Majority Believes WMD Used As Prevarication
Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Feel Bush Deliberately Misled Country on Iraq WMD Related postings on WMD
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VP Informed Libby About Plame Identity
New York Times: New Details Revealed on C.I.A. Leak Case: “Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff told prosecutors that Mr. Cheney had informed him “in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion” in mid-June 2003 about the identity of the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak case, according to a …
Copyright Office Releases Report on “Orphan Works”
“The Copyright Office has completed its study of problems related to ‘orphan works’copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to identify and locate. As requested by Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Patrick Leahy, the Office submitted its Report on Orphan Works to the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 31, 2006. The Report is also available …
Customer Info Collected By Search Engines Increasingly Subject to Scrutiny
FAQ: When Google is not your friend, by Declan McCullagh: “Google’s recent legal spat with the U.S. Department of Justice highlights not only what information search engines record about us but also the shortcomings in a federal law that’s supposed to protect online privacy.” Related references: New York Times – Increasingly, Internet’s Data Trail Leads …
NASA Chief Calls for “Scientific Openness” Amidst Claims of Gov’t Secrecy
Follow-up to recent postings, Gov’t Climate Change Expert Contends Censorship of Data, and Sen. Boxer Calls For Hearings on Censorship of Gov’t Scientists, the New York Times reports that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin issued a “statement of scientific openness” to agency employees, saying, “NASA has always been, is and will continue to be committed to …
UK Gov’t Conducts Public Inquiry on Digital Rights Management
“The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) [held] an oral evidence session [February 2, 2006] at the House of Commons, as part of its public inquiry on Digital Rights Management(DRM)…The inquiry…is seeking to establish how consumers, artists and the distribution companies should be protected in a continually evolving market place…Regrettably, this session will not be …
Patriot Act Extended Again for Another 5 Weeks
AP: Congress Extends Patriot Act Five Weeks Postings on Patriot Act
Quadrennial Defense Review Report
Quadrennial Defense Review – U.S. Department of Defense: “This 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review is submitted in the fifth year of this long war. The QDR is part of the continuum of transformation in the Defense Department. Its purpose is to help shape the process of change to provide the United States with strong, sound and …
Date Set for Libby CIA Leak Trial
Follow-up to February 2, 2006 posting, Correspondence on Libby Indictment Mentions Missing Emails, news today that the Libby trail date has been set for January 8, 2007 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: WSJ free feature: Libby Trial to Begin in January In Case Stemming From CIA Leak AP: “The perjury trial …
House Cmte. Seeks Operations Docs. from Websites Selling Cell Phone Records
Follow-up to February 1, 200 posting, Sale of Cell Phone Records Subject of House Hearing and State AG Action, the following related news: “House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today demanded answers from operators of Internet sites like “phonebust.com” and “datafind.org” that offer criminals, stalkers and any other paying customer the detailed records of a …
36 Senators Request Appointment of Special Counsel to Investigate Abramoff Scandal
Press release: “U.S. Senators Harry Reid, Charles E. Schumer, Ken Salazar, and others sent a letter [text included in this release] signed by a majority of Democrats to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asking him to appoint a special counsel to continue the investigation into and prosecution of the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal.”
Judiciary Cmte. Democrats Again Request Data on Domestic Surveillance From AG
Press release: “The Committee Democrats first asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for correspondence, memoranda and legal opinions on January 27 in a letter. Senators sought the information in anticipation of the Feb. 6 hearing the committee is holding on the controversial surveillance program. So far, the Department has not responded. The text of the letter …
