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AP: “At least four State Department workers pried into the supposedly secure passport files of presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, abashed officials admitted Friday in a revelation that had Condoleezza Rice promising a full investigation and telephoning the candidates to apologize personally.” Questions Taken at the March 21, 2008 Daily …
Follow up to previous postings on litigation and hearings on missing White House email and violations of the Presidential Records Act, news today from AP: “Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to …
OIG-08-25 – Audit of Airport Passenger and Checked Baggage Screening Performance (Unclassified Summary), February 2008 (PDF, 8 pages): “The number of tests conducted, the names of the airports tested, and the quantitative and qualitative results of our testing are classified. We have shared that information with the Department, the Transportation Security Administration, and appropriate congressional …
News release: “Governor David A. Paterson announced today that he has submitted a Governors program bill, that follows the recommendations of the New York City Traffic Mitigation Commission report of January 31, 2008 to allow for the City Council and State Legislature to consider a bill that meets the requirements of the United States Department …
Congressional Budget Office: The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans:Detailed Update for Fiscal Year 2008 – All Funding in Billions of 2008 Dollars “This presentation updates the analysis of current defense plans contained in the Congressional Budget Offices (CBOs) April 2007 Web document The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Detailed Update for Fiscal Year …
The Nation’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: January 2008 Update, GAO-08-591R, March 21, 2008: “Our updated simulations continue to illustrate that the long-term fiscal outlook is unsustainable. Despite a 3-year decline in the unified budget deficit, the federal government still faces large and growing structural deficits driven primarily by rising health care costs and known demographic trends. …
Department of the Treasury – Report to Congress on Financial Implications of U.S. Participation in the International Monetary Fund, March 21, 2008.
Shining a light on fluorescent bulbs – Energy-efficient coils booming, but disposal of mercury poses problems. By Alex Johnson, MSNBC: “Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are running into resistance from waste industry …
OIG-08-30 – Annual Review of Mission Performance United States Coast Guard (FY 2006) (PDF, 37 pages) OIG-08-29 – The DHS Process for Nominating Individuals to the Consolidated Terrorist Watchlist (PDF, 26 pages) OIG-08-28 – The State of Ohio’s Management of State Homeland Security Grants Awarded During Fiscal Years 2002 through 2004 (PDF, 47 pages) DA-08-05 …
News release: “On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, a new report from Oil Change International, entitled A Climate of War – The war in Iraq and global warming, quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of the Iraq War and the opportunity costs involved in fighting war rather than climate change. Here are some …
“The Commission has authorized the staff to release publicly the 30th Annual Report to Congress on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This report…summarizes the Commissions administration and enforcement of the FDCPA during 2007. It presents an overview of the types of consumer complaints received by the Commission, descriptions of the Commissions debt-collection law …
President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror, The Pentagon, March 19, 2008. Fact Sheet: Five Years Later: New Strategy Improving Security In Iraq, March 19, 2008
