There is no better sign of a scandal getting serious then when your most loyal supporters turn on you. If the White House has been monitoring The Late Show with David Letterman with the same scrutiny reserved for our e-mails
On top of the Benghazi, IRS, AP/RosenGate, and NSA scandals, three shiny new scandals emerged, yesterday, adding to the Regime’s already impressive roster. 1) CBS News revealed that State Department had quashed or obstructed IG investigations into wrongdoing by high ranking officials
White House press secretary Jay Carney, responding on Monday to NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s charge that Barack Obama is as bad as George W. Bush was when it comes to invasive procedures conducted through surveillance, said President Obama has “lived
By KEN THOMASAssociated PressWASHINGTONTwitter, meet (at)HillaryClinton. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined Twitter on Monday, describing herself with a dash of humor as a “pantsuit aficionado” and a “hair icon.” The former New York senator and first lady
By TOM HAYSAssociated PressNEW YORKThe federal government on Monday told a judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions. The decision ends a
The “Gang of Eight” immigration bill pushing through the Senate right now legalizes America’s at least 11 million illegal immigrants first, then promises to improve border security later, but the constituents of Iowa–according to the state’s GOP senator–think that border
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at the helm of arguably the most corrupt city in the nation, has an image challenge. He has created enemies left, right, and center in the name of budget cuts while racking up spending on pet projects
On Monday, President Barack Obama nominated Princeton University Professor Jason Furman to chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). “Furman is one of the most brilliant economic minds of his generation,” Obama said. “Don’t take my word for it,
In today’s White House Press briefing, Fox News’ Ed Henry asked Jay Carney about Obama’s statement, last week, that every member of Congress was briefed on the NSA surveillance program. Several members of Congress have come out since then to
I feel about government secrecy much the way I did at the outset of the War on Terror, with the provision that like many other people, I was more inclined to err on the side of security in the immediate
In a contentious press conference on Monday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was battered over reports surrounding the National Security Agency’s monitoring of phone records and the so-called PRISM program, which monitors internet activity from millions of Americans. Carney
At least 436 Department of Health and Human Services employees–and possibly more at the White House Office of Management and Budget–received advance notice of an $8 billion Medicare decision that sent private health insurers’ stocks soaring. The Department of Justice
In a brutal Monday column, Liz Sidoti, the national politics editor for The Associated Press, takes a look at the Obama Administration’s mounting scandals, the president’s promises, and the polls. Her conclusion is that Obama’s second term is on the
The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, the man who broke the NSA snooping story and revealed leaker Edward Snowden to the world, appeared on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC Monday morning. Co-host Mika Brezinski engaged in a mini-debate with Greenwald over the
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
In response to Priorities, Priorities: NSA Launches Probe into PRISM Leaker: Looks like it won’t take long to find the big NSA leaker: his name’s Edward Snowden, and he’s a disgruntled Obama voter who worked for the CIA and defense
In an attempt to deflect concerns about the government’s vast National Security Agency spying operation on Friday, President Barack Obama tried to empathize with critics of the program, suggesting that he, too, could be targeted once he left office. Given
(AP) 2 Koreas talk in border village after tensionsBy FOSTER KLUG and YOUKYUNG LEEAssociated PressSEOUL, South KoreaGovernment delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks Sunday at a “truce village” on their heavily armed border aimed at setting ground
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice has taken a lot of heat for making the talk show rounds on Sept. 16, 2012 and blaming Benghazi on “a spontaneous protest.” But according to ABC News, the real blame lies
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and DANNY ROBBINSAssociated PressTEXARKANA, TexasShannon Richardson had been married to her husband less than two years when she went to authorities and told them her suspicions: He was the one who had mailed ricin-laced letters to President
Bill Maher can’t quite get off the fence about the controversy surrounding the NSA and its secret data mining of American citizens’ phone records, though he leans toward acceptance of the program. One the one hand, he trusts President Obama
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.
Joe Scarborough on Huff Post Live says that while President Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett have spoken up in defense of Attorney General Eric Holder, more and more journalists are speaking out against him for a string of White House
