The Trump administration released 22 names to advocacy groups, which had sued the Trump administration in court over Freedom of Information Act on knowing who visited the Trump organization-owned Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The names were people who were a part of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visiting delegation during his visit with Trump. Mainstream […]
ABC News and CBS News covered the story, where the Obama administration spent $36 million to fight Freedom of Information Action (FOIA) requests in the last year of his administration. CNN and NBC News did not cover it on the home pages of their online websites, which is a shocking omission of news. This piece […]
Although the cases have been going on for eight years, it marks a small victory for California taxpayers now that government officials cannot hide government information on their private e-mail accounts or phone calls.
The Washington Post’s latest column on Donald Trump surrounds his penchant for tweeting his thoughts and stirring controversy, which they termed ‘chaos theory’. Notice the opinion sneaking into the column with the conjecture “has seemed to revel”: Since winning the election, Trump has seemed to revel in tossing firecrackers in all directions, often using Twitter to offer […]
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said they will release more medical information about Hillary Clinton after their transparency debacle this weekend, where Hillary Clinton wobbled and stumbled upon leaving a 9-11 ceremony and disappeared from the press without a timely explanation: Fallon assured on Monday that the campaign would soon release additional records and reminded […]
CNN’s Inside Politics panel called Hillary Clinton a hypocrite for saying that Donald Trump isn’t being completely transparent for refusing to release his tax returns, while she ignored Freedom of Information requests as secretary of state. The panel, on Sunday, said the latest round of allegations against the Clinton Foundation are her own fault because […]
NBC News’ headline conspicuously read, “Obama administration: As few as 64 civilians killed by drones.” The facts of the matter are that this figure only covers Africa, Pakistan and Yemen while excluding Iraq and Afghanistan, and it covers the time period from 2009-2013. Not entirely an accurate headline, NBC News. Photo by Sergey Melkonov
So much for transparency. The Director of National Intelligence (known as DNI) reported that between 64-116 civilians have been killed by drone strikes from 2009-2013 in Yemen, Pakistan and Africa. But, they did not reveal figures from Iraq or Afghanistan, as CBS News noted. Photo by Sergey Melkonov
Avoiding public scrutiny, no less: A collection of records made public Wednesday indicates State Department officials attempted to give Hillary Clinton a government email account to use while she was secretary of state, contradicting previous claims from agency officials that no such account was ever set up. But the email account, SSHRC@state.gov, went unused after […]
Well, Trump may have a point there after the emails scandal (and the plethora of Clinton scandals that the public has forgotten about) has emerged and has hamstrung Hillary Clinton’s campaign.