Four years and one week ago, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell gave the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. On Tuesday, he and his wife, Maureen, were indicted on federal corruption charges in connection to their relationship with a donor named Jonnie Williams, reports the Washington Post and NY Times. McDonnell’s lawyers […]

The New Yorker’s David Remnick profiles President Obama with three years to go in the presidency – and Obama gets candid and controversial. Here’s just a few of Obama’s quotes from the story. On marijuana – “I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”  On football – “I would not let my son play […]

In another explosive revelation from Edward Snowden, the Guardian reports the NSA collects nearly 200 million text message every day in untargeted global sweeps. Meanwhile, as President Obama prepares to announce small reforms to NSA surveillance, the New York Times profiles his transition from harsh critic of surveillance to commander-in-chief, and quotes his deputy national […]

A sharp bipartisan U.S. Senate report finds that the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi were preventable, and that the State Department and intelligence agencies ignored “ample warnings” and failed to take any action to prevent the attack by terrorists who killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, reports ABC News. Here’s the […]

The NSA has figured out how to hack into computers never connected to the Internet, reports the New York Times. The hack has been used nearly 100,000 times and allows the NSA to spy on the use of machines and create a digital highway to launch cyber-attacks against computer users. Daily Caller: Bipartisan Group in […]