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No one knows Washington secrets like Paul Bedard. This longtime DC reporter joined The Washington Examiner in early 2012 after penning U.S. News & World Report's premiere political column, "Washington Whispers," for more than a decade. Be sure to follow Paul on Twitter at @SecretsBedard, subscribe to him on Facebook -- he's facebook.com/SecretsBedard -- and sign up for his email newsletter to get all of Paul's Washington Secrets delivered to your inbox every morning.

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  • Cybercrime breaches $1 trillion a year, China mostly to blame

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Cybercrime and efforts to thwart computer attacks have finally crossed the $1 trillion a year line and Chinese sources are to blame for 89 percent of the high-tech assaults, according to a leading computer security executive and the National Security Administration. The wave of attacks has...

  • Businesses already boosting employee premiums, co-pays for Obamacare

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    Already hit with cost increases to cover minor Obamacare demands, businesses are boosting employee payments through higher insurance premiums and doctor visit co-pays in advance of the bulk of the health reform law's rules taking effect Jan. 1. A sweeping survey of several hundred U.S....

  • OAS: Legalization might reduce North America's $140b drug problem

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    A highly anticipated report on the international drug trade unveiled in Washington on Monday revealed that the industry in North America is worth $140 billion of the annual worldwide $330 billion illegal drug trade. The analysis by the Organization of American States, a year in the making,...

  • 99% Occupy movement backs 1 percenter McAuliffe

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

    The Occupy Movement, which camped out in parks nationwide to speak for the non-wealthy 99 percent of the nation during the 2012 elections, is going to bat for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, an admitted member of the 1 percent club. Occupy Roanoke issued a call to...

  • 45% of illegal immigrants kicked out for crime would get amnesty under bill

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

    The Senate "Gang of Eight's" immigration reform bill goes so easy on illegal immigrants involved in crime that nearly half of those kicked out of the country in the past six months for criminal acts would be allowed to stay and qualify for legal status, according to a new analysis. According...

  • PETA says IRS targeted it, too, during Bush years

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    New charges from a liberal group that its tax-exempt status was questioned by the IRS are raising new questions that the tax agency is politically driven to please the party that controls the White House. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals told Secrets that it was "targeted" for three...

  • Zogby: Scandals cost Obama liberals, majority -- 'Are locusts next?'

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama's scandal-filled disaster week has cost him his majority support and sapped enthusiasm for his second term. "As Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth might have said, this was 'weekus horribilis' for President Obama....

  • Obama pick to replace Holder assails House GOP on Obamacare

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, reported to be President Obama's pick to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, has attacked House Republican foes of Obamacare, raising new questions about the politicization of the Justice Department. Patrick signed a Democratic National Committee letter...

  • Democrat Baucus warns: More to come out on IRS scandal

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Senior Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who recently slapped Obamacare as a "train wreck," believes that the IRS scandal is just beginning and that "a lot more" damaging information will be revealed, likely at congressional hearings. "I have a hunch that a lot more is going to come out, frankly,"...


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