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Pressure Mounts on Nation’s Archivist to Reject CIA Email Purge

Two influential Senators have written to the National Archivist demanding he stop the CIA’s attempts to destroy emails written by former employees and contractors. “We are concerned that this policy would undermine the ability of citizens to understand how their government works and hold it accountable,” said Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) in a letter sent Monday to archivist David Ferriero. “A plan to delete the majority of emails at any agency should raise great concern,” the lawmakers added. In January of… Keep Reading

Immigration Fight Could Affect 2016 Elections, Just Not in the Way You Might Think

Every rag in the beltway has opined on how President Obama’s executive actions on immigration will play out in the 2016 elections. But it was Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson on Tuesday that provided the most concrete electoral consequences of the immigration fight. “We’re back in a presidential election cycle. I cannot hire new Secret Service agents, until I get an appropriations bill passed by this Congress,” Johnson told lawmakers during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing. He was reacting to a strategy being laid… Keep Reading

Pentagon Gives Non-Denial Denial on Baghdadi Wife Kidnapping

On Tuesday, Lebanese military intelligence claimed it had detained a wife and child of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after the two tried to enter the country near the Syrian border. According to a Lebanese newspaper, the two are being held at the nation’s defense ministry for interrogation. Lebanese authorities claimed the capture was in coordination with “foreign intelligence services.” Later in the day, DoD Spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby was asked by reporters if the US was involved in the capture, and if… Keep Reading

Feds Failed to Stop Nuclear Weapons Official’s Ten Year Meltdown

An office of inspector general (OIG) report that’s being withheld from the public alleged that a commander of a force that transports the nation’s nuclear arsenal engaged in misconduct over the span of a decade, and that the individual’s superiors failed to stop it. The Department of Energy OIG found seven examples of “problematic behavior” by the National Nuclear Security Administration official. The most recent example took place last year. According to the report, a squad commander for the Office of Secure Transportation (OST) engaged… Keep Reading

President Ready to Play Shutdown Chicken Over Immigration

Without a new spending resolution, the government will shut down after December 11th. Republicans in Congress are considering using a new spending bill to defund the president’s recent executive actions on immigration. But in Monday’s press briefing, White House spokesman Josh Earnest made it clear that the president is willing to go to the ledge and over it to protect his immigration reforms. Keep Reading

White House Responds to Ferguson, Stops Short of Disarming Military Equipment

Reacting to the nationwide unrest resulting from events in Ferguson, Mo., the Obama administration on Monday announced measures aimed at fostering trust between communities and their police departments. The President will ask Congress for $263 million to pay for expanded police and training and to provide as many as 50,000 body-worn cameras to local units. The White House is also readying an executive order to add increased oversight to the several federal programs that transfer surplus military equipment to local police authorities, but the administration… Keep Reading

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