Following up on previous posting on the Plame CIA leak case, New York Times reports that Lawyers in C.I.A. Leak Case Seek to Subpoena Journalists.
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Daily Archives: January 20, 2006
Conyers Holds Unofficial House Judiciary Cmte. Hearing in Basement – Again
No, not the Basement Tapes, but the second Basement Hearings [the first hearing was held on June 16, 2005.] Judiciary Democratic Congressional Briefing “Constitution in Crisis: Domestic Surveillance and Executive Power” January 20, 2006. From the Prepared Statement of Congressman John Conyers, Jr., January 20, 2006, Democratic Hearing on Domestic Surveillance: “There can be no… Continue Reading
Senate Resolution Clarifies No Congressional Authorization for Warrantless Wiretaps
Press release: “Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Friday introduced a resolution setting the record straight that Congress did not authorize President Bush’s illegal spying program when it passed a 2001 resolution governing the use of military force in the war on terror.” Text of S. Res.__,…the Authorization of Use of Military Force Does Not Authorize… Continue Reading
Guide to Website Reliability
Beyond Algorithms: A Librarian’s Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust, by Karen G. Schneider, a librarian and writer, who is Director of Librarians’ Internet Index (LII). Continue Reading
FBI Cybercrime Survey Reports $65 Billion Lost in 2005
New 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey (19 pages, PDF). “The survey, developed and analyzed with the help of leading public and private authorities on cyber security, is based on responses from a cross-section of more than 2,000 public and private organizations in four states.” Continue Reading
