President Barack Obama is, once again, urging Congress to lift restrictions on detainee transfers from Guantanamo Bay, saying the restrictions make no sense given that half of the detainees have been approved for release since 2009. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
The Justice Department today confirmed that 4 American citizens were killed in oversea drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan since 2009. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
Faced with $37 billion in sequester cuts for fiscal year 2013, the Department of Defense will furlough its civilian employees for 11 days from July through September. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
Fewer parolees have returned to state prison since California instituted the public safety Realignment 18 months ago, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed this week that the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Boston did receive two text alerts of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s travel activities in 2012 but that no action was taken. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
An investigation by the Justice Department’s Inspector General revealed that U.S. authorities last year lost track of two former known or suspected terrorists who were admitted to the Witness Protection program. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
President Barack Obama today announced the resignation of Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller, a day after an Inspector General report found that the IRS had improperly singled out conservative organizations, such as the Tea Party, that have applied for tax exempt status for extra scrutiny. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday defended the Justice Department’s decision to secretly subpoena the phone records of Associated Press reporters to investigate a very serious leak of a foiled Al Qaeda plot to use a sophisticated underwear bomb to bring down a U.S. airliner last May. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman suggested that the FBI may have been less aggressive in their 2011 investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev due to the Justice Department’s guidelines for domestic FBI operations. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not inform the Boston Police of the bureau’s 2011 investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev nor the warnings they received from Russian intelligence of Tsarnaev’s alleged ties to violent extremists prior to the Boston Marathon bombings. Read more at WhatTheFolly.com.
