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FBI Director Robert Mueller testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 16, 2013. SOURCE: Appropriations.Senate.gov

FBI Director Robert Mueller confirms Boston JTTF did receive text alerts of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s travels to and from Russia

Friday, May 17, 2013

FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed this week that the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Boston did receive two text alerts of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s travel…

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Inspector General’s report finds “significant deficiencies” in the Justice Department’s handling of former suspected terrorists in Witness Protection

Friday, May 17, 2013

An investigation by the Justice Department’s Inspector General revealed that U.S. authorities last year lost track of two former “known or suspected terrorists” who were admitted to the…

WTF IRS 5.15.13

Acting IRS Commissioner resigns after IG report found “inappropriate” actions taken against conservative organizations applying for tax exempt status

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

President Barack Obama today announced the resignation of Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller, a day after an Inspector General report found that the…

WTF Associated Press surveillance 5.15.13

Eric Holder defends Justice Department’s subpoena of Associated Press phone records

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday defended the Justice Department’s decision to secretly subpoena the phone records of Associated Press reporters to investigate a “very serious leak” of a…

Suspect 1. SOURCE: FBI.gov

ANALYSIS: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman suggests AG guidelines may have “constrained” FBI from investigating Tamerlan Tsarnaev more aggressively

Monday, May 13, 2013

Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman suggested that the FBI may have been less aggressive in their 2011 investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev due to the Justice Department’s guidelines for domestic…

Suspect number 1. SOURCE: FBI.gov

FBI did not inform Boston Police of Russian intel on Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Monday, May 13, 2013

The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not inform the Boston Police of the bureau’s 2011 investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev nor the warnings they received from Russian intelligence of…

The Constitution Project report concludes torture was not more effective than humane interrogation techniques

Friday, May 10, 2013

Torture of detainees held in U.S. custody after 9/11 did not yield useful information that thwarted terrorist attacks or contributed to the capture of Al Qaeda leader Osama…

Grover Norquist’s top 6 reasons for supporting the Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Grover Norquist, America’s toughest anti-tax crusader and deficit hawk, testified before the Joint Economic Committee on how higher levels of immigration would benefit the U.S. economy.

Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform. SOURCE: Joint Economic Committee

ANALYSIS: Grover Norquist debunks Heritage Foundation’s claims that immigration reform will add $6.3 trillion to the deficit

Thursday, May 9, 2013

ANALYSIS: Grover Norquist, arguably the country’s most feared anti-tax crusader and deficit hawk, debunked the Heritage Foundation’s claim that immigration reform would add $6.3 trillion to the deficit,…

California presents “ugly” plan to comply with court order to reduce inmate population

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

California’s top prison official has submitted an “ugly” plan to comply with a federal court’s order to reduce the state’s prison population to 137.5% of design capacity by…