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
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Monthly Archives: September 2006
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
Report on the World Catastrophe Reinsurance Market
The World Catastrophe Reinsurance Market – Steep Peaks Overshadow Plateaus: “This annual report, which covers 22 countries and four regions, is a comprehensive study of the property catastrophe reinsurance market. In addition to reviewing catastrophe exposures and the availability of catastrophe insurance from private and government sources, the study summarizes respective market conditions in catastrophe… Continue Reading
U.S. Dept. of Defense Detainee Directive
U.S. Dept. of Defense Detainee Directive – Definitions, Treatment Policy, and Compliance with Laws of War, September 5, 2006 Related government documents from Office of Director of National Intelligence (DNI): Information on the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program, September 6, 2006 Biographies of High Value Terrorist Detainees, September 1, 2006 Continue Reading
Searchable Version of National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
From askSam, the text of the 2006 U.S. National Strategy for Combating Terrorism is available in searchable and browseable online versions. Continue Reading
Hearing on Surveillance Bills
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Legislative Hearing on “Legislative Proposals to Update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).” (H.R. 4976, H.R. 5223, H.R. 5371, H.R. 5825, S. 2453, and S. 2455). Links to Chairman’s Opening Statement and Witness statements Related postings on domestic surveillance program Continue Reading
Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates
Press release: “More than half of all prison and jail inmates, including 56 percent of state prisoners, 45 percent of federal prisoners and 64 percent of local jail inmates, were found to have a mental health problem, according to a new study published today by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).” Mental Health… Continue Reading
Administration's Proposed Legislation to Create Military Commissions
Military Commissions Act of 2006: A bill to facilitate bringing to justice terrorists and other unlawful enemy combatants through full and fair trials by military commissions, and for other purposes – September 6, 2006 (86 pages, PDF) Related government documents: Message to the Congress of the United States on the Military Commissions Act of 2006,… Continue Reading
Survey Says American Adults Increasingly Seek Legal Info on Web
Press Release: U.S. Adults More Likely to Turn to the Web for Legal Information, New Survey from Lawyers.com Reveals Continue Reading
