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“Rep. Waxman asks that guidance letters provided to state Medicaid programs be provided on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services website in a format generally accessible to standard computer users.” [Note: a redesign of the CMS site earlier this year rendered many documents inacessible, and resulted in countless broken links, which have not been …
The Memory Hole: “This heavily redacted list shows the closed investigations conducted by the CIA Inspector General from the beginning of 1997 to October 2004. It was obtained by researcher Michael Ravnitzky via FOIA.”
The Law Library of Congress announces the release of the June/July issue of the Global Legal Monitor. [Luis M. Acosta, Legal Information Analyst, Law Library of Congress]
LC Country Profile of China, August 8, 2006 (43 pages, PDF)
Press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union announced today that they have returned to court to challenge the constitutionality of the reauthorized Patriot Act’s National Security Letter (NSL) provision. The provision permits the FBI to prohibit anyone who receives an NSL from disclosing that the FBI has sought …
Press release: “According to “Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms,” a report by The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, women of color experience unique disadvantages based on race in addition to gender. White women experience such events based on gender alone, men of color experience such events based on race alone, …
“TRAC’s Immigration website now contains detailed performance information about most of the 200-plus immigration judges in the United States. Included are year-by-year percentages of asylum matters denied by each judge, comparisons in denial rates with other judges in the same immigration court as well as with all judges in the U.S., and information about the …
SEC press release, August 1, 2006: “The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…issued a request for contract proposals to conduct the first stage of a major study comparing how the different regulatory systems that apply to broker-dealers and investment advisers affect investors. The full text of the RFP.”
“You can watch Wi-Fi TV in most places around the world (including the USA) for free on any Internet enabled device.”
NBC News reports that in a new filing, “…Libby will argue that, in many cases, it is the government witnesses who have misremembered the facts, and that any errors Libby made in describing the events were the result of “confusion or faulty memory, not any intent to misrepresent the truth.” Related postings on Plame CIA …
Prepared Statement of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales before the Senate Committee on Armed Services concerning Legislation in Response to Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Washington, D.C., August 2, 2006. “We believe that Congress should enact a new Code of Military Commissions, modeled on the court-martial procedures of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or “UCMJ,” but …
From Human Rights Watch: Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity – A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Related Material “This unique 861-page book organizes the decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia by topic, including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, …
