Press release: “CDT’s report charts the important cases against spyware distributors and identifies the statutes applied, June 26, 2006.”
Press release: “CDT’s report charts the important cases against spyware distributors and identifies the statutes applied, June 26, 2006.”
Presidential Signing Statements, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, June 27, 2006 Testimony and Member Statements Related postings: ABA To Investigate Whether Presidential Authority Has Been Exceeded Expansion of Presidential Powers Concerns Scholars and Congress Commentary on Presidential Powers Pre and Post 9/11 Gore Speech Targets Executive Powers and Domestic Surveillance Continue Reading
The DotGov Buzz, June 27, 2006 E-Gov Initatives: “The Office of Management and Budget has released updated draft guidance for agencies moving to the financial management Line of Business. The guidance offers competitive framework, template for migration project plan, change management best practices and a menu of services that financial-management shared-service providers can deliver. The… Continue Reading
Homeland Security Information Network Could Support Information Sharing More Effectively, OIG-06-38 (PDF, 47 pages), June 27, 2006. Continue Reading
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts: Start of Hurricane Season Finds Courts Learning from Past Agencies make [Continuity of Operations] COOP, disaster recovery even higher priorities Continue Reading
Press release, The Third Branch: “A long-term study of what impact the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) is having on the federal courts has produced its first interim progress report, one that shows that the number of class action cases dramatically increased in three busy district courts since the early 1990s.” “This interim… Continue Reading
WSJ free feature: Laptop Lockdown – Companies Start Holding Employees Responsible for Security Of Portable Devices They Use for Work Postings on ID theft and cybercime Continue Reading
Challenges and FDIC Efforts Related to Predatory Lending (Audit Report Number 06-011), June 2006 (41 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
In connection with a hearing scheduled by the House Committee on Ways and Means for June 28, 2006, the Joint Committee on Taxation has issued Present Law And Analysis Relating To The Tax Treatment Of Health Savings Accounts And Other Health Expenses (JCX-27-06). Continue Reading
“Press release: The Brennan Center Task Force on Voting System Security, an initiative of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, today released a report and policy proposals concluding that all three of the nation’s most commonly purchased electronic voting systems are vulnerable to software attacks that could threaten the integrity of… Continue Reading
Review of Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR-06-003T), House Committee on International Relations. On June 8, 2006, SIGIR provided testimony before the House Committee on International Relations as part of the Committee’s review of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq. Full Statement of Stuart W. Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction(6 pages, PDF) Continue Reading