NY DA Cyrus Vance, Rep Carolyn Maloney call for action against ‘anonymously-owned’ companies linked to terrorists, other criminals
Law enforcement figures including New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance, former President of the FBI Agents Association Konrad Motyka and New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today joined Representative More...
Dick Durbin Quotes
This dozen … running for president on the Republican side, they’re trying to out-trump one another, get tougher with terrorists. Oh, they’re tough as can be in their speeches but when it comes down More...
Torture debate returns after CIA report details practices
A Democrat-led Senate panel released a scathing report on CIA interrogation practices amid warnings from lawmakers that the findings could “endanger the lives of Americans” — a concern the Obama More...
Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA free from criminal investigation as DOJ ends ‘scandal’
The Department of Justice has officially ended its criminal probe into both the Senate Intelligence Committee staffers who reportedly stole classified documents from a secure location and the CIA who monitored those More...
New NSA chief, Adm. Michael Rogers, doesn’t think Edward Snowden working for Russians, unlike Mike Rogers
The new National Security Agency (NSA) head, Admiral Michael Rogers said he doesn’t think NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is or was working for the Russian FSB. Edward Snowden addressing audience at SXSW More...
50 Democratic Senators send letter to NFL to change ‘racist’ Redskins name. Is this listed in Article I, Section 8?
On Thursday, 50 of our elected leaders in the US Senate sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to formally endorse a name change of the Washington Redskins–to remove the “racial slur”. Harry More...
Walter Jones and Adam Schiff introduce bill requiring yearly report on drone casualties
How many people were, and are killed by US drone attacks? A bipartisan, retroactive bill was introduced in the US Congress last week that would require an annual report on drone casualties in an effort to make More...
Mike Rogers unable to provide evidence that Edward Snowden is under Russian influence
On January 19, 2014, Republican congressman and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers went on Meet the Press and made the following statement: “Let me just say this, I believe there’s More...
Ron Paul: ‘The hypocrisy of Sen. Feinstein is astounding’
Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul is looking at the latest revelations and reactions by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) concerning the CIA secretly searched Senate Intelligence Committee computers, in other words, More...
Edward Snowden responds to Mike Rogers allegations: ‘This Russian spy push is absurd’
National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden is not sitting quietly by as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers and Sen Dianne Feinstein went to the Sunday talk shows “suggesting” More...
Mike Rogers, Dianne Feinstein suggest Snowden connection with Russia
On Sunday’s Meet the Press with David Gregory, the lead congressional intelligence officials, Republican and Democratic, both alluded to a link between NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the Russian government More...
LA Times calls for end to NSA metadata program, ‘End it don’t mend it’
Edward Snowden’s defection to Russia and outing of NSA monitoring details has renewed the conversations and debates surrounding the government monitoring and tracking to protect Americans. Noting that the issue More...
Mitch McConnell gets ‘Kentucky Kickback’ with dam deal, $2 billion earmark
The bill that ended the government shutdown and prevented the trip over the fiscal cliff Wednesday night also included a $2 billion spending earmark for a dam in Kentucky. Critics are targeting Senate leader Mitch More...
Dianne Feinstein backs Media Shield Law to protect only ‘real reporters’
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed an amendment to the Media Shield Law, a law targeting the First Amendment which would limit the law’s protection only to “real reporters,” not bloggers and More...
Senate moves forward to arm Syrian rebels in ‘classified vote’
Obama administration continues plans to provide weapons directly to the Syrian rebels. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence gave approval to the plan which was, unusually, allowed to classify their votes, More...
Senators McCain and Feinstein on the resignation of Janet Napolitano
With the announcement today from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano that she will be leaving the cabinet to head up the University of California system, senators from both sides of the aisle made statements. Sen. More...
Who would be your ‘Top Enemy of Freedom’ since 1968?
Who would call the top enemy of freedom since 1968? The list of potential candidates is unfortunately quite long if you think about it. In the 45th anniversary issue of the “Free Minds and Free Markets” More...
Immigration Reform Bill moves ahead with Senate vote, passing 68-32
The Senate on Thursday approved the most significant overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws since the Reagan administration by a large martin. With a strong 68-to-32 vote in the Senate, the issue now moves More...
Senate immigration bill passes test vote, 67-27, Jeff Sessions this is like the Obamacare vote
An immigration overhaul created by the “Gang of Eight” Senators, designed to legalize millions of illegal immigrants while boosting border security passed a major test in the Senate on Monday, as lawmakers More...
Democrats, Republicans unite as Dianne Feinstein says No Senate hearing on NSA surveillance anytime soon
While the House of Representatives will hold a rare open intelligence hearing specifically devoted to the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs of data-mining phone records and Internet use, a similar More...
