Posts Tagged ‘Judicial Watch’
Judicial Watch Sues DOD and CIA for Records
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on January 13, 2012, against the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to obtain documents regarding meetings [...]
New Poll Shows Strong Dissatisfaction with Washington
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, today released the results of a new nationwide survey of registered voters conducted by telephone by Harris Interactive concerning the American people’s attitudes on a variety of subjects, including [...]
Records Show Obama Coordination with DOJ on Voting Enforcement
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has received additional documents about meetings held between Estelle Rogers, Director of Advocacy for the ACORN-affiliated organization Project Vote, and officials from the [...]
Court Rules Phoenix Must Release Portions of Mayor’s Logs
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that that the Court of Appeals, State of Arizona, Division One has reversed a ruling by the Maricopa County Superior Court that shielded from release Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s security detail logs [...]
JW Sues Obama Administration for Solyndra Records
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced that it filed today separate lawsuits against the Obama Department of Energy and Office and Management and Budget to obtain records regarding the taxpayer funded government loan provided to the now [...]
JW Praises New “Tea Party Congress” Move to Preserve OCE
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement on the Republican House leadership’s decision to continue the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) in the 112th Congress: Congratulations to the new Tea Party Congress. Recently, Judicial Watch joined other public interest groups seeking [...]
JW Statement Regarding Denial Access to Political Documents.
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- September 30, 2010 Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement in response a recent court decision to deny access to documents pertaining to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's political campaign contributions and [...]
FBI Investigates Obama Healthcare, Budget Advisor
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The powerful leftist union leader who regularly visited the White House last year and participated in closed-door Obamacare meetings with the president, vice president and House speaker is being federally investigated for corruption. Andy Stern, who sits on President Obama’s National Commission on [...]
County Says Disclosing Top Salaries Creates Safety Risk
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a pathetic effort to conceal their lucrative taxpayer-funded salaries, public employees in the nation’s most populous county claim that revealing their income puts them at a safety risk. The rather absurd argument was presented this week by Los Angeles County officials who want to keep secret the [...]
Environmental Education Coming To Public Schools
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The Obama cabinet official who for years headed one of the nation’s worst public school districts has a brilliant plan for American children, to make them "good environmental citizens" with costly school programs that teach them about climate change and green jobs. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the [...]
Black Panther Case Dropped According to Evidence Obtained by Judicial Watch
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Withheld Records Contradict Testimony by Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez that No Political Leadership was Involved in the Decision Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- September 21, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes [...]
Language Barrier Saves Jesse Jackson Jr.
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Jesse Jackson Jr. has finally admitted he attended a Chicago meeting in which his top fundraiser tried to buy him President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, but the Illinois congressman assures he was clueless because the plot went down in a foreign language. Details of the scandalous meeting surfaced during Rod [...]
$4 Billion Later U.S. Can’t Intercept Nuclear Terrorists
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In the latest exhibit of incompetence by the government agency created to keeping America safe, the Department of Homeland Security has wasted $4 billion on a failed program to install crucial radiation detectors at U.S. border crossings. Launched a few years ago, the costly effort was supposed to create [...]
FDIC Documents Indicate Treasury May Have Improperly Pressured Independent FDIC to Accept Bailout Deal
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair says she “acquiesced” to pressure from Treasury which was “vigorously pushing” a bailout of Wachovia Bank Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- September 17, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes [...]
Congressman’s Two-Front War Against Gold, Glenn Beck
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a flagrant effort to scare gold investors and punish advertisers of highly-rated conservative television news shows, the House committee that oversees commerce and consumer affairs will hold hearings to “regulate gold-selling companies” and their “relentless advertising.” The New York [...]
New Waters/Frank Scandal Documents Uncovered by JW: OneUnited Bank Received “Less than Satisfactory” Assessment Prior to Bailout
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Evaluation: OneUnited “Ineffective” “Needs to Improve” “Less than Satisfactory” “Has Done a Poor Job” Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- September 15, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and [...]
Defense Bill To Include Illegal Immigrant Amnesty Measure
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles A controversial amnesty law to give illegal immigrants U.S. citizenship and discounted tuition at public colleges will be attached to a defense spending bill scheduled to be considered by the Senate next week. The amendment will be added by none other than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada [...]
Napolitano: Border “As Secure As It Has Ever Been”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles As violence escalates along the Mexican border and overwhelmed federal agents are increasingly attacked by heavily armed drug smugglers, the nation’s delusional Homeland Security chief assures the area is “as secure as it has ever been.” In fact, just days before Janet Napolitano made the comical [...]
Clinton Judge Breaks Senate Impeachment Trial Dry Spell
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a heartwarming trivia tidbit, the subject of the U.S. Senate’s first impeachment trial in more than a decade is a crooked Louisiana federal judge appointed by the last figure—Bill Clinton—to be tried by the panel. How appropriate that Clinton, admonished by the House of Representatives in 1998, [...]
Welfare Cash Withdrawn At Casino, Strip Club ATM
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Millions of dollars in welfare funds have for years been withdrawn from automated teller machines in casinos, strip clubs and other gambling establishments in California as the state agencies responsible for preventing it stood idly by. Since at least 2006 the state’s Department of Social Services has [...]
Obama Propaganda Illegally Financed with Tax Dollars
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Although federal law prohibits it, U.S. taxpayers have financed an unprecedented number of costly propaganda and public relations initiatives pushing Obama Administration policies. Details of the violations are laid out in a new report (Analysis of the First Year of the Obama Administration: Public Records [...]
Appeals Court Rules Against ACORN
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a story that not surprisingly got buried by the mainstream media, an appeals court has ruled that Congress can withhold federal funds from a crime-infested community organization famous for voter registration fraud and embezzlement. The crucial decision, recently issued by the 2nd Circuit Court of [...]
Obama Won’t Deport Illegal Immigrant Students
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles As it strives to grant illegal immigrants in the U.S. amnesty, the Obama Administration has ordered authorities to stop deporting a large category of undocumented aliens while lawmakers craft legislation to officially spare them from expulsion. The Homeland Security agency responsible for protecting the [...]
Judicial Watch Statement on Federal Court Decision to Dismiss Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed by “Joe the Plumber”
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement today regarding a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to dismiss Judicial Watch’s civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of Joe Wurzelbacher, who is otherwise known as “Joe the Plumber”: The implications of this [...]
Secret Amnesty Plan Offers Illegal Immigrants “Relief”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The Obama Administration has a secret backup plan to grant illegal immigrants amnesty in case Congress doesn’t pass legislation to do it, according to an internal Homeland Security document recently exposed by a conservative news magazine. The backdoor amnesty plan, devised by high-ranking officials at [...]
Judicial Watch Sues Pasadena Police Department for Records Detailing Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policy
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an open records lawsuit against the Pasadena Police Department (PPD), and PPD Police Chief Christopher Vicino, to obtain documents related to the department’s alleged illegal [...]
White House Spared From Blagojevich Trial
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles A collective sigh of relief is undoubtedly resonating from the White House now that testimony in Rod Blagojevich’s trial has concluded, sparing two top Obama Administration officials from traveling to Chicago to testify in the ousted governor’s defense. Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, and [...]
Florida County Helps Illegal Workers Get Paid
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles As states and municipalities across the nation adopt measures to combat a painful illegal immigration crisis, a major U.S. county continues to dedicate public resources to help undocumented workers. Florida’s most populous county, Miami-Dade, is operating a taxpayer-financed program to assist illegal [...]
$410k To Teach Drug Addicts Chinese Meditation
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In yet another reprehensible waste of public resources, the U.S. government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to study the effects of Chinese meditation on drug addicts. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services actually gave a Maryland college professor whose research focuses on [...]
Welfare Program Pays Felons’ Energy Bill
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In yet another fraud-infested welfare program to assist low-income residents with energy costs, the government has paid the air conditioning bills for thousands of dead people, convicted felons and federal employees. The $5 billion Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) supposedly helps the needy [...]
Jesse Jackson Jr. Offered $1 Million For Senate Seat
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his top fundraiser offered to buy President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat for $1 million even though Jackson denies involvement in the pay-to-play scheme at the center of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial. The son of the world-renowned “civil rights” [...]
Most Illegal Aliens Exempt From “Mandatory Detention”
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Although he claims that enforcing immigration laws is vital to national security and public safety, the Assistant Secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) circulated an internal memo ordering officers not to arrest a broad range of illegal aliens he deems immune from “mandatory [...]
Civil Rights Comm. Hears About Black Panther Case
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles The Department of Justice (DOJ) whistleblower who resigned over the “corrupt nature of the dismissal” of the New Black Panther case testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights this week. At the hearing in the commission’s Washington D.C. headquarters, J. Christian Adams accused the DOJ [...]
