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OIG-08-17 – Independent Auditor’s Report on DHS’ FY 2007 Special-Purpose Financial Statements, November 2007 (PDF, 171 pages). See also OIG-08-13 – FY 2007 Audit of DHS’ Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, November 2007 (PDF, 7 pages)
Ponemon 2007 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach – Understanding Financial Impact, Customer Turnover, and Preventitive Solutions: This study “was derived from a detailed analysis of 35 data breach incidents. According to the study, the cost per compromised customer record increased in 2007, compared to 2006. Lost business opportunity, including losses associated with …
US-China Business Council: 110th Congress, First Session, Legislation Related to China, as of December 20, 2007 (14 pages, PDF).
Rand Corporation Occasional Paper: Modernizing the Federal Government – Paying for Performance, by Silvia Montoya, John D. Graham: “Enhancing the performance of the civil service has been a central objective of the United States since the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 authorized a performance-based component to federal salary structures. In 2003, the National Commission …
Rand Corporation – Developing Robust Border Security Technologies to Protect Against Diverse and Adaptive Threats: Addendum – December 24, 2007 – Brian Jackson. Document submitted on December 17, 2007 as an addendum to testimony before the House Science and Technology Committee, Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation on November 15, 2007.
A History of U.S. Presidential Primaries: 1912-64, by Bob Benenson, CQ Politics Editor, posted December 25, 2007: “When it comes to electing the President, the modern campaign era has its roots 95 years ago when North Dakota held the first presidential primary. CQ Politics looks back and charts for you, election by election, how this …
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Press release: “The Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State, released…a retrospective intelligence volume in the Foreign Relations of the United States series, documenting the development and consolidation of the intelligence community. This volume, The Intelligence Community, 19501955 (867 pages, PDF), is the sequel to The Emergence of the Intelligence …
“The International Macroeconomic Data Set provides data from 1969 through 2017 for real (adjusted for inflation) gross domestic product (GDP), population, real exchange rates, and other variables for the 190 countries and 34 regions that are most important for U.S. agricultural trade. The data presented here are a key component of the USDA Baseline projections …
Reducing the Global Nuclear Danger: International Cooperation the Indispensable Security Imperative, by Charles B. Curtis, President, Nuclear Threat Initiative, November 2007. The greatest security threat today not just for the United States, or for the West, but for the world is the possibility that a terrorist group could acquire a nuclear weapon …
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: A Brief Overview of Selected Issues, Updated December 14, 2007: “The current legislative and oversight activity with respect to electronic surveillance under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has drawn national attention to several overarching issues. This report briefly outlines three such issues and touches upon some of the perspectives reflected …
Entering the Executive Branch of Government: Potential Conflicts of Interest With Previous Employments and Affiliations, Updated December 11, 2007 [via FAS] “Ethics and conflict of interest concerns have been expressed about the impartiality, bias, or fairness of government regulators, administrators, and other executive branch decision makers who, shortly before entering government service, had represented, owned, …
