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OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet (05/06/2008): “This report includes estimates of OPEC net oil export revenues, based on projections from the May 2008 Short Term Energy Outlook. EIA estimates that members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) earned $674 billion in net oil export revenues in 2007, a 10 percent increase from 2006. …
Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff Reading Room: These documents were released to the New York Times regarding the Pentagon’s Military Analyst program.” See the New York Times, April 20, 2008. Behind TV Analysts, Pentagons Hidden Hand – “Retired officers have been used to shape terrorism coverage from inside the TV and …
FY 2009 Supplemental Protecting the Force, Equipping American Troops, Strengthening National Security: “[May 2, 2008] President Bush transmitted to Congress the details for the $70 billion allowance included in the FY 2009 Budget. This provides the necessary resources for ongoing military and intelligence operations for FY09, as well as diplomatic efforts and foreign assistance activities …
News release: “Today, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) released a Congressional Research Service (CRS) study on the implications for U.S. economic and security interests of Chinas rising global influence. The study, which CRS produced at Senator Bidens request in consultation with a distinguished group of China specialists …
Unified Agenda, May 2008 Edition: “The Unified Agenda summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next six months.” “Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735) and the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 602) require that agencies publish semiannual regulatory agendas describing regulatory actions they are developing or have …
News release: “Each year, millions of students seek help in financing their college education, and some fall prey to scholarship and financial aid scams that guarantee money for college in exchange for a fee. In 2000, Congress passed the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act to help federal agencies crack down on those scams. The Federal …
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearings to examine the current lack of hospital emergency surge capacity. The hearings will focus on the widening mismatch between the growing demand for emergency care and available supply, impact of the Administrations Medicaid regulations on hospital emergency surge capacity, and the ability of hospitals to respond to a …
H.R. 5830, FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008, May 2, 2008 pdf | blog – Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on May 1, 2008 Nuclear Power’s Role in Generating Electricity, May 2008 pdf | data | blog Sources of the Growth and …
IEEE Spectrum Q&A With IARPA Director Lisa Porter: “We’ve divided the agency into three offices, and those really explain how we parse the problems intelligence research is focused on: Smart Collection, Incisive Analysis, and Safe and Secure Operations. Those three thrust areas span the space of the intelligence problem. The first, Smart Collection: we want …
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Use of Intelligence Analysts, Audit Report 08-23, May 2008 (96 pages, PDF) “The gathering and use of intelligence is an important element in the Drug Enforcement Administrations (DEA) efforts to identify and disrupt illegal drug trafficking. Accurate and up-to-date intelligence is needed to assess the operations and vulnerabilities of criminal drug …
The Ultimate Little Black Book – One Firm Routes All Phone Calls in North America, by Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post. “Sterling-based NeuStar is the carriers’ digital directory for all phone calls in North America. More than 800 telephone companies have numbers in the database…NeuStar’s databases are so powerful that the FBI a few years ago …
Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT): “The long-range or “vicinity” Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology chosen by the Departments of Homeland Security and State for government-issued ID documents poses serious risks to personal privacy and security, CDT testified today before a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee. CDT recommended that DHS and State abandon the technology, which …
