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Daily Archives: December 22, 2005

GAO Audit Highlights Continued FBI Case Management Architecture Problems

Following up on previous postings on the FBI’s virtual case file system, see Information Technology: Responses to Subcommittee Post-Hearing Questions Regarding the FBI’s Management Practices and Acquisition of a New Investigative Case Management System, GAO-06-302R, December 21, 2005. “The absence of performance-based contracting and effective contractor tracking and oversight has constrained the FBI’s ability to… Continue Reading

Debate Escalates on Domestic Spying Program

Following up on news that Judge Robinson resigned from the FISA court in protest over the administration’s warrantless surveillance program, related commentary and articles: Warrantless Wiretapping: Why It Seriously Imperils the Separation of Powers, And Continues the Executive’s Sapping of Power From Congress and the Courts, by Edward Lazarus. Judges on Surveillance Court To Be… Continue Reading

House Approves 5 Week Extension for Patriot Act

AP: “The House passed a five-week extension of the Patriot Act on Thursday and sent it to the Senate as Congress scrambled to prevent expiration of anti-terror law enforcement provisions on Dec. 31.” From Pelosi Statement on One-Month Extension of Patriot Act: “Mr. Speaker, there is a very crucial debate in this country today about… Continue Reading