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BBC Blog Network

“Welcome to the new home for all of the BBC’s weblogs. Although we have had blogs for a number of years, most notably our Scottish community site; Island Blogging and the excellent Ouch, this is the first attempt at bringing you a complete list, some news of new launches by journalists, DJs, and radio shows, …

Subjects: Blogs

Reports Substantiate WH Plan to Discredit Iraq War Critic Via Plame CIA Leak

Follow-up to April 7, 2006 posting, Plame Leak Controversy Focused on President With Release of New Info, see: today’s Washington Post: Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story: “As he drew back the curtain this week on the evidence against Vice President Cheney’s former top aide, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

National Security Archive Posts Docs. Actually Declassified by Administration on Iraq Intel

“Only 14 of the full 93 pages of the National Intelligence Estimate that President Bush authorized Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, to disclose to New York Times reporter Judith Miller has actually been officially declassified, according to a posting [April 7, 2006]on the Web site of the National Security Archive …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

EFF Files Files Evidence in Motion In Case Against ISP for Alleged Domestic Surveillance of Customers

Press release: EFF Files Evidence in Motion to Stop AT&T’s Dragnet Surveillance “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T… “The evidence that we are filing supports our claim that AT&T is diverting Internet traffic into the …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, Internet, Privacy

Waxman Requests Answers on Bush Authorizing Leak of Natonal Security Intel

Press release: “In a letter to President Bush, Rep. Waxman asks for a full accounting of the President’s and Vice President’s actions in authorizing leaks of classified intelligence about Iraq, while at the same time concealing the President’s knowledge of serious doubts about Iraq’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.” CRS Memo, Disclosure of Security Classified Information, …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

SIIA Anti-Piracy 2005 Year in Review

“The Software & Information Industry Association’s Anti-Piracy Division conducts a comprehensive, industry-wide campaign to fight software and content piracy. The pro-active campaign is premised on the notion that one must balance enforcement with education in order to be effective.” SIIA Anti-Piracy 2005 Year in Review (8 pages, PDF)

Subjects: Cybercrime

Advocacy Groups Oppose Sunset Proposals

OMBWatch: “Nonprofit groups spoke out today against sunset proposals now being pushed by House conservatives. The proposals could create a single unelected commission to review every federal program, and would mandate that all federal programs automatically “sunset”–completely cease–after a fixed period, unless Congress intervened.” Read the letter to Congress Learn more about sunset proposals EPIC: …

Subjects: Congress, Freedom of Information, Government Documents