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“At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to military and veterans records compiled by USA TODAY. The data, provided by the Army, Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs, show that about five times as many troops …
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, filed November 23. 2007, ACLU v DHS: Proposed Order Granting Defendants Motion to Stay Proceeding Pending New Rulemaking. ACLU press release: “The lawsuit was brought by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) …
Action Plan for Import Safety – A roadmap for continual improvement – Report to the President Interagency Working Group on Import Safety November 2007 (86 pages, PDF) OMB Watch: “The Action Plan for Import Safety: A Roadmap for Continual Improvement contains fourteen broad recommendations and fifty specific action steps. The recommendations are grouped under the …
PBS NOW, Big Oil, Big Influence: “During the time that Bush and Cheney, both of whom are former oil executives, have been in the White House, the oil and gas industry has spent $393.2 million on lobbying the federal government. This places the industry among the top nine in lobbying expenditures. The industry has also …
AP: “The papers of two of Arkansas’ most prominent political leaders former Govs. Clinton and Huckabee remain locked in storage four years after both promised to donate them to two separate archival projects.”
DHS Leadership Journal” “DHS posts its System of Record Notices and Privacy Impact Assessments on our website. These documents inform the public what personal information the government is collecting; how it will be used and shared; what consent, access and redress rights the individual may have; how the information will be protected; and how compliance …
US Courts: New rules providing privacy protection for case files posted online in the federal district, bankruptcy and appellate courts are scheduled to take effect December 1, 2007. Some of the rules represent a change in Judicial Conference policy. Meanwhile, a Judicial Conference committee is studying a related privacy issue: Whether courts should restrict Internet …
Access Case Records: “Minnesota Online District (Trial) Case Records – Minnesota District Courts offer an online case inquiry tool for statewide electronic case records, called MPA Remote, which stands for Minnesota Trial Court Public Access Remote view. MPA Remote is a public-view version of the Minnesota Court Information System (MNCIS), the computerized case management system …
Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales 3rd Quarter 2007: “The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the third quarter of 2007, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, was $34.7 billion, an increase of 3.6 percent (±0.8%) from …
CAFE and the U.S. Auto Industry – A Growing Auto Investor Issue, 2012-2020 October 2007 (36 pages, PDF): “In partnership with Ceres and the Investor Network on Climate Risk, [citi] along with industry experts at the Planning Edge, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, and NRDC evaluated potential changes to the U.S. Corporate Average Fuel …
2007 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission, November 2007 (364 pages, PDF) “The year-long study offers 42 recommendations for congressional action. The book-length report cites Chinese progress in certain areas but describes many alarming trends, including a retreat by China from market-based economic principles, the growth of Chinas information control regime, …
New York Times: Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate other attacks, according to senior American military officials. The …
