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Follow up to posting on Libby conviction this week, as well as previous links to CIA leak investigation, today news that “Chairman Henry A. Waxman announced a hearing on whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. At the hearing, the Committee will receive testimony from …
Senate Intelligence Committee hearing
From Vicenç Feliú: “Civil Law Dictionary Wiki project based on an article previously published in the Louisiana Law Review, Volume 54, Number 5, May 1994, for the use of Common Law practitioners unfamiliar with Civil Law terminology.” See also “JurisPedia, an encyclopædic project of academic initiative devoted to worldwide law, legal and political sciences.”
News: “Item records in WorldCat.org, WorldCats open-Web interface, now include a Cite this Item link that provides bibliographic citations in five common styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Turabian. Displayed in a separate pop-up window, the citations follow the reference standard for each style. The citations window cautions users that “formatting rules within a style …
Statement of Matt Jadacki, Deputy Inspector General for Disaster Assistance Oversight, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Before the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness and Response and Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives, February 28, 2007 (PDF, 10 pages – 70 KB).
Follow-up to related postings on Plame CIA leak trial, press release: “The declassified documents introduced as evidence during the trial of Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, provide an almost unprecedented window into Mr. Cheney’s own role as the most powerful vice president in history, according to National Security Archive director …
Harmony Helps: A Progress Report on State Government Internet Presence – March 2007 – “This brief explores how state web portals have matured and examines the impact of the 2003 expansion of the dot-gov domain to state and local governments; trends in state portal domain naming conventions; trends in Internet portal branding and marketing; the …
Executive Order: Establishing a Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors and a Task Force on Returning Global War on Terror Heroes, March 6, 2007 March 7, 2007: President Bush Meets with Co-Chairs of the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors – Oval Office Fact Sheet: Taking Care of America’s Returning …
“The Beige Book – Summary: “Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and based on information collected on or before February 26, 2007…Most Federal Reserve Districts reported modest expansion in economic activity since the last report, but several Districts noted some slowing. For example, New York characterized growth as well-maintained but with a …
Press release: “Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released the 2007 Congressional Pig Book. The Pig Book is CAGWs annual compilation of all the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2007 Pig Book identifies 2,658 pork projects at a cost of $13.2 billion in the Defense and Homeland Security Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2007. …
Press release: “The arm of the FBI that investigates financial crimes ranging from underground pyramid schemes to institutionalized fraud in the nations corporate suites has issued its annual report detailing the most prevalent types of schemes investigators tackled in 2006. The Financial Crimes Report to the Public is prepared each year by the Financial Crimes …
Press release: “Providing Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committees Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition, and Business and Consumer Rights, Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras said that to accomplish its competition mission, the agency has focused its enforcement and outreach efforts on sectors of the economy that have the greatest impact on consumers. …
