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“The Forgotten Homeland: A Century Foundation Task Force Report transcript from the June 29, 2006 panel discussion event, featuring Richard A. Clarke, Rand Beers, Jane A. Bullock, Martin O’Malley, and Richard C. Leone. (24 pages, PDF) gathers some of the leading homeland security experts to analyze the nation’s most significant vulnerabilities and to propose strategies …
Enforcing the ADA: A Status Report from the Department of Justice, January – March 2006 (July 7, 2006)
Fact Sheet: Securing Our Nations Rail Systems, July 7, 2006 – “Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the 7/7 London subway bombings, and the Madrid rail bombings, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken several steps to manage risk and strengthen our nation’s rail and transit systems…” Related news and documents: New …
Border Security: Investigators Transported Radioactive Sources Across Our Nation’s Borders at Two Locations, Full-text GAO-06-940T, and Highlights, July 7, 2006. “GAO’s investigators, using counterfeit documents, were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources in the trunks of their vehicles to make two dirty bombs.”
Enhanced Security Controls Needed for US-VISIT’s System Using RFID Technology (Redacted) OIG-06-39 (PDF, 27 pages), released July 7, 2006.
Homeland Security: Guidance and Standards Are Needed for Measuring the Effectiveness of Agencies’ Facility Protection Efforts, Full-text GAO-06-612, and Highlights, May 31, 2006 (released Junly 7, 2006). “The need to better protect federal facilities, coupled with federal budget constraints and the increased scrutiny of homeland security funding and programs, has prompted the need for U.S. …
Monthly Budget Review, July 2006: “CBO estimates that the government recorded a deficit of $208 billion for the first three quarters of 2006.”
From Tara Calishain: “This page allows you to search Googles government search engine and narrow your results by a state. Try adding a city or county name to your query as well.” See also Peggy Garvin’s review of U.S. Government Search on LLRX.com.
FDA’s Monitoring of Postmarketing Study Commitments (OEI-01-04-00390), released July 7, 2006 (45 pages, PDF).
FDIC press release, July 6, 2006: “Job market conditions remained generally positive in most of the U.S. through the first quarter of 2006, with some pockets of weakness along the Louisiana Gulf Coast and the auto-dependent upper Midwest. FDIC-insured institutions also continue to record strong earnings, supported by low credit losses and growth in both …
USAToday.com reported that “the federal government will pay a Texas law school $1 million to do research aimed at rolling back the amount of sensitive data available to the press and public through freedom-of-information requests. Beginning this month, St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio will analyze recent state laws that place previously …
Department of Energy’s Office of the Inspector General Report IG-0732, The Human Reliability Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (20 pages, PDF), June 30, 2006.
