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Via OpenCRS – CRS Report, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Issues for Congress, December 5, 2007 (27 pages, PDF). “Open source information (OSINT) is derived from newspapers, journals, radio and television, and the Internet. Intelligence analysts have long used such information to supplement classified data, but systematically collecting open source information has not been a priority …
Hispanics and the 2008 Election: A Swing Vote?, by Paul Taylor and Richard Fry, Pew Hispanic Center, December 6, 2007: “After spending the first part of this decade loosening their historic ties to the Democratic Party, Hispanic voters have reversed course in the past year, a new nationwide survey of Latinos by the Pew Hispanic …
Press release: “Political campaign spending on advertising media and marketing services is expected to rocket to an all-time high of $4.50 billion in the 2008 election cycle, as an acrimonious political environment, record fundraising and the high number of presidential candidates are driving an unprecedented media spending splurge, according to a preliminary forecast analysis released …
Monthly Budget Review, December 2007: “The federal budget deficit was $157 billion during the first two months of fiscal year 2008, CBO estimates, $35 billion more than the shortfall recorded through November of last year. Close to half of that difference is the result of shifts in the timing of certain payments and a difference …
“Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-TX, of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement on the successful filing of the House-Senate conference report of H.R. 2082, the fiscal year 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act, clearing the bill for consideration on the floor of the U.S. House: This isstrong legislation that provides full funding for …
Follow up to previous postings on Blackwater, this press release from Committee on Oversight: “State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard announced his resignation today. In response to the announcement, Chairman Waxman released the following statement: Mr. Krongards decision removes an enormous distraction from the Inspector Generals office and will allow the office to focus …
Treasury Economic Update 12/7/2007: “Today’s data indicate that the labor market remains healthy, with a low unemployment rate and continued job growth. We expect the economic expansion to continue even with the challenges we face in the housing and credit markets.” – Assistant Secretary Phillip Swagel, December 7, 2007
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that their teams of officers who track down criminal aliens and immigration fugitives arrested almost twice as many in fiscal year 2007 than in the previous year. For the first time since records have been kept, the nation’s fugitive alien population is on the decline. In the …
Follow up to December 6, 2007 posting, Report: CIA Destroyed Videos of Interrogations, this press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Reps. Robert Scott, William Delahunt and Jerrold Nadler sent letters to Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gen. Michael Hayden and Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting details about today’s reports …
“The Interagency Counterinsurgency Initiative (ICI) seeks to inform and help shape relevant USG policy and programs by incorporating the theory and history of counters to organized movements that use subversion or violence rather than established political processes to undermine or overthrow governments, with the goal of focusing appropriate elements of diplomacy, defense, and development on …
European Commission: A Handbook for Citizen-centric eGovernment – “Issued by the cc:eGov project, this Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of what citizen-centric government services should strive for. It gives recommendations on access to these services, offers front- and back-office solutions and emphasizes the importance of relationship building between those delivering and those receiving the services. …
D-2008-026 Management of the Iraq Security Forces Fund in Southwest Asia – Phase III, November 30, 2007 (Project No. D2007-D000LQ-0141.000), released December 6, 2007.
