FBI Whistleblowers Say Senior Officials Ordered Bureau Not to Investigate Hunter Biden Laptop
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute “The FBI cannot be trusted with the handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop” FBI whistleblowers allege that the Bureau’s leaders ordered agents not to investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop, according to a letter Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson sent to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz asking that he investigate […]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to launch registry of ‘repeat offenders’
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the federal government’s top consumer watchdog, announced Monday that it will create a registry to go after companies and individuals that repeatedly violate consumer protection laws. The new rules, originally proposed in December 2022, would require non-bank companies that receive enforcement orders from local, state, or federal consumer protection […]
Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch break from Supreme Court conservatives in consumer bureau case
Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Neil Gorsuch opposed The Supreme Court’s 7-2 vote upheld the agency’s funding mechanism as constitutional. While most federal agencies receive funding through Congress’ government appropriations process, the CFPB currently withdraws funds from the Federal Reserve that the director determines are “reasonably necessary to carry out its operations.” Because of this […]
Democrats cheer after Supreme Court rejects challenge to consumer bureau
Democrats and financial industry commentators celebrated Wednesday after the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) funding structure. “The Supreme Court of the United States is following the law, and the CFPB is here to stay,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said from the steps of the Supreme Court. Warren was […]
FCI Dublin known as ‘rape club’ to close: Bureau of Prisons
A women’s-only prison in California that was nicknamed a “rape club” due to rampant sexual abuse of inmates by staff will close, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced. The Federal Correctional Facility in Dublin where Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman were serving their sentences faces a planned closure as all 605 inmates will eventually be […]
CBS News shutters Tokyo bureau after over 50 years in Japan
CBS News quietly closed its Tokyo bureau this week in a last-ditch move to cut costs that could curtail the network’s China coverage, the Post reported. CBS News London bureau chief Andrew Roy — known by some at the station as “Axe” — flew to Tokyo on Tuesday to lay off staff, according to a […]
‘FBI violated American citizens’ 4A rights 278,000 times’: Bureau blasted over attempt to put gloss on Section 702
The FBI is trying to restore its public image. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Article 702 Because Congress has until April 19 to reauthorize it. The bureau recently posted a video to X showing FBI Director Christopher Wray trying to focus on Section 702 as part of a months-long campaign. The agency’s timely propaganda did not […]
US-funded Radio Free Asia closes its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns under new security law
HONG KONG (AP) – The president of U.S.-backed Radio Free Asia said Friday that its Hong Kong bureau will be closed due to security concerns under a new national security law, deepening concerns about press freedom in the city. Stated. RFA chairman Bei Huang said in a statement that while it would maintain its official […]
US Census Bureau todecide how to ask about sexual orientation, gender identity
The U.S. Census Bureau is considering ways to ask about sex. People have opinions. Dozens of health officials, civil rights groups, individuals and businesses weighed in on how the Bureau of Statistics should ask about sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time in its most comprehensive survey of American life. An Associated Press […]
An Inspector General report finds the Bureau of Prisons violated policies and contributed to inmate suicides
A damning report by the Justice Department’s inspector general finds that “repeated policy violations and operational failures are contributing to inmate suicides” at federal prisons. The report looked at the period from 2014 to 2021 and found that just over half of the 344 deaths investigated were due to suicide. The report was prompted in […]