Document Dump: Pages 1-18 of the Americans Elect Mission Report
Three days ago, I made available the first nine pages of the Americans Elect Mission Report. The privatized-presidential-election corporation has not made its Mission Report available to the American...
View ArticleComplete Americans Elect Mission Report Available for Review
Back in August 2012, the privatized-presidential-election corporation Americans Elect sent out a Mission Report to its large donors, its board of directors, its staff and its advisors. Americans Elect...
View ArticleIrregular Times Donations: Charity Water and the Sunlight Foundation
Here at Irregular Times, we sell sweatshop-free t-shirts to keep the website going, but we want to do more than that. Part of our way of being ethical about the t-shirt sales we make is to make sure...
View ArticleSenate Hides Behind Secret Votes in Defunding Research
To no small degree, the United States of America rose in prominence because of innovation, and to no small degree that innovation has been funded through research funded directly by the federal...
View ArticleYou Can't Know Who Acted How to Hide What You Can't Know. Is That Clear?
Nope, the headline of this article isn’t clear to me either, and that’s the problem. On Thursday of this week, the Senate quietly rolled back a new law that would have required senior government...
View ArticleOnly 3 of 23 Transparency Caucus members support bill against Secret Law
When the Congressional Transparency Caucus was founded on May 10 2011, it published a mission statement that declared the beliefs of the caucus. Some excerpts: Transparency in government is crucial to...
View ArticleCongress Reassembles in the face of Secret Court and Secret Law. What will...
Eric Lichtblau writes an article in Sunday’s New York Times that is worth reading because it provides detail on secret law and secret courts in America that President Barack Obama would rather you...
View ArticleDemocrats Vote to Confirm Stalling, Anti-Transparency, Surveillance-Happy FBI...
In 2009, we learned that of a newly-expanded FBI program in which its agents spy, often secretly, on American people and groups who are suspected of no crime whatsoever. Rather, people are targeted by...
View ArticleGovernment Political Donation Site Goes Dark and Stays Dark, Keeping Big...
It may seem like a long time ago, but it was not so long. Back in 2006, a political corporation called Unity08 started sending out well-funded broadcasts and arranging high-profile media placements...
View ArticleObama Administration Agencies Blow Off Required Privacy and Civil Liberties...
This month, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board issued its second semi-annual public report on its investigations of the activities of the United States government and the extent to which...
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Bipartisan Congressional Group Seeks Accountability From Big Brother Spending
This Friday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to release some reforms to the unconstitutional, authoritarian electronic spying network operated through the military’s National Security Agency....
View ArticleBarack Obama Less Transparent As President Than George W. Bush
Back in 2008, Barack Obama promised he would be the most transparent President ever. In 2013, the Obama Administration went opaque: - Set a new record for delays of requests from journalists for...
View ArticleWhat If The NSA Was Treated Like The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?
Yesterday, a coalition of Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a series of bills (H.R. 4315, H.R. 4316, H.R. 4317, H.R. 4318, and H.R. 4319) that would require the U.S....
View ArticleDocDawg: Why Not Just Trust Lawrence Lessig’s Mayday Super PAC?
Why not just trust Lawrence Lessig’s Mayday Super PAC? Blogger DocDawg has a few reasons. You can read his full essay here, but here are a few excerpts: “Lessig’s flirtation with the concept of Using...
View ArticleMayday PAC Answers Questions with Call to Faith and Declaration of Independence
A few days ago, I sent some questions to Mayday PAC, an outfit that says it will spend large amounts of money on American elections this year in order to stop the influence of large amounts of money in...
View Article3 Ways the Mayday Super PAC is Better than Americans Elect
Lately, I’ve been using the platform of Irregular Times to share information with you about the Mayday Super PAC, which asks Americans to give it big money to spend in elections in order to get big...
View Article517 Days Since Barack Obama’s Broken Petition Promise on Edward Snowden
In case you were wondering, it’s now been 517 days since a petition to pardon Edward Snowden surpassed the required 100,000-signature threshold to receive a response from President Barack Obama on his...
View ArticleThe U.S. Tortures People … Which Three Senators Didn’t Want You To Know?
“Warning: Many readers may find the following material offensive.” So wrote USA Today without irony before describing how the United States tortured people, to no end, in our names. Today, you can read...
View ArticleIs Transparency a Trap? Is Information a Weapon?
Today, I read the text of H.R. 489 for the first time. Its major action clause reads: SEC. 2. REQUIRED REPORTING OF MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO ABORTION PROVIDERS. (a) In General.–Not later than 60 days after...
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How Much Trouble Is Hillary Clinton In For Violating The Federal Records Act?
The New York Times reports that Hillary Clinton violated the Federal Records Act by exclusively using a private email address during her time as Secretary of State. The law requires email to be sent...
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