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Star DEA agent finds himself at center of sprawling probe as drug task force comes under scrutiny
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for years considered Chad Scott a golden boy among its special agents, a prolific narcotics officer who earned countless plaudits for the DEA’s New Orleans. Others knew him as a champion waterskier, a tan, blond boss of the single ski... By Jim Mustian, Faimon A. Roberts III and John Simerman.
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How Not to Audit the Pentagon
Five Decades Later, the Military Waste Machine Is Running Full Speed Ahead. By William D. Hartung.
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Federal judge questions Wisconsin Supreme Court’s basis for ending John Doe probe
Judge Lynn Adelman questioned why the state interpreted the 1st Amendment more strictly than the U.S. Supreme Court. By Matthew DeFour.
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The Mayfair Set (1999)
Adam Curtis
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The Air Force Initiative To Replace The A-10 Warthog Is Nothing But Vaporware
The fight to kill the A-10 Warthog rages on in Washington after the U.S. Air Force tried to sneak-retire the incredibly useful attack jet following a failure to get Congressional approval to end it outright. Now the Air Force’s shell game includes a potential A-10 replacement, dubbed the A-X. By Tyler Rogoway.
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She runs disastrous day cares. But her church makes her untouchable
She’s been called a crook. A con artist. A snake in the grass. But in Alabama, the only thing that really matters to state regulators is that she calls herself a Christian.
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Democratic Debate: Clinton Dangerously Trumpets Obama’s Record
Hillary Clinton Tells Senator Bernie Sanders That There's No Evidence She Can Be Swayed by Wall Street Money During cnn Debate. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens.
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The new Gilded Age: Close to half of all super PAC money comes from 50 donors
Four out of 10 dollars comes from a small group of super-rich individuals and their relatives. By Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy.
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Is the IOGCC, Created by Congress in 1935, Now a Secret Oil and Gas Lobby?
When Congress severely limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing in 2005, it was a victory for a quasi-governmental organization that has been quietly working for decades to restrict federal oversight of oil and gas. By Lisa Song.
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Why Thousands of Americans Are Lining Up to Get Arrested in D.C. This Week
Bernie Sanders-loving Democracy Spring protesters are trying to put sex appeal into good government. by Ben Wofford. [Autoplay]
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How Personal Attacks Let David Cameron Off the Hook Over Tax Loopholes
Dave managed to talk about his poor dead dad, which meant the real issues around tax avoidance weren't the story. By Gavin Haynes.
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Crisis in Brazil
The BRIC countries are in trouble.... Nowhere, however, have economic and political crises fused so explosively as in Brazil, whose streets have in the past year seen more protesters than the rest of the world combined. By Perry Anderson.
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Republicans Hijack an Election Agency
Instead of making it easier to vote, conservative ideologues unilaterally reversed longstanding policy to block voters from registering.
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Politicians don’t know the price of milk – but they do know how to set up a shell company
The Panama papers show that rich people aren’t even rational: they send their money on holiday to the Caymans, and live in perpetual rain in Britain. By Frankie Boyle.
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New Balance says Obama administration reneged on a deal involving military business
The Boston-based company is renewing its opposition to the far-reaching Pacific Rim trade deal, saying the Obama administration reneged on a promise to give the sneaker maker a fair shot at military business if it stopped bad-mouthing the agreement. By Jon Chesto.
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Inside Erik Prince’s Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force
Erik Prince used his publicly traded company, Frontier Services Group, to disguise his secret plans to develop light attack aircraft for use in a mercenary air force. By Jeremy Scahill and Matthew Cole.
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FEC deadlocked on allegation that Gingrich used 2012 campaign to sell books
Documents show the GOP commissioners voted against a recommendation to investigate. By Matea Gold.
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Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5 Billion For Misleading Investors On Mortgage Assets
The Justice Department said today that Goldman had agreed to pay $5.06 billion over its conduct in the packaging and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and 2007.
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Sacramento Shakedown
The lawsuit, the arena, KJ’s talent for diverting public resources for private gain, even the sex-creep stuff: to me, these facts seem to hang together... By Cosmo Garvin.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren Asks Jack Lew, Who Owned an Offshore Account at Citigroup, to Investigate Panama Papers
Yesterday Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, asking him to investigate potential U.S. involvement in the money laundering issues recently exposed by the leak of the Panama papers from the law firm, Mossack Fonseca… By Pam and Russ Martens.
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