Nov 18 Accounting fraud is business as usual at the Pentagon, Reuters reports Photo by Flickr user David B. Gleason The 2013 budget for the Defense Department after sequestration is $565.8 billion. A new Reuters investigation says, however, there is no way to account for how much of that money… Continue reading
Nov 18 NSA sees huge spike in public records requests Video still from PBS NewsHour The Edward Snowden saga has recently heaped attention onto the National Security Agency, which has seen an 888 percent increase in public records requests. USA Today reported Monday that the increase is… Continue reading
Nov 18 Obama looks to halt Democratic dissent By Terence Burlij President Obama met with CEOs from across the health insurance industry at the White House Friday. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images President Barack Obama and his team are running out of time to fix the problems with the Affordable… Continue reading
Nov 17 Where were you when you heard JFK had been shot? By Elisabeth Ponsot Londoners buying newspapers and reading about details of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Credit: Terrence Spencer/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images As part of our continuing coverage of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, PBS NewsHour… Continue reading
Nov 17 Watch Government security breach by Anonymous - scope unknown Joseph Menn of Reuters reports on the story he helped break about how activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information. Menn says the campaign began… Continue watching
Nov 17 Senate showdown over military sexual assault bill By News Desk WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has secured public support from nearly half the Senate, but not enough votes, for her proposal to give victims of rape and sexual assault in the military an independent route outside the chain of… Continue reading
Nov 15 The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on the U.S.-Israel alliance, Batkid the hero By Hari Sreenivasan In this week's Doubleheader, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join me to tackle the tense relationship between the U.S. and Israel in the context of fragile negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. Switching… Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch Shields and Brooks on waning ACA confidence and its impact on liberal government Shields and Brooks on waning ACA confidence and its impact on liberal government… Continue watching
Nov 15 Watch Shields and Brooks on waning ACA confidence and its impact on liberal government The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on the U.S.-Israel alliance, Batkid the hero… Continue watching
Nov 15 Watch Insurers 'very cautious' about new move to extend canceled policies Insurers 'very cautious' about new move to extend canceled policies… Continue watching