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  • Huffington Post denounces ‘George W. Obama’

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/06/13 05:35 PM

    The Huffington Post’s front page Thursday afternoon reacts to recent reports of the National Security Agency collecting and monitoring phone data of Verizon customers. “George W. Obama,” the headline reads, linking to an Associated Press story about NSA whistle-blowers.

  • Rand Paul to introduce bill closing the FISA business records loophole

    By Conn Carroll | 06/06/13 05:35 PM

    Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced Thursday that he will soon introduce legislation that would have prevented the Justice Department from obtaining a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court order directing Verizon to turn over all phone records to the National Security Agency. “The...

  • Full text: The FISA court order forcing Verizon to hand over data

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/06/13 10:30 AM

    As the Guardian reported Wednesday night, the government is collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers under a top secret court order. The full text of the court order is below. Click here to see the PDF.  TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORNUNITED STATESFOREIGN INTELLIGENCE...

  • 2016 begins: Rand Paul, Ted Cruz to keynote Iowa evangelical confab

    By Paul Bedard | 06/06/13 05:15 AM

    Evangelical leaders who believe establishment Republicans forced unwinnable and unworthy presidential candidates on them in the past two elections are getting a jump on the 2016 process, and popular Tea Party Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are helping to lead the way. Paul, of Kentucky, and...

  • Q: ‘Can you hear me now?’ A: ‘Yes We Can!’

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/05/13 09:05 PM

    When that Verizon guy asks “can you hear me now?” President Obama’s answer is “Yes We Can.” Glenn Greenwald has the astounding scoop about Obama continuing a reviled Bush practice: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US...

  • State regulator secretly wrote Maryland Chamber’s letter endorsing Perez for labor post

    By Sean Higgins | 06/05/13 08:15 PM

      A March letter by the Maryland Chamber of Commerce endorsing Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez was secretly written by a top official at the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, newly-released internal emails show. The person who actually wrote the chamber’s...

  • Obama sticks it to GOP, gives Susan Rice promotion

    By Brian Hughes | 06/05/13 07:40 PM

    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....

  • Tom Coburn: Treasury may have misled Congress about conference spending

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/05/13 07:20 PM

    A U.S. senator is questioning whether the Treasury Department purposely misled Congress by concealing a history of excessive government spending on lavish employee conferences. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has asked a Treasury auditor to look into why the department told Coburn a year ago that it...

  • Tim Carney: Conservative reformers should fix the rigged game

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/05/13 06:30 PM

    The game is rigged against the regular guy in America today. And it's rigged in favor of big business, the politically connected, and the wealthy. If Republicans and conservatives want to reform themselves, they need to begin with this fact. Admit it. Understand it. Declare it. Decry it. And...

  • IRS puts two employees on paid leave for accepting free food

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/05/13 06:10 PM

    The Internal Revenue Service has put two employees on administrative leave for inappropriately receiving free food while at an IRS conference in Anaheim, Calif., in 2010. According to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, which is investigating IRS conferences, the two...


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