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So, isn't it interesting that ever since Monica Crowley mentioned the natural born citizen issue, and spoke out against Obama's birth certificate, she is no longer on McLaughlin Group show on Friday nights? Any idea what's up with that? .

  A major Internet company is under investigation by more than 30 state attorneys-general for alleged wiretapping violations. In Europe and now Texas that same company faces anti-trust inquiries on whether it unfairly penalizes its competitors, and its operations face criminal wiretapping inquiries throughout Europe, as well as in Australia and South Korea.Yet, inside the Beltway, it’s business as usual. The Obama Administration plans to award the company a sweetheart, no-bid contract for satellite imagery and access to classified data. After protests, the Administration backtracks, allowing other companies to bid, but still intends to award the contract to the...

In a letter today to President Obama, I asked for the resignation of White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin. Last week, McLaughlin was officially reprimanded for violating its ethics policies. A White House investigation found that McLaughlin, a former senior executive at Google, had repeatedly circumvented both the letter and spirit of White House ethics rules by communicating with former colleagues about Administration policies affecting the company.The White House confirmed that Mr. McLaughlin used his personal Gmail account when discussing White House business, possibly violating federal archiving rules.From web privacy to Net neutrality to China’s Internet policies, McLaughlin...

Last week, we reported that Obama administration Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin –who headed up Google’s lobbying shop before joining the administration – had been ensnared in the Google Buzz privacy imbroglio when his Gmail contacts were made publicly available through his Google Buzz profile…and they revealed that McLaughlin’s most emailed Gmail contacts included more than two-dozen Google employees, including many of the company’s most senior lobbyists and lawyers. Now, Consumer Watchdog has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the White House to obtain all e-mails and Buzz correspondence between Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin and his former employer,...

It’s been several weeks now since the disastrous rollout of Google Buzz’s initial social networking platform. It was on February 9ththat Google Buzz unleashed its newest foray into social media to compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter.According to a post on Google’s Official Blog at the time, Buzz was touted as a service that was built “right into Gmail, so you don’t have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch… Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email with and chat with the most.”And...

A former director of the CIA has been chosen to uncover how the U.S. failed to prevent the Christmas Day bombing attempt on a passenger plane, and the Fort Hood Army base shooting. National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said in a statement Friday John McLaughlin is "especially well-qualified" for the task... McLaughlin was the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency for four years, including during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He was also briefly the acting director of the CIA in 2004. He will head a team of national security experts to investigate the series of events that...

(CNN) — Longtime Washington talk-show host John McLaughlin is facing fire Monday for referring to Barack Obama as an "Oreo" during a segment on his Sunday political program, "The McLaughlin Group. The veteran Washington journalist was discussing the recent comments from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was caught last week by an open microphone on Fox News saying the Illinois senator is "talking down to black people" as he campaigns for the White House. Those remarks were largely seen in reference to Obama's recent admonishment at a Chicago church of some black men who he said were not living up...

McLaughlin: McCain Leads Obama Among Women, 49 Percent to 38 Percent A part of Robert Novak's column that is likely to be widely overlooked: This resentment is reflected in a private nationwide poll conducted this month by McLaughlin and Associates, which usually works for Republicans but is not connected with the McCain campaign. Poll-taker John McLaughlin found that John McCain had a 49 percent to 38 percent edge over Obama among all women. That is an extraordinary result, running counter to a longtime Democratic advantage. The conventional wisdom is that women, along with other Clinton backers, will remain in the...

Federal investigators have charged state Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin (D-Flushing) with stealing more than $2 million from local unions, not-for-profits, his campaign committee and a local Little League, according to an 186-page indictment filed by the U.S. Attorney's office. The embattled state assemblyman, whose offices were raided by the FBI earlier this year, was arraigned in Manhattan federal court Tuesday on 44 counts ranging from racketeering, money laundering, conspiracy and fraud after he turned himself in earlier that morning. Investigators accuse McLaughlin of stealing money for his own use from local several organizations so he could buy a car, renovate his...

WASHINGTON — In a "60 Minutes" interview on April 23, Tyler Drumheller, a former chief of the CIA's Europe division, made a sensational charge. He claimed that President Bush and his White House ignored intelligence before the invasion of Iraq indicating that Saddam Hussein had no had weapons of mass destruction. On the CBS-TV show, and in subsequent media interviews that appeared throughout the world, Drumheller said that the White House was excited about the fact that the CIA was getting information straight from Naji Sabri, the then Iraqi foreign minister. But when the White House found out this source...

