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Daily Archives: October 24, 2005

Call for Miers to Provide Tax Returns Prior to Nomination Hearings

Senate Finance Cmte. Ranking Minority Member Senator Max Baucus Calls on Supreme Court Nominee to Furnish Tax Returns

  • White House Response
  • Baucus letter to White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card
  • Letter to Miers
  • Organized opposition to Miers moves to web: see WithdrawMiers.org
  • WSJ Free Features: Point Man for Miers Juggles Allegiances – Legal Conservative Risks Credibility By Helping Bush Defuse Criticism
    Of High Court Nominee
  • Prosecutor in Plame Leak Examined Falsified Niger Uranium Report

    As reported by UPI today: “NATO sources have confirmed to United Press International that Fitzgerald’s team of investigators has sought and obtained documentation on the forgeries from the Italian government. Fitzgerald’s team has been given the full, and as yet unpublished report of the Italian parliamentary inquiry into the affair, which started when an Italian… Continue Reading

    Commentary on IP Battle Over Google Print

    Leggo My Ego, GooglePrint and the other culture war, by Tim Wu. Related links on Google Print program See also: The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography: “This bibliography presents selected electronic works about Google Print that are freely available on the Internet. It has a special focus on the legal issues associated with this project.… Continue Reading

    GAO Report Addresses Impediments to Implementing E-Disability Claims

    Electronic Disability Claims Processing: SSA Is Proceeding with Its Accelerated Systems Initiative but Needs to Address Operational Issues GAO-05-97, September 23, 2005. Highlights. “Through an initiative known as AeDib, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is implementing a system in which medical images and other documents that have traditionally been kept in paper folders will be… Continue Reading

    EPIC FOIA Lawsuit Produces Documents on Illegal Surveillance Operations

    From the Washington Post: FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations Secret Surveillance Lacked Oversight From EPIC: “Documents obtained by EPIC under the Freedom of Informaton Act describe thirteen cases of possible FBI misconduct in intelligence investigations. The documents were released by the Bureau in response to an EPIC open government request for information about the FBI’s… Continue Reading