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New York Times, February 2, 2006: Panel Rebuffed on Documents on U.S. Spying: “The Bush administration is rebuffing requests from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for its classified legal opinions on President Bush’s domestic spying program, setting up a confrontation in advance of a hearing scheduled for next week, administration and Congressional officials said …
Press release: “HighBeam Research, Inc. has announced a series of upgrades to its collection of content on the HighBeam Research Engine, offering more than 1.5 million full-text articles to individual researchers for free and adding reference and news articles from Knight Ridder, Oxford University Press, and The Washington Post. Full-text articles from more than 200 …
“Bright Ideas for Sunshine Week – This 72-page, full-color book features examples of some of the different ways Sunshine Week was observed in 2005. Sections include news and features, editorials and commentary, graphics and presentation, broadcast reports, online presentation, and ideas for 2006. The entire book is posted [online], broken out by section for easier …
Review of the Transportation Security Administation’s Use of Pat-Downs In Screening Procedures (Redacted) OIG-06-10, November 2005 (PDF, 14 pages), released February 1, 2006.
Statement by Comptroller General David M. Walker on GAO’s Preliminary Observations Regarding Preparedness and Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (9 pages, PDF), released February 1, 2006: “GAO has undertaken a body of work to address federal, state, and local preparations for, response to, and recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This correspondence contains GAO’s …
“The President’s State of the Union Address was printed in the Congressional Record dated Tuesday, January 31, 2006, on pages H15-19.” Copies of this address, as well as previous addresses given by President Clinton and by President George Herbert Walker Bush are available via GPO Access, in both HTML and PDF formats. C-SPAN has an …
Phone Records For Sale: Why Aren’t Phone Records Safe From Pretexting?, Full Committee on Energy and Commerce, February 1, 2006. Statement of Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee FCC Chairman Martin’s Statement (10 pages, PDF), is available on his agency website. Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On …
Five Ways To Keep Your Google Searches Private: “Word that the government has been seeking search data from Google has struck fear into the hearts of Internet Explorer and Firefox users. Here are five simple steps to keep outsiders from uncovering private information about your Web browsing habits.” See also this posting by Bob Ambrogi …
The complete text of President Bush’s State of the Union address, prepared for delivery Jan. 31, 2006, as released by the White House. Related documents: House Budget Committee Democrats, President Bush and the State of the Union: Budget Promises Made, Budget Promises Broken AP – Analysis: State of the Union Agitated Transcript, Democratic response to …
Press release: “CDT joined with a coalition of industry and public interest groups this week to urge the Federal Communications Commission to delay its controversial Internet wiretapping rules. In comments filed with the FCC [6 pages, PDF, filed January 30, 2006], the groups requested that the commission push back the effective date of the rule …
The DNA.gov initiative offers online training and resources for policy and lawmakers, officers and investigators, forensic scientists, researchers, and victim advocates.
Press release: “A task force of global and European publishers organizations, led by the World Association of Newspapers, has agreed to work together to examine the options open to publishers to assert their rights to recognition and recompense, and to ultimately improve the relationships between content creators/producers and news aggregators and search engines.”
