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From Tax-News.com a report on offshore tax return preparation, and the response, by IRS commissioner Mark Everson, to concerns expressed in this letter to him by Rep. Edward J. Markey, a member of the Congressional Privacy Caucus. [JURIST’s Paper Chase] See also this February 15, 2004 New York Times article, Outsourcing Abroad Applies to Tax …
The National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) released a new study, Exporting the Law: A Legal Analysis of State and Federal Outsourcing Legislation (pdf, 32 pages) [Donna Cavallini] “Legislators in at least 36 states have introduced more than 100 bills to restrict overseas outsourcing, and legislation on the issue has also proliferated at the federal …
Presidential Advisers’ Testimony Before Congressional Committees: A Brief Overview “Congress has a constitutionally rooted right of access to the information it needs to perform its Article I legislative and oversight functions. Generally, a congressional committee with jurisdiction over the subject matter, which is conducting an authorized investigation for legislative or oversight purposes, has a right …
H. R. 4129 – “Law Enforcement Access – (1) Requirements regarding assistance capabilities- Effective as provided in paragraph (3)(D), each provider of a connected VoIP application shall ensure that its equipment, facilities, or services are capable of — (A) enabling the government to intercept communications transmitted using such application and to access call-identifying information regarding …
H.R. 4104, the text in pdf, of the Intelligence Transformation Act of 2004, “To establish the Director of National Intelligence as head of the intelligence community, to modify and enhance authorities and responsibilities relating to the administration of intelligence and the intelligence community, and for other purposes.” From the text of the press release by …
Manuel Miranda, the former Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, resigned his position on February 23, 2004 subsequent to the furor that resulted in response to his involvement in unauthorized access to thousands of Democratic computer files from the Senate Judiciary Committee server. This Legal Times article provides background on Mr. Miranda’s past work …
Amidst allegations by Republicans that the testimony of former National Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Richard Clarke, to the 9/11 Commission, contradicts previous classified testimony provided by him to the House and Senate Intelligence committees in July 2002, Clarke called for the release of all his classified testimony from that date. For context and perspective, this article …
Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004 (Introduced in Senate on March 25, 2004) [S. 2237] Leahy-Hatch Bill Takes Aim At Copyright Infringement Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P Remarks by bill co-sponsor Sen. Hatch.
From Rep. Henry Waxman, Ranking Member, Committee on Government Reform, this searchable database comprises “237 specific misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq…made by “five officials (President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice) in 125 public appearances in …
“The purpose of this hearing is to determine the status of the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II), and the progress made in addressing concerns regarding privacy, due process, accuracy, and the effectiveness of the system.” [Link] The Transportation Security Adminstration’s CAPPS II, by Paul Rosenzweig (Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Center for …
Information Security: Continued Efforts Needed to Sustain Progress in Implementing Statutory Requirements, by Robert F. Dacey, director, information security, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-04-483T, March 16. Highlights.
Via CalPundit, a pdf version of the report, and from Cryptome, an HTML version with “redacted names and ommited footnotes in red.” Previous postings, Report on Unauthorized Access to Senate Judiciary Cmte. Computer Files and Prosecutor Requested to Investigate Unauthorized Access to Senate Judiciary Cmte. Computer Files.
