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Vahid Majidi, Assistant Director, WMD Directorate, Federal Bureau of Investigation – Statement Before the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology, October 10, 2007 “The number one priority of the FBI is to protect the nation from terrorist attacks. Within that priority, the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) …
On October 10, 2007 “The Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs held hearing entitled, Six Years Later: Assessing Long-Term Threats, Risks and the U.S. Strategy for Security in a Post-9/11 World. This hearing will be the first in a series of bipartisan hearings into long-term U.S. national security strategy six years after 9/11 and …
Follow up to October 9, 2007 posting, Conyers, Reyes Introduce FISA Revision Legislation, today’s press release: “The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted 12-7 today to send the RESTORE Act (H.R. 3773) to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration.”
Fact Sheet: National Strategy for Homeland Security – A Comprehensive Guide For Securing the Homeland: “Today, the President issued an updated National Strategy for Homeland Security, which will serve to guide, organize, and unify our Nation’s homeland security efforts. This Strategy is a national strategy not a Federal strategy and articulates our approach …
Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) introduced The Responsible Electronic Surveillance that is Overseen, Reviewed, and Effective Act of 2007 the RESTORE Act,in an effort to address concerns about civil liberty protections in the hastily-enacted Protect America Act that was signed into …
Follow up to previous postings on private military contractors in Iraq, this State Department press release, October 5, 2007: “Secretary Rice has received an initial assessment of Blackwater operations in support of Embassy Baghdad from the first two team members. The balance of the team – General Joulwan and Ambassador Roy – will arrive in …
“The Committee held a hearing [October 5, 2007] to evaluate the status of corruption in the Iraqi government and whether U.S. government efforts to address this continuing problem have been adequate.” From Chairman Waxman’s Opening Statement: “Todays hearing is one of the most important that we will have this year. President Bush has made Iraq …
Press release, October 5, 2007: “The Inspector General of the Federal Communications Commission has released a report finding that the evidence did not substantiate allegations that two draft research reports of staff economists in the Commissions Media Bureau had been suppressed by senior managers at the Commission or that senior managers had ordered one of …
Press release: “Reps. John D. Dingell (D-MI), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak, Chairman of its Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today released a staff report entitled Food From China: Can We Import Safely? (11 pages, PDF). This report was compiled by Committee staff dispatched by Dingell and Stupak to …
Press release: “Today, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA – H.R. 2740) Expansion and Enforcement Act of 2007, despite the Bush Administration’s opposition, with a vote of 389-30. The bill, which passed through the House Judiciary Committee in August, makes private contractors working in combat zones like Iraq …
Boucher and Dingell Release First Climate Change Legislation Design White Paper, prepared by the Committee on Energy and Commerce committee staff, October 3, 2007 (22 pages, PDF): “This paper addresses the scope and coverage of the climate change program. It discusses what sectors and activities are directly emitting greenhouse gases, and how those emissions could …
Press release, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee: “I am glad that Judge Mukasey has now returned the Judiciary Committees questionnaire (85 pages) providing important information necessary to begin a complete review of his record. The Committee will conduct the thorough review necessary for this crucial nomination, which comes at such a key juncture …
