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Monthly Archives: December 2006
CRS Report – Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade: Key Issues for the 110th Congress
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade: Key Issues for the 110th Congress, December 20, 2006. Continue Reading
Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq
From the Iraq Index project at Brookings: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq “The Iraq Index is a statistical compilation of economic, public opinion, and security data. This resource will provide updated information on various criteria, including crime, telephone and water service, troop fatalities, unemployment, Iraqi security forces, oil production, and coalition troop strength.”… Continue Reading
DHS Introduces New Regulations to Secure High-Risk Chemical Facilities
Press release: “The Department of Homeland Security today made available for public review an aggressive and comprehensive set of proposed regulations that will improve security at high-risk chemical facilities nationwide. The proposed regulations are expected to be published in the Federal Register next week as an Advanced Notice of Rulemaking and will be available for… Continue Reading
DHS Secure Flight Report
Secure Flight Report, December 2006 (PDF, 18 pages): DHS Privacy Office Report to the Public on the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight Program and Privacy Recommendations. News.com: “A Department of Homeland Security program that linked details on millions of air travelers with profiles drawn from commercial databases was plagued by “privacy missteps” that misled the… Continue Reading
DHS Privacy Office Report on MATRIX Project
MATRIX Report, December 2006 (PDF, 9 pages): DHS Privacy Office Report to the Public Concerning the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (MATRIX) Pilot Project. Continue Reading
DHS Provides RSS Fees for News, Press Releases, Speeches and Testimony
Links to the RSS feeds are as follows: Department of Homeland Security News Department of Homeland Security Press Releases Department of Homeland Security Speeches Department of Homeland Security Testimony Continue Reading
Judge Declines to Unseal Docs on Alleged Participation in Domestic Surveillance Program
Follow-up to a November 7, 2006 posting, Court Grants Appeal in AT&T Spying Case, today, via Wired, “A federal judge in San Francisco declined to decide today whether to unseal documents at the heart of a lawsuit against AT&T for its alleged participation in a warrantless government wiretapping program aimed at Americans’ overseas emails and… Continue Reading
Forbes Special Report – America's Best Big Companies
Forbes Special Report – America’s Best Big Companies Continue Reading
NCSC Publishes New Future Trends in State Courts
Press release: “The National Center for State Courts has published Future Trends in State Courts 2006 [113 pages, PDF], the latest in its long-running Report on Trends in State Courts series. This book, which is produced annually by NCSCs Knowledge and Information Service, helps to make courts more aware of important societal trends that could… Continue Reading
Report on the External Quality Control Review of the EPA's IG Audit Organization
Final Report: Report on the External Quality Control Review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General Audit Organization [Report PDF – 19 pages], December, 2006. Continue Reading
Quartet of DHS OIG Audits Released on Financial, Immigration, IT Issues
Audit of DHS’ Corrective Action Plan Process for Financial Reporting – Report No. 3, OIG-07-13 (PDF, 26 pages) December 20 2006. Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security, OIG-07-12 (PDF, 46 pages) December 20 2006 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Progress in Modernizing Information Technology, OIG-07-11 (PDF, 36 pages) December 20 2006 Independent… Continue Reading
