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Follow up to recent postings on opposition by public interest groups, members of Congress, library associations, librarians, and scientists, to the closure of EPA libraries throughout the country, today this EPA press release stated: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing broader access to a larger audience by making agency library materials available through its …
Washington Post: Seeking Iran Intelligence, U.S. Tries Google – Internet Search Yields Names Cited in U.N. Draft Resolution “When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused, citing a large workload and a desire to protect …
Paying for Iraq’s Reconstruction: An Update – Report prepared for Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Kent Conrad by the Congressional Budget Committee, December 8, 2006.
Information Technology: DOD Needs to Ensure That Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Is Meeting Goals and Satisfying Customers, Full-text GAO-07-51, and Highlights, December 8, 2006. “The Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is a 10-year, $9.3 billion information technology services program. Through a performance-based contract, the Navy is buying network (intranet), application, and other hardware and …
Audit of Targeting Oceangoing Cargo Containers (Unclassified Summary), OIG-07-09 (PDF, 7 pages), December 8, 2006.
“The SAFECOM program fielded the National Interoperability Baseline Survey May-July 2006. By providing a clear representation of national capacities, survey findings will help emergency response leaders and policy makers make informed decisions about strategies for improving interoperability. Major Baseline Survey findings include the following: About two-thirds of agencies report using interoperability to some degree in …
Roll Call: “The House ethics committee’s report on the scandal surrounding ex-Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) behavior with House pages says no Members or staff committed any formal violations of the chamber’s ethics rules in their handling of the issue…” U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Investigation of Allegations Related to improper …
Department of Energy Office of Inspector General Audit Report, The Department of Energy’s Use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, December 2006.
Executive Order 13416–Strengthening Surface Transportation Security, Presidential Documents: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the security of the Nation’s surface transportation systems and thereby enhance the protection of the people, property, and territory of the United States of …
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) press release: “defiance of Congressional requests to immediately halt closures of library collections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is purging records from its library websites, making them unavailable to both agency scientists and outside researchers, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). At the …
Press release: The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today voted on the findings of the Voting Fraud and Voter Intimidation Study and accepted recommendations to conduct a comprehensive assessment of all claims, charges and prosecutions of voting crimes. The study represents the first phase of the information gathering process and includes a working definition …
Press release: “The Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Energy (DOE) today announced the first phase of the Secure Freight Initiative, an unprecedented effort to build upon existing port security measures by enhancing the federal governments ability to scan containers for nuclear and radiological materials overseas and to better assess the risk of inbound containers. …
