In the eyes of the White House: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sought more information yesterday about a presentation by a White House aide given to political appointees at the General Services Administration that discussed targeting 20 Democratic congressional candidates in the next election. In a letter to White House political affairs director […]
The story of this young man has been getting some attention lately, so this was certain to come: George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters’ access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word “theory” at every mention of […]
This story broke yesterday talking about the NSA website placing files on our computers to track what websites we visit. These are the notorious cookie files everyone hears about. Even though most websites use cookies, the ones used by the NSA are actually illegal. NEW YORK – The National Security Agency’s Internet site has been […]
This week the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) chairman, Ken Mehlman, put out a “talking points” memo to help discredit Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame while showing support for Karl Rove’s actions of disclosing a CIA operative’s identity. As soon as I read these I realized that the RNC was in fact putting their old spin […]