
The term of art for how the State Department handled information requests pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s email is “inaccurate and incomplete response,” but that means lying in plain old English. As the Washington Post reports, the State Department Inspector General found at least four cases
by John Hayward7 Jan 2016, 9:19 AM PST0

One of the scandals buzzing around Clintonworld concerns the alleged abuse of personal time off by one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides, Huma Abedin. She’s accused of collecting about $10,000 in salary over-payment by taking time off without logging those days as vacation or sick time, effectively collecting double pay for the days in question.
by John Hayward11 Sep 2015, 9:04 AM PST0

Production of the film Zero Dark Thirty, which chronicled the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the Navy SEAL raid that killed him in 2011, has long been controversial. Now a Zero Dark Thirty controversy is being brought to light by newly-released documents: the filmmakers were nearly prosecuted for bribing some of the CIA officials with whom they worked.
by John Hayward9 Sep 2015, 10:14 PM PST0

The New York Times reports that a second intelligence-community review endorses the Inspector General’s findings, and confirmed the presence of classified material on Hillary Clinton’s off-the-books email server, including multiple “Top Secret” documents.
by John Hayward8 Sep 2015, 5:35 AM PST0

The Department of Veterans Affairs office Inspector General has released a report revealing that about 307,000 sick veterans have died while waiting for care on the VA’s eligibility waiting list. In fact, the report finds that many have been dead for more than four years.
by Warner Todd Huston2 Sep 2015, 8:53 PM PST0

Needless to say, no one as irresponsible, arrogant, and untrustworthy as Hillary Clinton has proven herself to be should be permitted anywhere near classified information ever again, especially given the patently false story her campaign drones are still pushing that she did all this for the mere “convenience” of not carrying two portable email devices.
by John Hayward14 Aug 2015, 6:28 AM PST0

It’s a matter of objective fact that Hillary Clinton lied, and is lying today, when she claims she didn’t pass any classified material through the insecure personal server she wasn’t supposed to be using. Those claims were never plausible, and now they’ve been demolished. It’s not something “Republicans” are saying, it’s something intelligence community Inspector Generals are saying.
by John Hayward27 Jul 2015, 9:56 AM PST0

Let’s have another slow clap of appreciation for the Obama Administration’s slow-walking scandal control protocols.
by John Hayward30 Apr 2015, 6:32 AM PST0

At the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday, Deputy Secretary of State Heather Higginbottom told Senators the IT systems at the State Department “are attacked every day, thousands of times a day.”
by Alex Swoyer23 Apr 2015, 4:00 PM PST0

The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department management, operations and development is spotlighting evidence that the State Department’s computer network has been targeted.
by Alex Swoyer21 Apr 2015, 2:04 PM PST0

Louisiana U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R) says the State Department has reversed its interpretation of a law that would ban Iranian students from studying advanced courses in the United States with content related to the development of nuclear capabilities.
by Dr. Susan Berry11 Mar 2015, 8:00 AM PST0

Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Stuart W. Bowen, Jr. as Inspector General for the plagued Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The previous Inspector General stepped down on December 31st when Governor Rick Perry asked him to do so. The state agency has been in the midst of a controversy relative to an alleged no-bid contract given 21CT. State and federal probes have been initiated.
by Lana Shadwick23 Jan 2015, 9:26 AM PST0