IRS Where’s My Refund Site Very Popular
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The World Factbook 2006 Online Edition Now Available
Press release: “The World Factbook 2006 is now available on the Central Intelligence Agency Web site. The World Factbook remains the CIA’s most widely disseminated and most popular product, now averaging almost 6 million visits each month.” Download page
Pentagon Collection of Info on Peace Activists Prompts Investigation
Reuters, via Washington Post: Pentagon Says Improper Data in Security Database
GAO Report on Junk Fax Enforcement
Telecommunications: Weaknesses in Procedures and Performance Management Hinder Junk Fax Enforcement, Full-text GAO-06-425, April 5, 2006. Highlights. “FCC has procedures for receiving and acknowledging the rapidly increasing number of junk fax complaints, but the numbers of investigations and enforcement actions have generally remained the same. In 2000, FCC recorded about 2,200 junk fax complaints; in …
Treasury OIG Audit on Oversight of Tax Practitioners
The Office of Professional Responsibility Can Do More to Effectively Identify and Act Against Incompetent and Disreputable Tax Practitioners Report, prepared by the Department of the Treasury Office of the Inspector General, March 31, 2006. (43 pages, PDF) “The overall objective of this review was to determine whether the IRS has an effective process to …
CRS Legal Analysis of Patriot Act
USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005: A Legal Analysis (74 pages, PDF): “This report describes the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the Act) and, where appropriate, discusses the modifications to law made by the USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006.”
Testimony of Detainees Before the Combatant Status Review Tribunal
DOD press release, April 3, 2006: “The Defense Department today released hundreds’ more pages of unredacted detainee hearing transcripts taken at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, a senior Pentagon official said here today. DoD spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters the newly released documents included 2,000 pages of detainee administrative review board transcripts …
TRAC Launches Immigration Project
“The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) today launched a unique new website providing extensive information about one of most important and politically sensitive subjects in America today — immigration control… The purpose of the site…is to provide the American people, Congress, immigration groups, reporters and others with the authoritative information they need to judge the …
House Report on NSA Domestic Surveillance
House Report Report 109-382, March 2, 2006. Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Directing the Attorney General to Submit to the House of Representatives All Documents In the Possession of the Attorney General Related to Warrantless Electronic Surveillance of Telephone Conversations and Electronic Communications of Persons in the United States Conducted …
EC Publishes Study on Scientific Publication System in Europe
Press release, April 3, 2006: “The European Commission is today publishing a study which examines the scientific publication system in Europe. Scientific publication ensures that research results are made known, which is a pre-condition for further research and for turning this knowledge into innovative products and services. Scientific publication is also an important part of …
European Competition Network Launches One-Stop Access Website
“The European Competition Network – the European Commission together with the national competition authorities in the EU has launched a website providing businesses, their advisors, and citizens with information about antitrust enforcement, annual reports and background documents about the Network. The ECN website will inter alia provide one-stop access to news releases from all …
Pixsy Visual Search
http://pixsy.com/ A picture can be worth a thousand words, but an RSS feed is worth a million pictures. That’s the virtual promise of Pixsy, a visual search engine that scours syndication feeds (in the format of Really Simple Syndication) for up-to-date images and then makes them searchable. On Tuesday, the company will relaunch its engine …
