Syndicated Stories, Uncategorized American Oversight 0
Publish Date: November 15, 2019 Former VA Secretary David Shulkin On Friday, a federal judge declined to grant the government’s motion to dismiss American Oversight’s lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to recover the former secretary’s official emails from personal accounts. This past spring, American Oversight uncovered evidence that former Secretary David […]
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While communities around the country observe Trans Awareness Week, in one Texas city, advocates have shifted the narrative. The Mahogany Project and Save Our Sisters, two Houston-based organizations, have founded Black Trans Empowerment Week to “not only to memorialize those who have been tragically taken, but to charge forward into the empowered future they envision for all transgender people.” […]
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: More than 60% of Americans think it’s impossible to go through daily life without being tracked by companies or the government, according to a new Pew Research study. It’s not just that Americans (correctly) think companies are collecting their data. They don’t like it. About […]
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Mueller Report Following Stone Verdict, DOJ Must Disclose More of Mueller Report to EPIC With the conclusion of Roger Stone’s trial on Friday, the Justice Department must now disclose additional sections of the Mueller Report to EPIC in EPIC v. DOJ. Previously, the agency argued that it could withhold portions of the Report because disclosure […]
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In a historic opinion on privacy at the border, a federal judge this week recognized that international travelers have significant privacy interests in their digital data and ruled that suspicionless electronic device searches at U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston held that border agents must […]
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In the News Friday, November 15, 2019 Last week, a restaurant worker in Massachusetts died after being overcome from fumes after two cleaning agents were accidentally mixed together – a reminder of the serious risk to people when certain chemical-containing cleaning products are mixed. EWG provided helpful household tips for handling cleaning products. “Our thoughts are with […]
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As the sun set recently over Budiyon, a village in southern Tajikistan’s Khatlon region, the soccer field was surrounded by boys and young men enjoying one of the last mild evenings before the onset of winter. Some sat atop a broken water truck that seemed to have sunk into the field where it had ended […]
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This week, the House’s impeachment inquiry went public, with Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, and acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor appearing before the House Intelligence Committee in televised hearings. Kent and Taylor testified about the irregular shadow diplomatic efforts led by Rudy Giuliani and associates to advance President Donald […]
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Home News Releases House approves EXIM reauthorization that allows uninhibited support for climate polluting projects November 15, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to approve the United States Export Finance Agency Act of 2019, putting the chamber’s stamp of approval on a 10-year reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM)—the U.S. Government’s […]
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After Equifax’s calamitous 2017 data breach, its settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the private attorneys representing victims appears to offer two potential remedies to all 147 million American consumers affected: free credit monitoring, or if individuals already had free credit monitoring, an up to $125 cash payment. The FTC directed consumers affected […]
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Outcome UA:152/19 Index: MDE 14/1414/2019 Iraq Date: 15 November 2019 URGENT ACTION ACTIVIST AND MEDIC RELEASED On 13 November 2019, activist and medic Saba Mahdawi was released. Saba went missing after being abducted by an unknown group on 2 November 2019. Her family confirmed to Amnesty that Saba was in good health and had not […]
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The Director of National Intelligence has notified Congress that U.S. intelligence agencies are no longer obtaining cell site location data without “a showing of probable cause.” The change is a direct result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter v. United States, which held the Fourth Amendment protects location records generated by mobile phones. The […]
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Newly released public documents related to the government’s response to Hurricane Dorian and the president’s infamous Sharpie-altered weather map show how an apparent misunderstanding spiraled into the politicization of basic government functions. On Sept. 1, with Hurricane Dorian wreaking havoc in the Bahamas and poised to strike the southeastern United States, President Donald Trump tweeted […]
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With less than a year until Election Day 2020, HRC launched a fellowship program to energize young voters and activists in six battleground states: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Earlier this fall Nevada chose its fellows ahead of the Nevada Caucus. HRC Fellows will work with our in-state teams to: Mobilize voters ahead of […]
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Responding to reports that prominent activist Dinh Thao was taken into custody upon her arrival at Hanoi Noi Bai airport this morning, Joanne Mariner, Amnesty International’s Research Director for Southeast Asia & the Pacific, said: “Viet Nam’s repressive government is again showing its brazen hostility to those who want a better future for the country […]
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Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, writes about how and why Facebook might take inspiration from the U.S. jury system in reviewing the truth value of political ads. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the article: What we need are ways for decisions about content to be made, as they inevitably must […]
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In the summer of 1988, thousands of political prisoners were secretly executed in Iran following a fatwa by the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. More than three decades later, for the first time, an Iranian national has been jailed for his suspected role in the estimated execution of at least […]