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The GPO announced that its plan, the Future Digital System (FDsys), to digitize most government documents beginning with the Federal Papers, should be completed by summer 2007. See also the December 1, 2004 GPO report, A Strategic Vision for the 21st Century (23 pages, PDF)
CIA Director Porter J. Goss statement on CIA Office of the Inspector General Report, “CIA Accountability with Respect to the 9/11 Attacks”. “I will not convene an accountability board to judge the performances of any individual CIA officers.” Related links: Washington Post (reg. req’d): CIA Director Won’t Punish Officers For 9/11 Failures New York Times …
From Tim Stanley and his terrific team at Justia.com, this news: “we just put up a new free U.S. Supreme Court site and full decisions database (Volumes 1 – 545+) with oyez.org and uscourtforms.com. The url for the initial beta version is http://www.justia.us…we have links to real audio and canned searches into google, msn and …
Follow-up to my September 29, 2005 posting, Broad Coalition Pushes to Lift Gag Order Against Librarian, AP reports that yesterday the ACLU filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, the text of which is censored, to release an anonymous Connecticut librarian from a gag order concerning an FBI investigation into his/her organization’s patron records. ALA …
Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Draft Framework for Privacy Analysis of Programs, Technologies, and Applications, (draft, 9/2/05)
The External Effects of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Reprioritization Efforts (Redacted for Public Release), Audit Report 05-37, September 2005 (PDF)
From the Memory Hole: OSHA’s Lost Workday Injury and Illness Database – Injury/Illness Rates for Tens of Thousands of Companies Identified by Name. Data covers 1996-2002.
CBO – The Macroeconomic and Budgetary Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Update, September 29, 2005 (33 papges, PDF)
Follow-up to my previous posting, Controversy Surrounds Government Sponsored News, new developments and related links: press release: GAO Blasts Illegal Propaganda Campaign at the U.S. Department of Education: “Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) ruled that the Bush Department of Education illegally used taxpayer dollars to fund a covert propaganda campaign, aimed at boosting the …
Press release: On September 29, 2005, CCR attorneys lauded the landmark decision issued today by federal district court Judge Alvin Hellerstein that ordered the Department of Defense to release hundreds of new photographs and videotapes of abuse in Iraq that the DOD has attempted to withhold from the public. The ruling was in the Freedom …
Courtesy of GalleryWatch.com: Committee Report to Accompany S.__, the “Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2006” (61 pages, PDF) Committee Report to Accompany S.__, as unanimously passed by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (114 pages, PDF)
CRS Report, NEPA and Hurricane Response, Recovery, and Rebuilding Efforts, September 28, 2005 (12 pages, PDF)
