Royce Lamberth

(Newser) - A Trump ally's bid to radically shrink Voice of America just hit a legal wall, Politico reports. On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the government to bring back more than 1,000 sidelined employees and restart VOA's international broadcasts, ruling that the near-shutdown of the US-funded outlet violated...

(Newser) - US District Judge Royce Lamberth released hundreds of secret filings yesterday, saying the CIA falsely claimed that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old wiretapping lawsuit, McClatchy reports. The agency allowed the judge to continue believing that an agent involved in the case was undercover, when in reality that cover...