DNC Won’t Create Oversight Panel to Review the Millions It Spends

By Steven Rosenfeld / Independent Media Institute Jul 31, 2019 The final proposal by the post-2016 Unity Reform Commission was rejected. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Mnuchin Denies Democrats’ Request for Trump Tax Returns

ANDREW TAYLOR and JONATHAN LEMIRE / The Associated Press May 6, 2019 The treasury secretary's move is sure to set up a legal battle; the House Ways and Means Committee may subpoena the IRS or file a lawsuit. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Is the 2016 Election Already Being Stripped and Flipped?

Staff / Truthdig Apr 4, 2016 Disturbing signs of the time-tested “strip and flip” strategy for stealing elections have already surfaced in 2016. Will they ultimately decide the outcome, as they have in too many recent elections? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Voting Rights Advocates Try to Put Oversight Back on the Map

Staff / Truthdig Mar 3, 2014 In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states and local governments with a history of discrimination no longer needed to submit new voting laws for federal approval. Now, voting rights advocates are trying to put them back under oversight using the courts and Congress. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

House Passes Major Financial Regulation Bill

Staff / Truthdig Dec 12, 2009 In what is being hailed as the biggest bid to change financial regulation since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, the House of Representatives on Friday passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009. In a press conference after the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proclaimed, "We are sending a clear message to Wall Street: The party is over."In what is being hailed as the biggest bid to change financial regulation since FDR's New Deal, the House on Friday passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Obama Aims to Improve America’s Interrogation Record

Staff / Truthdig Aug 25, 2009 Monday saw more than one move on the part of Team Obama to deal with U.S. intelligence agencies' treatment of terror suspects: In addition to Attorney General Eric Holder's bid to take a second look into certain CIA-related cases from years past, President Obama has approved the formation of an integrated interrogation central command called the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Thievery Under the TARP

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 22, 2009 We are being robbed big-time, but you can’t say we haven’t been warned. Not after the release Tuesday of a scathing report by the Treasury Department’s special inspector general, who charged that the aptly named Troubled Asset Relief Program is rife with mismanagement and potential for fraud. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Armitage on Torture, ‘AWOL’ Congress

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2009 Now that the Department of Justice has released the latest stunning Bush-era torture memos, this Al-Jazeera English interview with former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, in which he admits that the Bush administration flouted the Geneva Conventions and that he probably should have resigned, is even more alarming. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

We’re Paying Congress for This?

Stanley Kutler / Truthdig Mar 28, 2009 Congress’ work has often offered us transparency and has usually led to useful, progressive legislation. And now comes Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank’s choreographed extravaganza in the House of Representatives, supported by an echoing committee, with sound bites worthy of a night in the Borscht Belt. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Lessons of the Exxon Valdez

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Mar 25, 2009 Twenty years ago, the Exxon Valdez supertanker spilled at least 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound. The consequences of the spill were epic and continue to this day, impacting the environment and the economy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

White House Looking to Curb Wall Street’s Excesses

Staff / Truthdig Mar 22, 2009 Faced with the glaring problem of indulgence and intractability on the highest tiers of Wall Street's corporate behemoths, the Obama administration is putting together a plan to make financial institutions more accountable and more transparent to the government and to the taxpayers who granted them buoyancy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sex Scandal Calls CIA’s Self-Policing Into Question

Staff / Truthdig Mar 20, 2009 A CIA sex scandal, or, more precisely, allegations that a CIA agent raped two Algerian women, has raised questions in Congress about how the agency polices itself. Oddly, discussions of the controversy have failed to emphasize another significant "oops" moment in CIA operations regarding corruption and the need for oversight: torture. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )