“To me it is deeply disappointing that two FBI senior officials are engaging in this sort of discussion,” said Ron Hosko, former assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters, commenting on FBI officials discussing evasion of federal record-keeping requirements.
The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) is suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to uncover documents related to the decision by Sally Yates, the Obama holdover who briefly served as Acting Attorney General, to ignore President Donald Trump’s first travel ban order.
A miracle! Judicial Watch files a federal lawsuit, and the Justice Department finds the “missing” text messages! Of course, as we said all along, they were never missing in the first place.
We are a year into the Trump administration, and we’re still trying to get a grip on why the agencies that report to him continue to slow-walk the release of information the public rightfully should have. The latest instance involves alleged Russian meddling in European elections, something we think the administration would want to be known.
Newly released presidential travel records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force and the Secret Service show that former President Barack Obama’s family vacations and campaign expenses cost taxpayers $114 million.
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sent several flattering emails to Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State
The New York Times tried to build a case in its reporting that the Trump EPA cares more about its political agenda than Americans’ health.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt—former Senator and Attorney General from Oklahoma—was investigated by a left-wing environmental group for his trips back to his home state, some of which included the spending of taxpayer dollars.
It was my privilege to testify on March 23, 2017, on behalf of Judicial Watch before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which was meeting to hear testimony on several bills that would improve government transparency. The complete hearing is available here.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton talked on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily about the various hacking and wiretapping allegations to emerge from the 2016 presidential campaign.
Two Democrat California legislators filed a request with the federal government seeking “information about recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policies and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities.”
Open-borders, pro-amnesty advocates have been waging a war on the legitimacy of the Border Patrol for years, but responses to government document requests on charge and conviction rates among agents show actual corruption levels do not match the critical rhetoric.
The Department of Justice does not appear to see any problem with news that Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik sent a presidential campaign a “heads up” on upcoming federal government actions through a private email address.
The State Department informed Breitbart News that the estimated completion date was now February 2017 in a September 7, 2016 email, responding to an inquiry made several days earlier. Breitbart News subsequently asked the State Department to accelerate the estimated completion date to before the presidential election on November 8, but has not received a response to several such requests.
What scandals might the American people find themselves dealing with in Hillary Clinton’s Administration if she slides into the presidential home plate, trailing a cloud of controversy?
More specifically, the Obama operatives were able to strip Judicial Watch of its “media” status, and charge it higher fees for FOIA requests.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Obama administration’s State Department expressed confusion and concern about Freedom of Information Act requests involving Hillary Clinton’s missing emails from her tenure as Secretary of State.
The state of Michigan is refusing to release refugee health data to the public unless a Freedom of Information Act request is filed.
NEW YORK – Monday’s coughing fit is not the first time seasonal allergies have been blamed for interfering in Hillary Clinton’s public schedule.
The number of illegals from terror-linked countries, officially known as Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), arrested along the U.S.-Mexico border has nearly doubled to 462 in 2015 alone, from 255 in 2011, the last year for which the government released data without a FOIA request.
On May 4, 2009, Hillary Clinton wrote to her top aide Huma Abedin, “I still don’t feel great,” and Clinton requested an Air Force plane instead of taking a shuttle from Westchester, New York, to get to Washington, D.C., according to an email released Monday by Judicial Watch.
The federal watchdog Judicial Watch on Wednesday released 10 pages of State Department records betraying efforts by employees at State to give personal aides to former secretary of state Hillary R. Clinton the heads-up regarding Freedom of Information Act requests that would have revealed Clinton’s extraordinary private email scheme.
Researcher Ryan Shapiro has filed a lawsuit against the FBI, charging that it intentionally uses ancient software to thwart Freedom of Information Act requests by delivering slow responses.
While the FBI decided not to recommend Hillary Clinton be prosecuted for using a private server to send classified emails, the left-leaning D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that e-mails on private servers are indeed subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
“I am very proud of all the work we’ve done to try to make government more open and responsive,” Barack Obama said at the bill-signing for a government transparency law. His administration makes a mockery of such laws by using them to hide spending.
The Obama Administration is already infamous for slow-walking information requests, causing investigations to drag out for years, and then complaining loudly about how long the investigations are taking! But they’ve really outdone themselves this time.
Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said in a legal proceeding that Clinton did not want the private emails that she mixed in with State Department emails on her private computer server to be accessible to “anybody,” according to transcripts released Wednesday.
Judicial Watch has released the deposition transcript of Cheryl D. Mills, Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff throughout her four years as secretary of state.
Following in the footsteps of Hillary Clinton with an attempt to make sure neither prosecutors nor the public would see official emails, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to tell a court that some of his emails are “exempt” from disclosure laws. A Cook County judge, however, rejected the Mayor’s notion.
Judicial Watch’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email system entered a significant new phase last week.
