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“The Business Plan for the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)…combines the Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2006 through 2011 and Performance Plan for fiscal year 2006….The FDIC OIG is an independent and objective unit established under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (IG Act). The OIG’s …
Managing Cybersecurity Resources: A Cost-Benefit Analysis “details guidelines for using sound and measurable principles of cost-benefit analysis, as a compliment to gut instinct, to efficiently allocate and manage cybersecurity resources within your organization. Written by two globally acknowledged leaders in the increasingly critical area of cybersecurity (Lawrence A. Gordon and Martin P. Loeb), this comprehensive …
They Havent Got Mail – The Katrina hearings havent only revealed critical information about White House responses to the hurricane. Theyve also uncovered the online secrets of Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Chertoff: “…congressional investigations of government responses to Hurricane Katrina have revealed that two of the nation’s key crisis managers, the secretaries of Defense and …
Press release, Association for Computing Machinery, February 16, 2006: “Citing the danger of voter fraud and disenfranchisement from poorly implemented databases, a committee of experts commissioned by USACM released a report today making almost 100 recommendations to state and local officials charged with creating and managing statewide voter registration databases (VRDs). The report is a …
New York Times: That Which We Call a Blog… Referenced in the article is the recent Technorati posting on how many blogs the site is now tracking.
More terrific research by Michael Ravnitzky has been posted to the Memory Hole. Minutes of the Legislative Reference Service, 1947-1953, The Forerunner of the Congressional Research Service (26 pages, PDF).
Following up on a controversial demand made by DOJ to major search engine companies for extensive database records, Google this afternoon posted the following response on their official blog: “In August, Google was served with a subpoena from the U. S. Department of Justice demanding disclosure of two full months’ worth of search queries that …
Disaster Preparedness: Preliminary Observations on the Evacuation of Hospitals and Nursing Homes Due to Hurricanes, GAO-06-443R, February 16, 2006. “During disasters, administrators of health care facilities are faced with decisions about how to operate and care for patients, including when and how to evacuate patients if the facility becomes unable to support adequate care, treatment, …
AP: Rockefeller Questions NSA’s Authority Vice Chairman Rockefeller’s Statement on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Failure to Vote on Whether to Authorize an Investigation into the NSA Surveillance Program New York Times: Senate Chairman Splits With Bush on Spy Program [Please note this AP article adds clarification to Sen. Robert’s position as described in the New …
Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIAS) and Settlement Agreements with Integrity Provisions, 2/16/06.
AP, Judge Weighs Libby’s Request for Documents – The special prosecutor contends that Libby’s demand for unprecedented access to an extensive range of classified White House documents “is a transparent effort at ‘greymail’.” Relevant government documents (via firedoglake): The Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) Synopsis of Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) Transcript of the CIPA …
FTC press release: “The primary reforms to the merger review process establish presumptions that the FTC will: (1) limit the number of employees required to provide information in response to a second request, provided the party complies with specified conditions; (2) reduce the time period for which a party must provide documents in response to …
