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By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2009An eye-opening Congressional Research Service report issued on January 21st, 2009, the day afterPresident Obama took office, discussed the explosive subject of rendition–which the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2009An eye-opening Congressional Research Service report issued on January 21st, 2009, the day afterPresident Obama took office, discussed the explosive subject of rendition–which the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 17th, 2009A March report from the Congressional Research Service precisely states what’s at stake thanks to theunmitigated greed and incompetence of Wall Street: nothing less…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 13th, 2009Iran still does not possess the essential material needed to create a nuclear weapon, two leading U.S.intelligence officers told a Senate panel on Tuesday.…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 10th, 2009President Obama’s plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure is both a vital effort to rebuild the country’s crumbling transportation system and a boost to its…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 7th, 2009The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) destroyed twelve videotapes which may have recorded the torture ofindividuals accused of terrorist activity by the Bush Administration, reveal…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 5th, 2009An industry survey has revealed that a whopping 48 percent of those with a sub-prime, adjustable-ratemortgage either are failing to keep up with their…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2009Republican state governors such as Bobby Jindal (Louisiana), Rick Perry (Texas) and Haley Barbour(Mississippi) recently have produced quite a spectacle with their rejection of…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 27th, 2009New inter-agency structures supposedly meant to provide a superior intelligence response to national securitythreats were the subject of a recently-disclosed Intelligence Community (IC)Directive, one…

By Cliff Montgomery Feb. 22nd, 2009Since 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has failed to guarantee that such essential medical devices as replacement heart valves, cardiac defibrillators, pacemakers and…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 18th, 2009For too long, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been little more than a second-tier federal agency. But America’s current economic…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 14th, 2009 Congressional negotiators announced a stimulus deal on Wednesday which forged a somewhat slimmer $787 billion economic plan than what President Barack Obama had…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 9th, 2009The Central Intelligence Agency’s destruction of videotapes which may have shown the torture of suspectedterrorists is the topic of “an ongoing criminal investigation” which…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 7th, 2009Every two years, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) releases an updated list of federaloperations, programs and policies that either are “high risks” for…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 2nd, 2009President Barack Obama may have banned earmarks in his $825 billion economic stimulus package, butlobbyists, lawmakers and interest groups will still be allowed to…

Our federal deficit problem “is overwhelmingly the result of other factors,’ declares think-tank.By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 29th, 2009President Obama’s $825 billion economic stimulus package is a much-needed boost that…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 26th, 2009A January 2009 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study reveals that the Veterans Affairs Office isfailing to provide Congress and the American people with adequate…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 24th, 2009Let’s face it: The chief reason Barack Obama now sits in the White House is that he definitely is not George W. Bush.The first…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 22nd, 2009Iran has handed down multi-year jail terms to two doctors found guilty of engaging in a US-sponsored plot tooverthrow its Islamic government, reported French…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 20th, 2009A number of vans parked at the Capitol were scheduled to shuttle a few select aides to the White House themoment Barack Obama was…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2009This day both commemorates the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and is the eve of the inauguration for America’s first black president,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 15th, 2009Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) on December 10th sent an impassioned letter to President-elect BarackObama, which prompted the incoming Administration to “restore the rule of…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 9th, 2009The leader of a congressional committee watching over America’s $700 billion financial bailout plan has toldreporters she is “shocked” that government officials can’t determine…