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The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: Public Holds Conflicting Views of Press Reports about Government Monitoring Bank Records, Released August 8, 2006. “Summary of Findings – The public is of two minds about news reports that the government has been secretly examining the bank records of American citizens who may have …
CRS Report: The Department of Defense Rules for Military Commissions: Analysis of Procedural Rules and Comparison with Proposed Legislation and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, updated July 25, 2006.
Via FAS, US Military Counterinsurgency Manual (241 pages, PDF)
Press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union announced today that they have returned to court to challenge the constitutionality of the reauthorized Patriot Act’s National Security Letter (NSL) provision. The provision permits the FBI to prohibit anyone who receives an NSL from disclosing that the FBI has sought …
Commissioner’s Statement on the Employment Situation, 08/04/2006 Employment Situation, 08/04/2006 Current Employment Statistics Highlights (PDF), 08/04/2006 Employment from the BLS household and payroll surveys: summary of recent trends (PDF), 08/04/2006
Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General –“Report on the Medicare Drug Discount Card Program Sponsor Public Sector Partners,” (A-06-05-00062) July 10, 2006 [HTML] [PDF] Executive Summary: “The objectives of our review were to determine whether Public Sector Partners (PSP) complied with Federal requirements to (1) ensure that beneficiaries did not exceed …
Press release: “According to “Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms,” a report by The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, women of color experience unique disadvantages based on race in addition to gender. White women experience such events based on gender alone, men of color experience such events based on race alone, …
Blawg: Marketing Your Practice with a Weblog, by Jim Calloway and Tom Mighell.
Transportation Security Administration’s Office of Intelligence: Responses to Posthearing Questions Regarding Secure Flight, Full text GAO-06-1051R, August 4, 2006. “This letter responds to Congress’s request for additional information related to Congress’s June 14, 2006, hearing on the progress and challenges of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Office of Intelligence. As discussed in the statement at …
CBO: The Army’s Future Combat Systems Program and Alternatives, August 2006
“TRAC’s Immigration website now contains detailed performance information about most of the 200-plus immigration judges in the United States. Included are year-by-year percentages of asylum matters denied by each judge, comparisons in denial rates with other judges in the same immigration court as well as with all judges in the U.S., and information about the …
Learn more about hurricanes at FirtGov’s Hurricane site. Resources include: general information about hurricanes; preparing for hurricanes; state hurricane information; what to do after a hurricane. FEMA: 2006 Hurricane Season – links to resources on how to: Protect Your Family; Protect Your Property or Business
