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AP reports White House Staff Begins Ethics Classes. Several thousand employees who work in agencies and offices that are part of the government’s Executive Branch will be taking the classes during the upcoming weeks.
Another Phine Kettle of Phish: Identity Theft Prevention, by Carol Ebbinghouse, Law Librarian California, Second District Court of Appeal, Los Angeles, CA. Identity Theft: Outline of Federal Statutes and Bibliography of Select Resources, Sara R. Paul, Reference Librarian, New York City District Attorney’s Office
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Audit Reports: “SIGIR audits are conducted to determine whether programs and operations funded by the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF) are being managed efficiently, effectively and economically, and if they are achieving the desired outcomes. The audit reports presented on this Web site include those conducted to evaluate …
Follow-up to previous postings on FBI use of National Security Letters to obtain data on library patron use of online services in Connecticut: Washington Post,The FBI’s Secret Scrutiny. The Washington Post researched and reveals the names of the “John Doe’s” under the gag, and the name of their organization. Please also note that according to …
Press release: Amazon.com Announces Plans for Innovative Digital Book Programs: “…the company is currently developing two new programs that will enable customers to purchase online access to any page, section, or chapter of a book, as well as the book in its entirety. The first program, Amazon Pages, will “un-bundle” the physical-world experience of buying …
Oklahoma Courts Now Offer RSS Newsfeeds: “You can now receive Oklahoma appellate court opinions and Oklahoma Attorney General opinions via RSS newsfeeds at no charge.” As Jim indicates, Oklahoma joins two other trailblazing states, West Virginia and Louisiana, who also offer feeds.
Press release: “Congressman Jerrold Nadler today demanded the House Judiciary Committee investigate whether White House officials deliberately deceived Congress in order to obtain its authorization of the war in Iraq. In a letter to Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. calling for hearings [text of which accompanies this link], Congressman Nadler cited new evidence from …
FOIA Falters – The law still works, but it needs a tune-up Related resources: See FOIA Facts, by Scott A. Hodes
White House press release: President Nominates Judge Samuel A. Alito as Supreme Court Justice. Also from the White House: Biography of Samuel A. Alito Jr. AP: Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court CNN: Bush nominates Alito to Supreme Court Conservatives, liberals ready for heated debate Complete coverage from the New York Times: Supreme Court in …
From UPI: “More than 50 medical and scientific non-profit publishers, representing more than 120 journals, have offered the National Institutes of Health access to their contents free of charge through their current links to the NIH’s PubMed Central data archive.” From Washington D.C. Principles For Free Access to Science, in PDF, Leading Scientific & Medical …
“As arguably the most important war crimes proceedings since Nuremberg, the trials of Saddam Hussein are likely to constitute a “Grotian Moment” defined as a legal development that is so significant that it can create new customary international law or radically transform the interpretation of treaty-based law. This Website features key documents related to …
Executive Order 13388, Further Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans, October 25, 2005, published in the Federal Register on October 28, 2005. “Duties of Heads of Agencies Possessing or Acquiring Terrorism Information…shall promptly give access to the terrorism information to the head of each other agency that has counterterrorism functions, and provide …
