Follow up to previous postings on Blackwater, this press release from Committee on Oversight: “State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard announced his resignation today. In response to the announcement, Chairman Waxman released the following statement: Mr. Krongards decision removes an enormous distraction from the Inspector Generals office and will allow the office to focus on its important oversight responsibilities. The Committee will certainly take this new development into account.
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Daily Archives: December 7, 2007
Treasury Economic Update
Treasury Economic Update 12/7/2007: “Today’s data indicate that the labor market remains healthy, with a low unemployment rate and continued job growth. We expect the economic expansion to continue even with the challenges we face in the housing and credit markets.” – Assistant Secretary Phillip Swagel, December 7, 2007 Continue Reading
ICE Fugitive Operations Teams arrest more than 30,000 in FY2007
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that their teams of officers who track down criminal aliens and immigration fugitives arrested almost twice as many in fiscal year 2007 than in the previous year. For the first time since records have been kept, the nation’s fugitive alien population is on the decline. In the… Continue Reading
Retroactivity Considered for Crack Cocaine Guidelines
Follow up to November 12, 2007 posting, U.S. Sentencing Commission Received 33,000 Letters on Retroactivity, news today that “[t]he U.S. Sentencing Commission, which in November 2007 issued new guidelines for convictions involving crack cocaine, is considering making those guidelines retroactive. The Commission estimates that 19,500 current federal prison inmates would be eligible for a reduced… Continue Reading
Conyers, House Judiciary Members Question CIA, DOJ on Destroyed Interrogation Tapes
Follow up to December 6, 2007 posting, Report: CIA Destroyed Videos of Interrogations, this press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Reps. Robert Scott, William Delahunt and Jerrold Nadler sent letters to Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gen. Michael Hayden and Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting details about today’s reports… Continue Reading
State Department Interagency Counterinsurgency Initiative
“The Interagency Counterinsurgency Initiative (ICI) seeks to inform and help shape relevant USG policy and programs by incorporating the theory and history of counters to organized movements that use subversion or violence rather than established political processes to undermine or overthrow governments, with the goal of focusing appropriate elements of diplomacy, defense, and development on… Continue Reading
New report on human trafficking in California
A Report of the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery (CA ACTS) Task Force Download Human Trafficking in California, Full Report. [Member Roster] “Read Sacramento’s Channel 10’s interview with CVPC Director Nancy Matson regarding this important issue or watch the video.” The CA ACTS Task Force released its Final Report on December 4, 2007,… Continue Reading
Study: How the World Rates Women as Leaders
How the World Rates Women as Leaders by Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Research Associate, Pew Global Attitudes Project, December 5, 2007: “On December 10, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be inaugurated as Argentina’s first female president. The senator and first lady will join 11 other women who currently serve as their countries’ presidents or prime ministers,… Continue Reading
