The former Washington Bureau Chief for PJ Media, Pollock spent nearly a decade with ABC News as Washington producer for "Good Morning America." He also served as senior producer for "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow.
By Richard Pollock | 06/19/13 05:50 PM
Rajeev Date may have given new meaning to the phrase "revolving door" when he left the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on January 31 to start a new bank and mortgage "advisory firm." ‘It's almost like a protection racket. You hire the alumni of the agency and they'll call up their...
By Richard Pollock | 06/17/13 03:45 PM
Leaders of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have issued a rare subpoena to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius demanding documents on the $2 billion Obamacare health care co-op program, the Washington Examiner has learned. The subpoena that was issued...
By Richard Pollock | 06/13/13 06:30 PM
Unidentified hackers have shut down the federal government's main employee ethics website, The Washington Examiner has learned. Web visitors to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics website are greeted with a stern announcement stating, "Due to a significant and unexpected problem, our website...
By Richard Pollock | 06/13/13 09:45 AM
Multiple federal investigations are probing the $2 billion Obamacare co-op loan program at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Washington Examiner has learned. Investigators from two separate offices within HHS's Office of Inspector General are looking closely at the co-op...
By Richard Pollock | 06/06/13 11:50 AM
Internal Revenue Service officials have invoked a Watergate-era law designed to protect private citizens' tax returns to justify their refusal to turn over documents requested by the House Ways and Means Committee. In its first official response to a May 14 bipartisan request from the...
By Richard Pollock | 06/04/13 06:25 AM
A Vermont regulator said today organizers of a proposed Obamacare health insurance co-op who claimed last week they were "blindsided" were told "from the beginning" of problems with their application to operate in the state. "Well, I don't know quite what to make of the remark because, as...
By Richard Pollock | 05/30/13 04:35 PM
Vermont's insurance commissioner denied a license to a new statewide Obamacare health care cooperative because it is "fatally flawed" and likely to be insolvent within three years, The Washington Examiner has learned. Commissioner Susan L. Donegan of the Vermont Department of Financial...
By Richard Pollock | 05/24/13 08:40 AM
Treasury Department investigators completed but never released a 2011 law enforcement probe of White House economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, The Washington Examiner has learned. The investigation by the Treasury Department Inspector-General for Tax Administration was sparked by Goulsbee's...
By Richard Pollock | 05/22/13 06:35 AM
Two online health calculators designed by federal officials to help states and employers comply with Obamacare mandates are riddled with so many flaws that users are abandoning them, The Washington Examiner has learned. Users say the calculators - one used by state officials, the other by...
By Richard Pollock | 05/10/13 09:00 AM
For the second time in three years, U.S. Attorneys have sought to prosecute foreign nationals at NASA on national security grounds, only to dramatically reverse course and shut down their investigations. Most recently, federal prosecutors abruptly ended their case on May 3 against Bo Jiang, a...
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Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:
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