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The JFK-UFO Connection: Bogus Documents or Unanswered Questions?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsDo you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here's one for you. And it's ongoing, so we don't yet know the ending. It involves President John F. Kennedy's interest in UFOs shortly before his death and an allegation that he may have angered officials in his administration when he asked for information on the subject. Recently, the FBI opened a new website, "The Vault," that lets you view a variety of documents, including those regarding UFOs. I looked into one document that appears to include a phony UFO story and mentioned how important it is to be extremely careful when looking at UFO ...
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Released Emails Show Insiders Worried Over Political 'Meddling'
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Insiders at the Homeland Security Department warned for months that senior Obama administration appointees were improperly delaying the releases of government files on politically sensitive topics as sought by citizens, journalists and watchdog groups under the Freedom of Information Act, according to uncensored emails newly obtained by The Associated Press. The highly unusual political vetting was described as "meddling," "crazy" and "bananas!" It is the subject of a congressional hearing later this week and an ongoing inquiry by the department's inspector general. Concerns ...
Battles Over Open Government Cast Shadow on 'Sunshine Week'
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsIn the middle of Sunshine Week promoting transparency in government, open-government advocates say the apparent demotion of a high-level Department of Homeland Security employee for whistle-blowing is particularly dark. "Our government is sending the message to federal workers that they do not want them to come forward and report these problems," Dave Colapinto, the general counsel of the National Whisteblowers Center, told AOL News today by phone. "In other words, they do not want the public to know what is going on." According to The Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security ...
SEC's Porn-Watching Employees Earned Over $200,000 Per Year
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIt's safe to say that spending eight hours of company time watching pornography would get most workers canned. Not so at the Securities and Exchange Commission, it seems. New documents regarding a 2005-10 investigation into the agency's porn-surfing employees reveal that several workers were "disciplined" for downloading erotica on their SEC-issued computers but never fired. A Freedom of Information Act request from Denver-based lawyer Kevin Evans asking the SEC to release details regarding the investigated employees has also shown that some of the distracted individuals were earning ...
Is Your Cell Phone's Radiation Level Safe? Don't Call the FCC
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsMore than 200 million people in the U.S. talk on cell phones a total of at least 12 hours a month -- some double or triple that amount. Almost everyone admits that cell phones emit radiation when they link to the closest tower. What almost no one can agree on is whether that radiation is harmful to those holding their phones to their ears. Amid this confusion comes a report from health and safety activists that the government's cell phone watchdog -- the Federal Communications Commission -- is putting industry desires before public well-being. Investigators for the Environmental Working ...
Supreme Court: No 'Personal Privacy' Rights for Corporations Under FOIA
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that corporations do not have the same privacy rights as individuals when it comes to blocking requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act, the federal statute that requires the government to make available certain documents and records. Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the language of the transparency law clearly precluded corporations like AT&T, the plaintiff in the case, from claiming it had "personal privacy" rights that could prevent the public release of certain requested information on file with ...
Rumsfeld Memoir Highlights VIP Access to Government Files
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsTwo days after WikiLeaks began publishing classified diplomatic cables, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped forward to condemn the massive leak, declaring on his Twitter feed, "I was a co-sponsor of [the Freedom of Information Act] in 1966. There is an appropriate, lawful process for declassifying material. It's not #Wikileaks." To emphasize that "lawful process," Rumsfeld then added that his soon-to-be released book, "Known and Unknown," would be accompanied by hundreds of supporting documents -- some once secret -- and that all of them would be cleared by the U.S. ...
Pawlenty to File FOIA Request on DNC and Obamacare
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyYou might have heard about the ABC News report that the DNC filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for communications between Army departments and agencies and nine potential Republican presidential candidates. That, according to ABC News, is "a clear indication that Democrats are building opposition-research files on specific 2012 contenders." Well, turnabout is fair play, so Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlent, one of the nine, has decided to file his own freedom of information requests with federal agencies, inquiring about the DNC's role in "promoting the Federal takeover of health ...
Ex-Air Force Officers: UFOs Monitored Nuke Sites
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(Sept. 28) -- UFOs have monitored and occasionally tampered with nuclear weapons sites, both in the U.S. and abroad, for nearly 60 years. That was the allegation based on eyewitness testimony of several former Air Force officers who came together Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to tell their remarkable stories and to urge the government to finally make this information available to the public. Co-host of the news conference, author and researcher Robert Hastings, told AOL News, "The purpose of the press conference was to draw worldwide media attention to the reality of ...
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