Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Tuesday, December 5, 2006 – 9:30 AM. To consider the nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Secretary of Defense. The nominee will be present.
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Daily Archives: December 4, 2006
BJS Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2006
Press release: “The report, Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2006 (NCJ 214262), was written by BJS statistician Katrina Baum; Rachel Dinkes and Grace Kena, of the Education Statistics Services Institute in the American Institutes for Research; and Emily Forrest Cataldi, of MPR Associates, Inc.” Continue Reading
New LC Country Profile on Yemen
Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, Country Profle: Yemen, December 2006 Continue Reading
Topics of New CRS Reports: Intelligence Estimates and Iraqi Civilian Deaths Estimates
Recent CRS Reports made available by FAS: Iraqi Civilian Deaths Estimates, November 22, 2006 Intelligence Estimates: How Useful to Congress?, November 21, 2006 Continue Reading
Polls: What Do Americans Think of Their Courts?
Third Branch: “Do you think elected officials should have more control over federal judges and the decisions they make in court cases? A majority of Americans say no. In an October poll conducted for CNN by Opinion Research Corporation, 67 percent of 1,013 Americans interviewed said elected officials should not have more control over federal… Continue Reading
Strategy Paper: Promoting Opportunity and Growth through Science, Technology, and Innovation
Promoting Opportunity and Growth through Science, Technology, and Innovation, A Hamilton Project Strategy Paper, December 2006 (20 pages, PDF). “Maintaining our nation’s economic leadership in the world and promoting broad-based growth at home will require effective policies to support research, innovation, and access to advanced information and telecommunications technologies. Innovation has long fueled economic growth,… Continue Reading
DNI Information Sharing Environment Privacy Guidelines Released
Press release: DNI Information Sharing Environment Privacy Guidelines Privacy Guidelines (9 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
FBI Audit of Sentinel Investigative Case Management System
Sentinel Audit II: Status of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Case Management System (Redacted), Audit Report 07-03, December 2006 (PDF – Full Report) Comment Of Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Ranking Member And Incoming Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, On DOJ OIG Report On FBI Computer System Project, December 4, 2006: “Todays finding by the Department of… Continue Reading
On Amazon, The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward – A New Approach
On Amazon: The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward – A New Approach, by The Iraq Study Group, James A. Baker III, Lee H. Hamilton, 160 pages, Vintage Books (December 6, 2006). Continue Reading
Internet Archive Helps Secure An Exemption to Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Press release: “…Internet Archive has successfully advocated for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA prohibits circumvention of technological measures employed by or on behalf of copyright owners to protect their works (“access controls”). Specifically, 17 U.S.C. §1201(a)(1)(A) provides, in part, that No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively… Continue Reading
DNI Addresses Harvard's Kennedy School
Remarks and Q&A by the Director of National Intelligence, Ambassador John D. Negroponte, Harvard’s Kennedy School, December 1, 2006. Continue Reading
First Responders Interoperability To Be Up By End Of '07
“In an effort to reach predetermined goals of enabling police and fire departments in multiple jurisdictions to communicate in real-time during a major incident, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that 46 U.S. cities are planned to have interoperable communications in place by the end of 2007. DHS will assist the… Continue Reading
