State Dept. contractors peek at Obama file

Wow this is very intense! Makes you wonder how easy it is fo state workers to access files on us all!"The State Department said Thursday that it fired two people and disciplined a third for inappropriately looking at the passport file of Democratic presidential candidate...

Memo Blasts State Dept. Iraq Effort

" In a confidential memo, a long-time Republican operative who has served in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad for the past year says the State Department's efforts in Iraq are so poorly managed they "would be considered willfully negligent if not criminal" if done in the private...

Justice Dept. Seeks Delay on C.I.A. Inquiry

"The Justice Department asked the House Intelligence Committee on Friday to postpone its investigation into the destruction of videotapes by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2005, saying the Congressional inquiry presented “significant risks” to its own preliminary...

N. Korea: 120 Prisoners Escape From Gulag

I ran across this translated post by blogger TigerLikesRooster from the Daily NK. Since I don't read or speak Korean, I am grateful that this blogger shared such a compelling story from behind the barbwired worker's paradise of North Korea."120 prisoners escaped en masse from...

Justice Dept. Database Stirs Privacy Fears

Size and Scope of the Interagency Investigative Tool Worry Civil Libertarians "The Justice Department is building a massive database that allows state and local police officers around the country to search millions of case files from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration...