Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Potential Effects on Health Care Spending and Outcomes
CBO Study, Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Potential Effects on Health Care Spending and Outcomes, December 2006 (100 pages, PDF).
Category «E-Government»
Extensive DOJ Online Casefile Database Causes Privacy Concerns
Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents, PrivacyGPO Posts Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared
Follow up to May 2, 2006 posting – Final Katrina Report Adopted by Senate Cmte on Homeland Security – news that GPO has posted S. Rpt. 109-322 Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared (732 pages, PDF). Users may also read/and or download the text section by section. Related postings on Hurricane Katrina
New York State and City Inmate Databases
New York State Department of Correctional Services inmate database New York City Department of Correction Inmate Look-Up database (in Beta).
CRS Report – Energy: Selected Facts and Numbers
Energy: Selected Facts and Numbers, Updated November 29, 2006.
CRS Report – Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade: Key Issues for the 110th Congress
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade: Key Issues for the 110th Congress, December 20, 2006.
DHS Secure Flight Report
Secure Flight Report, December 2006 (PDF, 18 pages): DHS Privacy Office Report to the Public on the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight Program and Privacy Recommendations. News.com: “A Department of Homeland Security program that linked details on millions of air travelers with profiles drawn from commercial databases was plagued by “privacy missteps” that misled the …
DHS Provides RSS Fees for News, Press Releases, Speeches and Testimony
Links to the RSS feeds are as follows: Department of Homeland Security News Department of Homeland Security Press Releases Department of Homeland Security Speeches Department of Homeland Security Testimony
Judge Declines to Unseal Docs on Alleged Participation in Domestic Surveillance Program
Follow-up to a November 7, 2006 posting, Court Grants Appeal in AT&T Spying Case, today, via Wired, “A federal judge in San Francisco declined to decide today whether to unseal documents at the heart of a lawsuit against AT&T for its alleged participation in a warrantless government wiretapping program aimed at Americans’ overseas emails and …
Report on the External Quality Control Review of the EPA's IG Audit Organization
Final Report: Report on the External Quality Control Review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General Audit Organization [Report PDF – 19 pages], December, 2006.
Quartet of DHS OIG Audits Released on Financial, Immigration, IT Issues
Audit of DHS’ Corrective Action Plan Process for Financial Reporting – Report No. 3, OIG-07-13 (PDF, 26 pages) December 20 2006. Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security, OIG-07-12 (PDF, 46 pages) December 20 2006 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Progress in Modernizing Information Technology, OIG-07-11 (PDF, 36 pages) December 20 2006 Independent …
DNI Releases National Intelligence Estimates on Yugoslavia
Press release: DNI Releases Four Decades of U.S. Intelligence on Yugoslavia “This collection of 34 declassified National Intelligence Estimates and memoranda represents the United States Intelligence Community’s most authoritative analysis of Yugoslavia, spanning four decades from the 1948 break with the Soviet Union until 1990 and the eve of the nation’s collapse. Over the years, …
