Covert FBI power to obtain phone data faces rare test.

Early last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a secret letter to a phone company demanding that it turn over customer records for an investigation. The phone company then did something almost unheard of: It fought the letter in court.

Congress Protects Its Own Health Care In Repeal Vote

When Congress passed the health care law, it required members of Congress to get their insurance on exchanges with the rest of the public. But in voting to repeal that law, Republicans and a handful of Democrats were also voting to go back to the old system where the lawmakers get a sweeter deal than the rest of the country.

Immelt appointment has labor worried, but mostly quiet

Obama's announcement that General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt will serve as chair of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness has set off a bit of alarm among unions and other labor groups already concerned about the direction of White House trade policy.

How Washington sold our soul for Saudi crude

Buzzflash interviews Robert Baer, a case officer for the Directorate of Operations for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1976 to 1997. He worked out of the Middle East.