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Press release: “Members of Congress and their aides accepted more than $600,000 in free travel from pharmaceutical interests and their allies during a 5½-year period in which drug company profits climbed, in part due to federal legislation favorable to the industry, according to a new study by the Center for Public Integrity.” “The “Power Trips” …
CLIR: “A joint project of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and OCLC, the registry provides a trusted service for the communication, coordination, and discovery of information about digital masters, their production, and the availability of use copies. The registry includes both digitally reformatted and born-digital objects. Hosted by OCLC and developed on the basis of …
Investigative work by students at the Medill School of Journalism has uncovered a joint FBI and Department of Education data mining program that reviewed the records of hundreds of students. The goal was purportedly to discern whether financial aid funding was used to advance terrorist efforts against the United States. Information about the student’s work …
September 1, 2006 – NPR Interview with the Director of National Intelligence, Ambassador John D. Negroponte.
Results of OIG Investigation of 9/11 Commission Staff Referral, August 31, 2006- Correspondence – Project ID: CC-2006-085 “Summary: We issued a report on the results of our review from a referral made by the 9/11 Commission staff regarding certain inaccurate statements made by FAA officials regarding their notifications to DOD during the September 11 hijackings. …
Press release: “The U.S. Department of Labor today released America’s Dynamic Workforce 2006, a new report highlighting major trends in the American labor market and the importance of education and skills training to maintaining the competitiveness of America’s workforce.” Factsheet The full text version includes extensive discussion and additional data and analysis beyond the basic …
Mazzone, Jason, “Copyfraud”. Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 40 Available at SSRN [via Public Knowledge] “Copyfraud is everywhere. False copyright notices appear on modern reprints of Shakespeare’s plays, Beethoven’s piano scores, greeting card versions of Monet’s Water Lilies, and even the U.S. Constitution. Archives claim blanket copyright in everything in their collections. Vendors …
“Job losses continue in industrial sectors across the U.S. with little response from the Federal Government, noted U.S. House Science Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN). Gordon and fellow Committee Democrats have sought to highlight this growing problem known as “offshoring” in an attempt to insure hard-working Americans are kept in the …
Report of a Survey of Videoconferencing in the Courts of Appeals, by Meghan Dunn; Rebecca Norwick, 2006 (22 pages, PDF and Table of Contents). “This report describes the ways in which videoconferencing is used in the courts of appeals. Appellate judges with varying degrees of experience with videoconferencing identify advantages and disadvantages of using videoconferencing …
“…the National Criminal Intelligence Resource Center (NCIRC) Web site…sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) for the purpose of providing a secure Web site developed to serve as a “one-stop shop” for local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement to keep up with the latest developments in the field of criminal intelligence. You will …
2006-P-00031 EPA Is Properly Addressing the Risks of Using Mercury in Rituals [Report PDF – 24 pages] [At a Glance], August 31, 2006.
White House Fact Sheet: Winning the Struggle Between Freedom and Terror in the Middle East, August 31, 2006.