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Make sure that your donations count – Here’s how to home in on charities that dont waste–or steal–your money. “Three groups put large, general-interest charities under the microscope: the American Institute of Philanthropy, the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance, and Charity Navigator.”
Follow up to May 2, 2006 posting – Final Katrina Report Adopted by Senate Cmte on Homeland Security – news that GPO has posted S. Rpt. 109-322 Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared (732 pages, PDF). Users may also read/and or download the text section by section. Related postings on Hurricane Katrina
Federal Computer Week reported that the Department of Defense has banned the use of Outlook and receipt of HTML email due to threats posed by spyware and viruses.
LA Times: College libraries: the condensed version – With millions of items to store, and research often done online, some schools pack little-used books into annexes.
New York State Department of Correctional Services inmate database New York City Department of Correction Inmate Look-Up database (in Beta).
Office of Inspector General, National Archives and Records Administration, Report of Investigation, Samuel R. Berger – Redacted (41 pages, PDF). “The Office of Investigations (OI), Office of Inspector General (OIG), received information that Samuel R. Berger, former National Security Advisor, removed classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), constituting a violation of …
Energy: Selected Facts and Numbers, Updated November 29, 2006.
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade: Key Issues for the 110th Congress, December 20, 2006.
From the Iraq Index project at Brookings: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq “The Iraq Index is 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 forces, oil production, and coalition troop strength.” …
Press release: “The Department of Homeland Security today made available for public review an aggressive and comprehensive set of proposed regulations that will improve security at high-risk chemical facilities nationwide. The proposed regulations are expected to be published in the Federal Register next week as an Advanced Notice of Rulemaking and will be available for …
Secure Flight Report, December 2006 (PDF, 18 pages): DHS Privacy Office Report to the Public on the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight Program and Privacy Recommendations. News.com: “A Department of Homeland Security program that linked details on millions of air travelers with profiles drawn from commercial databases was plagued by “privacy missteps” that misled the …
MATRIX Report, December 2006 (PDF, 9 pages): DHS Privacy Office Report to the Public Concerning the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (MATRIX) Pilot Project.