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AALL Joins the Alliance for Taxpayer Access to Support Citizen Access to NIH Research, August 24, 2004. Joint Library Letter to Public Printer Bruce James in Support of GPO’s Proposed Collection of Last Resort, August 25, 2004.
From the TSA press release today: “The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced it will move forward to test a new passenger-prescreening program called Secure Flight… Under Secure Flight, TSA will take over responsibility for checking airline passengers’ names against terrorist watch lists a function currently administered by each airline individually. The move will …
Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review DoD Detention Operations, August 2004. (PDF, 126 pages). Related references: from the Washington Post and The New York Times.
Prepared Statement of Attorney General John Ashcroft – Digital Gridlock, Wednesday, August 25, 2004: “The protection of America’s intellectual property is a priority for the Department of Justice. In March of this year, I announced the creation of an Intellectual Property Task Force to examine how the Department can better protect the innovative and creative …
Anatomy Of Trial Technology: “Trial technologies are all the buzz for legal technologists, early adopters, vendors, and consultants – but have they made it to the main stream practice of law? This article traces availability and use of trial preparation and presentation software, court technology, and more through the most recent ABA Legal Technology Survey …
From the Washington Post (reg. req’d), Trading Privacy for Convenience – ‘Registered Travelers’ Give Up Personal Information for Shorter Airport Lines.
August 24, 2004: Text of Letter from Congressman Conyers and Senator Leahy to AG Ashcroft Concerning Efforts to Destroy Public Documents. For reference, see Justice Department asks depository libraries to destroy forfeiture documents and related postings from beSpacific.
OpenNet Initiative: Bulletin 005 – Probing Chinese search engine filtering, August 19, 2004.
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From the Daschle press release: “Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle today appointed members to a bipartisan Senate working group that will examine how best to implement the Commission’s recommendations that deal with reform of the Senate’s oversight of intelligence and homeland security.”
The 2004 Green Book (WMCP 108-6) of the House Ways and Means Committee available to search and browse in the Ways and Means Committee Prints. “The House Ways and Means Committee Green Book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child …
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