The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the expenses of Members of the European Parliament can be kept secret, to protect their “privacy” and “integrity”.
Pope Francis told young people in Estonia Tuesday that he understands their frustration over financial and sexual scandals in the Church, while promising them “transparency.”
Tech giant Google has admitted to changing Android phone settings remotely without user permission, a move considered by experts to be bad for “transparency and consent.”
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell wants to make America’s central bank easier to understand and more open to the public.
So desperate are the media to bloody Hannity, the media have just done a very good thing with the creation of what we will call the “Sean Hannity Standar
Mark Zuckerberg is dancing to the tune of politicians, corporations and global elites, not his own users.
The high profile that the “secret settlements” have taken over the past few months is just a harbinger of things to come as the holidays come to a close.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) increased the pressure on FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller Thursday, calling on him to be more transparent amid questions over anti-Trump text messages from a top FBI investigator.
Parent and education activists say two bills introduced in Congress – one by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) – is likely to increase surveillance of American citizens without their consent and the likelihood of the creation of a comprehensive national database.
President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head, Lisa Jackson, who infamously used the fake name “Richard Windsor,” blasted the Trump administration Tuesday for what she called a lack of “transparency” in her former department.
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about recent staff departures from the White House and the influence of President Trump’s family members, particularly daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
A federal court has sided with the undercover journalist who is being sued by taxpayer-funded University of Washington’s lab workers and abortion facility staff trying to hide their identifying information from the public.
President Donald Trump responded Tuesday afternoon to Donald Trump, Jr.’s release earlier Tuesday of the “Russia email” chain documenting the arrangement of a meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016, on the understanding that she would provide damaging information on rival Hillary Clinton.
California Democrats passed a $125 billion budget Thursday, the largest in state history, while slipping in a provision to alter the recall process to protect State Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) and their supermajority.
The outspoken Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, has drawn a line in the sand with Brussels over the question of immigration and national sovereignty, promising a veto if the European Union (EU) attempts to coerce Hungary into taking in more migrants.
The California State Assembly may have voted Proposition 54 — which requires bills to be posted online in their “final form” at least 72 hours before a final vote — 95 times last week as it rushed to vote before adjourning Friday.
Democrats advanced legislation supported by public employee unions this week that would block the public from seeing collective bargaining negotiations between labor and government until they are complete.
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer addressed reports that President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner had an undisclosed business relationship with Goldman Sachs and billionaire left-wing financier George Soros on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Officials in one Texas city went silent over allegations of secrecy and cronyism in a questionable closed-door garbage collection deal. The deal overcharged local businesses for years and the city fizzled on its promises to look into the matter for its taxpayers.
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer – hailed as the “chief swamp-drainer in the media” by SiriusXM host Alex Marlow – joined Breitbart News Daily Wednesday with a progress report on President Trump’s efforts to drain the “swamp” of Washington corruption.
Anti-Trump protesters held rallies in several California cities and around the nation on Saturday to demand that President Donald Trump release his income tax returns for the past several years.
Andrew Breitbart exposed the White House visitor logs as a fig leaf that let Obama claim transparency while hiding his real operations.
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.
My default on ballot measures is to vote “no,” unless there is a compelling reason to vote “yes.” There are, in my opinion, four measures that are no-brainer “yes” votes.
Appearing on ABC’s The View on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook falsely asserted that all donors to the Clinton Foundation are public. When host Whoopi Goldberg asked if “all the information on the donations” has been made clear, Mook
On Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, veteran pollster Pat Caddell explained that the Ford Motor Company’s decision to move its small-car manufacturing to Mexico has brought the nationalism vs. globalism debate into sharp focus for the electorate.
The White House, in response to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit, on Friday night unveiled a redacted version of a previously secret 18-page document that outlines how Barack Obama chooses and approves potential drone targets.
“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.
After taking Rome by storm in a resounding landslide victory in last Sunday’s mayoral race, Virginia Raggi has been unofficially dubbed “Her Majesty the Pope” on greeting her adoring fans with a wave reminiscent of a papal blessing.
Bay Area billionaire and moderate Republican mega-donor Charles Munger, Jr. has proposed a transparency measure, the California Legislative Transparency Act, likely to qualify for the ballot this November. However, Democrats in Sacramento may try to stop it first.
The co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” data leak, has a simple explanation for why few Americans have been among the clients exposed by the scandal: the firm preferred to seek customers in other parts of the world.
Tuesday brought another momentous decision from a federal judge in the Hillary Clinton email case, and it’s not even the same judge who ordered the State Department to quit stalling the release of her emails.
Ron Unz, Silicon Valley’s libertarian billionaire businessman, wants to abolish tuition at Harvard, and so he’s created a five-member slate of non-partisan reform candidates for Harvard’s upcoming governance elections.
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
The Cadillac tax was made famous last year by Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber who said it was a ploy designed to fool “stupid” American voters. Now the tax is facing a 2-year delay as part of a congressional budget deal, with leading Democrats helping push the deal forward.
