For anyone out there thinking News Corp is innocent, we just need to look back to 2009: News Corporation admitted at a trial in 2009 that computers at its U.S. marketing division, News America Marketing, hacked into the secure website of a rival U.S.-based company 11 times, according to Bloomberg. The FBI is currently investigating […]
There has been a lot of talk today about Murdoch wanting to have Google stop indexing his news sites. I’m not going to go into the piss poor business decision this is, but I do need to highlight this: Mr Murdoch also indicated that he would use legal methods to prevent Google and other search […]
While progressives are still celebrating the passage of healthcare reform by the House, there seems to be amnesia when it comes to who we are dealing with – big pharma. One thing missing in healthcare reform that really should be there is dealing with situations like this: On the morning of Sept. 2, 2009, another […]
Last night we were slapped with this very disturbing piece of news: The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter. The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, or OPR, sent a fax […]
Accordint to The Raw Story some lawmakers want to impose legislation similar to that of the U.K. Sounds like an attempt to put a lid on leaks and allow even more illegal activity to go undiscovered.
During his press conference on Monday, President Bush said the leaking of the classified eavesdropping program was a serious matter and that the Justice Department has protocols for leaks and should be investigating it. For those of us who follow politics this sounds very familiar. When asked about investigation of the leak, President Bush responded […]