Press release: “NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency’s vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers. Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
IRS OIG Audit Verifies Employee Noncompliance With Security Policies and Procedures
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), Efforts Have Been Made, but Manager and Employee Noncompliance With Security Policies and Procedures Puts Personally Identifiable Information at Risk, issued August 13, 2007: “…The IRS has taken several noteworthy actions to protect taxpayer data in its possession. For example, it has established a Security Services and Privacy… Continue Reading
Army Corps of Engineers Launches Website on Hurricane Risk Assessment for Louisiana Coast
“This site [New Orleans Risk and Reliability Report] is designed to share what we have learned about hurricane risks in the Greater New Orleans area with you, so that you can make risk-informed decisions about your future. Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force [IPET] has developed a state-of-the-art prototype risk assessment model to characterize current annual… Continue Reading
Survey on Enterprise Data Center Consolidation in the States: Strategies and Business Justification
“The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has released a new publication, NASCIOs Survey on Enterprise Data Center Consolidation in the States: Strategies and Business Justification (62 pages, PDF). A product of NASCIO’s Infrastructure and Services Committee, this survey report provides an overview of the challenges states indicated they are facing in considering… Continue Reading
FEC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Electioneering Communications
Press release: “The Federal Election Commission (FEC/Commission) today approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to implement the Supreme Court decision in Wisconsin Right to Life v. FEC (WRTL). The Court ruled that the specific ads in question were not the functional equivalent of express advocacy because they were susceptible of a reasonable interpretation other… Continue Reading
U.S. Government Manual 2007-2008
U.S. Government Manual 2007-2008: “The official handbook of the Federal Government, provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.” Continue Reading
CBO Report – The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update
CBO Report – The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update, August 2007 pdf data charts Continue Reading
Subprime Mortgage Market Crisis Timeline
“The Joint Economic Committee has compiled a timeline of events tracking the subprime crisis from December 2006 to the present. Although it does not include every event in the markets, in Congress, or in the Administration, it provides a fairly comprehensive background guide to the current housing crisis and the steps taken to avoid further… Continue Reading
National Intelligence Estimate – An Update to "Prospects for Iraq's Stability"
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) – An Update to “Prospects for Iraq’s Stability” August 23, 2007: “There have been measurable but uneven improvements in Iraq’s security situation since our last National Intelligence Estimate in January 2007.” Continue Reading
New Site Fact-Checks Accuracy of Communications for 2008 Presidential Campaign
“PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times and CQ will analyze the candidates’ speeches, TV ads and interviews and determine whether the claims are accurate.” Continue Reading
DHS Satellite Surveillance Plan Under Close Scrutiny by House Homeland Security Cmte.
The Wall Street Journal today reported that House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff stating the intention to conduct careful oversight over the fall 2007 launch of the National Applications Office (NAO). This program’s use of “spy satellites for domestic homeland security and law enforcement purposes”… Continue Reading
Transcript of Q&A With National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell
Transcript: Debate on the foreign intelligence surveillance act, by Chris Roberts, El Paso Times: The following is the transcript of a question and answer session with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, published August 22, 2007. On participation by telecommunications companies in the domestic surveillance program: “…Now the second part of the issue was under the… Continue Reading
