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Cunningham’s Use of Classified Gov Docs Will Be Scrutinized

According to Roll Call (subscription req’d): “House Democrats, led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), are calling for a bipartisan Congressional investigation into former Rep. Duke Cunningham’s (R-Calif.) handling of classified information while serving on the Appropriations and Intelligence committees.” Mr. Cunningham is still under investigation following his guilty plea for having accepted in excess …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents

Hurricanes Katrina & Rita Web Archive

“Internet Archive and many individual contributors created a comprehensive list of websites documenting the historic devastation and massive relief effort due to Hurricane Katrina. The sites were crawled between the dates of September 4 – October 17th. This collection, containing more than 25 million searchable documents, will be preserved by Internet Archive with access to …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

SEC Votes to Propose Rule to Provide Investors with Internet Availability of Proxy Materials

Press release, November 29, 2005: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose for public comment rules that would allow companies and other persons to use the Internet to satisfy proxy material delivery requirements…The company would post its proxy materials on an Internet Web site (other than EDGAR) and would send a ‘Notice of …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet

Release of Additional Records Pertaining to Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

Following up with a link to resources referenced in my posting yesterday, Additional Gov Docs. Released From Alito’s DOJ Tenure, see today’s press release: “The National Archives at College Park will release 31 documents totaling 336 pages from Record Group 60, Records of the Department of Justice, Files of Charles Cooper and Files of the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Administration Presents Strategy For Victory in Iraq

November 30, 2005: President Outlines Strategy for Victory in Iraq, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland Fact Sheet: Training Iraqi Security Forces In Focus: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq Related documents: LA Times (reg. req’d), U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press Rep. Waxman Calls for an Investigation of U.S. Military …

Subjects: Congress, Freedom of Information, Government Documents

Trademark and Copyright Lawsuit Focuses on Google Search Rank

From The Nutritional and Dietary Supplement Law Blog: “In a complaint filed last week in federal court in California, Salu, Inc., the owner of the popular cosmeceutical site SkinStore.com has sued the owners of competitor NewSkinSpa.com for trademark and copyright infringement accusing them of copying the SkinStore.com html code and using it to create the …

Subjects: Copyright, Patent and Trademark, Search Engines

GAO Report Critical of Efforts to Thwart Global Terror Financing

Terrorist Financing: Better Strategic Planning Needed to Coordinate U.S. Efforts to Deliver Counter-Terrorism Financing Training and Technical Assistance Abroad, GAO-06-19, October 24, 2005. Highlights. “The U.S. government lacks an integrated strategy to coordinate the delivery of counter-terrorism financing training and technical assistance to countries vulnerable to terrorist financing. Specifically, the effort does not have key …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents