Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more

Joshua Gotbaum was nominated by President Barack Obama to be Director of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) in November 2009. He was approved by two Senate committees, but his confirmation was blocked by Sen. Sherrod Brown, (D-Ohio...   read more

It’s taken President Barack Obama less than two years to do what President Bill Clinton did in two terms in office: set a new record for the most openly gay appointments in an administration. To date, President Obama has selected more than 150 s...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama is helping defend former Attorney General John Ashcroft against a lawsuit that claims the Bush administration official should be held liable for misusing the law during the post-Sept. 1...   read more

GlaxoSmithKline agreed this week to pay the largest fine ever ($150 million) by a drug maker to settle criminal charges of having sold tainted products. The fine was part of a $750 million settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice t...   read more

The Republican Party of Iowa has been getting quite a lot for press these days for its new platform, which includes some rather unusual declarations.   For example, the Iowa GOP wants to establish a “no-activities night” every Wednesday in the...   read more

Eighteen criminal cases in Riverside County, California, have been dismissed by the state’s Supreme Court due to a lack of judges and criminal courtrooms. District Attorney Rod Pacheco argued for delaying rather than dismissal of the cases, whic...   read more

In an attempt to avoid political embarrassment, the Obama administration has reached a deal with Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr that will keep the former child soldier from being the subject of the government’s first military tribunal.   Khadr...   read more

Bloomberg News has tried since January 2009 to obtain information from the Department of the Treasury about $301 billion of securities owned by Citigroup that the government has agreed to guarantee. Despite President Barack Obama’s promise to ma...   read more

Details about the United States’ largest prison in Afghanistan will remain secret, according to a federal judge’s ruling this week. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had sought documents from the Department of Defense and the CIA about t...   read more

Defense contractor EOD Technology (EODT) of Tennessee is being sued by its own subcontractor, Kuwait-based MAKS General Trading & Contracting, for stealing prefabricated homes built for American soldiers stationed at Bagram Air Base in Afghanist...   read more

Law enforcement and intelligence officials are spending more time these days inside New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to improve their skills of observation.   The officers and agents are taking the class, The Art of Percepti...   read more

It was a Republican administration that created the risky bailout plan of the banking industry, and a Democratic administration that bailed out the auto industry, but it is Republicans who are hauling in the bulk of contributions this election f...   read more

American military commanders knew of more than a thousand reports of Iraqi security forces torturing prisoners, but this didn’t stop officials in the Obama administration from deciding to hand over detainees to the Iraq government.   According...   read more

Audits may not seem like glamorous work, but they are worth celebrating when the result is billions of tax dollars saved. The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency recently hosted an awards ceremony for federal agency wat...   read more

Hacking and other forms of electronic data theft are now a bigger problem for companies worldwide than old fashioned stealing of physical property.   The risk consulting company Kroll found in its latest annual survey that 27.3% of businesses ...   read more

Located just outside Washington, DC, in Forestville, Maryland, Realco gun shop is the place to go for criminals seeking weapons. An investigation by The Washington Post turned up 86 guns sold by Realco during the last 18 years that were linked t...   read more