Six months after the president sent the National Guard to secure the porous U.S.-Mexico border, Homeland Security officials are reporting a sharp decrease in illegal crossings even though immigrant advocates skeptically question the statistics. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say that National Guard assistance has helped reduce the arrests of illegal immigrants along the

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Campaign law violations were rampant in 2006 and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) more than doubled civil penalties against political committees and candidates, including New York Senator Hillary Clinton for concealing thousands of dollars in contributions. The FEC imposed $6.2 million in fines this year and many of them were for past year violations because

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After a three-decade cover-up, the State Department is finally admitting that an Arab terrorist leader long promoted by the United States as a peacekeeper, did in fact order the brutal murders of two American diplomats. In a recently declassified document the State Department admits it knew that the late Yasser Arafat, founder of the Palestine

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The federal agency that has spent millions of taxpayer dollars to modernize its archaic paper-based data system has lost nearly one fourth of its files relating to important classified information leaks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation claims to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats but the agency can’t seem

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A Florida legislator who could not vote in last month’s elections because he is a convicted felon, has introduced a bill that will automatically restore voting rights to his fellow convicts in the sunshine state. Criminals in Florida don’t automatically get their voting rights restored after completion of a sentence. Instead, the rights can only

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For the second time in two months Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who plans to run for president in 2008, is defending his strong and unethical ties to a shady political fundraiser indicted for taking hefty kickbacks on government deals. Last month the popular Democratic lawmaker, who has toured the country promoting his book and his

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If the senior judges that govern the nation’s federal court system have their way, Congress will reject a law that would create transparency and enhance ethics in the country’s judicial system. The proposed bill, Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2006, offers to create an inspector general for the courts that would investigate fraud,

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As federally protected sovereign nations, Indian tribes are accustomed to ignoring campaign finance disclosure laws but a state Supreme Court has ended the immunity by ordering tribes to reveal the millions of dollars they annually donate to political campaigns. The 4-3 California Supreme Court ruling will affect the Golden State’s more than 100 tribes, which

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Scandalous new details of how Bill Clinton’s national security advisor schemed to remove highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives paint the picture of a desperate man who tried to bully a trash collector into helping him commit the crime. Sandy Berger took the sensitive documents in 2003 as he prepared to testify, on

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A huge meatpacking company recently busted in a federal raid for hiring illegal immigrants is being sued by former employees who claim owners conspired to keep wages down by hiring lower-paid, undocumented workers. Filed in Texas by 18 U.S. citizens who once worked for Swift & Co, the lawsuit claims that company executives actively sought

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