Tag: Watchdog

Presidential advisor Sidney Blumenthal, center, departs Capitol Hill after being deposed by House prosecutors Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1999, in Washington. Blumenthal is the third witness to be questioned by House prosecutors in the impeachment trial of President Clinton. (AP Photo/Khue Bui)

Blumenthal set to appear before Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi committee

Sarah Bedford · June 15, 2015 6:06 pm

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks while visiting Boeing's design center in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

Hillary Clinton’s fifteen biggest scandals

Sarah Bedford · June 13, 2015 4:01 am

Amb. Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary for management at the State Department, answers questions as the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigates the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP)

State Department’s Kennedy blocks security investigations

Sarah Bedford · June 12, 2015 4:01 am

Steven Linick published a subsequent inspection of the eight cases in October of last year in the wake of widespread speculation that several of the investigations had been hampered by political appointees. (AP Photo)Â

Clinton State Dept. officials stymied agency investigators

Sarah Bedford · June 11, 2015 4:01 am

David Perdue and his wife Bonnie walk through the halls of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, during orientation for new members. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Perdue, Kaine move to end State Dept. IG interference

Sarah Bedford · June 10, 2015 1:33 pm

Jonathan Capehart's comments come on the heels of recent polling data showing that Hillary Clinton has seen a sudden and dramatic drop in popularity. (AP Photo)Â

Clinton Foundation donors have a bribery problem

Sarah Bedford · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

In one instance, all mention of an alleged high-level cover-up of misconduct from Hillary Clinton's security team while on official travel was cut from the published report. (AP Photo)Â

Hillary’s officials cut criticisms out of State Dept. reports

Sarah Bedford · June 9, 2015 12:33 pm

In this file image taken from video released late Friday evening, Oct. 31, 2014, by Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, centre, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group. Boko Haram fighters have shot or burned to death about 90 civilians and wounded 500 in ongoing fighting in a Cameroonian border town near Nigeria, officials in Cameroon said Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Boko Haram, File)

National Security

State Department ignores lawsuit over records linking Boko Haram and Clinton Foundation

Sarah Bedford · June 8, 2015 12:26 pm

Officials stated they had searched the office of the secretary of state and found no records of the sort of waivers described in numerous media reports. (AP Photo)Â

State Dept. says records of Iran waivers don’t exist

Sarah Bedford · June 5, 2015 9:08 pm

A letter from the State Department inspector general dated May 15 claimed there were just 18 documents that ever mentioned ClintonÃ¢â¬â¢s emails, the national archives or the Clinton Foundation. (AP)

State Department preparing to probe Clinton email scandal

Sarah Bedford · June 5, 2015 4:01 am

Todd Zinser, the inspector general at the Department of Commerce, abruptly cleaned out his office Wednesday evening amid a congressional investigation and public calls from lawmakers for President Obama to remove him. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Commerce inspector general resigns amid growing scandal

Sarah Bedford · June 4, 2015 2:57 pm

Being tightlipped with reporters has not gone over well with newsrooms, but there are other issues that are starting to rub the press the wrong way. (AP)

Acting IGs at State Dept., National Archives ignored looming Clinton email scandal

Sarah Bedford · June 3, 2015 6:22 pm