The Obama Administration is declining to dispute statements made by a senior Lebanese government official that would indicate the U.S. government is comfortable with a Lebanese banking system that may be — outside of Iran’s financing — the sole source…
With a CBS News report earlier last week claiming that the neither the White House nor the Central Intelligence Agency was aware of edits made to briefing and talking points generated by the CIA on the September 11, 2012 terrorist…
Google, the company that has been desperately currying favor with conservative organizations around Washington, and which is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission, as well as several European governments, isn’t making many friends inside Washington, D.C., despite the money…
BILL COMES DUE It was not “business as usual” last week for Democrats in Washington, as members of the Obama Administration and Democrat Senators fanned out across town for meetings with senior business executives and business owners holding summer meetings…
Over the past 18 months, the Obama Administration has been seeking to more stringently regulate Internet, broadband, and wireless broadband networks operated by such communications firms as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, as well as Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Now it…
WEINER’S HARD DRIVES Over the weekend, House Democrat leaders were attempting to ascertain whether the hard drives of the computers used by embattled serial sexter Rep. Anthony Weiner had been seized and secured by the House Sergeant at Arms as…
STANDOFF CYNICISM No one can say that President Barack Obama and his administration weren’t thinking of the American people during the budget standoff with Republicans. Their inconvenience was very much on his mind. According to White House sources, in the…
With President Barack Obama scheduled to speak to the nation tonight about the role the U.S. military is playing and will play in the military action in Libya, the White House national security and communications teams continue to scramble to…
INTERNET GRABBERS House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa continues to demand answers from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski over why the head of a supposedly independent federal agency visited the White House 81 times between January 2009 and November…
Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy have consistently blocked efforts by Reps. Steve King and Michele Bachmann to defund the so-called “Obamacare slush fund” via the continuing resolution or…