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News release: “Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced a new strategy in the fight against international organized crime that will address this growing threat to U.S. security and stability. The Law Enforcement Strategy to Combat International Organized Crime (the strategy) was developed following an October 2007 International Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOC Threat Assessment) and …
UK Guardian: “Airline passengers are to be screened with facial recognition technology rather than checks by passport officers, in an attempt to improve security and ease congestion..From summer, unmanned clearance gates will be phased in to scan passengers’ faces and match the image to the record on the computer chip in their biometric passports. Border …
A Review of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s New Investment Strategy, April 24, 2008. Letter to the George Miller, Chairman, House Committee on Education and Labor. Implications of a Cap-and-Trade Program for Carbon Dioxide Emissions, April 24, 2008 html pdf webcast. CBO Statement of Peter R. Orszag, Director, before the Committee on Finance, United States …
European Digital Rights: “The European Ministers of Justice and Internal Affairs have agreed to make publishing bomb-making instructions on the Internet a crime…Justice and interior ministers from the EU member states backed a proposal from Commissioner Frattini to harmonise the normative acts that will make the “public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment, and …
News release: “Average air fares in the fourth quarter of 2007 were up 4.0 percent from the fourth quarter of 2006, reaching the highest fourth-quarter level since 2001 but remaining 2.7 percent below the high set in 2000 for any October-to-December period, the U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported…the average domestic …
News release: “The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)…announced steps to strengthen the reporting system designed to classify airspace errors, in response to a report by the U.S. Department of Transportations Inspector General (IG) that revealed the intentional misclassification of operational errors at the Dallas-Fort Worth Terminal Approach Control (TRACON)…Specifically, the IG found that management at the …
News release: “Office of Personnel Management (OPM)…announced the launch of an enhanced interagency telework website, www.telework.gov. The updated site features a series of user-friendly improvements designed to make telework information more accessible and understandable to Federal employees…and was developed in partnership with the General Services Administration (GSA), OPM’s telework.gov partner. Users can read and download …
EPIC: “The International Working Group On Data Protection in Telecommunications has released a report and guidance (pdf) on privacy in social networking services. The report identifies risks to privacy and security, and provides guidance to regulators, service operators and users to counter these risks. Risks include the large amount of data collection; the misuse of …
“The fiscal year 2008 update to the Long Range Plan for Information Technology in the Federal Judiciary articulates five-year directions and objectives for the judiciarys information technology program. The plan presents the program in terms of five fundamental areas: external participants, court operations, judges and chambers, probation and pretrial services, and information technology infrastructure. This …
Space Acquisitions: DOD Is Making Progress to Rapidly Deliver Low Cost Space Capabilities, but Challenges Remain, GAO-08-516, April 25, 2008 Traffic Safety: Improved Reporting and Performance Measures Would Enhance Evaluation of High-Visibility Campaigns, GAO-08-477, April 25, 2008 Highways and Environment: Transportation Agencies Are Acting to Involve Others in Planning and Environmental Decisions, GAO-08-512R, April 25, …
News release: “The United States Sentencing Commission announced today the formation of a standing advisory group to provide the Commission insight and advice on the operation of the federal sentencing guidelines from the perspective of victims of federal crime. The initial Victims Advisory Group (VAG) will be composed of six members representing the spectrum of …
Director of National Intelligence (DNI): Background Briefing with Senior U.S. Officials on Syria’s Covert Nuclear Reactor and North Korea’s Involvement, April 24, 2008
