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“With two wars and an economy in shambles, its not hard to get the feeling that somethings gone terribly wrong here in Washington…Public opinion pollsters give this president the lowest marks for job performance of any administration since they started polling. How bad is it? The Center for Public Integrity set out to document just …
“The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) today released a series of papers [Transition Materials for President Obama] that outline Internet policy proposals for President-elect Obama’s Transition Team in the areas of security and civil liberties; preserving free speech on the Internet; keeping the Internet an open platform; protection of consumer privacy; and promoting open …
Official Google Search Blog: “Today, we’re announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony…You can search for magazines through Google Book Search…you’ll find magazine articles alongside books results. Magazine …
White House Fact Sheet: Transforming Our Armed Forces To Face The Threats Of Today And Tomorrow – Following the attacks of 9/11, President Bush strengthened and reshaped our approach to national security. To harden our defense, President Bush: Created the Department of Homeland Security; Provided national security professionals with vital new tools like the Patriot …
OIG-09-09 – Independent Auditors’ Report on DHS’ FY 2008 Financial Statements Management Report, November 2008. “While the auditors noted improvement toward correction of internal control weaknesses, the department was unable to represent that its financial statements as of, and for the year ended, September 30, 2008, were presented in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting …
News release: “Another 40 million people have been pushed into hunger this year primarily due to higher food prices, according to preliminary estimates published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) today. This brings the overall number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million, compared to 923 million in 2007 …
DOJ OIG: Review of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2009-001, December 2008: “…we found that information in the national sex offender registries is incomplete and inaccurate and therefore the registries are not reliable tools for law enforcement and the public. For example, we found that registries were missing …
News release: “Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak (D-MI), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today released a Committee on Energy and Commerce Majority Staff report detailing the findings of the Committees bipartisan investigation relating to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…The report, titled Deception and Distrust: The Federal …
United States Attorney Northern District of Illinois: “Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff, John Harris, were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges alleging that they and others are engaging in ongoing criminal activity: conspiring to obtain personal financial benefits for Blagojevich by leveraging his sole authority to appoint …
