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Follow up to January 7, 2007 posting, Presidential Signing Statement for Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act Includes Power to Open Mail, see this press release today: “The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for National Security Studies today filed three Freedom of Information Act requests seeking the immediate release of records related to President …
Follow-up to previous postings on ex-Rep. Foley and the Congressional page scandal, released today by the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General; a Special Report, A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Initial Response to Representative Mark Foleys E-mails to a Former Page, January 2007, PDF (Full Report) and HTML version. Press …
Press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has designated the President’s State of the Union Address as a National Special Security Event (NSSE).”
Review of Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR 07-006T), January 18, 2007 United States House Armed Services Committee: “On Thursday, January 18, 2007, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction provided testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services oversight hearing on Iraq reconstruction. (Full Statement PDF) Chairman Skelton’s opening statement
Medical Causes of Death in State Prisons, 2001-2004: “This Bureau of Justice Statistics data brief describes the specific medical conditions causing deaths in State prisons nationwide during a four-year period. For the leading medical causes of death, mortality rates are presented by gender, age, race and Hispanic origin, and the length of time served in …
Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) Meeting Summary, January 19, 2007.
Intelligence Reform Progress Report Presentation, January 19, 2007.
Budget Issues: FEMA Needs Adequate Data, Plans, and Systems to Effectively Manage Resources for Day-to-Day Operations, Full text GAO-07-139, and Highlights, January 19, 2007. “FEMA lacks a strategic workforce plan and related human capital strategies–such as succession planning or a coordinated training effort–which are integral to managing resources.”
NIST Evaluation of Laboratories that Test Voting Systems: “The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in its accreditation of laboratories qualified to conduct the testing, certification, decertification, and recertification of voting systems as provided under the act. …
Table of Contents for LLRX.com – January 15, 2007 issue: Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide, by Sabrina I. Pacifici The Impact of Social Networking Tools and Guidelines to Use Them, by LaJean Humphries The Blog – Another Tool in Your Arsenal, by Janet Peros Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: How the Web …
Progress & Freedom Foundation released a Tech Agenda for 2007
Benefits of Trade – Costs of Protectionism – EJournal – U.S. Department of State, January 2007.
