by slashing the yellow warning time by one second at 105 intersection signals across the city. A one-second reduction in yellow time resulted in a 100% incre
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An Office of Special Counsel report has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job, sources say. [when I was a thug, this was ser
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The stunning revelation that ex-Marines Hector Alvarez and Miguel "Mike" Castillo admitted to trying to force their way into an East Pierrepont Avenue home and rob a man they suspected of selling drugs came Monday during their first appeara
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We have reached a nadir when a U.S. Congressman uses the power of his office to persecute a cold fusion researcher for publishing a positive result and helping others replicate.
We have reached a nadir when a U.S. Congressman uses the power of his office to persecute a cold fusion researcher for publishing a positive result and helping others replicate.
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"This involves hundreds of guns," said retired police detective Ray Britt, one of four current and former officers who told The Inquirer that police routinely resold seized firearms. "Lots of people knew it was happening, and some off
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Fired U.S. Attorney John McKay said Sunday he believes the Justice Department is covering up the real reason for his ouster. “I can see why they would want to come up with an explanation other than the governor’s election for why I would be on suc
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(I just got an email from a FreedomsPhoenix reader telling me about this. I had to check it for myself. Wow Wow Wow)
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Since the US-led invasion four years ago, the fifth estate has covered Iraq and the war on terror from virtually every angle--the military, media, intelligence, politics--revealing aspects of the story that you didn't find anywhere else. Now, as
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' critics say Gonzales is far more likely to say "yes" _ leaving the Justice Department vulnerable to a politically determined White House. [good review of his tenure]
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Six+ Senate Republicans have now called on Gonzales to resign. Specter said he believes support for the no confidence vote is “very substantial,” and that if Gonzales “sees that coming, that he would prefer to avoid that kind of an historical black m
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There was already mention of possible contenders yesterday - including the prime minister, Tony Blair, who is due to step down himself at the end of June. (WELL,... WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?)
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Two dozen current and former members of Congress caught up in criminal investigations or ethics inquiries spent more than $5 million in campaign funds on legal fees during the last 27 months covered by campaign-finance records.
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Paul Wolfowitz, whose resignation was announced on Thursday, took over the World Bank in mid-2005 carrying a legacy as an architect of the Iraq war that never ceased to trouble his critics inside and outside the poverty-fighting institution.
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington asked the Department of Education Inspector General’s office to initiate an investigation into employees who – in violation of federal law and with the full knowledge of the Department’s Office of
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Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is negotiating an agreement to resign. His departure would include an acknowledgment from the bank that he doesn't bear sole responsibility for the generous pay package for his girlfriend,
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"Mr. Wolfowitz will not resign under this cloud and he will rather put this matter to a full (board) vote than to capitulate on his integrity," his lawyer Robert Bennett told Reuters on Wednesday.
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has met the bank's 24-member board to respond to allegations of favouritism.
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Nearly two dozen officials who received hefty performance bonuses last year at the Veterans Affairs Department also sat on the boards charged with recommending the payments.
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A World Bank panel found bank President Paul Wolfowitz violated several rules in his handling of a promotion and generous pay increase for his companion and his involvement in the matter represented a conflict of interest.
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An analysis of federal records shows that some religious organizations are also hiring professional lobbyists to pursue the narrowly tailored individual appropriations known as earmarks.
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While the suspect and the officer were away, Border Patrol agent Michael Carlos Gonzalez arrived on the scene. Gonzalez was supposed to guard the suspect's truck, loaded with marijuana. Instead, he helped himself to a 20 pound bundle. And the wh
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“In this case the officer had a scientific test, a scientific test which officers ask juries to believe everyday, which told the officer that my client was innocent,” Linehan said. And even with the knowledge that my client was innocent, he was stil
