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Follow up to previous posting on former DoJ Official Monica Goodling and the U.S. Attorney firings, the text of Goodling’s written remarks and the text of her testimony, before the House Judiciary Committee, May 23, 2007. See also DOJ Document Sets Released on 5-22-2007: Letter from Deputy AG Regarding Goodling Privledge Log Documents DOJ Document …
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Sources 2006 Flash Estimate (05/23/2007): “The flash estimate is based on data published in the Energy Information Administration’s Monthly Energy Review (April 2007). These estimates are considered to be preliminary. More detailed estimates of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from all sources, energy and non-energy, will appear in the report Emissions …
Report on Iran Safeguards Sent to International Atomic Energy Agency Board, Security Council Staff Report, 23 May 2007: “IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has circulated his latest report to the upcoming meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors on the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the …
Clay Johnson III, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget: M-07-16, Safeguarding Against and Responding to the Breach of Personally Identifiable Information, May 22, 2007 (22 pages, PDF) “As part of the work of the Identify Theft Task Force, this memorandum requires agencies to develop and implement a breach notification policy within 120 …
OECD finds the real piracy losses ============================================================ Financial Times obtained an executive summary of a new report produced by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that estimates the trade losses due to piracy and counterfeiting did not exceed 200 billion USD. The report should be endorsed by the OECD board this month and is …
Immigration Reform: Brief Synthesis of Issue, Updated May 10, 2007 Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, Updated May 10, 2007 Iraq: Government Formation and Performance, Updated May 2, 2007 Israel: Background and Relations with the United States, Updated April 30, 2007 Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Bills in the 110th Congress, Updated April 24, 2007
Attorney General’s Annual Report to Congress on U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons for Fiscal Year 2006, May 2007
Press release: “ADB today rolled out the online version of its Statistical Database System (SBDS), a key database of social, economic and financial indicators of its developing member countries. The database, developed and maintained by ADBs Economics and Research Department, contains data from 1988 onwards and will be a major resource and analytical tool for …
A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Use of Section 215 Order for Business Records (Unclassified), March 2007 (112 pages, PDF).
AIMA Issues Revised Sound Practices Recommendations for Hedge Fund Managers Guide to Sound Practices for European Hedge Fund Managers, May 2007, 65 pages, PDF)
US Courts: “Administrative agency appeals involving the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) remained a significant part of federal appellate courts caseloads in 2006, accounting for 17 percent of 63,676 total appeals.”
Equitable Sharing Grants Audits, Executive Summaries only, released May 21, 2007: Compliance with Standards Governing Combined DNA Index System Activities at the West Virginia State Police Crime Laboratory, South Charleston, West Virginia, Audit Report GR-30-07-002, April 2007 Office of Justice Programs Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative Funding Received by the Maricopa County Attorneys Office, Phoenix, Arizona, …