Oversight

Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses

Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Secrecy, Transparency, Corporate Welfare, Municipal Wireless, First Amendment, National Security, Rule of Law, Oversight, Fisa, Surveillance, Watergate, Executive Power, Privacy, Domestic Spying, NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program, Bear Stearns, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.

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Contractor Self Arrest: How Realistic Is This?

Dina Rasor | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Oversight, Oversight, Dod, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War Funding, Private Contractors, Politics News
Dina Rasor

The whole notion of contractor self policing is absurd at best. The self-reporting process is a useful mechanism for major contractors to limit their liability by settling with the government for pennies on the dollar.

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Oversight in the Internet Era

Sunil Chacko | Posted 02.17.2008 | Media

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Sunil Chacko

The current klieg-lights and C-SPAN culture may be, at best, only one component of comprehensive oversight, and may hardly be representative of the Internet era.

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Friday Talking Points [Vol. 12]

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: White House, Gwen Ifill, Pat Leahy, Fisa, Rumsfeld, Telecom, Witch Hunt, Fatuous, John Kerry, Midotw, Contempt of Congress, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Reid, News Hour, Special Counsel, Witch, Warrantless Wiretapping, Oversight, Democrat, Edwards, Congress, Joe Biden, Richardson, Justice Department, Democrats, Investigation, Mddotw, Interrogation Tapes, Wiretapping, Alberto Gonzales, Nixon, Up or Down Vote, Wiccan, Cocaine, Stuart Bowen, Cloture, Cia, Cheney, Filibuster, Iraq, Chris Dodd, Obama, Privacy, Bush, Pelosi, 10-Year War, Continuing Resolution, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Scooter Libby, Hex, Inspector General, Judiciary Committee, Specter, Attorney General, Contempt, Robert Wexler, CIA Tapes, Roadblock Republicans, Executive Branch, Independent Counsel, Wicca, Telecommunication, Torture, King George, Grassley, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The whole Obama flap over cocaine (fueled by the Clinton camp) needs to get shot down right away, before any Republicans consider using it to attack Obama. And it's so pathetically easy to shoot this one down.

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Citizen Journalists, Start Your Engines!

Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Oversight, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Mainstream Media, MSM Flaws, Bloggers, House Oversight Committee, Msm, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Henry Waxman, Politics News
Dan Froomkin

Few, if any, reporters show up for oversight hearings -- and those who do tend to leave early.

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