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ACSI e-Government Satisfaction Index, September 19, 2006 E-Gov Scores, September 2006 (xls) E-Gov Press Release, September 19, 2006: “Two transactional sites from Social Security Administration lead the Index again this quarter with a score of 87: the Internet Social Security Benefits Application site and the Help With Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs site. This score …
Information Quality Act (IQA): Expanded Oversight and Clearer Guidance by the Office of Management and Budget Could Improve Agencies’ Implementation of the Act, Full-text GAO-06-765, and Highlights, August 23, 2006. “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not have department-level guidelines covering its 22 component agencies. Also, although the Environmental Protection Agency and 4 other …
Press release: “The estimated volume of violent crime in the Nation increased 2.3 percent, but the estimated volume of property crime decreased 1.5 percent in 2005 when compared with 2004 data, according to FBI statistics released today. From 2004 to 2005, the rate of violent crime, estimated at 469.2 violent offenses per 100,000 inhabitants, increased …
Energy Information Administration Report released September 18, 2006: “The Quarterly Coal Report (QCR) provides data on U.S. coal production, exports, imports, receipts, prices, consumption, coal quality and stocks in addition to data on U.S. coke production, consumption, stocks, imports, and exports. The data presented in the QCR are collected and published by the Energy Information …
September 18, 2006 – Reports Encompassing More Than One DOJ Component – Use of Polygraph Examinations in the Department of Justice, Evaluations and Inspections Report I-2006-008, September 2006. “The Department of Justice (Department) and several of its components use and conduct polygraph examinations for a variety of administrative and investigative uses. In this Office of …
Financial Restatement Database, GAO-06-1053R, August 31, 2006. “On July 24, 2006, we issued a report to Congress entitled, Financial Restatements: Update of Public Company Trends, Market Impacts, and Regulatory Enforcement Activities. That report included a listing of 1,390 financial restatement announcements that we identified as having been made because of financial reporting fraud and/or accounting …
Follow-up to July 11, 2006 posting, New York Courts to Make “Virtual” Case Files Available on the Internet, the link for the Supreme Court Records On-Line Library is now available. Users may search CCIS – This database contains all cases assigned to a Judge from 1986 to date; or CCOP – All cases filed with …
Following up on this September 13, 2006 posting, Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine, the fallout from an array of problems experienced by more than ten thousand Maryland residents who tried to vote in the primaries on September 12, continues. As follows: What happened in Maryland? Online Extra: Flaws, vulnerabilities and human error …
Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses — Updated September 11, 2006 Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution — Updated September 11, 2006 Iran’s Nuclear Program: Recent Developments — Updated September 6, 2006
Department of State’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, September 15, 2006 “The 2006 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom covers 197 countries and territories. The pages of each country report distill the experience of the past year into a whole that we hope will spur debate in other countries, hold governments accountable to their …
Report on Review of Testimony to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Report No. 06-INTEL-12), September 12, 2006. “Both DoD and the FAA provided the Commission and the public with inaccurate information about their responses to the events of September 11, 2001. However, we found no indication that these statements were …
Press release: “Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Democratic Members of the Committee on Government Reform have developed six proposals to restore honesty and accountability in government…Ban secret meetings with lobbyists and close the revolving door; Restore open government; Clean up federal contracting; Block the appointment of cronies; Take politics out of science; Protect federal whistleblowers.” …
