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Despite Senate Deal On Fast Track, Pelosi Skeptical About Passage In House

The Senate may have struck a deal that gets President Obama one step closer to securing fast track Trade Promotion Authority, however the administration still has a lot of work to do to cajole skeptical Democrats in the House. And they’ll have to start at the top. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday compared TPA to a “get-out-of-jail-free” card that applies not just to President Obama and the Trans Pacific Partnership, but to the next president and whatever trade agenda she or he… Keep Reading

Watchdog Verifies Scope of Navy’s Massive Domestic “Law Enforcement” Data Collection

A report published on Tuesday by the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General confirmed that a branch of the US military operates an enormous law enforcement database containing hundreds of millions of records of interactions between cops and citizens. The IG investigation described the info depository, run by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, as containing more than 506 million police records, including information about American citizens who’ve committed crimes as insignificant as driving infractions. The probe was launched in response to a March 2014 Washington Examiner… Keep Reading

White House Press Corps Refuses to Challenge Administration on Bin Laden Raid Narrative—Curious About Tom Brady Though

Despite new revelations that cast doubt on the story told by the administration about how Osama Bin Laden was discovered and killed, reporters covering the White House on Tuesday appeared completely uninterested in digging any further. Press Secretary Josh Earnest glided through Tuesday’s press briefing without being asked one question about allegations reported on Sunday by esteemed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and advanced Monday by NBC News. While the two stories differ wildly, they both deviate from the US government’s initial line—that it found Bin… Keep Reading

FBI Colluded With Foreign Corporation To Spy On Americans Opposing Keystone XL

Americans peacefully protesting the push to construct the Keystone XL pipeline had their activities monitored for nearly two years by the FBI, which, in turn, shared some of the information with the corporation seeking to build the massive piece of oil industry infrastructure, according to documents revealed for the first time on Tuesday. The documents, released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Guardian and Earth Island Journal, show that the FBI’s Houston office promised to share with TransCanada… Keep Reading

After a Huge “Screw Up” First Time Around, Shell Gains Approval For Second Round of Arctic Drilling

A major oil company has received permission from the Obama administration to begin drilling for oil in remote and dangerous waters off Alaska, just three years after the company’s first incursion into the Arctic ended in disaster and allegations of corporate neglect. The move by the White House on Monday to grant conditional approval to Shell Gulf of Mexico to resume drilling operations in the Chuckchi Sea off Alaska elicited a sharp rebuke from environmentalists, who accused the administration of rushing to green light “risky… Keep Reading

U.S. Government: We Can Classify Anything And Judges Can’t Stop Us

At a hearing today on a lawsuit seeking to make videotapes of force-feedings at Guantánamo public, Justice Department attorneys argued that the courts cannot order evidence used in trial to be unsealed if it has been classified by the government. “We don’t think there is a First Amendment right to classified documents,” stated Justice Department lawyer Catherine Dorsey. Read the rest of this article at The Intercept. Keep Reading

With Rebel Support, Pentagon Acknowledges Mission Creep Could Be Looming In Syria

In an exchange with reporters on Thursday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter conceded that the US government’s plans in Syria open the door to more US military involvement in the country’s long ongoing civil war. “Of course we would have some responsibility to protect forces,” the defense chief said, referring to rebel militants backed by Washington that should be deployed to Syria in “a few months.” Carter also noted that while the Pentagon expects the vetted-rebels to primarily engage with Islamic State forces in Syria, he… Keep Reading

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