Category: Corruption

A government watchdog agency called on the Pentagon on Tuesday to declassify a report alleging the sex abuse of children by Afghan security forces. Military Goes on to say The classified section on sex abuse is part of the quarterly report to Congress and the Defense Department by the office of John Sopko, the Special […]

Military SEOUL, South Korea — The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Sunday in a show of force against North Korea, following the country’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile test. The B-1 bombers were escorted by South Korean fighter jets as they performed a low pass over an air base near the South […]

NBC A California deputy attorney general has been charged in San Diego with possession of child pornography. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports Raymond Joseph Liddy pleaded not guilty and was released on $100,000 bond. The attorney general’s office said Wednesday it is aware of the matter and that the 53-year-old Liddy was placed on administrative […]

Watch live stream coverage of conservative groups Media Equality Group and Main Street Patriots protest CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta, GA on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. eastern, courtesy of Ground Floor Video. The event press release states: “For too long, CNN has been allowed to warp, misrepresent and outright manufacture news events out of thin air. Real damage […]

The Independent  The Government has approved licences for arms deals to two-thirds of the countries on its own list of human rights abusers, a campaign group has said. Boris Johnson’s Foreign Office released its annual human rightsreport on Friday including a list of 30 countries, like Bahrain, China, Saudi Arabia and Israel, it had given “priority” status in 2016. But in […]

Bloomberg   Governments around the world are enlisting “cyber troops” who manipulate Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets to steer public opinion, spread misinformation and undermine critics, according to a new report from the University of Oxford. Adding to growing evidence of government-sponsored efforts to use online tools to influence politics, researchers found 29 countries […]

ARS technica The US Federal Communications Commission says it has no written analysis of DDoS attacks that hit the commission’s net neutrality comment system in May. In its response to a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request filed by Gizmodo, the FCC said its analysis of DDoS attacks “stemmed from real time observation and feedback by Commission IT staff […]

WASHINGTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday admonished Exxon Mobil Corp for “reckless disregard” of U.S. sanctions in dealings with Russia in 2014 when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the global oil company’s chief executive, and fined it $2 million. ExxonMobil said the decision was “fundamentally unfair,” and sued the U.S. government in […]

B911. Police Officer Molina and fellow 40 Precinct officers arrested a suspect for stealing a victim’s identity and repeatedly withdrawing money from his bank account. Last week, a man equipped with a stolen debit card and fraudulent identification walked into a Bronx bank and successfully withdrew $9,000. The next day, the perpetrator returned to the […]

Breitbart reports A bill that would reduce drug felonies to misdemeanors for first-time possessions of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and other hard drugs passed through the Oregon state legislature on Thursday and is likely to be signed into law by Governor Kate Brown. House Bill 2355 which reduces convictions for first-time possessions of such illicit drugs passed […]