News Source: Alternet
| 2 months ago
Earlier this year, we learned that the Republican senator from Nevada had had an affair with a campaign staffer who is married to a man who was then a member of Ensign's senate office staff...Then we learned that Ensign's parents had written that
News Source: OpenSecrets.org
| 2 months ago
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) helped his long-time friend and aide Douglas Hampton join a political consulting firm and lined up several campaign donors as his lobbying clients, after Ensign had an affair with Hampton's wife, the New York Times reports .
News Source: War In Context
| 3 months ago
The ruling challenged a key tactic used by the government under an emergency executive order signed by President George W...If upheld, the ruling could severely undercut the government’s authority and ultimately require it to get a warrant and
News Source: Star-Bulletin
| 3 months ago
With economic troubles pushing more people onto the streets in the last few years, law enforcement officials and researchers are seeing a surge in unprovoked attacks against the homeless, and a number of states are considering legislation to treat
News Source: Truthout
| 4 months ago
Congressman Rush Holt closes the back door of a committee room in Washington, DC. Holt, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, has called for a new Church committee to investigate the CIA. (Photo: Tony Kurdzuk / The Star-Ledger)
News Source: Truthout
| 5 months ago
Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin chronicled the White House throughout Bush's presidency. (Photo: Getty Images) Today's column is my last for The Washington Post...Thank you to all you readers, e-mailers, commenters, questioners,
News Source: Truthdig
| 5 months ago
Tools of mass communication that were once the province of governments and corporations now fit in your pocket. Cell phones can capture video and send it wirelessly to the Internet. People can send eyewitness accounts, photos and videos, with a few
News Source: The Mercury News
| 5 months ago
The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than