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Today the House approved, by voice vote, a 60 day extension for the 9/11 Commission to complete its work. Obstacles remain however, including obtaining what the Commission has determined an essential component of the job they were tasked to fulfill – the full and detailed testimony of President Bush, VP Cheney and other key administration …
Information Security: Further Efforts Needed to Address Serious Weaknesses at USDA. GAO-04-154, January 30. Highlights.
audio: Betty Ong’s Call from 9/11 Flight 11 “Played at the 9/11 hearings, this is a 4-1/2 minute segment of a flight attendant’s call from Flight 11 to an operations specialist.” [Link] 9/11 Transcripts and Police Reports “The Memory Hole has obtained 9/11 documents previously withheld by the Port Authority of New York and New …
Hastert u-turns on Commission: “Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has dropped his opposition to a 60-day extension requested by a national commission to write a report analyzing the causes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.” [the new deadline is July 26, 2004] Response by the Chair and Vice Chair of the Commission Bush to Limit …
Prepared by the Democratic Members of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, February 2004: “America at Risk: Closing the Security Gap acknowledges that although the United States is safer than it was before September 11, significant security gaps remain. This 135-page report released on the first anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security identifies …
House Government Reform Hearing: You’ve Got Mail – But is it Secure? An Examination of Internet Vulnerabilities Affecting Businesses, Governments and Homes. October 16, 2003. Serial No. 108-95. GPO Stock No. 552-070-30848-2. Text; PDF (96 pages)
Information Management: Update on Freedom of Information Act Implementation Status. GAO-04-257, February 18. Highlights.
From the Library of Congress press release: “The 362-page guide (finding aid, already posted online as referenced in this link) to the Blackmun papers will be available on the Librarys public Web site, www.loc.gov, at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, March 4. Other materials, including case files for eight major cases and videotapes and transcripts of interviews …
From the February 20, 2004 Federal Register, (Volume 69, Number 34), Notices, Page 7987-7988: OMB requests comments on 2004 Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulation. The full Draft Report is available here, and is divided into two chapters. Chapter I presents estimates of the costs and benefits of Federal …
From the Sunday New York Times, this report states: “The Bush administration says it improperly altered a report (from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) documenting large racial and ethnic disparities in health care, but it will soon publish the full, unexpurgated document. “There was a mistake made,” Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary …
Press release: DHS Launches Protected Critical Infrastructure Information Program to Enhance Homeland Security, Facilitate Information Sharing: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today the launch of the Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII) Program. The PCII Program enables the private sector to voluntarily submit infrastructure information to the Federal government to assist the Nation in …
Airport Security: Challenges to Airport Passenger and Baggage Screening, by Cathleen A. Berrick, director, homeland security and justice, before the Subcommittee on Aviation, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. GAO-04-440T, February 12. Highlights From the Highlights: “TSA has not completely addressed seven of the eight issues identified by the Congress as key areas of interest …
