Page 2 - Government Wrongdoing News Today

Henry, ive lost my phone, so i was looking for it and you caught me. ed henry. >> ed: i think there are two tracks to the investigation, okay. there are a lot of trump supporters that want to say ah-ha, this malfeasance and wrongdoing, and now this memo exposing what happened with fisa shows this is an illegitimate investigation. thats wrong. and then i think there are a lot of people in mainstream media that dont want to cover this. >> why not? >> lets expose government wrongdoing. now theyre l...

Down on the press on the hole." he said this was a dangerous threat to the freedom of the american people. shep, this has raised the idea that will the president leave mueller in his position or seek to remove him? lindsey graham and others are introducing legislation that would subject any attempt to remove mueller to a judicial review from a three-judge panel. at the same time, lindsey graham says when it comes to leaks, mueller better run a tight ship, too or hes doing a disservice to the pre...

Democrats, applied to loretto lynch, applied to the justice department and the obama administration were applicable to donald trump, they would be calling for heads. they would be demanding multiple special prosecutors, special investigations. this is where the responsibility lies, it lies with congress. people like devon nunez were trying to do the right thing, congressman nunez who they try to sign onto the other investigation, this should be a serious inquiry into government wrongdoing. the u...

Department and the obama administration were applicable to donald trump, they would be calling for heads. they would be demanding multiple special prosecutors, special investigations. this is where the responsibilita lies, it lies with congress. people like devon nunez were trying to do the right thing, congressman nunez who they try to sideline on the other investigation, this should be a serious inquiry into government wrongdoing. the use of our criminal justice laws to settle political differ...

>> i would say yes to all of those. they can turn them on with the power turned off the device. thats pretty scary. >> today many are saying there is no reason to listen to snowed den because he broke the law and is a traitor. his defenders emphasize most reports of government wrongdoing from watergate, and surveillance to blackmail martin luther king they all required leaks. no matter what you think of snowden, what matters is the evidence he released. that evidence was overwhelming of governme...

Acting honorably to alert the world to government wrongdoing. >> it is so bizarre, reading about that this morning and seeing, you know that the plane is still sitting there. but theyre not searching the plane because they say they dont have any evidence to search the plane. >> its extraordinarily unusual. i would say even unprecedented to ground the plane of a president of a country. >> right. they said they have checked all the passports of people on board but have not searched the plane. th...

Ambassador rice on those now infamous sunday show appearances. other so-called whistle blowers from other agencies including the cia have provided information to congressional investigators but are unwilling to speak publicly because of a fear of retaliation. our next guest knows all too well about that culture. he is the filmmaker behind war on whistle blowers featuring four people whose lives were destroyed after they exposed government wrongdoing. robert green well interviewed journalist expe...

And there is an allegation that if you are looking into misconduct by the agency that is asserting the privilege here, that would be misconduct by the d.o.j., that the law is pretty well settled that the privilege is at its weakest and may not apply at all. is that also correct? >> that is correct. the deliberative process privilege is a lower threshold its a qualified privilege. government wrongdoing is one of the what is to do it. there is an open question here. is the government wrongdoing a ...

Latest updates on this topic.