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Sharyl Attkisson: Watchdog questions lack of govt. oversight on coronavirus research grants

Sharyl Attkisson The watchdog group Empower Oversight has filed Freedom of Information Act requests for information after learning of the failure by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to hold a key grant recipient to its contractual obligations. … EcoHealth Alliance was awarded taxpayer money

American Greatness: FBI Repeatedly Burned by Cooperation with Liberal Sources

American Greatness Several of the biggest scandals in recent FBI history have all stemmed from the bureau’s over-dependence on working with liberal sources to achieve a left-wing agenda, which has only led to greater backlash and scrutiny, Just The News reports. … “They need to have an understanding that there are folks out there that are looking

Just the News: FBI keeps getting burned badly by reliance on liberal sources

Just the News A dossier alleging Russian collusion funded by a Democrat presidential candidate. A suggestion that school parents were domestic terrorists from a left-leaning school board group. A list suggesting old-fashioned Catholics were extremists from a liberal watchdog on hate speech. … “They need to have an understanding that there are folks out there

The Federalist: If Biden’s Federal Elections Takeover Is ‘Free And Fair,’ Why Are The Plans Completely Redacted?

The Federalist Ater several executive agencies in the Biden administration were sued for refusing to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests from conservative advocacy group Citizens United over the White House’s attempt to federalize elections, the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Indian Affairs finally turned over its first batch of requested documents.

Sharyl Attkisson: Watchdog group sues to find out why DOJ has not required broadcaster Al Jazeera to register as foreign agent

Sharyl Attkisson The watchdog group Empower Oversight…is suing for documents that could explain why the foreign broadcasting group Al Jazeera appears to have received favored treatment from the US Dept. of Justice. Al Jazeera, says Empower Oversight, has failed to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), as required by US

Sharyl Attkisson: (REPORT) Govt. watchdogs getting paid illegally high salaries

Sharyl Attkisson Last year, a whistleblower disclosed to Empower Oversight that the inspectors general (IGs) of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) had received salary payments in excess of the legal limits. As described in previous Empower Oversight FOIA requests to the NSA, NRO, the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and

Washington Examiner: The big problem with the Joe Biden documents story

Washington Examiner THE BIG PROBLEM WITH THE JOE BIDEN DOCUMENTS STORY. This could be the shortest newsletter ever. The biggest problem with the Joe Biden documents story is this: We know only what Joe Biden’s lawyers have told us. And the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the case will make the problem worse. Now, some elaboration. The

Just the News: Email suggests Fauci, Collins covertly contributed to COVID natural origin paper: watchdog

Just the News The federal officials most responsible for shaping COVID-19 origin narratives may have covertly contributed to a March 2020 research paper concluding that “SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct” and rejecting the plausibility of “any type of laboratory-based scenario.” … [Former NIH Director Francis] Collins himself was involved in answering FOIA requests, according to a March