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Richard Pollock

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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.

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  • Failed Iowa entrepreneur awarded $112 million for Obamacare co-ops

    Richard Pollock

    Updated: Tue, Mar 26, 2013

    Federal officials awarded $112 million to fund new Obamacare health insurance cooperatives in Iowa and Nebraska to a group whose politically connected chief financial officer recorded at least three business flops since 2009. CoOportunity Health, an Ames, Iowa, group founded by CFO Stephen...

  • NASA chief failed to tell Congress of 118 Chinese nationals working in IT

    Richard Pollock

    Updated: Mon, Mar 25, 2013

    NASA employs 118 Chinese nationals in "remotely-based" information technology jobs that may enable them to penetrate the space agency's national security database servers, The Washington Examiner has learned. But NASA administrator Charles Bolden said nothing about these individuals during his...

  • FBI investigating multiple NASA centers to counter growing space espionage threat

    Richard Pollock

    Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013

    Federal law enforcement officials are mounting anti-espionage investigations at multiple NASA facilities to counter what FBI Director Robert Mueller believes is a growing threat against U.S. space technology. "If anything, I would say that the threat is - is more substantial than perhaps it...

  • WATCHDOG ALERT: FBI arrests NASA contractor employee trying to flee to China

    Richard Pollock

    Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

    Bo Jiang, the Chinese national scientist employed by a NASA contractor for work at the space agency's Langley Research Center, was arrested Sunday by the FBI at Dulles Airport as he tried to board a one-way flight to China, according to Rep. Frank Wolf. The Virginia Republican is holding a...

  • DEA clams up on status of three agents in Colombia prostitution scandal

    Richard Pollock

    Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

    Drug Enforcement Agency officials are refusing to answer questions today about why three DEA officers involved in the Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal are still on the federal payroll. On Friday, DEA spokesman Lawrence R. Payne told The Washington Examiner that "this matter is...

  • Congressman names employee he claims took NASA documents to China

    Richard Pollock

    Published: Wed, Mar 13, 2013

    Rep. Frank Wolf made public today the identity of a Chinese national employed by a NASA contractor in a position that gave the man extensive access" to the Langley Research Center. The Virginia Republican told a congressional hearing that Bo Jiang took "voluminous NASA documents" to his home...

  • NASA mum on Chinese national once slated to attend classified Langley meeting

    Richard Pollock

    Published: Wed, Mar 13, 2013

    A Sunshine Week mystery shrouds the identity of a Chinese national who had planned to attend a classified March 12-14 meeting at NASA's Langley Research Center even though doing so would have violated U.S. law, according to Rep. Frank Wolf. NASA and other federal officials refused to identify...

  • SUNSHINE WEEK: Issa, Cummings introduce bipartisan FOIA reform

    Richard Pollock

    Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    In a rare-for-Congress show of bi-partisanship, the top Republican and Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today introduced new draft legislation designed the strengthen the federal Freedom of Information Act. The FOIA, signed into law in 1966 by President Lyndon...


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