A very risky business. Washington, DC: Computer systems analyst and former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, unleashed an unprecedented volume of government secrets and became the world’s best-known whistleblower. Some of the details of American security operations are simply embarrassing. In other cases, the ... MORE
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Brenda Craig: Before You Blow The Whistle - Read This
A very risky business. Washington, DC: Computer systems analyst and former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, unleashed an unprecedented volume of government secrets and became the world’s best-known whistleblower. Some of the details of American security operations are simply embarrassing. In other cases, the ... MORENo Magic Strong Enough To Make IRS E-mails Vanish
by Adriana Cohen. Another federal fairy tale. In a highly suspect news dump, the IRS announced days ago that years
of critical emails that took place between disgraced former IRS official
Lois Lerner and key players in government tied to the IRS targeting
scandal have “magically” disappeared. Even Democrats aren’t buying it. Everyone
knows ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: A Dog Whistle To The Left
Government officials can legally lie. I am not a fan of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. He presided over the politically conceived, patently unconstitutional and anti-free market taxpayer bailouts of banks, automakers and insurance companies in the latter part of the administration of former President George W. Bush, ... MOREJacob Sullum: Sunlight Slays Secret Snooping
What changed Obama's mind about NSA dragnet? Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last July, Deputy Attorney General James Cole explained why the National Security Agency (NSA) needed to collect everyone's telephone records. "If you're looking for the needle in the haystack," he said, "you have to have the entire haystack to ... MORE Andrew Napolitano: A Rivalry Of Government Hackers
More evidence the government is not us. The government is caught up in another scandal in which federal agents have been accused of hacking into one another's computers. When the CIA was established in 1947, Congress and President Truman were concerned that it might not confine itself to spying. Its sole statutory purpose was to ... MOREJ.D. Tuccille: U.S. Slides 13 Spots On Press Freedom Index
American liberty in free fall. If it wasn't enough to see the
United States slide in four rankings of economic freedom, Internet
liberty, and government transparency last year, the Land of the
Brave and Home of the Free (except where prohibited by law) is off
to a swell start in 2014 by slipping 13 places on the World Press
Freedom Index. ... MOREWill You Choose Dangerous Freedom Or Peaceful Slavery?
by John W. Whitehead. “All governments are run by liars.”—Independent journalist I.F. “Izzy” Stone. President Obama has managed, with singular assistance from Congress and the courts, to mangle the Constitution through repeated abuses, attacks and evasions. This is nothing new, as I’ve documented in my book A Government ... MOREWSJ Opinion: Juking The ObamaCare Stats
Obama administration hides inconvenient truth. Most of Washington seems to have bought the White House claim that the 36 federal exchanges are finally working, and glory, glory, hallelujah. But if that's really true, then what explains the ongoing secrecy and evasion? On Wednesday the Health and Human Services Department ... MOREGuardian Has Only Published 1 Percent Of Snowden Leaks
More transparency ahead for Obama regime? The editor of the Guardian said Tuesday his newspaper has published just 1 percent of the material it received from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, and denied the paper had placed lives or national security at risk. The Guardian helped spark a global debate on ... MORETen Obamacare Talking Points To Ruin Your Thanksgiving
by Ben Domenech. We probably all know at least one: the person who comes to a family gathering primed to talk about politics – particularly, to let you know why their view is right, and yours is dead, dead wrong. These are the worst kind of guests. They have no interest in catching up and spending a brief moment in time out of the ... MOREJeffrey T. Brown: What The Know-Nothings Know
Our poor, hapless, uninformed, clueless president! He campaigned on the promise to fundamentally transform our country into his idealized socialist wonderland, and as soon as his efforts began to bear fruit, he begged us to believe he had no idea how. It's amazing the surprises with which our poor president has been blind-sided ... MOREEmily Ekins: ObamaCare Derails President's Credibility
Obama now widely seen for who he is. The latest Fox News poll
finds 55 percent of Americans now disapprove of President
Obama’s general job performance and 61 percent specifically
disapprove of his health care handling, the highest numbers since
they first began asking these questions in 2009. Not even during
the IRS or AP ... MOREFTC Would Prosecute HealthCare.gov If It Were Private
by Andrew Stiles. The FTC has rules about deceptive advertising. But they don’t apply to the government. Conservatives often argue that the federal government should function more like a private business. Obamacare supporters should be grateful it does not, because otherwise HealthCare.gov would almost certainly run afoul of the Federal ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Name Affordable Care Act Is Bitter Joke
No such thing as free health benefits. For the millions of Americans who are losing health plans they liked as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the name of that law is a bitter joke. They do not feel protected, and they often find that the replacement coverage they are forced to buy costs a lot more. ... MOREAP: Obama Congratulates Pal On Election Win
Obama-light could represent GOP in 2016. President Barack Obama has called Republican Gov. Chris Christie to congratulate him on his re-election in New Jersey. Christie won a second term on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Barbara Buono by more than 20 percentage points. Obama and Christie have developed an unusually close ... MOREFreedom Of Speech Vs Embarrassing The Government
by Michael J. Hurd. A federal employee decides to write a book on his knowledge of a known government scandal. After signing a book contract with a major publisher, the book deal is subsequently forbidden—by the government. Does this sound like a George Orwell novel? Or an Ayn Rand work of fiction? No. It’s really happening. Not in a ... MORE
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