The Department of Defense has lost control of thousands of private contractors hired to help operate the nation’s wars and the result has been chaotic on the battlefield and costly to American taxpayers. A scathing Congressional investigative report reveals how the Pentagon has lost track of many of the 60,000 private contractors supporting the United

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Although she claims that national security is of paramount importance, New York Senator Hillary Clinton vigorously opposes a plan developed in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and designed to strengthen border security. The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative requires all travelers, U.S. citizens and foreign nationals alike, to present a passport that denotes identity

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A Democratic legislator from Tennessee indicted last year for taking thousands of dollars in bribes from an undercover FBI agent, was charged this week with accepting nearly $1 million in “consulting fees” for helping contractors secure lucrative deals with the state’s medical program. Tennessee State Senator John Ford, who resigned after his 2005 indictment, now

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Years after disgracefully resigning amid scandal, federal regulators have charged Bill Clinton’s budget director for manipulating earnings to increase his hefty bonus when he headed the giant government-sponsored mortgage company Fannie Mae. Franklin Raines submitted misleading and inaccurate accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled him to grow Fannie Mae in an unsafe and

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Dozens of recruiters from various branches of the U.S. military remained on the job – which includes regular visits to high schools–even though the FBI had evidence that for years they participated in a massive drug-smuggling ring along the U.S.-Mexican border. Considered one of the country’s biggest public corruption cases in modern times, Operation Lively

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The head of the U.S. Government agency that claims to protect the nation’s nuclear and energy security is behind Communist China’s multi billion-dollar purchase of nuclear reactors from an American company. China’s state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation will pay Westinghouse Electric Co. between $5 billion and $8 billion for nuclear reactors that will provide the

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A sophisticated multi billion-dollar program created to protect the nation after the 2001 terrorist attacks is severely flawed and cannot even detect whether a foreigner remains in the country illegally with an expired visa as did several of the September 11 hijackers. Established by the Department of Homeland Security to secure the nation’s borders, the

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Federal authorities rarely bring criminal charges against companies that employ illegal immigrants, but they have done just that to a huge Southern California fence company that, ironically, is building some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico. Headquartered in Riverside California, Golden State Fence Co. is a multi million-dollar company that bills itself

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It took four years, but federal authorities have finally punished an Oscar-winning Hollywood director and admirer of Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro for violating United States law during the filming of a controversial documentary praising the world’s renowned communist. The United States Department of the Treasury has fined Oliver Stone $6,322.20 for violations of the Cuban

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Thousands of illegal immigrants across the nation have been arrested for stealing the identities of United States citizens to obtain jobs in a massive identity theft ring that highlights the weakness of a federal program used by employers to verify immigration law compliance. In an effort to clean up the mess of a faulty employment

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