DOJ Ignores Cases With Black Defendants, White Victims
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a racial double standard, the Obama Administration instructs government attorneys in the Justice Department’s civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims. The explosive revelation was made this week by a high-ranking Justice Department official who quit [...]
Blagojevich Considered Appointing Himself To Senate
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Rod Blagojevich tried to sell President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat but he also considered appointing himself in a worst-case scenario if he didn’t get the right bribe. “I really believe the worst thing Obama wants is me going there,” Blagojevich says in secret FBI recordings played Wednesday at [...]
Obama, Emanuel At Center Of Blagojevich Trial
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, were mentioned repeatedly in the corruption trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday, even as the White House desperately tries to put distance between the commander-in-chief and the monstrous political scandal. In its fifth [...]
Blagojevich Considered Oprah For Senator
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles With the confident demeanor of a rock star, disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich strutted into a Chicago federal courthouse for the fifth week of his corruption trial. Sporting a stylish navy blue suit and proudly displaying his trademark brown locks, the dethroned politician winked and waved at [...]
Chief Who Supports Sanctuary Policies Gets Top ICE Job
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a laughable move, the Obama Administration has appointed a police chief who supports illegal alien sanctuary policies to oversee an immigration enforcement program that requires a partnership between federal and local authorities. The new director for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s [...]
Mexico Asks Court To Ban Ariz. Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Not only is Arizona’s new immigration control law unconstitutional, it will adversely affect education and labor markets in both Mexico and the U.S., according a federal court brief filed by the Mexican government this week. In the 28-page brief, Mexico asks the court to declare Arizona’s new [...]
Federal Agencies Block Congressional Probes
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama and his cabinet love to brag about the administration’s unprecedented transparency, but the reality is that numerous government agencies keep denying the investigative arm of Congress access to information essential to probes that help weed out corruption. Among the key federal [...]
Senate Bill Gives Obama, Feds Control Of Internet
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Keeping with the Obama big government script, a bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to grant the federal government “absolute power” to shut down the internet and the president the authority to seize control of it in the name of national security. Under the law (Protecting Cyberspace as a [...]
U.S. Park Visitors Warned Of Mexican Smuggling Violence
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In yet another solid argument for securing the southern border, American families planning to visit national parks this summer are being warned of the iminent danger created by Mexican drug and immigrant smugglers. The violence is so severe that the federal government has posted strongly-worded signs at [...]
Judicial Watch Files Complaint with Office of Special Counsel
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Alleges White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina Violated the Hatch Act by Using Their Positions to Influence Federal Elections Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- June 16, 2010 Judicial Watch, the nonpartisan public interest [...]
International Laws Help U.S. Enemies In War
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a disturbing revelation made this week by a top military commander, international law is preventing U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan from launching creative and usually nonviolent operations that weaken the enemy. Commonly known as “deception operations,” the secret plans often succeed in [...]
U.S. Passports Made In Thai Factory
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Despite repeated warnings from security experts and internal government sources, the U.S. Government continues to manufacture a key border security tool in a high-risk foreign country where it’s susceptible to theft by terrorists, foreign spies or counterfeiters. For the last four years a government [...]
Deputy Atty. Gen. Nominee Defended Saudi Terrorist
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama’s nominee to be second-in-command at the Justice Department represented the Saudi royals who helped finance the 2001 terrorist attacks and raked in millions of dollars to “monitor” a collapsed insurance company that got a massive government bailout. Furthermore, the president’s [...]
Pelosi’s Office Costs Taxpayers More Than 18k Monthly
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the midst of her state’s dire financial crisis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved her district office to a new state-of-the-art building with an award-winning “green” design at quadruple the monthly rent of the old location. That means taxpayers in the (not so) Golden State will dish out [...]
Kagan Helped Bill Clinton Cover Up Scandals
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee was a key figure in covering up at least two of Bill Clinton’s scandals although the true extent of her role won’t ever be known because the files will remain secret. The Clinton Library has released more than 40,000 pages of records from Elena Kagan’s [...]
Court Upholds Day Laborer Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In an unexpected but welcome victory for immigration enforcement, a notoriously liberal federal appellate court has ruled that a southern California city can enforce a law that allows police to arrest illegal alien day laborers who solicit work on public streets. The surprise ruling, issued this week by [...]
Internet, Bingo, Art Classes For Jailed Illegal Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the Obama Administration’s effort to make the immigration detention system less penal and more humane, illegal immigrants will be offered art classes, bingo, continental breakfast and free unlimited phone and internet service in prison. Immigration jails will also get makeovers to soften their look [...]
