- Military Personnel: Federal Agencies Have Taken Actions to Address Servicemembers’ Employment Rights, but a Single Entity Needs to Maintain Visibility to Improve Focus on Overall Program Results, GAO-08-254T, November 08, 2007
- Terrorist Watch List Screening: Recommendations to Promote a Comprehensive and Coordinated Approach to Terrorist-Related Screening, GAO-08-253T, November 08, 2007.
- Related posting: Complaints Mount as Errors in Terror Watch List Grow
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Daily Archives: November 8, 2007
DHS: Independent Auditor's Report on TSA's FY 2006 Balance Sheet
OIG-08-05 – Independent Auditor’s Report on TSA’s FY 2006 Balance Sheet (PDF, 61 pages) – New 11/08/2007 Continue Reading
Judiciary Committee Chairman Renews Request For White House Legal Documents On Torture
Press release: “In a letter sent Wednesday to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) again requested legal memoranda outlining the White Houses justifications and policies on torture and interrogation. Such documents have long been requested but not provided. The New York Times recently reported on two secret 2005 memoranda… Continue Reading
New CRS Reports: Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Journalists' Privilege
Via FAS: Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Policy Implications of Expanding Global Access to Nuclear Power, November 1, 2007 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues,” updated October 25, 2007 Navy DDG-1000 Destroyer Program: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress, updated October 25, 2007 Operation Iraqi Freedom and Detainee Issues: Major… Continue Reading
Renewed Support for Digital Archive of Department of State Websites
“GPO is pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago through 2012. Originally signed in 1997, the partnership provides permanent public access to content in the Department of State Foreign Affairs (DOSFAN) Electronic Research Collection, a digital library of electronically archived information… Continue Reading
Complaints Mount as Errors in Terror Watch List Grow
USA Today: “More than 15,000 people have appealed to the government since February to have their names removed from the terrorist watch list that delayed their travel at U.S. airports and border crossings, the Homeland Security Department says.” Related government documents: “The Department of Homeland Security’s Travel Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP) is a single… Continue Reading
Vendor Sponsored 2007 Global Faculty e-Book Survey
2007 Global Faculty e-Book Survey Sponsored by ebrary Continue Reading
Another Record-Breaking Number of Taxpayers Choose to Electronically File in 2007
Press release: “The Internal Revenue Service this year received nearly 80 million tax returns through e-file, breaking the record set last year. The 2007 level is up about 9 percent from the 73 million returns filed for the same period last year. Of the 139.3 million returns filed in 2007, 79.98 million or about 57.4… Continue Reading
