Hurricane Katrina: GAO’s Preliminary Observations Regarding Preparedness, Response, and Recovery, GAO-06-442T, March 8, 2006. Highlights. “The size and strength of Hurricane Katrina resulted in one of the largest natural disasters in our nation’s history. Hurricane Katrina raised major questions about our nation’s readiness and ability to respond to catastrophic disasters. Hurricane Rita increased demands on… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2006
Maryland Judiciary Offers Internet Case Search of Court Records
Press release, March 7, 2006: “The Maryland Judiciary announced today that public Internet access to information from case records maintained by the Maryland Judiciary is now available…Information is available on all civil, traffic, and criminal cases in the state except for cases originating in the circuit courts for Prince Georges and Montgomery counties. This information… Continue Reading
Proposed Data Mining Project Targets Democratic Voters
Washington Post: Democrats’ Data Mining Stirs an Intraparty Battle With Private Effort on Voter Information, Ickes and Soros Challenge Dean and DNC: Project seeks to raise millions to create and implement a database of voter information for use in state, local and national campaigns. Continue Reading
Google CEO Speaker Notes Cause Speculation on GDrive
Notes from CEO Eric Schmidt’s March 2 Google Analyst Day remarks, not intended for public release, mention a company plan to allow for the storage of “100% of user data” on a virtual drive. Continue Reading
DHS OIG Audit Highlights Vulnerabilities in L-1 Visa Program
Reviews of Vulnerabilities and Potential Abuses of the L-1 Visa Program, OIG-06-22, January 2006 (PDF, 43 pages) Continue Reading
Patriot Act Amendments Approved By House in Two Vote Margin
AP: Congress Renews Patriot Act; Bush to Sign Continue Reading
CIA Opposes Document Release for Libby Case
Following up on recent news that Libby’s defense is demanding the release of highly classified White House daily intelligence briefings, AP reports that a CIA affidavit filed with the court strongly opposed the release of these documents, stating in part “…Any disclosure… increases the possibility of damage to the national security…” Related postings on the… Continue Reading
Intelligence Committee Votes to Enhance Oversight of Terrorist Surveillance Program
Press release – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts today made the following statement: “Several weeks ago I began discussing with the White House the need to expand this Committee’s oversight of the Terrorist Surveillance Program and to begin engaging with Congress on possible legislative approaches. Before our last recess, I asked the members of the Intelligence… Continue Reading
NYTimes Launches DealBook Financial News Report on Website
Press release: “The New York Times announced today the launch of DealBook, a new online financial news report on NYTimes.com featuring up-to-the-minute news and exclusives about Wall Street and corporate America. The continually updated report edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin, the Times’s chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, with contributions from Times business reporters, is an… Continue Reading
President Submits Line Item Veto Legislation to Congress
White House Fact Sheet: President Submits Line Item Veto Legislation to Congress Press Briefing on the President’s Line-Item Veto Legislation by OMB Director Josh Bolten Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006 (10 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
National Library of Australia Launches Libraries Australia Portal
“Libraries Australia, a service that enables anyone with an Internet connection to select from more than 40 million items held in over 800 libraries across the nation….[was] launched at 12.30pm Monday 27 February at Parliament House, Canberra by Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. This innovative service is an Australian… Continue Reading
EU eGovernment Economics Project
“…the eGovernment Economics Project (eGEP) aims at producing a measurement framework for the evaluation of e-government impacts and outcomes. Policy makers and practitioners need new instruments to evaluate and monitor the costs, benefits and outcomes of eGovernment. After the first generation e-Government investments at digitalising the public sector, it is now important to show measurable… Continue Reading
