Congressional Human Rights Caucus Members’ Briefing: Human Rights and the Internet – The People’s Republic of China, Wednesday, February 1, 2006: “China has one of the most sophisticated content-filtering Internet regimes in the world. The Chinese government employs sophisticated methods to limit content online, including a combination of legal regulation, surveillance, and punishment to promote… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2006
More Details Emerge on WMD Facts Available Prior to War
Iraq, Niger, And The CIA – By Murray Waas, special to National Journal, Feb. 2, 2006: “Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation… Continue Reading
Report On Impact of ID Theft in UK
UK Home Office: Updated Estimate of the of the Cost of Identity Fraud to the UK Economy, 2 February 2006 (4 pages, PDF). Update: Government ‘overstated’ ID fraud figures Continue Reading
Sen. Boxer Calls For Hearings on Censorship of Gov’t Scientists
Follow-up to January 29, 2006 posting, Gov’t Climate Change Expert Contends Censorship of Data – today Sen. Barbara Boxer issued a press release that included the text of her letters to ranking members of two Senate committees stating, “It has come to my attention that the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Dr.… Continue Reading
CBO’s Economic Projections for FY 2007-2016
CBO: Testimony on The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2007 to 2016 – February 2, 2006 (9 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Correspondence on Libby Indictment Mentions Missing Emails
Late last night AP reported that Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald stated in legal correspondence [the full text of which is available here in PDF] related to discovery in the Libby CIA leak indictment, that White House email from 2003 failed to be properly archived. The article quotes the response of noted government secrecy expert… Continue Reading
Commentary on Forces Competing to Determine “Digital Destiny”
The End of the Internet? by Jeff Chester: “The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online…According to white papers now… Continue Reading
Senate Cmte. Denied Access to DOJ Docs on Domestic Surveillance
New York Times, February 2, 2006: Panel Rebuffed on Documents on U.S. Spying: “The Bush administration is rebuffing requests from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for its classified legal opinions on President Bush’s domestic spying program, setting up a confrontation in advance of a hearing scheduled for next week, administration and Congressional officials said… Continue Reading
HighBeam Research Expands Free Access to Reference and News Articles
Press release: “HighBeam Research, Inc. has announced a series of upgrades to its collection of content on the HighBeam Research Engine, offering more than 1.5 million full-text articles to individual researchers for free and adding reference and news articles from Knight Ridder, Oxford University Press, and The Washington Post. Full-text articles from more than 200… Continue Reading
New Book Online: Bright Ideas for Sunshine Week
“Bright Ideas for Sunshine Week – This 72-page, full-color book features examples of some of the different ways Sunshine Week was observed in 2005. Sections include news and features, editorials and commentary, graphics and presentation, broadcast reports, online presentation, and ideas for 2006. The entire book is posted [online], broken out by section for easier… Continue Reading
DHS OIG Report on Use of Pat-Downs in Screening Procedures
Review of the Transportation Security Administation’s Use of Pat-Downs In Screening Procedures (Redacted) OIG-06-10, November 2005 (PDF, 14 pages), released February 1, 2006. Continue Reading
GAO Identifies Key Themes in Government’s Lack of Disaster Preparedness
Statement by Comptroller General David M. Walker on GAO’s Preliminary Observations Regarding Preparedness and Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (9 pages, PDF), released February 1, 2006: “GAO has undertaken a body of work to address federal, state, and local preparations for, response to, and recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This correspondence contains GAO’s… Continue Reading
