Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
Articles by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
SpaceX calls on House panel end ‘subsidy’ of competing launch company
SpaceX asked the House Armed Services Committee during a Tuesday hearing to stop giving their competitor what they say amounts to an unfair advantage in competing for national security satellite launch contracts. Published March 17, 2015
Report: Valerie Jarrett orchestrated Hillary Clinton email leak
White House officials emphatically denied Monday a report that senior White House aide Valerie Jarrett had ordered the State Department to launch a series of probes into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Published March 15, 2015
Bill Cosby accuser to testify in favor of eliminating rape statutes of limitation
One of Bill Cosby's accusers and her attorney, renowned sexual assault and employment lawyer Gloria Allred, will testify Friday morning before the Nevada State Assembly in support of legislation that would eliminate statutes of limitation for rape crimes in the state. Published March 12, 2015
Hillary Clinton email scandal: Fundraiser who joined her at State Department under scrutiny
Throughout their time in the spotlight, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been dogged by questions about a blurred line between political fundraising and official actions. From Buddhist monks, White House coffees and the Lincoln Bedroom to fundraising bundlers and Whitewater investment partners who went to prison, the questions have persisted for two decades. Published March 10, 2015
Obama AR-15 ammunition ban targeted in gun group’s nationwide media campaign
The Second Amendment Foundation will launch a nationwide TV and radio campaign Monday aimed at exposing legal holes in President Obama's executive actions to ban ammunition commonly used in AR-15 sport utility rifles. Published March 8, 2015
JEFFREY SCOTT SHAPIRO: Hillary Clinton’s email scandal harkens Nixon’s Watergate
It is hard to imagine the 2016 presidential race without Hillary Clinton. Published March 8, 2015
Administration denies Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli warplanes
President Obama threatened to use the U.S. military to shoot down Israeli fighter jets last year if they attempted to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities, the Bethlehem news agency Ma'an reported Sunday. Published March 1, 2015
CPAC attendees decry widespread attacks on citizen personal freedom
On the day the government took the largest single step on regulating the Internet, conservatives at CPAC warned that more assaults are being directed at individual freedom, from taxation of electronic cigarettes to food and dietary guidelines. Published February 26, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s war on Libya lost terror intelligence
Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2011 campaign to drive Moammar Gadhafi from power did significant damage to U.S. intelligence, according to a top Libyan aide and U.S. intelligence officials. Published February 25, 2015
Hillary Clinton Libya tapes set for House Benghazi committee review
The chairman of a special House committee created to investigate the 2012 Benghazi tragedy on Monday instructed his staff to review secretly recorded tapes and intelligence reports that detail Hillary Clinton's role in advocating and executing the war in Libya, opening the door for a possible expansion of his probe. Published February 2, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s Libya war push armed Benghazi rebels with suspected al Qaeda ties
Libyan officials were deeply concerned in 2011, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was trying to remove Moammar Gadhafi from power, that weapons were being funneled to NATO-backed rebels with ties to al Qaeda, fearing that well-armed insurgents could create a safe haven for terrorists, according to secret intelligence reports obtained by The Washington Times. Published February 1, 2015
Hillary Clinton Libya war genocide narrative rejected by U.S. intelligence
The intelligence community gathered no specific evidence of an impending genocide in Libya in spring 2011, undercutting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's primary argument for using the U.S. military to remove Col. Moammar Gadhafi from power, an event that has left his country in chaos, according to officials with direct knowledge of the dispute. Published January 29, 2015
Hillary Clinton undercut on Libya war by Pentagon and Congress, secret tapes reveal
Top Pentagon officials and a senior Democrat in Congress so distrusted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2011 march to war in Libya that they opened their own diplomatic channels with the Gadhafi regime in an effort to halt the escalating crisis, according to secret audio recordings recovered from Tripoli. Published January 28, 2015
John Kerry seeks Nigeria’s help battling Islamist terrorism, pushes for peaceful vote
Secretary of State John F. Kerry flew to Nigeria over the weekend to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and his challenger in the upcoming Nigerian presidential election to push for a peaceful vote and to seek enhanced cooperation in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Published January 25, 2015
John Kerry breaks protocol, flies to Nigeria to discourage election violence
Amidst rising civil unrest in Nigeria, Secretary of State John F. Kerry flew there this weekend to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and his challenger in the upcoming Nigerian presidential election to discuss the vote and discourage violence from each party's supporters, and also to enhance cooperation in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Published January 25, 2015
Martin Luther King III sees Ferguson riots, violence against police as setbacks
NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: On the holiday commemorating his father's epic civil rights legacy, Martin Luther King III says he is dismayed by recent violence against police, the destructive protests in Ferguson and the trashing of a U.Va. fraternity falsely accused of sexual assault because they don't reflect his father's own approach to advocate for change peacefully. Published January 18, 2015
Obama economy: Welfare dependency peaks as rich get richer
As Barack Obama enters the twilight of his presidency, he presides over an America vastly different from the one he envisioned building during his 2008 campaign that promised to empower everyday Americans on Main Street over wealthy bankers and investors on Wall Street. Published January 4, 2015
Sweetheart deal? Unions allowed to cut retiree benefits rather than fix underfunded pensions
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is a heavyweight on the labor scene. It pays its president $350,000 a year. It's holding its next executive board meeting in February at a swanky beachfront resort in Hollywood, Florida. And it just doled out nearly $8 million to influence the last election and lobby Washington. Published December 29, 2014
Obama community policing effort falls short as funds mishandled, diverted
President Obama has used the Ferguson and NYPD controversies to campaign for increased community policing tactics. But on his watch, federal funding for such initiatives has plummeted and money has been mishandled or diverted to such things as drones that have done little to further the cause, a Washington Times review of federal documents shows. Published December 23, 2014
Rolling Stone University of Virginia rape story sparked unpunished rampage
In the wee morning hours after Rolling Stone's now-retracted gang rape story roiled the University of Virginia campus, a masked group of five women and three men unleashed their fury on the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the center of the controversy. Published December 21, 2014