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Following up on my February 20, 2006 posting, Report on the Response to Hurricane Katrina, today GPO made available a PDF copy of the Final Report. Congressional Reports: H. Rpt. 109-377 A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. The Select …
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A series of recent articles name the high ranking government officials who are now the focus of the Plame CIA leak investigation: Libby lawyers finger top State Dept. leaders for CIA leak Fitzgerald Knew Identity of Leaker From Start Related postings on Plame CIA leak AP: Libby Says Prosecutor Trying to Keep Post
Press release: “Eight in 10 adults (116 million) are reading the newspaper over the course of a week, and one in three Internet users (55 million) visit a newspaper Web site over the course of a month, according to the spring 2006 Newspaper Audience Database (NADbase) report released today by the Newspaper Association of America. …
A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs
An Examination of the Call to Censure the President, Senate Judiciary Committee, Full Committee, March 31, 2006 Sen. Feingold’s Resolution to Censure the President Testimony: Bruce Fein, Partner, Fein & Fein Lee Casey, Partner, Baker & Hostetler Sen. Patrick Leahy Sen. Russ Feingold Related articles and postings: John Dean Blasts Warrantless Eavesdropping An Update on …
Iraq Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq, Brookings Institution, March 30, 2006 (52 pages, PDF) See also Brookings Iraq Index Archives: “…a statistical compilation of economic, public opinion, and security data. This resource will provide updated information on various criteria, including crime, telephone and water service, troop fatalities, unemployment, Iraqi security …
Prewar Intelligence – Insulating Bush, by Murray Waas, National Journal, Thursday, March 30, 2006. “Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush’s 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale …
Federal Rulemaking: Perspectives on 10 Years of Congressional Review Act Implementation, Full text GAO-06-601T, and Highlights. March 30, 2006. “This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Congressional Review Act (CRA). Congressional oversight of rulemaking using the CRA can be an important and useful tool for monitoring the regulatory process and balancing and accommodating the …
Press release: “Rep. Waxman and other committee members announce they will introduce a Resolution of Inquiry directing the President to submit to Congress all documents relating to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which the President signed on February 8. The version the President signed was different in substance from the version the House passed …
Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, Judiciary Cmte. Holds Hearing on NSA Wiretapping, in today’s New York Times, Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program. Related postings on domestic surveillance
“The Red Book is a compendium of significant Office of Inspector General (OIG) costsaving recommendations that have not been fully implemented. These recommendations may require one of three types of actions: legislative, regulatory, or procedural (such as manual revisions). Some complex issues involve two or all three types of actions. The Inspector General Act requires …
