Press release: “Two significant collections of previously classified historical documents are now available in the CIA’s FOIA Electronic Reading Room. The first collection, widely known as the “Family Jewels,” consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
New CDC Report Documents Percentage of People Without Health Insurance
Press release: “CDC′s National Center for Health Statistics is issuing a new report…entitled Early Release of Health Insurance Estimates Based on Data From the 2006 National Health Interview Survey. The study examines data collected from interviews in over 100,000 households nationwide. Some of the highlights include: In 2006, there were 43.6 million Americans of all… Continue Reading
askSam Releases Free Searchable e-Book, 15,000 Useful Phrases
askSam releases free searchable ebook: Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases, by Greenville Kleiser: “A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English.” Continue Reading
UN Releases World Drug Report 2007
World Drug Report 2007 – Full Report (282 pages, PDF): “UN drug agency reports “significant and positive changes” in world drugs markets. Countries urged to provide greater health care to drug addicts. See the press release here. Continue Reading
Speed Matters: A Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States
First-Ever State-By-State Report on Internet Connection Speed Shows U.S. Far Behind Other Industrialized Nations: “Results released today of the first-ever state-by-state report on Internet connection speed reveal that the United States is falling far behind other industrialized nations. The report, based on aggregated data from nearly 70,000 users, shows that the median real-time download speed… Continue Reading
Reverberations in Case Involving FBI NSLs and Connecticut Librarians
Follow up to previous postings on Connecticut librarians and FBI NSL gag order, via Wired Blog, Librarians Describe Life Under An FBI Gag Order: “Two Connecticut librarians on Sunday [at the 2007 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC] described what it was like to be slapped with an FBI national security letter and accompanying gag… Continue Reading
State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources
“How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web? The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is pleased to announce the publication of the State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources that answers this very important and timely question. The comprehensive report examines the results of a state survey that investigated whether government-hosted… Continue Reading
Top 100 Federal Prime Contractors 2007
Washington Technology: A new stage of evolution – 2007 Top 100 | Revamped rankings reflect demand for solutions, services and mission-critical support Rank | A-Z | Industry sector | Incumbents | Newcomers | Publicly traded | Privately held | Small businesses | Defense Revenue | Civilian Revenue | P/E Ratio | Market Valuation | Revenue… Continue Reading
Report Tracks May 2007 Spam Spikes
MessageLabs Intelligence Report: Increased Number of Spam Spikes and New Image Spam Techniques Cause Trouble for Businesses: “Analysis of [May 2007] data showed that spammers continue to innovate and employ new methods to elude traditional anti-spam solutions. Rather than embedding images in the body of an email message, spammers are now hosting images on sites… Continue Reading
Debate On Public Access to Public Records Online Escalates
WSJ free feature: When Public Records Are Too Public – Open Records Are an Established Tradition, But Does Internet Access Call for a Change?: “Property deeds, marriage and divorce records, court files, motor-vehicle information and tax documents are increasingly being digitized, and contain a wealth of information that few of us would want online: Social… Continue Reading
FBI Chronicles Using Intel to Stop the Mob, Part 1
In Chicago and elsewhere, the fight against organized crime had just begun. And so has our story. In the next few months, we’ll run a series of articles tracing how we’ve used intelligence to take on mobsters and even decimate entire crime families in different times and different places over the past seven decades. Stay… Continue Reading
Survey of DHS Intelligence Collection and Dissemination
Survey of DHS Intelligence Collection and Dissemination (Unclassified Summary) OIG-07-49 (PDF, 6 pages) Continue Reading