Queens assemblyman Brian McLaughlin, the powerful city labor leader who became the target in March of a federal bid-rigging probe, stepped down yesterday as president of the 1 million-member Central Labor Council. McLaughlin was granted a six-month paid leave of absence yesterday from his post at the labor council, the main umbrella group for organized labor. The council's executive board approved the leave during a special meeting yesterday where it also named Ed Ott, the group's current director of public policy, to replace McLaughlin with the title of interim executive director. The move, which many had long expected, comes only...

Queens Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin could be in trouble with the law, after federal agents on Thursday raided and seized files from the Manhattan headquarters of the New York City Central Labor Council, which he runs, and searched his Assembly office. NY1 has learned that the FBI, with the cooperation of the city's Department of Investigation, has been probing electrical contracts awarded by the Department of Transportation to run city street lights. McLaughlin, who runs a labor group that represents about 400 unions, has ties to electrical unions and, possibly, a company that does big business with the city. Sources say...

The Bush administration has been carrying out secret reconnaissance missions to learn about nuclear, chemical and missile sites in Iran in preparation for possible airstrikes there, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday. The effort has been under way at least since last summer, Hersh said on CNN's "Late Edition." In an interview on the same program, White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett said the story was "riddled with inaccuracies." "I don't believe that some of the conclusions he's drawing are based on fact," Bartlett said. He said his information on Iran came from "inside" sources who divulged it in the hope...

Seldom in my memory has there been such intense controversy about the CIA. Seldom has so much of what is said been so distorted and misinformed. Seldom has there been so little concern about the potential impact on the agency's ability to perform its mission and the consequences that holds for national security. The time has come to turn down the temperature of the debate, take a deep breath and get some balance and thoughtfulness into the discussion.

Here is the transcript of the October 1st program of The McLaughlin Group that exposes the left for what it truly represents: hatred of America, hatred of our troops, hatred of our president and a fundamental lack of patriotism that translates to weakness in the face of the new global terror threat. The left is dangerous. Lawrence O'Donnell let his guard down in a fit of anger and exposed himself for what he truly is. Please contact MSNBC at http://www.msnbc.com/modules/Newsweek/feedback/nwfeedback.asp?cp1=1 and The McLaughlin Group at comments@mclaughlin.com to express your concerns. Federal News Service October 4, 2004 Monday SECTION: PRESS CONFERENCE...

My first vanity! I just sent this Email to comments@mclaughlin.com John Just saw your show. Seems, quite frequently, you brow beat your panelists. It doesn't go unnoticed. Pat managed to say Rather was in big trouble. Blankley wasn't allowed one sentence concerning the Rather interview. We know what you think, how about letting us know what the panel thinks? You know that, odds on, CBS and Rather were presenting forgeries! What gives between you and PBS?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the acting director of central intelligence urged Congress on Tuesday to move cautiously in adopting recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission. They also joined in opposing the commission's call for the C.I.A. to cede to the Pentagon the authority for covert paramilitary operations. At the same time, both Mr. Rumsfeld and the acting C.I.A. chief, John E. McLaughlin, suggested that they were now grudgingly open to the commission's central recommendation: the creation of the post of national intelligence director to oversee the government's 15 intelligence agencies, including the Central Intelligence...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 - In nominating Representative Porter J. Goss of Florida as director of central intelligence, President Bush is hoping to open a new chapter at the C.I.A. after a run of epic intelligence failures, but he may be buying himself as much trouble as he is trying to overcome. On one level, the appointment is an effort to improve the performance of the C.I.A. and heal the divisions between the White House and the intelligence fraternity in Washington at a moment when accurate information about terror threats and nuclear proliferation is desperately needed. Mr. Goss, a Republican who...

An important but little-noticed Federal lawsuit is scheduled to go to court in February. Nearly six years four agents of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Narcotics Investigation(BNI) filed a civil rights complaint in the US DIstrict Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit alleged that "certain persons in the State Department and the CIA" had obstructed an investigation of the Dominican narcotics cartel, which controlledmuch of the trade in cocaine and heroin along the eastern seaboard. There is also evidence that the Dominican narcotics cartel may have indirectly financed the terrorist network that carried out the first World Trade...

Working to Free A Killer Susan McLaughlin Doesn’t Deserve to be Released There are two NH women working to free a convicted killer. Susan "Sam" Cook McLaughlin was found guilty of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. It seems that these women feel that McLaughlin has paid her debt to society and now deserves to be free. One of the women, Cilla Clements, a school teacher and writer from Raymond NH who met McLaughlin while working on a story about imprisoned women, feels that "She's paid her debt, and she's...