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Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Needs to Refine and More Effectively Manage Its New Approach for Assessing and Certifying Nuclear Weapons, GAO-06-261, February 3, 2006. Highlights. “In 2001, NNSA’s weapons laboratories began developing what is intended to be a common framework for a new methodology for assessing and certifying the safety and reliability of the nuclear stockpile …
Senate Intelligence Committee hearing: Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States, Thursday, February 2, 2006. Partial transcript which includes statements by Sen. Russ Feingold. Witnesses are listed as followed (please note only Negroponte statement is currently available): Ambassador John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence; General Michael V. Hayden (USAF), Principal Deputy, Director …
Boston.com: Specialists doubt legality of wiretaps – Many rebut assertion of presidential powers. Postings on domestic surveillance Rep. Jane Harman, FISA Warrants Can Cover All Activities Of The NSA Program: “I am one of the few in Congress who has been briefed on the program, and I am not clear why FISA as presently drafted …
Letter Report: A Review of Border Patrol’s Compliance with Public Law 108-334 and the Use of Checkpoints within the Tucson Sector, OIG-06-08, November 2005 (PDF, 22 pages), released February 2, 2006.
American Competitiveness Initiative: Leading the World in Innovation -Domestic Policy Council, Office of Science and Technology (27 pages, PDF). State of the Union: American Competitiveness Initiative
Congressional Human Rights Caucus Members’ Briefing: Human Rights and the Internet – The People’s Republic of China, Wednesday, February 1, 2006: “China has one of the most sophisticated content-filtering Internet regimes in the world. The Chinese government employs sophisticated methods to limit content online, including a combination of legal regulation, surveillance, and punishment to promote …
Iraq, Niger, And The CIA – By Murray Waas, special to National Journal, Feb. 2, 2006: “Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation …
UK Home Office: Updated Estimate of the of the Cost of Identity Fraud to the UK Economy, 2 February 2006 (4 pages, PDF). Update: Government ‘overstated’ ID fraud figures
Follow-up to January 29, 2006 posting, Gov’t Climate Change Expert Contends Censorship of Data – today Sen. Barbara Boxer issued a press release that included the text of her letters to ranking members of two Senate committees stating, “It has come to my attention that the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Dr. …
CBO: Testimony on The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2007 to 2016 – February 2, 2006 (9 pages, PDF)
Late last night AP reported that Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald stated in legal correspondence [the full text of which is available here in PDF] related to discovery in the Libby CIA leak indictment, that White House email from 2003 failed to be properly archived. The article quotes the response of noted government secrecy expert …
The End of the Internet? by Jeff Chester: “The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online…According to white papers now …
