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Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic, by Murray Waas, National Journal, July 3, 2006: “President Bush told the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case that he directed Vice President Dick Cheney to personally lead an effort to counter allegations made by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV that his administration had misrepresented intelligence …
New York Times: A Search Engine That’s Becoming an Inventor
Managing Sensitive Information: Actions Needed to Ensure Recent Changes in DOE Oversight Do Not Weaken an Effective Classification System, Full-text GAO-06-785, and Highlights, June 30, 2006: “DOE’s Office of Classification’s systematic training, comprehensive guidance, and rigorous oversight programs had a largely successful history of ensuring that information was classified and declassified according to established criteria. …
Press release: “The National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) measures the percentage of working-age households who are at risk of being unable to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement [“almost 45% of U.S. households are at risk”]. It addresses one of the most compelling challenges facing the nation today ensuring retirement security for …
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) video clips, along with press releases and transcripts. [Michael Ravnitzky]
“You can search for an investment adviser firm on this website and view that firms Form ADV. Investment advisers file Form ADV to register with the SEC and/or the states. Form ADV contains information about an investment adviser and its business operations. Form ADV also contains disclosure about certain disciplinary events involving the adviser and …
LA Times (reg. req’d): “Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office said Saturday he was ordering the release of dozens of intelligence reports prepared for the state Office of Homeland Security a step that comes as lawmakers from both parties are denouncing a practice in which state intelligence agents compiled information about political and antiwar protests and …
USAToday.com: “Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees confirm that the National Security Agency has compiled a massive database of domestic phone call records. But some lawmakers also say that cooperation by the nation’s telecommunication companies was not as extensive as first reported by USA TODAY on May 11.” BellSouth Statement on Governmental Data …
Committee on Indian Affairs, ‘Gimme Five’ Investigation of Tribal Lobbying Matters (373 pages, PDF), June 22, 2006.
Press release: “The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently launched a new topics page on its Web site aimed at assisting employers and employees with information on OSHA workplace standards for steel product manufacturing. Basic Steel Products, a new Safety and Health topic, is a product of Alliances with The Steel Group and the …
“This 2006 electronic edition of the Capital Punishment Handbook has been revised and updated. It is current through March 10, 2006. Although the handbook is intended to be a comprehensive annotation of helpful and applicable capital habeas law, the handbook does not contain all opinions issued in habeas corpus cases. The handbook is a reference …
Transcript of Teleconference with Senior Officials Regarding Supreme Court’s Ruling in the Hamdan Case, June 30, 2006.
