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DHS Lists FEMA Response to Katrina As a Success Story

“DHS Today will highlight FY05 Accomplishments in this column over the next several weeks. This week’s focus is on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The top FY05 FEMA accomplishments included: Hurricane Katrina: The response to Hurricane Katrina was FEMA’s largest response in its history. The aid given within six weeks of landfall included almost …

Subjects: Government Documents

EU Advocate General Recommends Annulling Agreement to Share Passenger Name Records

Nº 98/2005: 22 November 2005, Opinion of the Advocate General in cases C-317/04, C-318/04, Parliament/Council, Principles of Community law – press release – Advocate General Léger Proposed Annulment of the Commission and Council Decisions on Transfer to the American Authorities of Personal Information Concerning Air Passengers. Full-text opinion (in French) May 31, 2004, Passenger Data …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Privacy

GSA Website Redesigned

Press release: The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) [November 2, 2005] launched a redesign of its external agency Web site. The refreshed site will make it easier for federal customer agencies, businesses, and citizens to get the information they need on GSA’s products and services. Improvement include: “A newly redesigned homepage that will make it …

Subjects: E-Government

DOJ IG Report on Agency’s Top Management and Performance Challenges

November 18, DOJ/OIG Top Management and Performance Challenges in the Department of Justice – 2005: Counterterrorism; Sharing of Law Enforcement and Intelligence Information; Department and FBI Intelligence-Related Reorganizations; Information Technology Systems Planning and Implementation; Information Technology Security; Financial Management and Systems; Grant Management; Detention and Incarceration; Judicial Security; and Supply and Demand for Drugs.

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Report on Gov ‘t Docs That Verify Facts on Pre-War Intel

Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel, by Murray Waas, special to National Journal. “Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

Online Newspaper Readership Continues to Rise

Nielson/NetRatings press release: Online newspapers enjoy double-digit year growth, reaching one out of four internet users “NYTimes.com was the top U.S. online newspaper site, with 11.4 million unique visitors in October 2005. USAToday.com and WashingtonPost.com took the No. 2 and 3 spots..”

Subjects: Internet

Library of Congress Launches World Digital Library Initiative

Library of Congress press release: “Google Is First Private-Sector Partner with Funding of $3 Million. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin announced today that Google is the first private-sector company to contribute to the Library’s initiative to develop a plan to begin building a World Digital Library (WDL) for use …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Democratic Policy Committee Issues Reports on Pre and Post Iraq War Intel

From the Democratic Policy Committee: Bush Administration’s Iraq Claims at Odds with Pre-War Intelligence, Post-War Evidence, November 18, 2005 (13 pages, PDF) – “This document compares each of the Bush Administration’s major claims to both the intelligence available before the war began and the post-war findings of the Iraq Survey Group and others.” Myth vs. …

Subjects: Government Documents

E-Gov Science Portal Introduces Enhanced Search and Relevancy Features

Press release: Science.gov 3.0 Launched – “…introduces ‘MetaRank’ which uses a sophisticated method for ranking science queries by searching ‘metadata,’ or bibliographic information such as title, author, date, abstract or other keyword identifiers…Science.gov 3.0 also offers enhanced Boolean search capability, improved fielded searching, intuitive site navigation and early viewing of results while the database and …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents