Tag: Watchdog

The website, End702.com, is named eponymously for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorizes two mass surveillance programs known as PRISM and Upstream. (AP Photo)

Civil liberty groups announce new website aimed at ending surveillance law

Rudy Takala · June 6, 2016 11:20 pm

Sheldon Whitehouse said the country had witnessed several "game-changers" over the last seven months, and that they effectively amounted to a new Cold War in the cyberarena. (AP Photo)

National Security

Senate Dem calls for cybersecurity ‘militia’

Rudy Takala · June 6, 2016 10:15 pm

Deposition revealed Hillary Clinton struggled at times to set up secure phone lines on which to discuss potentially classified information. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Third transcript in Clinton email case released

Sarah Bedford · June 6, 2016 8:59 pm

If John Kerry refuses to testify or refer the issue to the Justice Department, he risks being attacked for covering up the issue. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg, File)

National Security

Watchdog seeks criminal probe of State Department video editing

Joel Gehrke · June 6, 2016 8:17 pm

The IRS has released a list of more than 400 nonprofit groups the agency claims it may have treated improperly. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

IRS filing lists 426 groups that may have been targeted

Rudy Takala · June 6, 2016 3:35 pm

State Dept. moves to hide Clinton’s trade deal emails until after election

Sarah Bedford · June 6, 2016 3:19 pm

Benghazi committee Chairman Trey Gowdy noted Sunday in the letter he sent to Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee's ranking Democrat, that minority members are allowed to read transcripts of interviews conducted by the panel, but are not permitted to possess copies. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg, File)

Benghazi committee members squabble over final report

Sarah Bedford · June 6, 2016 2:21 pm

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., is asking for the California National Guardsmen fix to be added to the to-do list for negotiators trying to iron out a final version of the fiscal 2017 defense policy bill.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Lawmaker: We need to be checking Facebook for terrorists

Rudy Takala · June 6, 2016 4:01 am

"The role of government, which has limited dollars, is not to take the place of relationships, but to leverage relationships using limited resources," said Rep. Hans Zeiger, R-Puyallup. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

How housing dollars translate to better education

Rudy Takala · June 6, 2016 4:01 am

"This [intel] bill takes a hatchet to important protections for Americans' liberty," Sen. Ron Wyden said in a statement late last month, following its passage out of the Senate Intelligence Committee he sits on. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate set for another surveillance showdown

Rudy Takala · June 6, 2016 4:01 am

As marijuana goes mainstream, who’s to blame when things get deadly?

Rudy Takala · June 4, 2016 4:01 am

Bryan Pagliano, who set up and maintained the private server in Clinton's basement, was set to testify under oath Monday in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Clinton IT aide ordered to hand over immunity deal

Sarah Bedford · June 3, 2016 11:17 pm