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“On 15 May 2006 the General Council decided to make public all official documents issued under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Many of these documents did not exist electronically, and have been scanned to create a digital archive. This is a work in progress cataloguing is not completed, and refinements to …
Pew Research Center: Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership Maturing Internet News Audience Broader Than Deep, Released: July 30, 2006. “A decade ago, just one-in-fifty Americans got the news with some regularity from what was then a brand new source the internet. Today, nearly one-in-three regularly get news online…The rise of the internet has also …
EPA Could Improve Its Redistribution of Superfund Payments to Specific Sites, [At a Glance] [Report – PDF 26 pages], July 31, 2006.
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR): Changes in Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund Program Activities January through March 2006, (18 pages, PDF), July 28, 2006.
Internet Protocol Version 6: Federal Government in Early Stages of Transition and Key Challenges Remain, Full text GAO-06-675, and Highlights, June 30, 2006. “The Internet protocol (IP) provides the addressing mechanism that defines how and where information such as text, voice, music, and video move across interconnected networks…Federal agencies have taken steps in planning for …
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR): Joint Survey of the U.S. Embassy Iraq’s Anticorruption Program (33 pages, PDF), July 28, 2006. “Corruption in Iraq siphons resources from needed government services and reduces the willingness of international investors to invest in Iraq. It has been identified as a major barrier to …
The July 2006 Section 2207 report provides updates on Iraq Relief and Reconstruction.
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR): Transition of Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund Projects to the Iraqi Government, (30 pages, PDF), July 28, 2006. “This SIGIR review looked narrowly at IRRF-funded assets including their transfer and short-term sustainment. It also looked at the support provided to the Iraqi government to enhance …
Nixon White House Considered Nuclear Options Against North Vietnam, Declassified Documents Reveal – Nuclear Weapons, the Vietnam War, and the “Nuclear Taboo”, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 195, Edited by William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball, Posted – July 31, 2006, The National Security Archive.
U.S. Courts press release: “A total of 111 languages required interpretation in federal court proceedings in fiscal year 2005 (the 12-month period ending September 30, 2005). The overwhelming majority 94 percent of the 227,461 language-interpreting events were in Spanish.”
Into the Breach: Security Breaches and Identity Theft/Research Report July 2006 “Security breaches of data files can lead to identity theft. In this AARP Public Policy Institute Data Digest, Neal Walters analyzes 244 breaches between January 1, 2005 and May 26, 2006, and finds that 40 percent were caused by hackers or insider access …
GSA press release: “The U.S. General Services Administrations (GSA) Office of Citizens Services & Communications is warning the public to avoid falling victim to a recent e-mail scheme that targets users by sending unsolicited e-mails allegedly from FirstGov, the citizen portal operated by GSA. These scam e-mails tell recipients that because of recent fraudulent activities …
