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“As Defense Secretary Robert Gates indicates that the withdrawal of troops from Iraq will be delayed, the Democratic Caucus has released a new report on Americas military readiness crisis and our vulnerabilities at home.”
Congressional Budget Analysis of the Growth in Funding for Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Elsewhere in the War on Terrorism, February 11, 2008. “The United States began combat operations in Afghanistan in fiscal year 2002 and in Iraq in fiscal year 2003. To finance those operations (and other activities related to the war on terrorism), …
Follow up to postings on the domestic surveillance program, from EFF, House Committee Leaders Unite to Oppose Immunity for Telecoms: February 8, 2008 “a formidable trio of House Committee Chairmen sent a stern letter to their colleagues urging them to oppose immunity for phone companies that assisted in the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. The White …
Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, February 5, 2008 (Unclassified)
House Committee on the Budget – summary and analysis (including charts) of the Presidents budget. (142 pages, PDF) Analysis of the state-by-state impact of certain cuts in the Presidents budget. (19 pages, PDF) Related postings on the FY09 budget
Press release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today called for the papers of the Founding Fathers Project [Pew Charitable Trusts: “The Project was established more than a half century ago to publish the complete, annotated writings of the countrys founding fathersincluding George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin …
CDT: “The Senate yesterday gave final congressional approval to legislation making “Do Not Call” listings permanent. Without the legislation, consumers’ phone numbers would have been automatically removed from the FTC controlled list after five years. CDT applauds the decision to eliminate the list’s current expiration policy, which would require consumers who want to remain on …
Press release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who also sits on the panel, sent a letter Thursday urging Attorney General Michael Mukasey to clarify testimony given to the Committee during last weeks Department of Justice oversight hearing. In the letter, they ask the Attorney General to explain the …
Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 7 February 2008, J. Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence (46 pages, PDF)
“A joint project of the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Progress & Freedom Foundation tracks more than 30 pieces of federal legislation that seek to protect children online, some of which pose serious threats to free speech. The reports released today summarize and categorize child online safety bills introduced in the 110th Congress, …
DOD Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Auditing, Contingency Planning for DoD Mission-Critical Information Systems, February 5, 2008 (117 pages, PDF). “The information in DoD Information Technology Portfolio Repository (DITPR) on contingency planning is not reliable on the basis of sample results. We projected that, of 436 mission-critical information systems requiring information assurance certification …
Senate Budget Committee hearing, The President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget and Revenue Proposals, February 6, 2008. Senator Conrad — Opening Statement Charts Used at Hearing with Treasury Secretary Paulson Paulson Opening Statement on the President’s FY09 Budget Before the Senate Committee on Finance Related postings on the FY09 Budget
