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Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), Efforts Have Been Made, but Manager and Employee Noncompliance With Security Policies and Procedures Puts Personally Identifiable Information at Risk, issued August 13, 2007: “…The IRS has taken several noteworthy actions to protect taxpayer data in its possession. For example, it has established a Security Services and Privacy …
“This site [New Orleans Risk and Reliability Report] is designed to share what we have learned about hurricane risks in the Greater New Orleans area with you, so that you can make risk-informed decisions about your future. Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force [IPET] has developed a state-of-the-art prototype risk assessment model to characterize current annual …
“The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has released a new publication, NASCIOs Survey on Enterprise Data Center Consolidation in the States: Strategies and Business Justification (62 pages, PDF). A product of NASCIO’s Infrastructure and Services Committee, this survey report provides an overview of the challenges states indicated they are facing in considering …
Press release: “The Federal Election Commission (FEC/Commission) today approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to implement the Supreme Court decision in Wisconsin Right to Life v. FEC (WRTL). The Court ruled that the specific ads in question were not the functional equivalent of express advocacy because they were susceptible of a reasonable interpretation other …
U.S. Government Manual 2007-2008: “The official handbook of the Federal Government, provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.”
CBO Report – The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update, August 2007 pdf data charts
“The Joint Economic Committee has compiled a timeline of events tracking the subprime crisis from December 2006 to the present. Although it does not include every event in the markets, in Congress, or in the Administration, it provides a fairly comprehensive background guide to the current housing crisis and the steps taken to avoid further …
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) – An Update to “Prospects for Iraq’s Stability” August 23, 2007: “There have been measurable but uneven improvements in Iraq’s security situation since our last National Intelligence Estimate in January 2007.”
“PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times and CQ will analyze the candidates’ speeches, TV ads and interviews and determine whether the claims are accurate.”
The Wall Street Journal today reported that House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff stating the intention to conduct careful oversight over the fall 2007 launch of the National Applications Office (NAO). This program’s use of “spy satellites for domestic homeland security and law enforcement purposes” …
Transcript: Debate on the foreign intelligence surveillance act, by Chris Roberts, El Paso Times: The following is the transcript of a question and answer session with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, published August 22, 2007. On participation by telecommunications companies in the domestic surveillance program: “…Now the second part of the issue was under the …
Follow up to Report to June 13, 2007 posting, Report to the President on the Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy, this press release and related documents today from Virginia Tech: “On May 9, 2007, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger directed three internal reviews in the wake of the April 16 tragedy on the …