Tag: Watchdog

Bryan Pagliano has invoked his Fifth Amendment rights each time he has been asked about the private server during the past year. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg, File)

Clinton IT aide testifies in email case

Sarah Bedford · June 22, 2016 3:31 pm

While the Department of Justice has been ramping up its enforcement efforts over the past few years, this year's crackdown far exceeds what the agency has accomplished in any year past. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Feds announce biggest Medicare crackdown ever

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 22, 2016 3:08 pm

The "End Taxpayer Funded Cell Phones Act" won a majority of votes in the House. (iStock photo)

House effort to kill ‘Obamaphone’ program fails

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 11:35 pm

Koskinen has been accused of obstructing a probe into Lerner and her office's abuse of conservative groups. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House to hold final IRS impeachment hearing

Sarah Bedford · June 21, 2016 10:45 pm

The hack of the Clinton family's nonprofit came as part of a broader campaign aimed at gathering data on more than 4,000 party officials, lawyers and foundations in the United States, according to a report. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

Report: Clinton Foundation latest target of Russian hackers

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 9:03 pm

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., criticized the Senate for failing to pass a string of gun control measures proposed earlier in the week. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

National Security

Wyden: Senate surveillance proposal a ‘fake’ solution

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 7:01 pm

—œIt has become increasingly clear that, for third-party box providers, the real value is not in producing or selling the box but in the data that the box will collect,—£ Harry Reid wrote. (AP Photo)

Reid criticizes FCC plan to let tech companies in on cable box market

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 5:55 pm

"The changes to Rule 41 give federal magistrate judges across the United States new authority to issue warrants for hacking and surveillance in cases where a computer's location is unknown," the group wrote in a Tuesday letter to congressional leaders. (iStock photo)

Tech companies urge against looser restrictions for federal mass hacking

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 5:55 pm

The agencies are NASA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Watchdog: Key federal agencies failing on cybersecurity

Maria Biery · June 21, 2016 3:15 pm

Hacker releases Clinton Foundation documents

Sarah Bedford · June 21, 2016 3:00 pm

Justice Dept.: Mass hacking should require just one warrant

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 1:20 pm

The company said the September agreement between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping was an affirmation of the direction the country was already moving in, rather than an inflection point. (AP Photo)

National Security

Report: China doing less cyberspying

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 12:00 am