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Corporate responsibility: Reporters Without Borders urges Internet users and bloggers to support its recommendations on freedom of expression. Related reference: Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents
Federal Times reports that FEMA data on contracts awarded after Katrina is substantively incomplete in numerous areas, including identification of whether over $450 million in contracts were even competitively bid. Related reference: Improvements Needed to the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation, GAO-05-960R, September 27, 2005.
Poll: Most Want Court OK for Gov’t Taps AP/Ipsos Poll Eavesdropping Poll Method Postings on domestic surveillance
S. 2175 – A bill to require the submittal to Congress of any Presidential Daily Briefing relating to Iraq during the period beginning on January 20, 1997, and ending on March 19, 2003. Sponsor: Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA](introduced 12/21/2005). Latest Major Action: 12/22/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the …
CBO: The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans and Alternatives: Detailed Update for Fiscal Year 2006, January 2006 (84 pages, PDF)
CDT: “Fourteen of the nation’s leading experts on constitutional law today issued an analysis concluding that “the Justice Department’s defense of what it concedes was secret and warrantless electronic surveillance of persons within the United States fails to identify any plausible legal authority for such surveillance. Accordingly the program appears on its face to violate …
Washington Post: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito’s Nomination to the Supreme Court, Part I of II, Courtesy FDCH e-Media, Monday, January 9, 2006; 12:59 PM. Read below the opening statements of the first thirteen senators’ opening statements. The final statements, and Judge Alito’s opening statement, can be found in Part II …
Report to Congress on the Benefits of the President’s E-Government Initiatives, January 6, 2006. (183 pages, PDF) “The Federal government is delivering results through expansion and adoption of electronic government principles and best practices in managing information technology, and is increasingly providing timely and accurate information to the citizens and government decision makers while ensuring …
Review of the Transportation Security Administration’s Management Controls Over the Screener Recruitment Program, OIG-06-18, December 2005 (PDF, 36 pages), 1/9/2006.
A Legal Analysis of the NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program, by Morton H. Halperin, January 6, 2006 Secrecy News: “Halperin, a leading civil libertarian and former Pentagon and State Department official, played an influential role in the enactment of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, which subjected intelligence surveillance within the United States to …
Press release, January 6, 2006: “U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin today sent a letter to House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert requesting that a special House panel be created “to undertake an immediate investigation and hearings into the President’s purported authority to conduct eavesdropping of U.S. citizens without a court order.” Press release, January 9, 2005: …
AP: Specter Seeks AG’s Testimony on Spying Related references: December 19, 2005 Press Briefing by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and General Michael Hayden, Principal Deputy Director for National Intelligence. The NSA Spy Engine: Echelon, by Jason Leopold Related postings on domestic surveillance
