Court Indicates Order on Missing White House Email Forthcoming

Follow up to previous posting, Group Issues Report on Missing White House Emails and Violations of the Presidential Records Act, from AP today news that “U.S. Magistrate John M. Facciola indicated Wednesday [that he] may order the Bush administration to preserve copies of all White House e-mails, a move that a government lawyer argued strongly …

Subjects: E-Mail, Government Documents

New DOJ OIG Audits: Office of Justice Programs and Combined DNA Index System Grants

DOJ OIG Audit, Office of Justice Programs Grants: “Office on Violence Against Women, West Virginia Division of Criminal Justice Services, Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement, Charleston, West Virginia, Audit Report GR-30-07-005, September 2007 (Executive Summary Only) DOJ OIG Audit, Combined DNA Index System Grants: Compliance with Standards Governing Combined DNA Index System Activities …

Subjects: Government Documents

New GAO Reports Released Today: Defense Business Transformation, Medical Devices

Defense Business Transformation: A Full-time Chief Management Officer with a Term Appointment Is Needed at DOD to Maintain Continuity of Effort and Achieve Sustainable Success, GAO-08-132T, October 16, 2007 Medical Devices: FDA’s Approval of Four Temporomandibular Joint Implants, GAO-07-996, September 17, 2007 Project-Based Rental Assistance: HUD Should Streamline Its Processes to Ensure Timely Housing Assistance …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Senate Hearings on Nomination of Michael B. Mukasey to be Attorney General

Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on “Executive Nomination” Wednesday, October 17, 2007. See the “Continuation of Executive Nomination” Senate Judiciary Committee, October 18, 2007, via Live Webcast. Glenn Greenwald Live-blogging the Mukasey confirmation hearing Member Statements: Sen. Patrick Leahy and Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin Testimony, Judge Michael B. Mukasey

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 Passed by House

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: “For the first time ever, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation that will protect journalists from being compelled to testify or reveal sources in court. The shield law grants a qualified privilege to reporters to prevent them, in most cases, from being compelled to testify or …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation, Privacy

DOD Releases New Guidelines on Monitoring Employee Telephone Calls

FCW.com: “Defense Department officials have released new guidelines that govern the monitoring of employees’ phone calls and the mock penetration of military network defenses to identify potential security risks to DOD information. DOD Chief Information Officer John Grimes on Oct. 9 signed Instruction 8560.01, titled Communications Security Monitoring and Information Assurance Readiness Testing. The document …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

New Bill To Add And Toughen Penalties For ID Theft And Fraud

Press release, October 16, 2007: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today introduced the bipartisan Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007 to give federal prosecutors important new tools to combat the growing problem of identity theft and cyber crime. The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, ID Theft, Legislation, Privacy

National Select Agent Registry

“The National Select Agent Registry Program oversees the activities of possession of biological agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe threat to public, animal or plant health, or to animal or plant products. On this website you will be able to download application packages, submit forms electronically, view current regulations regarding …

Subjects: E-Government

POGO urges DOT Investigation into Traffic Information Contract

Letter from Scott H. Amey, Project On Government Oversight General Counsel to Mary Peters, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, October 15, 2007: “Competition in contracting is essential to getting fair and reasonable costs and prices for goods and services. The Department of Transportation’s “Transportation Technology Innovation and Demonstration” (TTID) program, to provide real-time traffic information …

Subjects: E-Government