DHS OIG Audit of Sales of FEMA Travel Trailers and Mobile Homes
Sales of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Travel Trailers and Mobile Homes, OIG-07-41, May 2007 (PDF, 5 pages)
Day archives: June 5th, 2007
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing: Preserving Prosecutorial Independence, Part V
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys? — Part V Related postings on U.S. Attorney firings
EU/US Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement
European Union Committee, Home Affairs (Sub-Committee F), The EU/US Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement, HL Paper 108 is published today Tuesday 5th June, 2007 (139 pages, PDF). [see also HTML version (browsable)] Press release: The House of Lords EU Committee raises concerns over passenger name record agreement with the US
FTC Seeks to Block Whole Foods Markets Acquisition of Wild Oats Markets
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today approved a complaint challenging Whole Foods Market, Inc.s approximately $670 million acquisition of its chief rival, Wild Oats Markets, Inc., and authorized the staff to seek a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in federal district court to halt the deal pending an administrative trial on the merits. …
Libby Sentenced to 30 Months and $250,000 Fine
Follow-up to previous postings on Libby trial and the Plame CIA investigation, today U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton (District of Columbia) sentenced Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby to 30 months in prison annd fined him $250,000. AP: Letters to the court defending and opposing Libby Commentary from The …
Ask.com Launches Redesigned Search Engine
Press release: “Ask.com®…today unveiled Ask3D, a completely re-engineered and redesigned version of Ask.com. Ask3D includes powerful new search technology, an innovative three-panel design, and unique new features that give people what they need, faster. With the new version of Ask.com, people get the most relevant and customized information they need from the best range of …
New Yorker Profiles a Treasure: The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Why do the archives of so many great writers end up in Texas? by D. T. Max: “The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the literary archive of the University of Texas at Austin, contains thirty-six million manuscript pages, five million photographs, a million books, and ten thousand objects, including a lock of Byrons curly brown …
