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Daily Archives: February 14, 2008

DNI Statement for the Record – Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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DNI Authorities Hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 14 February 2008, J. Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence.

  • “We in the Intelligence Community have a solemn mandate: The responsibility to provide relevant and objective analysis to customers across the government—from law enforcement officials, to warfighters, to the President, and the Congress. Our job is to create a decision advantage to the leaders of our country. By decision advantage, we mean the ability to prevent strategic surprise, understand emerging threats and track known threats, while adapting to the changing world. We also have an operational role, in some circumstances, to confront or remove foreign threats to the nation.”

    • Chertoff Testimony to House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, "FY 2009 Budget Request"

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    Press release: “Six years after September 11, 2001, we are moving beyond operating as an organization in transition to a Department diligently working to protect our borders and critical infrastructure, prevent dangerous people and goods from entering our country, and recover from natural disasters effectively. The total FY 2009 budget request for DHS is $50.5… Continue Reading

    NY AG Cuomo Announces Industry-wide Investigation Into Health Insurers' Fraudulent Reimbursement Scheme

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    Press release: “Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he is conducting an industry-wide investigation into a scheme by health insurers to defraud consumers by manipulating reimbursement rates. At the center of the scheme is Ingenix, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of healthcare billing information, which serves as a conduit for rigged data to… Continue Reading

    DOJ OIG: Drug Enforcement Administration’s Use of the Diversion Control Fee Account, FBI's Annual Financial Statement

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    Review of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Use of the Diversion Control Fee Account, Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2008-002, February 2008 (59 pages, PDF) Federal Bureau of Investigation Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2007, Audit Report 08-07, February 2008 (Commentary and Summary Only) Continue Reading

    SEC: Progress Report of Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting

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    Progress Report of Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting, February 14, 2008 (11 pages, PDF). “This executive overview highlights the key themes that tie together the chapters in this progress report, with a few examples to illustrate each theme. The main themes are: 1. Increasing emphasis on the investor perspective in the financial reporting… Continue Reading

    Report of the Defense Science Task Force on DOD Energy Strategy: More Fight-Less Fuel

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    Report of the Defense Science Task Force on DoD Energy Strategy – ”More Fight-Less Fuel”, February 2008, Unclassified (135 pages, PDF). “The final report concludes that the DoD faces two primary energy challenges: unnecessarily high, and growing, battlespace fuel demand compromises our operational capability and can jeopardize mission success; and critical missions at military installations… Continue Reading

    Pew Internet Releases Online Shopping Report

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    Press release: “Most online Americans view online shopping as a way to save time and a convenient way to buy products. At the same time, most internet users express discomfort over a key step in online shopping – sending personal or credit card information over the internet. According to the Pew Internet Project’s September 2007… Continue Reading

    CDC and FEMA Discuss Preliminary Test Results from Trailers and Mobile Homes in Louisiana and Mississippi

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    Press release: Statement by Dr. Julie Gerberding, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released today preliminary results from recent testing that found higher than typical indoor exposure levels of formaldehyde in travel trailers and mobile… Continue Reading

    Acute coronary events decreased after public smoking ban in Italy

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    Press release: The number of acute coronary events such as heart attack in adults dropped significantly after a smoking ban in public places in Italy, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers in Rome compared acute coronary events in the city for five years preceding a public smoking ban with those… Continue Reading