Day archives: June 29th, 2008

The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003—January 2005

The United States Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, May 2003—January 2005. ON POINT II: Transition to the New Campaign. Dr. Donald P. Wright, Colonel Timothy R. Reese with the Contemporary Operations Study Team, Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Released June 29, 2008. [Note: this report is 720 pages, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Google: U.S. copyright renewal records available for download

Inside Google Blog Search: “U.S. Copyright Office records. Records from 1978 onward are online but not downloadable in bulk. The Copyright Office hasn’t digitized their earlier records, but Carnegie Mellon scanned them as part of their Universal Library Project, and the tireless folks at Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders painstakingly corrected the OCR. Thanks …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Senlis Council Report: Winning over Angry Young Men is key to enduring stability in Iraq

News release: “The Senlis Council [The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank committed to implementing change at all policy levels, by bridging the gap between people and policy in three key areas] has maintained an operational base in the southern provinces of Afghanistan since 2004. Initially aimed at providing a firsthand view of …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

New GAO Reports: American Samoa, CDC Human Capital Planning, Homeland Security: DHS Risk-Based Grant Methodology, Secure Border Initiative

American Samoa: Issues Associated with Potential Changes to the Current System for Adjudicating Matters of Federal Law, GAO-08-655, June 27, 2008 Bureau of Indian Education Schools: Improving Interior’s Assistance Would Help Some Tribal Groups Implement Academic Accountability Systems, GAO-08-679, June 27, 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Human Capital Planning Has Improved, but Strategic …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Commentary: U.S. Escalates Covert Actions Against Iran

The New Yorker: The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran, by Seymour M. Hersh,July 7, 2008. “Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research