Category «Government Documents»

Some in Congress Set to Confront White House On Domestic Spying Program

AP reports today the Senate Judicary Committe Chairman Arlen Specter “said he believes the administration violated a 1978 law specifically calling for a secretive court to consider and approve such monitoring.” Additional resources: Time, Sunday, Feb. 05, 2006 – Wartime Power Play, by Massimo Calabresi: “As Capitol Hill prepares to battle the White House over …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Release of Historic Gov. Docs Chronicle White House Position on Wiretapping

Follow-up to February 3, 2006 posting, Judiciary Cmte. Democrats Again Request Data on Domestic Surveillance From AG, which referred to an AP article, Papers: Ford White House Weighed Wiretaps…George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are cited in the documents, see this additional documentation from the National Security Archive: “Despite objections from then-Secretary of …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

VP Informed Libby About Plame Identity

New York Times: New Details Revealed on C.I.A. Leak Case: “Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff told prosecutors that Mr. Cheney had informed him “in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion” in mid-June 2003 about the identity of the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak case, according to a …

Subjects: Government Documents

Copyright Office Releases Report on “Orphan Works”

“The Copyright Office has completed its study of problems related to ‘orphan works’—copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to identify and locate. As requested by Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Patrick Leahy, the Office submitted its Report on Orphan Works to the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 31, 2006. The Report is also available …

Subjects: Congress, Copyright, E-Government, Government Documents

Customer Info Collected By Search Engines Increasingly Subject to Scrutiny

FAQ: When Google is not your friend, by Declan McCullagh: “Google’s recent legal spat with the U.S. Department of Justice highlights not only what information search engines record about us but also the shortcomings in a federal law that’s supposed to protect online privacy.” Related references: New York Times – Increasingly, Internet’s Data Trail Leads …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Privacy, Search Engines

NASA Chief Calls for “Scientific Openness” Amidst Claims of Gov’t Secrecy

Follow-up to recent postings, Gov’t Climate Change Expert Contends Censorship of Data, and Sen. Boxer Calls For Hearings on Censorship of Gov’t Scientists, the New York Times reports that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin issued a “statement of scientific openness” to agency employees, saying, “NASA has always been, is and will continue to be committed to …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Date Set for Libby CIA Leak Trial

Follow-up to February 2, 2006 posting, Correspondence on Libby Indictment Mentions Missing Emails, news today that the Libby trail date has been set for January 8, 2007 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: WSJ free feature: Libby Trial to Begin in January In Case Stemming From CIA Leak AP: “The perjury trial …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents