Well, this is embarrassing. Three weeks after trying to contain a scandal involving spying on administrator's email accounts, Harvard College dean Evelynn Hammands just admitted to spying spying on faculty too.
In scanning the email of its resident deans in order to suss out the source of a leaked letter, Harvard may have made history — in setting an example for how to spy on employees in "blanket" fashion: Search 'em all to find just one, and don't tell anybody about it.
Paolo Gabriele, the 46-year-old former butler to the Pope, is going to serve his 18 month punishment for stealing confidential documents in the safety of his Vatican City apartment.
Everyone talks about how Congress can't accomplish anything anymore. It's become a punchline, for goodness' sake. You might like the one about Congress not fixing over 1,000 holes in the roof of the Capitol building. Wait, that's not a joke at all. That's real life.
Bookmark this for a fun lunch read: Wired's Danger blog room has a lengthy, entertaining report on its wrangling with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service over an unclassified document describing a fictional laser weapon, that NCIS insists was "leaked."
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Just because a bill receives bipartisan support, doesn't mean it's any good.
On the campaign trail, Republicans are using national security leaks to attack President Obama. But reporters may be the ones who ultimately suffer from this summer's leak hysteria.
After Sen. Dianne Feinstein blamed national security leaks on the White House, Mitt Romney naturally picked up her criticism for his campaign, and now the senator says she's the one who shouldn't have spoken so freely.
Rep. Trey Gowdy thinks it's a good idea to send reporters to jail if they don't divulge their sources because, hey, journalists don't really mind a little jail time every once and awhile.
Mitt Romney talks immigration, bailing out Europe, health care and tax reform in huge interview with Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation; McCain says he's worried about campaign finance scandals; Santorum talks immigration and his role in a potential Romney administration.
It's like the Vatican's own real-life version of Clue: the mystery of who leaked Vatican documents, including papal letters, has been a scandal for months, but on Friday Vatican police made an arrest, and it turns out they think the butler did it.
Over the White House's denials that any of its people let slip classified information about an operative inside this month's would-be underwear bomb plot, two Republican congressmen have asked the FBI to investigate the White House for the alleged leak.
The Associated Press gets credit for actually breaking the recent "underwear bomber" news, but the information that the plot was an inside job by an intelligence operative actually appears to have come accidentally from a White House attempt at damage control.
The Supreme Court justices are expected to vote on Obamacare Friday, but they won't announce it for weeks -- most people expect it sometime in June -- which makes the health care decision the most sought-after scoop in D.C.
Apple now has another reason to be mad at the federal judge in California that denied its request to ban Samsung's Galaxy devices in the United States over copyright infringement.
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