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Press release: “The National Academies have prepared fact sheets that provide reliable, objective information on four types of potential terrorist attacks. Designed primarily for reporters, they explain the scientific underpinnings and health effects of biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological attacks. The National Research Council’s Division on Earth and Life Studies led the creation of the …
Electronic Government: Agencies Face Challenges in Implementing New Federal Employee Identification Standard, GAO-06-178, February 1, 2006. Highlights. “Many forms of identification (ID) that federal employees and contractors use to access government-controlled buildings and information systems can be easily forged, stolen, or altered to allow unauthorized access.”
Time, Is the Dubai Ports Deal Doomed? – Why Bush is still losing ground with his own party, by Michael Duffy: “Republican objections to the Dubai ports deal haven’t stabilized in Congress this week, despite the promise of a 45-day delay and nonstop crisis management by the Bush Administration. If anything, they’ve increased.” Related postings …
NARA press release: “Archivist of the United States Announces New Steps in Response to Withdrawal of Declassified Records from Open Shelves at the National Archives” Related documents, news and postings: Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000 Public Interest Declassification Board Holds First Meeting: Document Withdrawal from the National Archives a Serious Concern, 2/28/2006. New York …
“…ReadtheBill.org is a narrowly focused effort to persuade the U.S. Congress to establish the “72 Hours of Online Sunshine Rule” [H. Res. 688, introduced Feb. 16, 2006: To require that legislation and conference reports be available on the Internet for 72 hours before consideration by the House, and for other purposes.]”
“CDT today offered a legislative proposal that would exempt the vast majority of individual speakers on the Internet from campaign finance laws, without creating loopholes that could be easily exploited by state political parties and large donors. CDT drafted the proposal in response to mounting efforts in the House of Representatives to pass a measure …
A 19 page affidavit was filed today in the Libby CIA leak case, by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Previous disclosures related to the case refer to a still unnamed government official who in addition to Libby leaked information on Plame’s identity. Editor & Publisher, Did Bob Woodward Record Key Plame Case Conversation?
Press release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Find Cell Phones Pose Greater Risk to Airplane Navigation Than Previously Believed Related postings on in-flight cell phone use
What Bush Was Told About Iraq, by Murray Waas, National Journal, Thursday, March 2, 2006 “Two highly classified intelligence reports delivered directly to President Bush before the Iraq war cast doubt on key public assertions made by the president, Vice President Cheney, and other administration officials as justifications for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein, …
Learn how the government spent $62 billion in 2005 on information technology — FY 2005 Report to Congress on Implementation of The E-Government Act of 2002, March 1, 2006. (46 pages, PDF)
Govtech.net: “For the second year in a row, Americans have rated the U.S. Postal Service as the number one agency they trust to protect their privacy, according to a new study.” The FTC and the IRS are ranked second and third in the study, whose full text is not currently available online. Ponemon Soundbite: “The …
From People for the American Way, this new website, Make a FOIA Request: “Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), anyone has the right to request information from the government. Last strengthened by Congress in response to the Watergate scandal, FOIA gives citizens a way to demand transparency from the Administration — and take the …
