January 2012
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“I get speaker’s fees from time to time, but not very much.”
– Mitt Romney humbly referencing the $374,327.62 in speaker’s fees he earned last year, an average of $41,592 per speech. (via officialssay)
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“Allowing law enforcement records to be forwarded to N-Dex would be a benefit to...”
– Ron Sager, president of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, wrote in support of a program, known as the National Data Exchange, that would nationalize criminal intelligence data. Minnesota is weighing whether to link a statewide database with the FBI information-sharing system, despite...
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Private company hoarding license-plate data on...
Capitalizing on one of the fastest-growing trends in law enforcement, a private California-based company has compiled a database bulging with more than 550 million license-plate records on both innocent and criminal drivers that can be searched by police.
The technology has raised alarms among civil libertarians, who say it threatens the privacy of drivers. It’s also evidence that...
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"According to a new congressional report acquired... →
via WIRED.
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In Mexico, 12,000 killed in drug violence in 2011
From the Washington Post: “About 12,000 people were slain last year in Mexico’s surging drug violence, according to grim tallies reported Monday by the country’s leading media outlets. Annual indexes of torture, beheadings and the killing of women all showed increases.”
“A circuit judge ruled last month that New Beginnings Baptist Church is the...”
– KKK Store Is Black Church’s Property, South Carolina Judge Finds (via npr)
December 2011
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WatchAmerica spends over $500 billion every year so that elderly Medicare patients can get the care they need. But as health care costs rise, many are taking a closer look at what exactly we’re paying for. We’ve been conducting a yearlong investigation into a prominent hospital chain in California that is reporting unusually high rates of serious diseases. Watch our video on this story,...
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Contractor earns $46M to dispose of all that crazy... →
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Fireworks. Medical needles. Insect spray. Cooking fuel. Flammable gas torches. Ammunition. Yes, people forget they have cooking fuel in their travel bags. Or, amazingly, they thought it was acceptable in the first place to take cooking fuel onto an airplane.
So what happens to all that bizarre crap security screeners have to confiscate? It doesn’t just disappear, after all....
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WatchHey Tumblrs - Thanks for following us throughout the year! We’ve had fun engaging with you about both our own and other great investigative reporting from around the world.
For those of you who may not be familiar with our history, we were founded in 1977 and are the nation’s oldest nonprofit investigative news organization, producing multimedia reporting that has impact and is...
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WatchThe Long March of Newt Gingrich: Part One - In January 1996, as the country headed into a presidential election year, FRONTLINE aired The Long March of Newt Gingrich, an investigative biography of the outspoken and controversial Speaker of the House. This was a co-production with CIR.
