The Employment Situation: March 2006, Report prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics released April 7, 2006. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
EFF Files Files Evidence in Motion In Case Against ISP for Alleged Domestic Surveillance of Customers
Press release: EFF Files Evidence in Motion to Stop AT&T’s Dragnet Surveillance “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T… “The evidence that we are filing supports our claim that AT&T is diverting Internet traffic into the… Continue Reading
WH Authorized Declassification of Iraq Secret Docs.
Follow-up to posting on April 7, Plame Leak Controversy Focused on President With Release of New Info, from today’s Washington Post, Testimony Adds New Element to Probe of CIA Leak: “…court papers filed late Wednesday night by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, in the perjury case of former White House official I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby,… Continue Reading
AG’s Statements to House Judiciary Cmte. Maintain Authority of Domestic Surveillance
New York Times: Gonzales Suggests Legal Basis for Domestic Eavesdropping House Judiciary Committee, April 6, 2006, Oversight Hearing on The United States Department of Justice. Related postings on domestic surveillance Continue Reading
Waxman Requests Answers on Bush Authorizing Leak of Natonal Security Intel
Press release: “In a letter to President Bush, Rep. Waxman asks for a full accounting of the President’s and Vice President’s actions in authorizing leaks of classified intelligence about Iraq, while at the same time concealing the President’s knowledge of serious doubts about Iraq’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.” CRS Memo, Disclosure of Security Classified Information,… Continue Reading
Plame Leak Controversy Focused on President With Release of New Info
CNN – Court documents: Libby testified that Bush OK’d intelligence leak Smoking Gun: 39 page filing, Government’s Response to Plaintiff’s Third Motion to Compel Discovery, April 5, 2006 (PDF), US v. Libby. Related postings on Plame CIA leak Continue Reading
SIIA Anti-Piracy 2005 Year in Review
“The Software & Information Industry Association’s Anti-Piracy Division conducts a comprehensive, industry-wide campaign to fight software and content piracy. The pro-active campaign is premised on the notion that one must balance enforcement with education in order to be effective.” SIIA Anti-Piracy 2005 Year in Review (8 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Advocacy Groups Oppose Sunset Proposals
OMBWatch: “Nonprofit groups spoke out today against sunset proposals now being pushed by House conservatives. The proposals could create a single unelected commission to review every federal program, and would mandate that all federal programs automatically “sunset”–completely cease–after a fixed period, unless Congress intervened.” Read the letter to Congress Learn more about sunset proposals EPIC:… Continue Reading
IRS Where’s My Refund Site Very Popular
FCW.com: ‘Where’s My Refund?’ Users flock to find out Where’s My Refund? Continue Reading
The World Factbook 2006 Online Edition Now Available
Press release: “The World Factbook 2006 is now available on the Central Intelligence Agency Web site. The World Factbook remains the CIA’s most widely disseminated and most popular product, now averaging almost 6 million visits each month.” Download page Continue Reading
Pentagon Collection of Info on Peace Activists Prompts Investigation
Reuters, via Washington Post: Pentagon Says Improper Data in Security Database Continue Reading
GAO Report on Junk Fax Enforcement
Telecommunications: Weaknesses in Procedures and Performance Management Hinder Junk Fax Enforcement, Full-text GAO-06-425, April 5, 2006. Highlights. “FCC has procedures for receiving and acknowledging the rapidly increasing number of junk fax complaints, but the numbers of investigations and enforcement actions have generally remained the same. In 2000, FCC recorded about 2,200 junk fax complaints; in… Continue Reading
