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From Secrecy News (all reports in PDF): Terrorism and National Security: Issues and Trends, CRS Issue Brief, updated July 6, 2004 The USA Patriot Act Sunset: A Sketch, updated June 10, 2004 USA Patriot Act Sunset: Provisions That Expire on December 31, 2005, updated June 10, 2004
Alphabetical List of Online Government Documents (archival materials) [David Dillard]
From CNN: Officials discuss how to delay Election Day Rice: No Plan to Delay National Election
Today the Senate Committee on Intelligence released a report detailing intelligence failures prior to the invasion of Iraq. Report Says Key Assertions Leading to War Were Wrong Conclusions Excerpted From Full Report , Conclusion 1. Most of the major key judgments in the Intelligence Community’s October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), Iraq’s Continuing Programs for …
Statement of Dara Corrigan Acting Principal Deputy Inspector General Department of Health and Human Services on Thomas Scully and Richard Foster Investigation (PDF) “Based on our investigation, we conclude that: CMS did not provide premium estimates that had been requested by Members of Congress. Additionally, CMS did not provide Congressional staff with some overall estimates …
According to this National Security Archive press release, more than 2.4 million FOIA requests have been filed since the law was signed on July 4, 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson, “at a yearly cost of just over $1 per citizen.” The Archive commemorates the importance of this law by publishing “an itemized list of 38 …
According to AP, Clinton’s collection of presidential materials and documents, totally about 630 tons, of which 80 million pages are designated as official documents, are now on their way to his library. The Clinton Presidential Center currently allows the public to “browse over 20,000 documents in 400+ categories.”
Government Printing Office: Actions to Strengthen and Sustain GPO’s Transformation, GAO-04-830, June 30, 2004, Highlights: “Federal government printing and dissemination are changing due to the underlying changes to the technological environment…Federal agencies are publishing more documents directly to the Web and are doing more of their printing and dissemination of information without using GPO services. …
From the Federal Register, June 20, 2004, National Archives and Records Administration, Public availability and use: Federal records and donated historical materials containing restricted information; access restrictions: “NARA is revising its regulations on access to Federal records and donated historical materials containing restricted information. This rule entirely rewrites and reorganizes this portion of NARA’s regulations …
From Secrecy News: “The Pentagon has reissued its Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, featuring over 700 pages of definitions updated through March 2004.” (736 pages, PDF)
The U.S. General Accounting Office website has undergone a much needed redesign, although the result is, to say the least, restrained (and red, white and blue all over). From the homepage, users may search all reports or legal products, as well as conduct searches by keyword or report number. A link to Current Reports and …
Foreign Lobbyist Database Could Vanish – “Justice Department officials say a huge database that serves as the public’s lone window on lobbying activities by foreign governments has been allowed to decay to a point they cannot even make a copy of its contents.” Foreign Agents Registration Unit (FARA), Counterespionage Section From AP, DOJ: Our Computer …
