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From the Washington Post (reg. req’d) Plame’s Identity Marked As Secret – Memo Central to Probe Of Leak Was Written By State Dept. Analyst: “A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked “(S)” for secret, a clear indication that any Bush …
Senate Budget Committee: Health Information Technology: The Federal Role and Budget Implications Testimony of Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt (12 pages, PDF)
July 14, 2005 Text of Letter from Reps. Frank and Conyers to CRS’s American Law Division Requesting Opinion on the Impeachability of White House Staff.
FBI says it has files on ACLU, Greenpeace, other rights groups Large Volume of F.B.I. Files Alarms U.S. Activist Groups: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected at least 3,500 pages of internal documents in the last several years on a handful of civil rights and antiwar protest groups in what the groups charge is …
The Security Pretext: An Examination of the Growth of Federal Police Agencies, CATO Briefing Paper, by Melanie Scarborough. Full Text of Briefing Papers no. 94, 16 pages, (PDF) See also: Cities opening more video surveillance eyes, by Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age, by Jeffrey …
New Bush Statement on Rove Conflicts with Executive Order: “Rep. Waxman explains that the President’s responsibility under E.O. 12958 to protect national security secrets requires the President to act before Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald completes his criminal investigation and to apply different standards and sanctions.” Letter to President Bush (5 pages, PDF) Related postings here …
Information Technology Management: Census Bureau Has Implemented Many Key Practices, but Additional Actions Are Needed GAO-05-661, June 16, 2005. Highlights. “The bureau has developed policies and procedures and initiated key practices in many of the areas that are important to successfully managing IT, including investment management, system development/management, enterprise architecture management, information security, and human …
Friday, July 15, 2005 — “A fact sheet (3 pages, PDF) released by Rep. Waxman explains that the nondisclosure agreement signed by Karl Rove prohibited Mr. Rove from confirming the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Wilson to reporters. Under the nondisclosure agreement and the applicable executive order, even “negligent” disclosures to reporters are grounds …
President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) Report to the President on Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness (June 2005) (117 pages, PDF). Related references: High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (PL 102-194) Next Generation Internet Act of 1998 (PL 105-305) PITAC Executive Orders
Information Management: Acquisition of the Electronics Records Archives Is Progressing GAO-05-802, July 15, 2005. Highlights. Information Security: Weaknesses Persist at Federal Agencies Despite Progress Made in Implementing Related Statutory Requirements GAO-05-552, July 15, 2005. Highlights: “Pervasive weaknesses in the 24 major agencies’ information security policies and practices threaten the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of federal …
Press release from the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: A proposed Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule to allow the use of cell phones on commercial aircraft received bipartisan criticism during a Congressional oversight hearing today…any change to the existing ban on aircraft cell phone use would require the approval of both the FAA …
Press release: “Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee released a report this morning that analyzes the proposed Department of Homeland Security reorganization Secretary Michael Chertoff announced yesterday.” Protecting America Against Terrorists: The Case for a Comprehensive Reorganization of the Department of Homeland Security (14 pages, PDF)
