Many people who have a favorable view of Donald Trump and politicians like him talk up his “authenticity” or his “telling it like it is.” Even many of those who profoundly dislike his politics, his manner, or both, grudgingly admit to the appeal of his “what you see is what you get” quality. Yet at…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck According to the Associated Press: A secretive group that published a trove of hacking tools allegedly used by U.S. spies has released a password that it says can unlock related files. In a Medium post , the “Shadow Brokers” group revealed a password to files associated…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck According to a new report by The Washington Post: The latest massive leak of government secrets — a trove of apparent CIA documents posted online this week by WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy organization — is still so new that federal officials say they are only in the early stages…
by Kody Fairfield In June 2016, the annual Bilderberg Conference, a meeting of European and North American political elites, experts from industry, finance, academia, and the media, was held in Dresden, Germany. One of its attending members, current sitting member of the Steering Committee and Co-Founder of Paypal Peter Thiel had some very interesting things to say about transparency…
by Micah J. Fleck It seems WikiLeaks mastermind Julian Assange’s dubious rape allegations aren’t going away anytime soon, as his most recent appeal to have his arrest warrant for the alleged incident lifted was denied by Swedish courts. According to a new report: The court announced in a statement that Assange “is still detained in…
Governor Pat McCory proudly claims the law is “Protecting those who protects us…” By Darrell England “Black Lives Matter” protests are being held all over the country as controversies continue to rise surrounding law enforcement and abuses of authority. While the country seems to be very interested in police transparency, the governor of North Carolina has…
Kathryn Watson President Barack Obama’s top transparency official in the “most transparent administration in history” is leaving after only nine months on the job. Office of Government Information Services Director James Holzer, appointed to the post in August 2015, is stepping down to go back to his old job with the Department of Homeland Security…