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Pelosi: Response to Administration Decision Not to Enforce Contempt Citations of Miers and Bolten

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News release: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement February 29, 2008 in response to a letter she received late this afternoon from U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey stating that the Administration is refusing to enforce contempt of Congress citations against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten:

“By ordering the U.S. Attorney to take no action in response to congressional subpoenas, the Bush Administration is continuing to politicize law enforcement, which undermines public confidence in our criminal justice system. Anticipating this response from the Administration, the House has already provided authority for the Judiciary Committee to file a civil enforcement action in federal district court and the House shall do so promptly. The American people demand that we uphold the law. As public officials, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and protect our system of checks and balances and our civil lawsuit seeks to do just that.”

  • AP: Mukasey Refuses Probe of Bush Aides Mukasey Refuses to Order Grand Jury Probe of Bush Chief of Staff, Ex-White House Counsel

    • National Archives Makes Some Passenger Arrival Records Available Online

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    News release: “For the first time, the National Archives and Records Administration has made available online more than 5.2 million records of some passengers who arrived during the last half of the 19th century at the ports of Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The records were transcribed from original ship manifests into… Continue Reading

    Special IG for Iraq Reconstruction January 30, 2008 Quarterly Report and Semiannual Report to Congress

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    January 30, 2008 Quarterly Report and Semiannual Report to Congress: “Success in the continuing U.S. relief and reconstruction efforts in Iraq in 2008 will depend substantially on the Government of Iraq’s capacity to employ its own reconstruction resources in support of a national recovery plan. 2008 will be a Year of Transfer for the U.S.… Continue Reading

    New Inspection Reports Reveal Deficiencies in the Construction of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq

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    “New documents released by House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Waxman identify “critical” and “major” deficiencies in the construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, raising questions about the decision of the State Department to certify in December that the Embassy compound was “substantially complete.” Documents and Links Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza… Continue Reading

    2007 Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance Survey

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    2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey – Over Half of All Employers Combined Fire Workers for E-Mail & Internet Abuse, February 28, 2008 “From e-mail monitoring and Website blocking to phone tapping and GPS tracking, employers increasingly combine technology with policy to manage productivity and minimize litigation, security, and other risks. To motivate compliance with… Continue Reading

    DOT OIG: Assessment of FAA's Risk-Based System for Overseeing Aircraft Manufacturers' Suppliers

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    DOT OIG Audit, Assessment of FAA’s Risk-Based System for Overseeing Aircraft Manufacturers’ Suppliers, February 26, 2008, Project ID: AV-2008-026. “The audit objective was to evaluate FAA’s oversight of aircraft manufacturers’ quality assurance systems for domestic and foreign suppliers. Although aviation manufacturers are ultimately responsible for the quality of their products, FAA’s Aircraft Certification Service personnel… Continue Reading

    TSA's National Explosives Detection Canine Team

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    “TSA’s National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program prepares dogs and handlers to serve on the front lines of America’s War on Terror. These very effective, mobile teams can quickly locate and identify dangerous materials that may present a threat to transportation systems. Just as important, they can quickly rule out the presence of dangerous materials… Continue Reading

    Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks (Version 1.0)

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    Chris Hoofnagle, Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks (Version 1.0) February 26, 2008. Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Law and Technology Scholarship (Selected by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology). Paper 44. “There is no reliable way for consumers, regulators, and businesses to assess the relative incidence of identity fraud at major financial… Continue Reading

    Data Breach Notification Laws, State By State

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    Data Breach Notification Laws, State By State, by Scott Berinato, “More than five years after California’s seminal data breach disclosure law, SB 1386, was enacted, not all states have followed suit. Eleven states still have not passed laws mandating that companies notify consumers when that company has lost the consumer’s personal data. One state, Oklahoma,… Continue Reading

    Do subprime loans create subprime cities? Surging inequality and the rise in predatory lending

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    Economic Policy Institute: Do subprime loans create subprime cities? Surging inequality and the rise in predatory lending, February 28, 2008. “In the paper, published by EPI as part of its Agenda for Shared Prosperity, author Gregory D. Squires, a George Washington University sociologist, contends that increasing economic inequality and diminishing access to conventional financial services… Continue Reading