We're either on the verge of a new era in transparency in the federal government — or we're not. ...more

December 27, 2009

Congressional officials confirm that an internal government report written in 2004 reveals that CIA interrogators threatened one of their prisoners with a gun and a power drill. ...more

August 22, 2009

The Obama administration is delaying by a week its release of an internal CIA report on the agency's Bush-era secret detention and interrogation program. ...more

June 20, 2009

Well now, how about the bailout of all these banks, folks? Seems as though the Republicans would like you to blame President Barack Obama for the way the initial monies sent to the banks (under the administration of George W. Bush and controlled, almost exclusively, by former Secretary Treasurer Henry Paulson) were spent. ...more

February 5, 2009

Are you one of the workers recently laid off? ...more

February 5, 2009

As a new administration settles into its offices in Washington, America awaits the actions of the White House and federal agencies on a host of challenges facing our nation at home and abroad. Whatever these actions turn out to be, and whether they meet with success or failure, it's vitally important that the American people have access to how governmental decisions are made, and by whom. On this front, at least, there's already good news. ...more

January 25, 2009

No other country puts as much emphasis on "freedom" as the United States. Patrick Henry demanded "liberty or death." The national anthem calls America "the land of the free." Great reformers from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King have urged America to live up to its ideal of "freedom." When a group of French Americanophiles wanted to flatter the United States, they sent the Statue of Liberty. ...more

May 18, 2008

An e-mail sent by local immigration officials to their agency head the day after the city adopted an ID program for illegal immigrants suggests the timing of a raid soon thereafter was not coincidental, the city's mayor said. ...more

January 27, 2008

The percentage of recruits entering the Army with a high school diploma dropped to a new low in 2007, according to a study released Tuesday, and Army officials confirmed that they have lowered their standards to meet recruiting goals in the middle of two ongoing wars. ...more

January 23, 2008

While professing a belief in open government, President Bush has hardly run the country that way. His administration has looked with disdain upon the Freedom of Information Act and worked to make even more information secret. ...more

December 31, 2007