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“Wartime Executive Power and the NSA’s Surveillance Authority” Senate Judiciary Committee Full Committee, February 6, 2006 [Note: according to video and the transcript of the testimony, GOP Senators voted not to have Gonzales sworn in.] Prepared Statement of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington, D.C., Monday, February 6, 2006. …
Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2007: “Issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President’s budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been …
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2007 Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2007 (410 pages, PDF)
“The WTC Health Registry is a comprehensive and confidential health survey of those most directly exposed to the events of 9/11/01. Those who enrolled answered a 30-minute telephone survey about where they were on 9/11/01, and were asked to report the status of their health. This will allow health professionals to compare the health of …
PBS Now, February 3, 2006: David Brancaccio’s interview on Iraq Pre-War Intelligence, with Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who was Chief of Staff at the Department of State, August 2002 to January 2005. Related posting, Powell’s Former Chief of Staff Challenges Administration Policies.
Press release: “The 2006 Identity Fraud Survey Report – released by the Council of Better Business Bureaus and Javelin Strategy & Research – provides new facts on how identity fraud occurs, counterintuitive insights that challenge conventionally accepted beliefs about these crimes, and steps consumers can take to further protect themselves against this problem…people are not …
Of Wiretaps, Google Searches and Handguns – Who’s Counting: Ineffective Government Screenings Not Worth Loss of Privacy, by John Allen. Postings on domestic surveillance
AP reports today the Senate Judicary Committe Chairman Arlen Specter “said he believes the administration violated a 1978 law specifically calling for a secretive court to consider and approve such monitoring.” Additional resources: Time, Sunday, Feb. 05, 2006 – Wartime Power Play, by Massimo Calabresi: “As Capitol Hill prepares to battle the White House over …
‘State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration,’ by James Risen – Spies and Spymasters, Review by Walter Isaacson.
Press release: “The Department of State is updating its main website at www.state.gov to improve usability and increase awareness of important news items. The new design streamlines the number of content sections from nine to four: Issues and Press, Travel and Business, Youth and Education, and About the State Department. The redesigned homepage will feature …
Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills: “To find out what kind of information the four major search companies retain about their users, CNET News.com surveyed America Online, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. We asked the same seven questions of each company. Their answers are reproduced… with the responses sorted by the companies’ names in alphabetical order.” Postings …
Follow-up to February 3, 2006 posting, Judiciary Cmte. Democrats Again Request Data on Domestic Surveillance From AG, which referred to an AP article, Papers: Ford White House Weighed Wiretaps…George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are cited in the documents, see this additional documentation from the National Security Archive: “Despite objections from then-Secretary of …
