Accountability

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In this photo illustration, University of Cambridge logo seen displayed on a tablet. (Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Disgraced Cambridge professor appears to have stolen memoir title from old TV show

The same credentials, charity record, plagiarism and life story that Cambridge, Simon & Schuster -- and years of fawning press coverage -- were all accepted without checking. It all fell apart the moment one outside academic actually looked into it. The institutions' first instinct was to defend the man and attack the people asking questions, caling them conservative “activists” and racists.

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Joe Biden, July 10, 2023, London, England

Biden used private email and fake names for official business, shared White House comms with family

The National Archives have only turned over 60 of the 82,000 secretive -- and possibly illegal -- emails preserved in its records, which frustrated Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, who vowed to use the “power of the gavel” to obtain the records. A former FBI intelligence officer said "Not only does it violate federal records laws [...] Gmail is not a secure government communications system.  And especially not for White House business.”