On Wednesday, Politico ran a fawning profile of chief Romney strategist Stuart Stevens. The article notes that Stevens has been defending the conduct of the Romney campaign, but buries the priceless nugget that he is “rebranding” his firm and changing
Not only did former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta leak the name of the Navy SEAL group responsible for the killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, but the release of the Pentagon Inspector General’s (IG) report revealing the incident,
When the trifecta of scandals first broke over the White House a few weeks ago, the media (who were literally blocking the truth from getting out about the IRS and Benghazi) were so caught off guard that for a couple
Former Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who led up the embattled Accountability Review Board largely hand-picked by the State Department and tasked with getting to the bottom of American failures in Benghazi, gave a deposition behind closed doors on Tuesday. According to
Chicago has been one of the most dangerous places in the country to live for the last several years with gang shootings wracking the city. To address this plague of gangs, Senator Mark Kirk (R, IL) proposed that some 18,000
Former White House senior adviser David Plouffe decided to heat up the war between Rep. Darrell Issa and the White House on Sunday by attacking Issa on Twitter. After Issa appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and called White
On Monday, the College Republican National Committee will release a report about the GOP’s outreach and appeal to young voters. The report was conducted by the organization’s polling and research operations. According to Politico, the 95-page study asserts the GOP
On Friday, the Commerce Department reported that consumer spending unexpectedly fell in April. On Thursday, the agency reported a slight downward revision in its initial estimate of 1st Quarter GDP growth, and noted a dramatic drop in corporate profits. Amid
Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder pledged to protect the first amendment rights of the media at a closed door, off-the-record meeting. The meeting took place with the media after it was revealed that the DOJ subpoenaed thousands of pages of AP
At an fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday evening in New York, First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged attendees at the LGBT gala to be ballers and “max out” to the Democratic National Committee. “We need you to keep
The Associated Press is the latest major news outlet to inform President Obama’s Department of Justice that they will not be participating in an off-the-record briefing on how Eric Holder’s team deals with journalists who work with leakers. The announcement came
Attorney General Eric Holder will go on a public relations campaign this week in an attempt to convince the journalism community and First Amendment advocates that his Justice Department did not attempt to chill and target journalists. Mainstream media organizations
Democrats are desperate to recruit a challenger to GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell. After a Spring Fling with actress Ashley Judd, adults in the party realized they needed a more credible opponent. Most potential contenders have passed on the race,
CNN will partner with the left-leaning BuzzFeed on a YouTube channel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the partnership will give BuzzFeed access to CNN’S archives so it can create mash-up videos that will appear on CNN.com and the CNN/BuzzFeed channel on YouTube. The
Wednesday Washington Times’s senior op-ed editor Emily Miller published a personal account of a two-year-old interview with Anthony Weiner during the heart of Weinergate. Miller says that during the interview, the disgraced ex-Congressman stood very close to her and made
Karl Rove, arguably one of the biggest losers of the 2012 election, inexplicably won the RNC contract to revamp its voter contact database. Rove, who was a specialist in direct mail, has no obvious expertise in technology or social media.
Last September, Seid Hassan Daioleslam, an American of Iranian origins, won a major court victory against the informal Iranian U.S. lobby in Washington. The decision legitimated Mr. Daioleslam’s investigative research that exposed the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and its president, Trita
As Politico’s Dylan Byers wrote Friday tensions remain very high in the hallways of CBS News as Sharyl Attkisson continues to butt heads with producers unwilling to give her stories air time on CBS Evening News. The tensions began when
BOSTON, May 24 (UPI) — Massachusetts Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez called his Democratic opponent, Rep. Ed Markey, “pond scum” in an interview. Gomez was asked by National Public Radio about a Gomez political advertisement in which he accused
Politico’s Dylan Byers leads his own site today with a revealing portrait of Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, one of the few non-Fox News reporters willing to dig into the Obama administration’s many scandals, going all the way back to
With President Obama’s decision to promote central Benghazi talking points manipulator Victoria Nuland, her position as State Department spokeswoman opens up. And continuing his pattern of giving plum jobs to his former campaign officials, Obama is slated to hand that
Washington Post’s Erik Wemple: As big a move as it is for the New York Times, it may be double for Politico, for Martin offers the sort of reporting that the site badly needs. In its short time on the
With increased scrutiny of fraud allegations in the Pigford farmers’ settlements, the lead Pigford co-counsel has enlisted the help of two lobbying firms. One of the lobbyists listed is Phil Fraas, an attorney who has been deeply involved in creating
Kimberly Strassel has a must-read column at the Wall Street Journal today that explains the context in which the IRS scandal emerged–not just during the Obama administration’s attempt to quash the Tea Party, but in Obama’s efforts to shut down all
