Category «Government Documents»

Sensitive Personal Data Posted on Florida Public Records Sites

Computerworld reports, “The Social Security numbers, driver’s license information and bank account details belonging to potentially millions of current and former residents of Florida are available to anyone on the Internet because sensitive information has not been redacted from public records being posted on county Web sites.”

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

GAO Reports Calls For Better Disaster Response and Recovery Programs

Hurricane Katrina: Planning for and Management of Federal Disaster Recovery Contracts, Full-text GAO-06-622T, April 10, 2006. Highlights. “The devastation experienced throughout the Gulf Coast region in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has called into question the government’s ability to effectively respond to such disasters. The government needs to understand what went right and …

Subjects: Government Documents

President Defends Declassification of Pre-War Iraq Intel

Follow-up to April 9, 2006 posting, Reports Substantiate WH Plan to Discredit Iraq War Critic Via Plame CIA Leak, President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, April 10, 2006: “…after we liberated Iraq, there was questions in people’s minds about the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

Reports Substantiate WH Plan to Discredit Iraq War Critic Via Plame CIA Leak

Follow-up to April 7, 2006 posting, Plame Leak Controversy Focused on President With Release of New Info, see: today’s Washington Post: Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story: “As he drew back the curtain this week on the evidence against Vice President Cheney’s former top aide, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

National Security Archive Posts Docs. Actually Declassified by Administration on Iraq Intel

“Only 14 of the full 93 pages of the National Intelligence Estimate that President Bush authorized Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, to disclose to New York Times reporter Judith Miller has actually been officially declassified, according to a posting [April 7, 2006]on the Web site of the National Security Archive …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

Waxman Requests Answers on Bush Authorizing Leak of Natonal Security Intel

Press release: “In a letter to President Bush, Rep. Waxman asks for a full accounting of the President’s and Vice President’s actions in authorizing leaks of classified intelligence about Iraq, while at the same time concealing the President’s knowledge of serious doubts about Iraq’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.” CRS Memo, Disclosure of Security Classified Information, …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research