Summaries of Selected DARPA Research Programs
DARPA Fact File: Short summaries of selected DARPA programs, intended as a ready reference for those interested in DARPAs research portfolio, 8/15/03.
Category «Government Documents»
National Security Secrets
From Steven Aftergood at the Project on Government Secrecy: “The text of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, which prohibits the identification of “covert agents,” is available here.” From Section 421: “Whoever, having or having had authorized access to classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally discloses any information identifying such covert agent …
Worldwide Survey of E-Politics
PoliticsOnline announced the results of its global survey to identify the 25 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics. From the press release, what follows is a selection of the honorees: BBC News and iCan team – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website is arguably the leading global authority in political news. Dean …
U.S. Government Manual 2003-2004
GPO provides access to The U.S. Government Manual 2003-2004 via either a key word search or through a browse feature (choose between viewing content in text of pdf), to access data organized into the following topics: Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, Executive Branch, Executive Agencies, Independent Establishments and Gov’t Corporations, Quasi-Official Agencies, Appendices and Changes.
National Archives Collection of Historic Documents Once Again Available
“The marble rotunda at the National Archives will reopen tomorrow after two years of renovations designed to make the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence more accessible to visitors and less obscured by distance, awkward angles and green-tinted glass.” [Link]
New GAO Report on FOIA Released Today
Freedom of Information Act: Agency Views on Changes Resulting from New Administration Policy. GAO-03-981, September 3. Highlights. FOIA Rules Not Seen Affecting Information
Executive Order on Iraqi Assets
Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, Blocking Property of the Former Iraqi Regime, Its Senior Officials and Their Family Members, and Taking Certain Other Actions.
FOIA and Illinois Gov’t Docs.
Illinois Strengthens Open Government Laws: “Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) recently signed two pieces of legislation into law that expand current open government laws. The first requires local government bodies to record closed meetings; the second allows attorneys fees and court costs to be awarded to plaintiffs in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cases.”
OMB Proposes Peer Review for All Significant Regulatory Documents
As noted by OMB Watch, on August 29, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), an agency within the Office of Management and Budget, (OMB) released a draft bulletin “proposing a standardized process by which all significant regulatory documents (of the most important science disseminated by the federal government) will be subject to peer …
Public Access to Essential Gov’t Docs
From the GPO: Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper Format: The list comprises 48 titles, along with associated web links as available. “The dissemination of information products through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) includes a variety of formats. As directed by Congress, the primary method of making publications available to the FDLP is …
NY Port Authority Releases Transcripts of 9/11 Calls
From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, this news on the release of “nearly 2,000 pages of transcripts of emergency calls made on September 11, 2001, to Port Authority police command from civilians and officers…under an order by Bergen County, N.J., Superior Court…Judge Sylvia R. Moses…The Times (New York Times) had told the …
GAO Audit of White House Energy Task Force
Chronology of the GAO’s Attempts to Obtain Information from the National Energy Policy Development Group, August 25, 2003. Energy Task Force: Process Used to Develop the National Energy Policy. GAO-03-894, August 22. Highlights “The General Accounting Office said in a long-awaited report that Vice President Dick Cheney’s unwillingness to cooperate stymied efforts to find out …
