CBO: The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans and Alternatives: Detailed Update for Fiscal Year 2006, January 2006 (84 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2006
Opposition to Domestic Surveillance Grows Within Legal Community
CDT: “Fourteen of the nation’s leading experts on constitutional law today issued an analysis concluding that “the Justice Department’s defense of what it concedes was secret and warrantless electronic surveillance of persons within the United States fails to identify any plausible legal authority for such surveillance. Accordingly the program appears on its face to violate… Continue Reading
Transcript of Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing for Confirmation of Samuel Alito
Washington Post: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito’s Nomination to the Supreme Court, Part I of II, Courtesy FDCH e-Media, Monday, January 9, 2006; 12:59 PM. Read below the opening statements of the first thirteen senators’ opening statements. The final statements, and Judge Alito’s opening statement, can be found in Part II… Continue Reading
OMB Report to Congress on E-Gov Initiatives
Report to Congress on the Benefits of the President’s E-Government Initiatives, January 6, 2006. (183 pages, PDF) “The Federal government is delivering results through expansion and adoption of electronic government principles and best practices in managing information technology, and is increasingly providing timely and accurate information to the citizens and government decision makers while ensuring… Continue Reading
The Price of Influence Peddling in Washington
Time (free): How to Raise Cash… Disguise Its Sources… And Buy Influence Time (sub. req’d) – The Man Who Bought Washington – From deep inside the Republican elite, Jack Abramoff brought new excesses to the lobbying game. Who is he, and how did he get away with it for so long?: “A high-level source tells… Continue Reading
DHS OIG Audit of TSA Screener Recruitment Program
Review of the Transportation Security Administration’s Management Controls Over the Screener Recruitment Program, OIG-06-18, December 2005 (PDF, 36 pages), 1/9/2006. Continue Reading
Citation Database of Scientific and Medical Literature Now Available Free
Press release, January 5, 2006 “Infotrieve, Inc. today announced that it had converted ArticleFinder, its online scientific, technical, and medical (STM) database with more than 26 million citations and eight million abstracts from over 54,000 journals, to a free access model. The move provides scientists and researchers, who work for corporations and are subject… Continue Reading
A Legal Analysis of the NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program
A Legal Analysis of the NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program, by Morton H. Halperin, January 6, 2006 Secrecy News: “Halperin, a leading civil libertarian and former Pentagon and State Department official, played an influential role in the enactment of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, which subjected intelligence surveillance within the United States to… Continue Reading
Calls For Special House Panel and DOJ Investigations of Domestic Surveillance Program
Press release, January 6, 2006: “U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin today sent a letter to House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert requesting that a special House panel be created “to undertake an immediate investigation and hearings into the President’s purported authority to conduct eavesdropping of U.S. citizens without a court order.” Press release, January 9, 2005:… Continue Reading
CRS Legislative History On Use of Military Force Post 9/11
CRS: Authorization For Use Of Military Force in Response to the 9/11 Attacks (P.L. 107-40): Legislative History, January 4, 2006. [via FAS] Continue Reading
Senate Hearing on Nomination of Samuel A. Alito , January 9, and 12, 2006
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on the nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for Monday, January 9, 2006 at 12:00 p.m. in the Senate Hart Office Building Room 216. Chairman Specter will preside. Media Guidelines for the… Continue Reading
Senate Judiciary Cmte. Chair Requests Testimony From AG on Domestic Surveillance
AP: Specter Seeks AG’s Testimony on Spying Related references: December 19, 2005 Press Briefing by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and General Michael Hayden, Principal Deputy Director for National Intelligence. The NSA Spy Engine: Echelon, by Jason Leopold Related postings on domestic surveillance Continue Reading
