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• n  a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste
  she is the global watchdog for human rights abuses
• n  a dog trained to guard property

• There was the faithful watchdog, barking and ready to bite.
• But the watchdog group's beef with Interior is tepid compared with the blast delivered a day earlier by the department's own inspector general, Earl Devaney.
• Meyer's spokesman says 93% of the $8 million her ministry takes in each month goes to more than 150 charities worldwide, but the Christian watchdog group Wall Watchers has asked .

• guard dog

News & Articles

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• Watchdog faults background check of NSA leaker
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog testified Thursday there may have been problems with a security clearance background check conducted on the 29-year-old federal contractor who disclosed previously secret National Security Agency programs for collecting phone records and Internet data — just as news media disclosed more information about those programs.
  June 21, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Watchdog says contractor that performed background check of NSA leaker under investigation
  WASHINGTON — A government watchdog testified Thursday there may have been problems with a security clearance background check conducted on the 29-year-old federal contractor who disclosed previously secret National Security Agency programs for collecting phone records and Internet data — just as news media disclosed more information about those programs.
  June 20, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Italy watchdog presses Google for privacy data, weighs sanctions
  ROME (Reuters) - Italy's privacy watchdog said on Thursday it had requested further information from Google Inc about the U.S. Internet firm's treatment of user data and would consider imposing sanctions if there were breaches of privacy rules. The statement, issued shortly after a similar statement from France's main data protection office, underlines a push by European regulators for more ...
  June 20, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  Bromwich's assignment, Obama said, "is to build an organization that acts as the oil industry's watchdog -- not its partner."
• Mitch McConnell in Forbes
  Wyoming had no greater advocate, taxpayers had no greater watchdog, and rural America had no greater defender than Craig Thomas,Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday night. "The Senate is a lesser place without Craig here,...
• David Miliband in Sunday Times.lk
  British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Mugabe had "clearly lost,adding: His campaign of violence and intimidation over the last month must stop immediately.US-based rights watchdog Human Rights Watch echoed the call.Since the elections, the...