Diminished Public Appetite for Military Force and Mideast Oil
Five Years Later, Released September 6, 2006: “Five years later, Americans’ views of the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have changed little, but opinions about how best to protect against future attacks have shifted substantially. In particular, far more Americans say reducing America’s overseas military presence, rather than expanding it, will have a greater effect in reducing the threat of terrorism.”
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Daily Archives: September 7, 2006
Committee on Appropriations Democrats' State By State Report on Unemployment
House Republicans Shortchange America’s Workers – A State-by-State Report, September 7, 2006 (60 pages, PDF). Continue Reading
Armed Services Cmte. Hearing on White House Military Commissions Legislation
Follow-up on yesterday’s posting, Administration’s Proposed Legislation to Create Military Commissions, the House Armed Services Committee Release, Hearing on Military Standards and Commissions Utilized in Trying Detainees, September 7, 2006 Chairman Hunter Opening Statement (pdf) Witness statements: Mr. Steven Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice (pdf); Major General Scott C. Black, USA, The… Continue Reading
GAO Report Highlights Need for Better IT Management and Spending
Information Technology: Improvements Needed to More Accurately Identify and Better Oversee Risky Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars, Full-text GAO-06-1099T, and Highlights, September 7, 2006. “As a result of the Management Watch List and high risk projects processes, about 300 projects totaling about $12 billion in estimated IT expenditures for fiscal year 2007 have been identified… Continue Reading
EPA OIG Audit of Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
2006-P-00032 EPA Grants Supported Restoring the Chesapeake Bay, [Report PDF – 17 pages] [At a Glance PDF], September 6, 2006. Continue Reading
Update on Detainee Issues and Military Commissions Legislation
Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, Administration’s Proposed Legislation to Create Military Commissions, this Update on Detainee Issues and Military Commissions Legislation, John Bellinger III, State Department Legal Advisor, Foreign Press Center Briefing, Washington, DC, September 7, 2006. Continue Reading
White House Report, 9/11 Five Years Later
9/11 Five Years Later: Successes and Challenges, September 2006 (23 pages, PDF) From the BBC, these related documents and resources: How 9/11 changed America: In statistics – “Five years after the 11 September attacks, how has America changed? Click through these graphs to explore long-term trends in selected aspects of life. We include the five… Continue Reading
National Archives Issues Progress Report on Declassification Initiatives
National Archives Issues Progress Report on Declassification Initiatives: “The new NDI program will reduce redundancies in declassification review, will promote accurate and consistent declassification decisions, will improve equity recognition across the declassification community, develop centralized priorities and management controls around the priorities, and make the declassification process more transparent to the public.” Related postings on… Continue Reading
Report Questions Purported Security Provided by E- Passports
Press release: “Today Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), joined by representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union and The Cato Institute, released its report, Border Security: PASS Card Fails on Cost, Privacy.” See also State Department Begins Issuing E-Passports Continue Reading
Two Part Review of Post 9/11 Anti-Terror Technology and Government Secrecy
Post-9/11 antiterror technology: A report card news analysis – As Sept. 11 nears, News.com examines five useful ways of improving security–and five that should raise eyebrows, by Declan McCullagh Post-9/11 privacy and secrecy: A report card, by Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache Continue Reading
Kennedy Library Archivist Article on Efforts to Retrieve Missing Kennedy Documents
Reclaiming Pieces of Camelot – How NARA and the JFK Library Recovered Missing Kennedy Documents and Artifacts, by James M. Roth: “Among the more celebrated individuals suspected of misappropriating presidential and federal documents is Evelyn Lincoln, former secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through the efforts of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library staff, the… Continue Reading
DHS OIG Survey of DHS Data Mining Activities
Survey of DHS Data Mining Activities, OIG-06-56 (PDF, 22 pages), September 6, 2006. Continue Reading
