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Cross-Border Privacy Law Enforcement Website: “On 12 June 2007, the OECD Council adopted a new Recommendation setting forth a framework for co-operation in the enforcement of privacy laws. The framework reflects a commitment by governments to improve their domestic frameworks for privacy law enforcement to better enable their authorities to co-operate with foreign authorities, as …
Improved Administration Can Enhance Federal Emergency Management Agency Laptop Computer Security (Redacted) OIG-07-50 (PDF, 37 pages) June 2007
Commentary – John Moss and the battle for freedom of information, 41 years later: “How one modest but stubborn congressman overcame the many entrenched obstacles to win the American people access to information about the activities of their government,” by Michael R. Lemov.
Press release: “The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has wrongfully withheld data documenting years of toxic exposures to workers and its own inspectors, according to a federal court ruling posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result, the worlds largest compendium of measurements of occupational exposures to toxic substances …
Evaluating Military Compensation, June 2007: “This CBO study – prepared at the request of the ranking members of the Senate Budget Committee – offers an overview of military compensation, particularly of active-duty enlisted personnel.” (44 pages, PDF)
Press release: “In response to Rep. Waxmans request, the Department of Transportation provided limited documents and e-mails related to its lobbying of Members of Congress to oppose efforts by California and other states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. In the correspondence providing the documents, DOT states that it intends to withhold 53 …
Press release: “The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today signed the first U.S./European agreement in the area of assessing food safety risk. This is the first formal international cooperation agreement EFSA has signed and the first formal step in cooperation between the two bodies.” “The European Food …
D-2007-106 Air Force Network-Centric Solutions Contract (4MB) (Project D2006-D000AS-0211.000), PDF and Summary.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Investigative Operations at Gun Shows, Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2007-007, June 2007 (56 pages, PDF)
Follow up to previous postings on Plame CIA leak case, news today that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has unanimously denied I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s request to delay his prison sentence. Grant of Executive Clemency, July 2, 2007 and Statement by the President On Executive Clemency for Lewis Libby Special Prosecutor …
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports and correspondence: Reports Federal Housing Administration: Decline in the Agency’s Market Share Was Associated with Product and Process Developments of Other Mortgage Market Participants. GAO-07-645, June 29, 2007 Federal Housing Administration: Modernization Proposals Would Have Program and Budget Implications and Require Continued Improvements in Risk …
The Knight Open Government Survey conducted by the National Security Archive, George Washington University: 40 Years of FOIA, 20 Years of Delay – Oldest Pending FOIA Requests Date Back to the 1980s, July 2, 2007 (39 pages, PDF). This audit “surveys the 87 agencies and major components and finds that extensive backlogs persist. Requests from …
