The Obama administration spent in its final year in office a record $36.2 million on lawsuits defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act. The Obama administration also performed poorly in other categories that measure transparency in government, according to an Associated Press analysis. It set records for the […]
Massive Number of Deadly Airstrikes by U.S. Military Have Gone Unreported…
The American military has failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, a Military Times investigation has revealed. The enormous data gap raises serious doubts about transparency in reported progress against the Islamic State, al-Qaida and the Taliban, and calls into question…
iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says…
Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification…
Podesta Emails: Cheryl Mills ‘We need to clean this up–he has emails from her’…
“We need to clean this up – he has emails from her – they do not say state.gov”…That, ladies and gentlemen, is proof that the president not only lied, but did so with the clear intention of protecting the Clinton campaign…
Podesta Emails: Wikileaks Releases Hillary’s Paid Wall Street Speech Transcripts: Hundreds Of “Sensitive” Excerpts…
Wikileaks released part one of what it dubbed the “Podesta emails”, which it describes as “a series on deals involving Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. Mr Podesta is a long-term associate of the Clintons and was…
Why Public Servants Emails Should Be Subject to FOIA, Explained…
Accountability reporting relies heavily on FOIA-able emails, Slack messages, and texts. So does embracing a culture of transparency…
Snowden Doc’s Related to Menwith Hill NSA Operations…
Inside Menwith Hill: The NSA’s British Base at the Heart of U.S. Targeted Killing…
Menwith Hill Station — Originally used to monitor Soviet communications through the Cold War,…, and today it is a vital part of the NSA’s sprawling global surveillance network.
FBI RELEASES DOCUMENTS IN HILLARY CLINTON E-MAIL INVESTIGATION…
Today the FBI is releasing a summary of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s July 2, 2016 interview with the FBI concerning allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure…