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Four Year End DOE OIG Reports Issued

Audit Report, Follow-up of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion, December 2006. Audit Report, The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Program to Oversee Hydroelectric Dams, December 2006 Audit Report, The Department’s Energy, Science, and Environment Sites’ Implementation of the Design Basis Threat, December 2006 Special Report, Management Challenges at the Department of Energy, December 2006

Subjects: E-Commerce, Government Documents

Status of Totalization Agreements in Force Legal Citations

Status of Totalization Agreements in Force: “Legal citations refer to the United States Treaties and Other International Agreements Series (UST) and the Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS), both published by the U.S. Department of State. In the case of agreements that have not yet been published in the UST or TIAS series, citations …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

FBI Releases Report on Guantanamo Bay Inquiry

“The FBI on January 2, 2007 released documents related to an internal inquiry in 2004 of FBI personnel who had served at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since September 11, 2001 and had observed any aggressive interview techniques, interrogations, or mistreatment of detainees by representatives of law enforcement, the military, or the FBI. There were no documented …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents

THOMAS Releases New Features in Beta

Peggy Garvin posted this information on the SLA Government Information Division blog about the new features as follows: “The THOMAS legislative information system from the Library of Congress has posted beta versions of several new features. The direct link to the new features being tested is thomas.loc.gov/beta/ — or you can click on the Explore …

Subjects: Congress, Legal Research, Legislation

Stanford Class Actions Clearinghouse Year in Review 2006

“The Securities Class Action Clearinghouse provides detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. The Clearinghouse maintains an Index of Filings of 2461 issuers that have been named in federal class action securities fraud lawsuits since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The …

Subjects: Courts, Legal Research, Securities Law

Wall Street Journal Launches Redesigned Print Copy and Website

The majority of the site remains subscription only, but today’s launch, which is accompanied by an free online Reader’s Guide (8 pages, PDF) detailing all the changes, includes the following free access additions: a new, highly interactive and content rich Market Data Center, a new blog, The Wealth Report (“Robert Frank looks at the lives …

Subjects: Blogs, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Review of 2006 for the Department of Homeland Security and Priorities for 2007

Paul Rosenzweig, Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the Washington Foreign Press Center Briefing on “Review of 2006 for the Department of Homeland Security and Priorities for 2007,” December 20, 2006 [Transcript].

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents