House Intelligence Committee Report on the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act, H.Rep. 110-665, May 21. The link and following, from Secrecy News: “The National Cyber Security Initiative, which is the single largest and most important initiative in next years budget, is being conducted under excessive classification, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) said in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
US Ratification of Nuclear Liability Treaty
News release: “A key treaty that governs global civil nuclear liability marked an important milestone this week, as the United States ratified the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) at IAEA headquarters in Vienna. Upon entry into force, the CSC would establish a uniform global legal regime for the compensation of victims in… Continue Reading
Thinking About Law and Creativity: On the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law
Thinking About Law and Creativity: On the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law, by Robert F. Blomquist “In most cultural contexts creativity is viewed as an unalloyed virtue. Law is different: given the inherently conservative and slow-moving pace of legal evolution, innovation in the law is viewed by many observers as problematic. Yet American… Continue Reading
IRS Issues Spring 2008 Statistics of Income Bulletin
IRS Issues Spring 2008 Statistics of Income Bulletin: “The IRS releases the spring 2008 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, featuring data from the 138.4 million individual tax returns filed for tax year 2006.” Continue Reading
White House Fact Sheet: Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Free and Fair Trade
Fact Sheet: Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Free and Fair Trade Continue Reading
FERC 2008 Summer Market and Reliability Assessment
2008 Summer Market and Reliability Assessment, May 15, 2008: “The reliability and adequacy of the bulk power system this summer, as forecasted by the planning authorities and reviewed by the Regional Entities and NERC is projected to be adequate. Extreme weather conditions and major outages of generation and transmission pose risks to reliability and where… Continue Reading
Google Safe Browsing Diagnositic Tool
Via Google Blogoscoped, “Google [has a] malware diagnosis service; just append any domain your domain or another site you want to check on to the end of the URL google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=, or paste a domain in the box below, and you will find an overview page listing potential problems like trojans or exploits (or… Continue Reading
Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission
Transportation for Tomorrow: Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, “prepared by a specially convened Commission, meets the charge given under Section 1909 of the Safe Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). The Report includes detailed recommendations for creating and sustaining a pre-eminent surface… Continue Reading
DOJ Issues New Annual FOIA Report Guidance
Department of Justice Issues New Annual FOIA Report Guidance: “In the wake of the OPEN Government Act of 2007, which amended the reporting requirements for agency Annual FOIA Reports, the Department of Justice, in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, has revised both the content and the format of the Report and its… Continue Reading
DHS OIG: Annual Performance Plan (Revised), Fiscal Year 2008
Annual Performance Plan (Revised), Fiscal Year 2008 (PDF, 94 pages) Continue Reading
CBO: Data on the Distribution of Federal Taxes and Household Income
Data on the Distribution of Federal Taxes and Household Income – December 2007 “This page contains CBO’s most recent estimates of federal effective tax rates (taxes as a percentage of income) across household income groups for the four largest sources of federal revenues–individual income taxes, social insurance (payroll) taxes, corporate income taxes, and excise taxes–as… Continue Reading
Microsoft Announces Termination of Live Search Books and Live Search Academic Projects
Microsoft Live Search Blog: “Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes. This also means that we… Continue Reading
