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The Washington Post reports that the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), (see Executive Order 12334, December 4, 1981) … “did not send any reports to the attorney general of legal violations during the first 5 1/2 years of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism effort…” “The President’s Intelligence Oversight Board (lOB) was established by President Gerald Ford …
Press release: “On June 11, 2007, Mr. Prakash Khatri, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (CISOMB) delivered the 2007 Annual Report to Congress. The Ombudsmans annual reports focus on identifying systemic issues that cause delay in granting immigration benefits as well as pervasive and serious problems faced by individuals and …
Bill Moyers Journal, July 13, 2007: “Bill Moyers gets perspective on the role of impeachment in American political life from Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION’s John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT.” Related links: WATCH MOYERS ON IMPEACHMENT More on the …
Press release: “Throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s, while the U.S. government conducted its space reconnaissance program under a veil of absolute secrecy, officials debated whether information about the program (including the “fact of” its existence and certain photographs) should be disclosed to other elements of the government, public, allies, and even the …
Press release: “The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland is pleased to announce the launching of the Center for Information Policy and Electronic Government (CIPEG). CIPEG is a multidisciplinary research and educational center that focuses on the intersections between public policy and law, ethics, and trust as they affect the uses of …
Press release: “Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth L. Wainstein and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III today announced a series of comprehensive measures to significantly enhance national security oversight and compliance at the Justice Department and FBI. Among the primary components of this oversight effort, which has been …
2007 Data Mining Report (PDF, 42 pages) – DHS Privacy Office Response to House Report 109-699, July 6, 2007: “This is the second report by the Privacy Office to Congress on data mining. This report describes data mining activities deployed or under development within the Department that meet the definition of data mining as mandated …
The governance of Britain – the Government’s draft legislative programme, July 11, 2007 (67 pages, PDF)
Press release: “The United States has faced an unprecedented rise in government secrecy over the last six years, according to a report released today by OpenTheGovernment.org and People For the American Way Foundation. Government Secrecy: Decisions Without Democracy 2007 (52 pages, PDF) documents how executive power has dramatically expanded while executive accountability has diminished.”
Legistorm Congressional Travel Database: “Our travel database contains roughly 27,000 trips and provides a unique window into how private organizations are trying to gain influence in Washington. No other source of congressional trip data is as comprehensive or accurate or provides the users the same ability to view the original documents. What’s more, you can …
ACE Release 4 Post-Deployment Problems, OIG-07-54 (PDF, 22 pages), released July 12, 2007.
USA Economy in Brief – Just-Released U.S. Dept. of State Publication “For better or worse, the U.S. economy is at or near the top in a number of international rankings: No. 1 in economic output, called gross domestic product, amounting to $13.13 trillion in 2006. With less than 5 percent of the world’s population, at …
