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Microsoft Offers App to Assist With EMail Management

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  • Microsoft Research News and Highlights: “SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, developed by Microsoft Research and available for download, is designed to help computer users cope…with too many emails. SNARF, a complement to e-mail programs such as Outlook, filters and sorts e-mail based on the type of message and the user’s history with an e-mail correspondent. The result: a collection of alternative views of your e-mail that can help you make sense of the deluge.”
  • SNARF Help and Guide

    • FOIA Request For FEMA Hurricane Aid Response Records Denied

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    Following up on this posting, Agencies Use FOIA Exemptions in Response to Increasing Number of Requests, news that a trio of Florida newspapers owned by Gannett, Inc. who filed a FOIA request to obtain FEMA surveys comprising homeowner data on 2004 hurricane relief services, were denied the information. FEMA cited the confidentiality exemption, and the… Continue Reading

    Biodefense Bill Creates Agency Exempt From FOIA Disclosures

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    AP: GOP Wants to Create Secretive Gov’t Agency S. 1873 – A bill to prepare and strengthen the biodefenses of the United States against deliberate, accidental, and natural outbreaks of illness, and for other purposes. [Specific language as follows: “Information that relates to the activities, working groups, and advisory boards of the BARDA shall not… Continue Reading

    CIA Leak Prosecutor Agrees to Release of Additional Court Documents

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    Follow up to Media Challenges Withholding Publication of Plame Investigation Documents, November 14, 2005: New York Times, Leak Ruling Has Mystery, 8 Blank Pages Government Response to Motion Motion of Dow Jones & Co. to Unseal Redacted Portion of the Court’s Opinion(12 pages, PDF). New York Times, In C.I.A. Leak, More Talks With Journalists Continue Reading

    DOJ Memo Determined Voting Rights Violations Resulting From Texas Redistricting

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    News today about the DOJ’s 2003 memo concerning the Congressional redistricting plan enacted by the Texas Legislature (Texas House Bill 3). The text of the document (73 pages, PDF), has been published by the Lone Star Project. From the document: “The State of Texas has not met its burden in showing that the proposed congressional… Continue Reading