Audit Report, Follow-up Audit on Stockpile Surveillance Testing, October 2006.
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Daily Archives: November 2, 2006
Treasury IG for Tax Admininstration Audit of IRS Modernization Activities
The Internal Revenue Service Is Successfully Taking Steps to Transition Modernization Activities From the PRIME Contractor; However, Difficult Challenges Remain, Report Date: 10/24/2006. Audit Highlights and Audit Reports. Continue Reading
Joint Economic Committee Democrats Release Study on Foreign Financing of U.S. Debt
Press release: “The Bush Administration has allowed the United States to become increasingly dependent on foreign purchases of U.S. Treasury securities to finance the federal budget deficit, and future U.S. national income will be depressed by payments to foreign holders of U.S. debt, according to a new study by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee… Continue Reading
Public Interest Group Releases Report on UK Torture Policy Since 9/11
Press release, November 2, 2006: From Human Rights Watch, a “45-page paper, Dangerous Ambivalence: UK Policy on Torture since 9/11, documents how the UK government is undermining the torture ban, even as it proclaims its efforts to combat torture worldwide. Torture, including returns to risk of torture, is prohibited by international law. No exceptions are… Continue Reading
New Air Force Cyberspace Command
Press release: “The aim is to develop a major command that stands alongside Air Force Space Command and Air Combat Command as the provider of forces that the President, combatant commanders and the American people can rely on for preserving the freedom of access and commerce, in air, space and now cyberspace,” said Secretary of… Continue Reading
Appeals Court Panel Blocks Release of Cheney Visitor Logs
Follow-up to October 2, 2006 posting – Federal Judge Orders Release of Cheney’s Visitor Logs – today the New York Sun reported a U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit three judge panel granted a stay to block release of the logs detailing visitors to the Cheney resident and White House office. Continue Reading
YouTube Faces Rapidly Escalating Copyright Challenges
Wall Street Journal free feature: YouTube Finds Signing Rights Deals Complex, Frustrating Financial Times: Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat Related news: eWeek.com Google Watch blog: “Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation, an industrial manufacturing and sales firm, filed suit this week against YouTube in Ohio federal district court, arguing they’ve incurred dramatic… Continue Reading
United States Army Military Readiness, September 2006
Democratic Leadership report: United States Army Military Readiness, September 2006 [Helen Capdevielle] Continue Reading
FOIA Request Unexpectedly Yields Formerly Redacted DHS Report Two Years After Publication
Elizabeth Williamson at the Washington Post clearly and concisely documents, through the use of before and after graphics, the impact of redacting text from a DHS report, and its subsequent revelation, years later, as a result of a FOIA request. Related postings on over classification of government documents Continue Reading
UK Report Reviews Surveillance in 2006 With Projections Through 2016
The UK Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, today issued a press release and a publication titled, A Surveillance Society (102 pages, PDF), a report commissioned for the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, currently underway. The report “looks at surveillance in 2006 and projects forward ten years to 2016. It describes a surveillance society… Continue Reading
New Study on Roles of Journalists in Online Newsrooms
“A new study of the skills and characterisitics important to online newsrooms has been released by Medill Schol of Journalism and the cooperation of the Online News Association.” The Roles of Journalists in Online Newsrooms, by C. Max Magee, released November 1, 2006: “The survey findings depict an online journalism that is tethered to traditional… Continue Reading
