Authors: jc
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Eight senators on Tuesday introduced a bill that aims to put an end to the “secret law” governing the government surveillance programs like the phone data detailed in recent days.
This bill would require the attorney general to declassify significant Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Alex Wong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday called National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden a “traitor” who put Americans at risk by releasing classified information to the media.
“He’s a traitor,” the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) -- The White House offered no comment Monday about Edward Snowden, the contract employee for the National Security Agency who has admitted that he leaked the stories about the NSA's vast surveillance programs.
When pressed by reporters at his daily briefing, administration press...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Benghazi might wind up being an albatross for Hillary Clinton.
Since 2008, when she unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president, Gallup has shown Clinton enjoying a favorability rating of at least 60 percent. It was up to 64 percent in April.
However, a June...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Cindy Ord/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Cory Booker’s got company.
The Newark mayor may be the early favorite in the fast-paced race to fill the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, but he will have to fend off challenges from several other Democrats -- and, eventually, a Republican general...
Authors: Carmen Cox
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate passed a bipartisan farm bill on Monday that is estimated to cost the government about $955 billion over 10 years.
The Senate approved the bill -- which will fund crop insurance programs for farmers, food assistance for low-income households and humanitarian food aid -- 66-27.
Thoug...
Authors: jc
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- ABC News has obtained a draft report by the inspector general alleging a number of crimes by State Department workers abroad. The draft accuses department officials of interference, but those claims were dropped in the final report.
Documents obtained by ABC News suggest investigators were blocked...
Authors: jc
Mario Tama/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Progressives have begun raising money for the legal defense of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor who has admitted to leaking several secret national security documents to the British newspaper The Guardian and TheWashington Post.
In an email to supporters Monday, the...
Authors: jc
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama on Monday nominated longtime economic adviser Jason Furman as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, calling him “one of the most brilliant economic minds of his generation.”
“When the stakes are highest, there's no one I'd rather turn to for...
Authors: jc
ABC / Martin H. Simon(NEW YORK) -- Hillary Clinton has officially joined Twitter.
After years of holding out, @HillaryClinton is in fact the former first lady turned Secretary of State. Or in her own words: “Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US Senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit...
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