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Secrecy News: “The new CRS report – “Gang of Four” Congressional Intelligence Notifications, July 14, 2009 – explains the role of the “Gang of Four,” meaning the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, who are to be informed of particularly sensitive intelligence activities. (When the Bush Administration first notified Congress …
2009 Trafficking in Persons Report: “The Department of State is required by law to submit each year to the U.S. Congress a report on foreign governments efforts to eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons. This is the ninth annual TIP Report; it seeks to increase global awareness of the human trafficking phenomenon by shedding …
Refugees and Asylees: 2008 – Daniel C. Martin And Michael Hoefer “The United States provides refuge to persons who have been persecuted or have a well-founded fear of persecution through two programs: one for refugees (persons outside the U.S.) and one for asylees (persons in the U.S.). This Office of Immigration Statistics Annual Flow Report …
Brennan Center for Justice: Language Access in State Courts, Laura Abel “Nearly 25 million people in this country have limited proficiency in English (LEP), meaning that they cannot protect their rights in court without the assistance of an interpreter. At least 13 million of those people live in states that do not require their courts …
News release: Todays release of a report by several agency inspectors general reinforces the National Security Archives argument in our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that the Justice Department should declassify and release the legal justifications for the surveillance program authorized by President Bush after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The new report …
News release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice [on June 24, 2009], demanding the public release of the surveillance guidelines that govern investigations of Americans by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI’s Domestic Investigative Operational Guidelines went into effect in December of 2008 and detail the Bureau’s …
News release: “Widespread racial profiling by law enforcement agents as a result of Bush-era policies remains a pervasive problem throughout the United States, according to a report out today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Rights Working Group (RWG). Government policies are a major cause of the disproportionate stopping and searching of racial …
News release: “The CIA informed the American Civil Liberties Union that it would delay by one week its release of a reprocessed version of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report on the CIA’s interrogation and detention program [The heavily redacted version of the report released last year is available here.] The CIA turned …
“The ninth annual Trafficking in Persons Report [download each section or complete report] sheds light on the faces of modern-day slavery and on new facets of this global problem. The human trafficking phenomenon affects virtually every country, including the United States. In acknowledging Americas own struggle with modern-day slavery and slavery-related practices, we offer partnership. …
Economist.com chart: “At the end of 2008 10.5m refugees were in the direct care of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, down slightly from 11.4m a year earlier. The conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq again caused the largest numbers of refugees to flee to, or remain in, neighbouring countries. Some 2.8m of the world’s refugees …
DHS Office of Immigration Statistics – Refugees and Asylees: 2008, Daniel C. Martin AND Michael Hoefer “The United States provides refuge to persons who have been persecuted or have a well-founded fear of persecution through two programs: one for refugees (persons outside the U.S.) and one for asylees (persons in the U.S.). This Office of …
New on LLRX.com – FOIA Facts: The Detainee Photo Issue – Is it What it Seems? – Scott A. Hodes comments on the Obama administrations’ decision to continue to fight the release of detainee photos.
