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From CNN: “President Bush on Tuesday rejected calls to release classified sections of a congressional report on the September 11, 2001, attacks, saying his administration must protect intelligence sources during the war on terrorism.” See my July 24 posting on the report here. “ACCESS DENIED” to Joint Inquiry on 9-11 by Bush Administration – commentary …
From the Center for Democracy and Technology: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is introducing legislation (S. 1484) requiring all government agencies that use commercial data for law enforcement and intelligence purposes to report to Congress about their activities and the potential privacy implications of those programs. Citizens’ Protection in Federal Databases Act (pdf), to require a …
House Panel Approves Deep E-Gov Funding Cuts – “The U.S. House Appropriations Committee is calling for only $1 million in 2004 funding for the Electronic Government Act (E-Gov), which invests in inter-agency projects with government-wide applications. The Bush Administration had requested $45 million for the program.” This act “uthorizes funding for improvement of the federal …
GPO Holds a Clearance Sale as It Closes Bookstores Because of Web’s Growth: “It’s the Internet,” explained GPO spokesman Andrew M. Sherman. “Our online operation has just killed the retail end of this business. The mainstay of sales at our stores was principally regulatory information — tax rules, international trade, the Code of Federal Regulations. …
From the 7/15/2003 Library Journal: “As government documents librarians incorporate more digital materials, they are finding that the very shape of their libraries is transformed,” by Marylaine Block. “Like other documents librarians, Carolyn Kohler (government publications librarian at the University of Iowa) has found herself unexpectedly at the forefront of technological change and momentous political …
Launched July 8, “OMB Watch’s new weblog will cover a wide range of tax and budget issues, and will be updated throughout the week by OMB Watch budget staff.”
Problems with the Department of the Interior’s management and operations of its web sites is the focus of a recent Inspector General Report, issued in June. The introduction to the 42 page evaluation report (pdf) states that Interior “needs to manage its web sites more efficiently, cost-effectively, and securely; and focus on its customers.” Report …
Text below is from the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004, (House of Representatives – July 08, 2003), (Page: H6276) SEC. 8124. Limitation on Deployment of Terrorism Information Awareness Program: (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in paragraph (2), if and when research and development on the Terrorism Information Awareness …
Electronic Records: Management and Preservation Pose Challenges, by Linda D. Koontz, director, information management, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-03-936T, July 8. From the same subcommittee, see also this hearing, Wiring Our National Archives, Federal Electronic Records Management Review, July 8, 2003. “The …
The 2003 Cato Institute report (40 pages in pdf), Ten Thousand Commandments, An Annual Report of the Federal Regulatory State. “The 2002 Federal Register contained an all-time record 75,606 pages, a nearly 9 percent increase over 2001.” See also 2002 Federal Register Is Longest Ever (Washington Post, July 8, 2003).
Turnabout is fair play – from TIA to GIA: Open Government Information Awareness (GIA Project) website, sponsored by the MIT Media Lab, provides the source code for the applications that power the site: “To empower citizens by providing a single, comprehensive, easy-to-use repository of information on individuals, organizations, and corporations related to the government of …
Restore America’s freedom of information, by Sens. Patrick Leahy and Carl Levin. “The Bush administration has made secrecy, not sunshine, its default position, whether the issue is industry input to the national energy policy (current report has yet to be issued), the names of those detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, or potential vulnerabilities in …
