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Judge Scolds U.S. Officials Over Barring Jet Travelers: From the order of June 15 by U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer (a copy of which has been provided by The Volokh Conspiracy), “In this Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) action plaintiffs seek records regarding “no fly” and other transportation watch lists, as well as …
Today the Commission released Staff Statement No. 15, Overview of the Enemy, (12 pages, PDF): From page five of the report: “We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.” Also released was Staff Statement No. 16, Outline of the 9/11 Plot. Links to Statements presented at …
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003, a report released by the Secretary of State on April 29, will undergo revisions to correct inaccurate and incomplete data. The data was compiled by the Terrorist Threat Integration Center. From the June 14 State Department Daily Press Briefing statement by spokesman Richard Boucher: “Whether we put out a whole …
From the press release: “The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has published its 9th edition of How to Use the Federal FOI Act.”
“Today washingtonpost.com is posting a copy of the Aug. 1, 2002, memorandum (50 pages, PDF) “Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under 18 U.S.C. 2340-2340A,” from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel for Alberto R. Gonzales, counsel to President Bush.” [Link] Related reference – see also Text: Ashcroft Comments on Anti-Terror Policy, June 8, …
The Wall Street Journal posted, free to non-subscribers, the PDF text (49 pages) of a controversial DoD memo, stamped DRAFT, and titled Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on Terrorism: Assessment of Legal, Historical, Policy, and Operational Considerations, 6 March 2003. From Newsweek, this link to an article, “A Defense Dept. …
On FOIA Front, More Agencies Contract Out: Private Firms Have Growing Role in Handling Backlogs of Requests for Government Records Related reference: see the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, which “works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight.”
According to the Guardian Unlimited, global publisher Reed Elsevier will now permit academic authors whose work is to appear in subscription journals to additionally publish text versions on the Web. This decision would potentially allow free access to tens of thousands of articles that otherwise would require fee-based subscriptions. For reference, see this report (15 …
From the WSJ online, Seven Clicks Away, by Newton N. Minow, is available here for one week, to those without a subscription. Mr. Minow, Chairman of the Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee (Tapac) to the Department of Defense, refers to the report on data mining and terrorism that his committee delivered to Congress this week. …
“The Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project grows from this premise and this goal: to help the press ask penetrating questions, critical questions, questions that matter, questions not yet asked about today’s news. [The recently launched] NiemanWatchdog.org seeks to encourage more informed reporting by putting journalists in contact with authorities who can suggest appropriate, probing questions and …
Who Downloaded the Spyware? Not Me! Coming Soon – the Death of Search Engines? Trends in Blog Searching Change Strategies Are the Key to KM International Commercial Arbitration: Locating the Resources (Revised) Online Legal Information in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden – Updated Metaforix@Health – Prescription Drug Pricing: Issues and Resources Notes From the Technology Trenches …
Staff Statement No. 14: Crisis Management Links to submitted testimony. Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s statement is not currently online, but for reference, see Giuliani Mounts Spirited Defense of City’s Response to 9/11. From the Commission’s Media Advisory of today: “The 9-11 Commission has selected W. W. Norton & Company as the authorized publisher of …
