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From FindLaw: “Newly revealed documents show that Pres. Bush’s latest U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee, Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., stated in a 1985 application for a position as Assistant Deputy Attorney General that “I am and always have been a conservative,” and was “particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government …
Web 2.0: Building the New Library: “Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of ‘Web 2.0’ and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations.”
‘NLJ 250’ Shows Lawyer Ranks Growing Again – “Most firms are getting bigger, but it’s harder to make equity partner.” Lindsay Fortado, The National Law Journal.
As reported today by Govexec.com: “According to federal documents obtained by National Journal and Government Executive, among the services that ChoicePoint provides to the government [FBI and DoD] is access to a previously undisclosed, and vaguely described, “exclusive” data-searching system. This system in effect gives law enforcement and intelligence agents the ability to use the …
askSam provides researchers with free access to a database to search and analyze the published opinions of Supreme Court nominee, Judge Samuel A. Alito.
Burden Reduction Proposed Rule (Phase II) Public Notice Announcing EPAs intention to initiate a rulemaking to modify the frequency of reporting under the TRI program Fact Sheet Describing Both of the Above Actions EPA Proposes Burden Reduction Rule for the Toxics Release Inventory EPA Letter to Congress Facts from OMB Watch on TRI Proposal
Via Public Knowledge, this Section by Section Analysis of the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2005 (, authored by DOJ.
From the WSJ/NBC News Poll (free, PDF): “Six in 10, including 43% of Republicans, say there should be a public investigation and hearings into exposure of operative Valerie Plame’s identity. Republican congressional leaders don’t plan to go along.”
From the Anti-Phishing Working Group and SRI International, the following report, commissioned by DHS, Online Identity Theft: Technology, Chokepoints and Countermeasures (58 pages, PDF).
FTC press release: “An operation that uses the lure of free lyric files, browser upgrades, and ring tones to download spyware and adware on consumers’ computers has been ordered to halt its illegal downloads by a U.S. District Court at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. The court also halted the deceptive downloads of …
Burson-Marsteller press release: “The results of the fifth annual 2005 PRWeek/Burson-Marsteller CEO Survey reveal that while blogs are increasingly making headlines, only seven percent of CEOs are actually blogging and many are skeptical about starting a blog themselves. Despite the low numbers, 59 percent of CEOs said blogs are useful for internal communications, and 47 …
Government Computer News: GPO readying draft RFP for digital storage system