Source: The Boston Herald
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather, covering the primary for the high-definition cable channel HDNet, said the new media is a plus overall, but there are some negatives. "When it comes to blogging and some things on the Web, there's little or no accountability," said Rather, who …
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
That's what the 2008 election is all about: answers.
Source: The Seattle Times
Joshua Hoge doesn't need much spending money these days. Behind the locked doors of Western State Hospital, his basic needs — food, clothes and a constant stream of antipsychotic medications to keep his delusions at bay — are paid for by the state.
Source: theseminal.com
We've heard debate for nearly a year about which candidates campaign better, score more points, and respond to opponents' attacks more effectively.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Public interest groups are applauding the passage by the House and the Senate (login may be required) of a recent bill that aims to fix some of FOIA's problems.
Source: The New York Times
This is the time of year when a lot of people give to charity, in part because of the holidays and in part because of year-end tax considerations.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
As police and government press for yet more authoritarian measures over us all, a chief constable and a cabinet minister get off lightly
Source: The Economist
My hope is that these examples of justice in the name of accountability will be just a few of the many to come.
Source: The Huffington Post
Oh, I've SO been waiting for this... happy Thanksgiving Newsvine!
Source: The Globe and Mail
A Blackwater Worldwide spokeswoman says the company supports "stringent accountability" for any wrongdoing in the wake of a New York Times report that federal investigators have found that the shooting deaths of at least 14 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater guards in Baghdad near …
Source: CNN
An audit completed last month by the National Archives and Records Administration's inspector general looked at the management of presidential artifacts at six presidential libraries.
Source: accountability-central.com
THE spotlight is being shone again on foreign companies operating in Myanmar's energy sector, in the wake of the violent repression by the country's military rulers of pro-democracy demonstrations.
Source: Reuters
The State Department does not know specifically what it received for a billion-dollar contract with security firm DynCorp International to provide training services for Iraqi police, a U.S. watchdog agency said on Tuesday.
Source: The Washington Post
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has acknowledged that the federal government "had some responsibility" for "confusion" over subsidy rules that helped student loan companies reap hundreds of millions of dollars in potentially excessive payments at taxpayer expense.
This was inspired partly by the great post by Doug Hanna from ServiceUntitled.com at theWHIR and because I wanted to point on some of the customer service's problems or issues, if I can say it.
Source: ABC News
From Boston to Arizona, police departments are investigating a growing number of incidents involving uniformed police officers using steroids.
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For example, it was reported that 100% of the translators and up to 50% ofthe interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison were private contractors from the Titan and CACI firms respectively. The U.S.
Source: CNN
China could face a catastrophe if it fails to quickly stop environmental problems such as flooding and erosion caused by the gigantic Three Gorges Dam, state media said Wednesday.
Source: Press Esc
United States Department of Defense's research and development budget requests to Congress do not provide consistent, complete and accurate information, the Government Accountability Office reported today.
Source: digbysblog.blogspot.com
The fact that this new 60-vote gambit is purely to protect the president to ever have to veto anything that's popular never comes up.
Futurology is an inherently optimistic faculty. It begins with the assumption that there is a future.
Source: AlterNet.org
Disgraceful, shameful, illegal, and yes, dangerous. These are words that come to mind every time the Bush administration makes yet another attempt to consolidate executive power, while wrapping itself in secrecy and deception.
For many the summer vacation was less enjoyable than the month long holiday the Congress took on the heels of voting their own pay raise.
Source: The Latest From VanityFair.com
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.
Source: LewRockwell.com
This bill requires Congress to specifically authorize via legislation any proposed federal regulation that will impose costs on any individual of at least $5,000, impose costs on a business or other private organization of at least $25,000, impose aggregate costs on the American …