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Media focus builds pressure to limit seizures by feds CJ Ciaramella The Washington Free Beacon 10/29/2014 Several U.S. senators are considering reforms to federal civil asset forfeiture laws—which allow the government to seize citizens’ property even if they are not convicted or charged with a crime—following several high-profile investigations by news outlets. On Sunday, the […] October 30th, 2014 | Tags: Carol Hinders, civil asset forfeiture laws, due process, FAIR Act, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Rand Paul | Category: 5th Amendment, Congress, IRS, journalism, Property rights | Comments are closed
Pamela Geller Atlas Shrugs 10/26/2014 …WASHINGTON – The death of an American journalist who worked in the Middle East has come under suspicion because she had claimed days before her death that the Turkish intelligence services had threatened her over her coverage of the siege of the Syrian city of Kobani. Serena Shim, an American […] October 27th, 2014 | Tags: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Kobani, Kurds, Serena Shim, Syria, Turkey | Category: corruption, Islam, journalism, Middle East | Comments are closed
John Hinderaker PowerLine 10/27/2014 Back in June 2013, we covered the hacking of at least one of reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computers by persons unknown. CBS, which, as we now know, was anything but supportive of Attkisson, verified that the intrusion(s) had taken place: A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic […] October 27th, 2014 | Tags: "Stonewalled...", CBS News, classified documents, hacking, Sharyl Attkisson, spyware | Category: Books/media, Computers, Government, journalism, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
John Hayward Human Events 10/15/2014 At first glance, I didn’t understand the big stir over the New York Times’ piece about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We’ve known about this for years, even if some of the details about the exposure of American troops to chemical weapons they discovered across Iraq were not widely […] October 15th, 2014 | Tags: Authorization for Use of Military Force, FOIA, Gabriel Malor, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Major Jarrod Lampier, President George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, WMDs | Category: Barack Obama, Bloggers, Congress, Iraq, journalism, Media accountability, Military, Politics, Progressives | Comments are closed
Alex Pappas The Daily Caller 10/12/2014 When President Barack Obama takes Air Force One on a fundraising swing, he is required under the law to reimburse taxpayers for certain travel expenses. But as Mark Knoller of CBS News reports, the White House has made it a practice of not publicly releasing specific reimbursement figures, making […] October 14th, 2014 | Tags: fundraising, Mark Knoller | Category: Barack Obama, journalism, Taxes | Comments are closed
Tom Blumer Newsbusters.org 9/28/2014 The story of alleged Moore, Oklahoma murderer Alton Nolen, who reportedly beheaded co-worker Colleen Hufford, is fading from the headlines. Barring further developments, I don’t expect it to be a news topic on any of the Big Three networks’ morning or evening news shows tomorrow… …So we’ll leave to Fox News’s […] September 30th, 2014 | Tags: Alton Nolen, beheading, Colleen Hufford, Fox News Channel, jihad, Megyn Kelly, Moore, Trace Gallagher | Category: Islam, journalism, Media accountability, MSM (Mainstream Media), Oklahoma | Comments are closed
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