Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing: Examining Treasury’s Role in Combating Terrorist Financing Five Years After 9/11, September 12, 2006. Witness Testimony (PDF format): Mr. Robert W. Werner, Director, Finacial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Department of the Treasury; Mr. Daniel L. Glaser, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, Department of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Minority Staff of House Appropriations Committee – Report on Army Military Readiness
Press release: “Today, Dave Obey (D-WI), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee and John Murtha (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Defense Subcommittee, released a new report on the state of the U.S. Armys readiness for war. Mr. Murtha also announced a resolution calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.” The Obey Murtha Report… Continue Reading
FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project
“EFF’s FLAG Project aims to expose the government’s expanding use of new technologies that invade Americans’ privacy. Through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the project will help protect individual liberties and hold the government accountable.” Continue Reading
Clean Contracting Act of 2006
Press release, Committee on Government Reform Minority Office, September 13, 2006: “Today the House Democratic Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Truth Squad introduced the “Clean Contracting Act of 2006.” The bill would end the abusive contracting practices that have been rampant under the Bush Administration and promote greater transparency and accountability in federal contracting. Contracts collectively… Continue Reading
DOJ Ordered to Release Info On Government's Enforcement of the Law
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) press release: “A federal court has ruled that under the Freedom of Information Act the Justice Department must provide TRAC with additional information about the government’s enforcement of the law. The September 8, 2006 ruling by Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia… Continue Reading
New EU Digital Libraries Initiative Website
Follow-up to August 25, 2006 posting, Commission Calls on Member States to Contribute to European Digital Library, today’s news: “A new Digital Libraries Initiative Website was published today on the Europa portal. The site is action orientated. The main focus is on the Homepage’s “What’s New” section where the Information market Unit (Information Society and… Continue Reading
Hearing on Cybersecurity
CyberSecurity: Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure, Economy, and Consumers – Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet September 13, 2006 Links to Invited Witnesses and Member Statements Continue Reading
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine by Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten Abstract – “This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of… Continue Reading
Large Companies Collecting More Personal Information
Press release, September 11, 2006: “The Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their online customers, today released findings from its Annual Review of the Largest 100 US Companies… as defined by Fortune Magazine in April 2006. The average rating for the companies was 5.7 on a… Continue Reading
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: July 2006
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: July 2006 – released September 12, 2006. Full Release – PDF | Technical Note, Tables: XLS, Highlights – PDF Continue Reading
NJ Rejects Justice Department Argument in Phone Records Suit
Press release: “Acting Attorney General Anne Milgram declares in a brief filed in federal court that the United States Justice Department’s move to block a state investigation into whether telephone companies provided call records to the National Security Agency without a court warrant interferes with the Attorney General’s ability to investigate violations of New Jersey… Continue Reading
GAO Reviews State of Enterprise Architecture Programs in Federal Agencies
Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for Organizational Transformation, Full-text GAO-06-831, and Highlights, August 14, 2006. “The state of the enterprise architecture programs at the 27 major federal departments and agencies is mixed, with several having very immature programs, several having more mature programs, and most being somewhere in between. Collectively,… Continue Reading
