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Reclaiming Pieces of Camelot – How NARA and the JFK Library Recovered Missing Kennedy Documents and Artifacts, by James M. Roth: “Among the more celebrated individuals suspected of misappropriating presidential and federal documents is Evelyn Lincoln, former secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through the efforts of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library staff, the …
Survey of DHS Data Mining Activities, OIG-06-56 (PDF, 22 pages), September 6, 2006.
The World Catastrophe Reinsurance Market – Steep Peaks Overshadow Plateaus: “This annual report, which covers 22 countries and four regions, is a comprehensive study of the property catastrophe reinsurance market. In addition to reviewing catastrophe exposures and the availability of catastrophe insurance from private and government sources, the study summarizes respective market conditions in catastrophe …
U.S. Dept. of Defense Detainee Directive – Definitions, Treatment Policy, and Compliance with Laws of War, September 5, 2006 Related government documents from Office of Director of National Intelligence (DNI): Information on the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program, September 6, 2006 Biographies of High Value Terrorist Detainees, September 1, 2006
From askSam, the text of the 2006 U.S. National Strategy for Combating Terrorism is available in searchable and browseable online versions.
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Legislative Hearing on “Legislative Proposals to Update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).” (H.R. 4976, H.R. 5223, H.R. 5371, H.R. 5825, S. 2453, and S. 2455). Links to Chairman’s Opening Statement and Witness statements Related postings on domestic surveillance program
Press release: “More than half of all prison and jail inmates, including 56 percent of state prisoners, 45 percent of federal prisoners and 64 percent of local jail inmates, were found to have a mental health problem, according to a new study published today by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).” Mental Health …
Military Commissions Act of 2006: A bill to facilitate bringing to justice terrorists and other unlawful enemy combatants through full and fair trials by military commissions, and for other purposes – September 6, 2006 (86 pages, PDF) Related government documents: Message to the Congress of the United States on the Military Commissions Act of 2006, …
Press Release: U.S. Adults More Likely to Turn to the Web for Legal Information, New Survey from Lawyers.com Reveals
Press release: “The Mount Sinai Medical Center today released the findings from the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, the largest multi-center clinical program providing medical screening examinations for the workers and volunteers who worked at Ground Zero and other sites following the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11.” …
Via MetaFilter, a reminder that the National School Lunch Program “provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. The program was established under the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Harry Truman in 1946.”
House Committee Print 109-C — An Examination of Federal 9/11 Assistance to New York: Lessons Learned in Preventing Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Lax Management, A Staff Report of the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security. [note: this document is 206 pages, PDF, and loads slowly]
