Trump Violates Law By Denying FEMA Fund Release – GAO
“This process does not grant the President the authority to … ignore or amend a law duly enacted by Congress,” says the GAO.
Us Cyberattack Policy
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 4th, 2010″The current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyber-attack by the United States is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain,” according to a press…
Oecd Tax Havens
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 30th, 2010The Congressional Research Service (CRS) earlier this month released a study which discussed a major new international initiative against tax havens.The initiative has been…
DHS Hiding Records
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 24th, 2010When Congress passed the Privacy Act in 1974, it ruled that each person’s right to privacy is fundamental to aworking democracy and that this…
Health Insurance Problem
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 20th, 2010A Congressional Research Service study released in November 2009 reveals that the U.S. insurance industryis directly responsible for much of the explosion in America’s…
Declassification Does Not Work
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 14th, 2010Executive branch departments and agencies in recent years have spent over a billion dollars to declassifyfederal records–but have produced few tangible results.Two executive orders…
Feds May Kill Us Citizens
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 9th, 2010A Washington Post article printed on January 27th held a remarkable statement:”Both the CIA and the JSOC [Joint Special Operations Command of the Department…
FDA Lacks Oversight
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2010The federal agency that oversees public health barely monitors its own investigative activities, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).…
Pentagon Sexual Assault Prevention
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 27th, 2010The Defense Department and the U.S. Coast Guard need to further improve their prevention and response tooccurrences of sexual assault, according to expert testimony…
Market Crash In 2013
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 22nd, 2010Corporate Debt accumulated during the George W. Bush years of eased regulation may create a secondeconomic crash by 2013, according to DailyFinance, a financial…
Military Suicides
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2010Service-member suicides are “definitely” higher than official U.S. Army stats suggest, according to the Soldier’s Advocacy Group of Disposable Warriors, a G.I. activist group…
Republicans Federal Debt
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 11th, 2010America’s federally mandated debt limit has been raised numerous times over the last 10 years, reveals aU.S. government study released in January.There is only…
Us Arms Exports
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2010The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is a government watchdog group which “warn[s] the public and policy leaders of potential dangers from scientific and…
Derivatives
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 27th, 2010America’s economy has greatly suffered, in large part thanks to risky Wall Street speculation on future trends in volatile commodity prices, interest rates, foreign…
Stiglitz Testimony On Wall Street
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 22nd, 2010Today the House Committee on Financial Services held a full committee hearing on the Performance andIncentives of America’s Financial Sector. Perhaps the most engaging…
Drug Prices
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2010In these days of slowed but continued economic depression, it’s good to discover such little-knowngovernment studies as the one quietly released in December 2009…
Us Health Care
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 12th, 2009As the U.S. Congress works to finalize its health care reform legislation, it must be pointed out that the House and Senate bills fail…
Us Health Care Costs
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 7th, 2010 The most current falsehood floating around the U.S. health care debate appears to be the oldest typical neo-conservative sophism against change. It is…
Us Financial Oversight
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 3rd, 2010U.S. financial regulation is piecemeal and many essential financial activities remain completely unregulated, according to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS).…
Military Commissions
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 27th, 2009The United States for the last several years has used military commissions to try suspected terroristsdetained at Guantanamo and elsewhere.In a criminal trial, the…
Sec Recommendations Ignored
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 22nd, 2009The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has failed to implement 224 recommendations submitted byits Inspector General since December 2007–or more than 60% of those…
Senators Health Care Poll
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 16th, 2009The U.S. public now sees Congressional plans to change America’s health-care system as little more than adisaster which can only create higher medical costs…
Senators Public Option
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2009Recently have the feeling you’ve been cheated?No doubt that notion has been buzzing about your mind the last few days, if you’re among the…