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CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room: “This collection of material [A Life in Intelligence – The Richard Helms Collection] by and about Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and Ambassador to Iran comprises the largest single release of Helms-related information to date. The documents, historical works and essays offer an unprecedented, wide-ranging look at …
News release: “U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released a report today detailing the rapid growth in the annual number of hours federal employees are found to be absent without leave (AWOL) from their jobs. Since 2001, 18 federal departments and agencies reported that, employees have been AWOL for at least 19.6 million hours when …
Chemical Safety Board: Improvements in Management and Oversight Are Needed, GAO-08-864R, August 22, 2008 “The principal role of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is to investigate accidental releases of regulated or extremely hazardous substances to determine the conditions and circumstances that led to the accident and to identify the cause or causes …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designates certain major events – including the national conventions and the presidential inauguration – as National Special Security Events (NSSEs). The U.S. Secret Service is designated as the lead agency with unified command representation from participating federal, state, and local agencies with NSSE responsibilities. Federal resources …
“The National Cancer Institute presents this 19th monograph in the Tobacco Control Monograph Series, The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use. Monograph 19 provides a critical, scientific review and synthesis of the current evidence regarding the power of the media, both to encourage and to discourage tobacco use. It is the …
Via BoleyBlogs: How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students, Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University – Law School, The GREEN BAG, An Entertaining Journal of Law, Vol 11, No. 1, p. 51, Autumn 2007: “This essay is designed to help new law students prepare for the first few weeks of …
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 254: “The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados. The documents suggest that the public relations push …
“The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings provide a globally recognised forum for the exchange of knowledge between Nobel Laureates and young researchers. The original idea of the meetings goes back to the two Lindau physicians Dr. Franz Karl Hein und Professor Dr. Gustav Parade and Count Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg, a member of the Swedish royal …
Congressional Budget Office: Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security, August 21, 2008. “Today, Social Securitys revenues each year are greater than its outlays, but as the baby-boom generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) continues to age, growth in the number of Social Security beneficiaries will accelerate, and outlays will grow substantially faster than revenues. …
News release: “The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce Departments National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today following an extensive, three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation. …
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005, 07/08. Presents findings from the Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005. NCJ 222181: “The nation’s nearly 400 publicly funded forensic crime laboratories perform a variety of forensic services, including DNA testing and controlled substance identification for federal, state, and local jurisdictions. The report examines the …
08-P-0235 EPA Decisions to Delete Superfund Sites Should Undergo Quality Assurance Review, [Report PDF – 59pp] [At a Glance PDF] “As of September 2007, EPA had deleted 322 sites from the National Priorities List (NPL). Among the eight sites we reviewed, documentation for the Agencys decision to delete three sites was not consistent with EPA …
