In response to Priorities, Priorities: NSA Launches Probe into PRISM Leaker: It’s important that we get the terminology right, here, because what the Obama administration is doing falls right into its now familiar pattern of punishing Obama’s enemies i.e. people
Following on the assertion of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning that the IRS scandal had been “solved” and that Congress should “move on,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA)
The NSA has requested a criminal probe into who was the whistle blower leaked information about their massive surveillance operation known as PRISM. A “crimes report has been filed,” said Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of
So which should we be more afraid of? The US Government and its scandalous–even tyrannous–intrusions on our finances and privacy? Or foreign enemies with their explosives, cyber-weapons, and nukes? Is your answer “both,” I agree. But we will all
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) plans to introduce an amendment to the Senate immigration bill that would give Congress, not the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the authority to determine whether the border is actually secure. One of the biggest concerns
The State Department sent a document dump of 97 pages to the House Congressional Oversight Committee late Friday night relating to Ambassador Susan Rice’s five Sunday television appearances last September, in which she falsely blamed the deadly attacks on the
Does the traditional second-term curse for Presidents start with a bang or a whimper? As scandal engulfs the Obama Administration, many of the roads intersect at the office of Attorney General Eric Holder. While Republicans have long called for Holder
On Friday morning, President Barack Obama defended his administration’s massive telephone records surveillance programs by explaining that “every member of Congress has been briefed on this program.” There’s only one problem: both Republican and Democrat Congresspeople say that isn’t true.
On MSNBC’s Hardball Friday, host Chris Matthews revealed he didn’t know that there are currently two African-American US Senators serving in Congress. “We don’t have any African Americans in the United States Senate, which I think is a disgrace,” he
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants to pass the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform bill before July 4, and he has given the Senate three weeks to debate the bill. “We are going to finish the bill before
At 89 years old, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) has broken the record for most days served in the U.S. Congress. The previous record holder was John Byrd, the late Democratic senator from West Virginia.
On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would not allow Senators to file any amendments to the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill when the full Senate takes up the legislation next week. “I have committed to open as possible a process
In a piece published Thursday a former general counsel for the National Security Agency argues that collection of call metadata is necessary to fight terrorism. But his hypothetical case fails to explain why the NSA needs data on local calls
Congress is taking action on religious liberty in the military, a story that was originally reported by Breitbart News. New legal language passed a key committee this week and next goes to the full House and then the Senate; it
During his speech in San Jose, California on Friday, President Obama took one question from the press on national security monitoring of Americans. Without any sense of irony whatsoever in the aftermath of the IRS’ targeting of conservatives, the administration’s
Speaking in northern California on Friday to address Obamacare, President Obama instead launched into a tirade about recent reports regarding government surveillance of everything from phone records to credit card statements to internet chats. Obama noted that Congress had been
The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper may have lied to Congress when he told the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12 that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans. On Thursday, Breitbart News broke
Late on June 5, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) added an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill that will require the DHS to come to Congress before placing large ammunition orders in the future. According to The
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee in Cincinnati alerted a number of Washington IRS officials that extra scrutiny was being place on conservative groups in July 2010, a year earlier than previously acknowledged,
(AP) – Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables could be getting a boost from Washington. Republican New York Congressman Peter King introduced legislation Thursday that would rescue online gambling from a legal gray zone and fully regulate it.
In response to So Totally Unlike Watergate You Guys: Senator Kirk Asks Holder if the Executive Spied on the Coequal Branch of Congress: One of the most interesting moments of the hearing came a few minutes later when Sen. Kirk
Immigration reform could be breaking down in both chambers of Congress, as Republican Congressman Raul Labrador (R-ID), considered to be the most important player in the House of Representatives’ immigration reform debate, has now has pulled out of the House’s
In response to Oceans of data, drought of analysis: The big picture here is that Congress drafted the Patriot Act, voted on it, and then sent it off to be signed into law by President Bush. While the Patriot Act
Once patriots were called on to defend our Constitutional rights. Today, we are called on to reinstate them. In the wake of the latest Obama scandal, i.e. the seizure of phone records for millions of Americans, Sen. Rand Paul has
…which would give the Executive “leverage” — as in blackmail leverage — over what the Constitution demands be a coequal branch of government. Eric Holder’s answer? That he’d like to answer that in closed session. This is less and less
