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Follow-up to previous postings on EPA’s closure of libraries, this press release: “Prosecution of polluters by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “will be compromised” due to the loss of “timely, correct and accessible” information from the agency’s closure of its network of technical libraries, according to an internal memo released today by Public Employees for …
Unclassified Executive Summary from the classified DoD IG Report No. 06-INTEL-10, Review of DoD-Directed Investigations of Detainee Abuse, released September 8, 2006 and dated August 25, 2006. IPO 2004C005, Review of Criminal Investigations of Alleged Detainee Abuse, 8/25/06 (Redacted Version, 72 pages, PDF), released September 8, 2006 and dated August 25, 2006
Project On Government Oversight – September 11, 2006: An annotated list of resources related to the policies and use of the Transportation Security Administration’s Sensitive Security Information secrecy category.
Follow-up to previous posting, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (S. 2590) unanimously passed the Senate on the evening of September 7. POGO reported “that Sens. Stevens (R-AK) and Byrd (D- WV) lifted their secret holds on the bill.” Update: September 13, 2006 House floor debate on the Act, via FAS
Summary of Final Rule: “The Department of State is updating the regulations implementing 1 U.S.C. 112a and 112b in order to reflect amendments to the statutes governing publication of U.S. international agreements and their transmittal to the Congress. It will not be publishing certain categories of international agreements in the compilation entitled “United States Treaties …
Senate Intelligence Committee: Postwar Findings about Iraq’s WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How they Compare with Prewar Assessments (151 pages, PDF), September 8, 2006. The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress, (211 pages, PDF), September 8, 2006
As posted by Marci Hoffman today, “The German Federal Ministry of Justice has commissioned a translation of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (or BGB), the civil code of Germany. The translation can be downloaded free of charge here.” Note: as brought to my attention by a reader (thanks Dan), as of mid-October 2006, the site now has …
Follow-up on yesterday’s posting, Administration’s Proposed Legislation to Create Military Commissions, the House Armed Services Committee Release, Hearing on Military Standards and Commissions Utilized in Trying Detainees, September 7, 2006 Chairman Hunter Opening Statement (pdf) Witness statements: Mr. Steven Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice (pdf); Major General Scott C. Black, USA, The …
Information Technology: Improvements Needed to More Accurately Identify and Better Oversee Risky Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars, Full-text GAO-06-1099T, and Highlights, September 7, 2006. “As a result of the Management Watch List and high risk projects processes, about 300 projects totaling about $12 billion in estimated IT expenditures for fiscal year 2007 have been identified …
Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, Administration’s Proposed Legislation to Create Military Commissions, this Update on Detainee Issues and Military Commissions Legislation, John Bellinger III, State Department Legal Advisor, Foreign Press Center Briefing, Washington, DC, September 7, 2006.
National Archives Issues Progress Report on Declassification Initiatives: “The new NDI program will reduce redundancies in declassification review, will promote accurate and consistent declassification decisions, will improve equity recognition across the declassification community, develop centralized priorities and management controls around the priorities, and make the declassification process more transparent to the public.” Related postings on …
U.S. Dept. of Defense Detainee Directive – Definitions, Treatment Policy, and Compliance with Laws of War, September 5, 2006 Related government documents from Office of Director of National Intelligence (DNI): Information on the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program, September 6, 2006 Biographies of High Value Terrorist Detainees, September 1, 2006
