Elizabeth Sheld

Yes, sir, she did.  “I blew the whistle on this two years ago to the Democratic Party leadership,” former Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña said. So two years ago you knew and you endorsed him for Mayor last year?  Party leaders, she

Sparks flew at the House Judiciary Committee hearing today, when the NSA was subject to a bipartisan assault about the NSA surveillance programs and documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Members of Congress threatened to pull funding from the agency saying

ABC News 10 in San Diego has learned that San Diego Mayor Bob “Filthy” Filner will be giving the keynote address at a benefit for sexual assault victims.  A women veterans group tells 10News the mayor’s camp has just confirmed

We can add the San Diego chapter of NOW to the list of people and groups calling for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to resign.  Last week, former Filner ally and San Diego councilwoman Donna Frye brought to light salacious

San Diego Mayor Filner, also referred to as ‘Filthy Filner’ by his alleged victims, told KUSI yesterday that he is just a “hugger.”  The remarks came following a press conference held by former councilwoman Donna Frye and attorneys Corey Briggs

Confidential tax records of certain political candidates and campaign donors were “improperly scrutized” according to the Treasury Department. The Department of Justice has refused to prosecute the cases. J. Russell George, the Treasury Department’s inspector general,  privately told Senator Chuck

A letter was circulated to the media during the San Diego Mayoral campaign in 2012 with details about then-candidate “filthy Filner.” Allegations of sexual harassment made against San Diego Mayor Filner were brought to the public’s attention last week. Councilman

At today’s press conference in San Diego, sordid allegations were made about the harassment claims of anonymous women against Mayor Filner and another call was made for the Mayor to step down.  Donna Frye, former city councilwoman, and lawyers Cory

Two women have come forward with details regarding the behavior of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner.  Last week, Filner’s former political allies called on him to resign amid allegations of sexual harassment. Their calls were subsequently joined by more Democrats,

According to Glenn Greenwald, columnist at The Guardian,  Edward Snowden has a documents on how the National Secuirty Agency works but is keeping them private in order not to harm the US Government.  Greenwald said these documents “would allow somebody who

UPDATED:  The WSJ is reporting that Snowden will stay in Russia until he can travel to Latin America.  “He wants to stay here until he can fly to Latin America,” said Human Rights Watch’s Deputy Director Tanya Lokshina, who took

Roll Call printed an article yesterday entitled “Crash Course in Crab Picking.” You can read it here.  A picture accompanies the article, showing some workers at the Maine Avenue Fish Market sorting Maryland blue crabs. Here is the picture, look

The Supreme Court will take up the issue of the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) appointments in the fall, but even the Union recognizes there is “no hope” for the Court to rule in favor of Obama’s unconstitutional appointments and transitively any

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on America, built a vacuum cleaner in the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania where he was confined.  Mohammed has a degree in mechanical engineering. (ETA: he built schematics for

A former FISA court judge said yesterday that the FISA court was not a “rubber stamp” but that it needs to be changed to protect the public’s concern about civil liberties. Judge James Robertson also said that court needs to

House Republicans plan to cut the Internal Revenue Service budget after the agency targeted conservative groups in a clear abuse of authority.  “The House Appropriations Committee released a measure on Tuesday that would roll back the IRS budget by $3

EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) filed an emergency petition yesterday with the Supreme Court to stop the National Security Agency from collecting phone records from American citizens.  The petition asks the court to vacate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)

This weekend, Der Spiegel released an interview with Edward Snowden that took place before he fled Hawaii for Hong Kong.  Asked whether the NSA collaborates with Israel, Snowden said: “Yes, all the time. The NSA has a large section for

The Guardian has released new footage from a June 6, 2013 interview with Edward Snowden. Snowden slams the NSA, the US government and expects he will be demonized by the US government.  Snowden predicts US government’s response to his leaks

Recent revelations about the scope of the government’s domestic surveillance programs are fueling new privacy legislation by Congress. “The revelations offer an opening for updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which would require law enforcement to get a warrant