Brian Hughes is a White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner. He previously covered the Maryland statehouse and Montgomery County, Md., government for The Examiner. Hughes is a graduate of the University of Georgia.
President Obama on Friday for the first time publicly defended his administration’s top-secret, phone and Internet surveillance programs, insisting that Americans weren’t being directly targeted and that national-security benefits were worth the “modest encroachments on privacy.”...
The Obama administration late Thursday defended its practice of obtaining records from major Internet companies, saying they don’t use the “important and valuable” counterterrorism tool to target Americans. Officials also declassified information justifying the widespread collection of...
The Obama administration late Thursday defended its practice of obtaining records from major Internet companies, saying they don’t use the “important and valuable” counterterrorism tool to target Americans. Officials also declassified information justifying the widespread collection of...
The White House on Thursday acknowledged that President Obama quietly continued a Bush-era counterterrorism program that allows the nation's top spy organization to secretly collect the phone records of millions of Americans, defending the program as a "critical tool" in the fight against...
Besides being a two-hour infomercial for Google, "The Internship" is an unending collection of greeting-card sentiments about true happiness and a watered-down meditation on the generational schism in a modern economy.
But it also wears an old-school charm that makes the syrupy message easier...
The White House on Thursday fully defended the Obama administration’s secret gathering of millions of U.S. phone records, calling the practice a “critical tool” in combating terrorism and insisting that such actions don’t compromise Americans’ civil liberties.
“The information...
Senators on Thursday confirmed that the government for years has been collecting the phone records of millions of Americans, casting the new disclosure about the seizing of Verizon customers’ data as ‘nothing new.’
“As far as I know, this is the exact three-month renewal of what has...
President Obama on Wednesday named United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice as his next national security adviser, picking a fight with congressional Republicans who blocked her bid to lead the State Department after claiming she misled the public about the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S....
President Obama on Wednesday named United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice his next national security adviser, picking a fight with Republicans who blocked her bid to lead the State Department and insist she misled the public about the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Obama announced...
Welcoming the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens to the White House, President Obama said Wednesday that quarterback Joe Flacco was challenging Vice President Joe Biden's status as the "most popular person in Delaware."Biden represented Delaware in the Senate for nearly four decades, and...
The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...
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