GAO Reports Need for Better Military Planning for Future Disasters
Hurricane Katrina: Better Plans and Exercises Needed to Guide the Military’s Response to Catastrophic Natural Disasters, Full-text of GAO-06-643, and Highlights, May 15, 2006.
Category «E-Government»
Black Box Voting Report on Diebold Security Issues
5-11-06: Three-level security flaws found in Diebold touch-screens. Critical Security Alert: Diebold TSx and TS6 voting systems by Harri Hursti, for Black Box Voting, Inc. (12 pages, PDF) “Due to the nature of this report it is distributed in two different versions. Details of the attack are only in the restricted distribution version considered to …
Public Acclimated to Gov’t and Corporate Data Collection
Washington Post: NSA Program Further Blurs Line on Privacy – Consumers Grow Accustomed to Surrendering Personal Data: “Phone companies know every number we dial. Grocery stores watch what we buy, search engines track what we look for on the Internet, banks count each penny we deposit or withdraw.” Related postings on domestic surveillance program
Info On Pentagon Phone Surveillance Program Generates Legal and Political Ramifications
Follow-up to May 11, 2006 posting, Domestic Call Records Mined for Expansive Pentagon Database Program, see the following related news and commentary: USAToday.com: NSA secret database report triggers fierce debate in Washington USAToday.com: Gathering data may not violate privacy rights, but it could be illegal Press release: Over Fifty Members of Congress Call for Special …
Funding for Water Quality Projects Face Deep Cuts
Follow-up to May 10, 2006 posting, EPA Reports Almost Half of the Nation’s Streams Are Polluted, see the Committee on Appropriations, Minority report, May 11, 2006: Love that Dirty Water: The Republican Record on Clean Water.
Essay Proposes FISA Is Not Adequate to Combat Technology Associated With Terrorism
Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, Lawful Intelligence and Surveillance of Terrorists in an Emergency by NSA Act Introduced Today, see Whispering Wires and Warrantless Wiretaps, by Kim Taipale, N.Y.U. REV. L. & SECURITY, No. VII Supl., “Bulletin: The NSA and the War on Terror,” (Spring 2006). “This essay examines certain implications of employing [automated data analysis …
Health-EU Portal Debuts
“The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General is pleased to present the Health-EU Portal (the official public health portal of the European Union) and the wide range of information and data on health-related issues and activities at both European and international level. The main objective of this thematic Portal is to provide European citizens with easy …
Domestic Call Records Mined for Expansive Pentagon Database Program
USA Today reported that the nation’s three major telecommunications carriers have provided the Pentagon with call records for “tens of millions of Americans.” The paper also published this related editorial: NSA has your phone records; ‘trust us’ isn’t good enough. Related government documents and news: President Bush Discusses NSA Surveillance Program, May 11, 2006: “We’re …
EPA’s National Strategy for Agriculture
Press release, May 8, 2006: New EPA Collaborative Partnership with Farmers in Growing Economy, Cleaning Up the Environment April 25, 2006 – EPA’s National Strategy for Agriculture
U.S. Government Telephone and E-mail Directories
U.S. Government Telephone and E-mail Directories
Performance Data for the Senior Medicare Patrol Projects
Performance Data for the Senior Medicare Patrol Projects: April 2006 Performance Report (OEI-02-04-00363), (92 pages, PDF).
EPA Reports Almost Half of the Nation’s Streams Are Polluted
“The draft Wadeable Streams Assessment: A Collaborative Survey of the Nation’s Streams (WSA) is a first-ever statistically-valid study of the biological condition of small streams throughout the U.S. It establishes a national baseline we can use to compare to results from future studies. This information will help us evaluate the successes of our national efforts …
