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Google Lat Long Blog: “Do you prefer to avoid driving on major highways? Do you ride a scooter that can’t travel at highway speeds? Or do you simply prefer to take the road less traveled? If so, Google Maps driving directions now has an “Avoid Highways” option for you. When you click the the “Avoid …
May 24, 2007 – “The Department of Defense Inspector General (DoD IG) Semiannual Report to the Congress for the Period October 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007, has been submitted as required by the Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-452), as amended. The report (1116 pages, PDF) highlights significant results and accomplishments of …
Universal Affordable Broadband for All Americans – How to Modernize Universal Service for the 21st Century and Connect Americans to a New Era of Digital Opportunity, Jim Kohlenberger, Senior Fellow, Benton Foundation “For more than 200 years, Americans have approached the future the same way that Huck Finn looked at the bend in the river: …
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Report on Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq, released May 25, 2007 (229 pages, PDF)
Follow up to previous postings on Plame CIA leak, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald stated in a May 25, 2007 court filing that Libby has “expressed no remorse, no acceptance of responsibility, and no recognition that there is anything he should have done differently”…”As a result, Mr Fitzgerald said, he should be sentenced to two-and-a-half to …
Immigration Fact Check: Responding to Key Myths, May 25, 2007: “MYTH: The government is going to give permanent legal status to 12 million illegal aliens before securing our borders. * FACT: Temporary worker and Z visas will not be issued until benchmarks for enforcement are met. These triggers include: > Increasing border fencing. > Increasing …
Follow-up to previous postings on the U.S. attorney firings, this May 25, 2007 ress release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) sent the following letter to Karl Roves attorney seeking access to e-mails related to the panels ongoing investigation into the firings of U.S. Attorneys and politicization within …
White House Personnel Announcement: “The President intends to nominate Robert Charles Tapella, of Virginia, to be the Public Printer. Mr. Tapella currently serves as Chief of Staff of the United States Government Printing Office. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the United States Government Printing Office. Earlier in his career, …
Press release: “The world’s largest unclassified database of terrorism attacks is now available online for general use by researchers, policy-makers, media and the general public — an important tool that the researchers say may aid in the development of more effective responses to terrorism. The Global Terrorism Database was developed by START, the National Consortium …
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report 2007-10-082: Screening Tax-Exempt Organizations’ Filing Information Provides Minimal Assurance That Potential Terrorist-related Activites Are Identified, May 21, 2007. “The IRS does not systemically match filing data of tax-exempt organizations against a comprehensive list of potential terrorists to identify instances in which charitable and other nonprofit organizations may be …
Press release: “A new report from the Center for American Progress analyzes the deployment and use of each of the 16 Enhanced Brigades of the Army National Guard. The heavy reliance by the military on the brigades of the Guard and Reserve is unprecedented and has placed a tremendous strain on these brigades and their …
Countering the Terrorist Mentality – State Department EJournal, May 2007: “This edition of eJournal USA, “Countering the Terrorist Mentality,” provides a look at the complex, global problem of terrorism. Several of the worlds leading scholars in this field, including Walter Laqueur, Bruce Hoffman, Jerrold Post, David Kilcullen, Mohammed Hafez, and Mia Bloom, examine the motivations …
