Handbook for Safeguarding Sensitive Personally Identifiable: Information at DHS, October 2008 (PDF, 19 pages): The DHS Privacy Office Handbook for Safeguarding Sensitive PII at DHS applies to every DHS employee, contractor, detailee and consultant. The document sets minimum standards for how personnel should handle Sensitive PII in paper and electronic form during their everyday work activities at DHS.”
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Daily Archives: November 20, 2008
FDIC Loan Modification Program Guide "Mod in a Box"
“This guide provides an overview of the FDIC’s program to assist bankers, servicers, and investors in this process. It outlines FDIC program terms at IndyMac Federal Bank, offers insight into the specific portfolio characteristics that drive modification modeling at that bank, and provides a framework for developing and implementing a similar program at your institution.… Continue Reading
2008 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Annual Report
News release: “China relies on heavy-handed government control over its economy to maintain an export advantage over other countries. The result: China has amassed nearly $2 trillion in foreign exchange and has increasingly used its hoard to manipulate currency trading and diplomatic relations with other nations. These are among the concusions in the sixth Annual… Continue Reading
National Intelligence Council Report – Global Trends 2025- A Transformed World
Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, November 2008 – “We prepared Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World to stimulate strategic thinking about the future by identifying key trends, the factors that drive them, where they seem to be headed, and how they might interact. It uses scenarios to illustrate some of the many ways in… Continue Reading
Recent CRS Reports on the Financial Crisis
The U.S. Financial Crisis: The Global Dimension with Implications for U.S. Policy, November 18, 2008 Reporting Requirements in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, updated November 13, 2008 The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and Current Financial Turmoil: Issues and Analysis, October 31, 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act: Preliminary Analysis of Oversight Provisions, October 31,… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Freight Congestion, DHS Programs Oversight, Health Information Technology
Approaches to Mitigate Freight Congestion, GAO-09-163R, November 20, 2008 Department of Homeland Security: Billions Invested in Major Programs Lack Appropriate Oversight, GAO-09-29, November 18, 2008 Contract Management: DOD Developed Draft Guidance for Operational Contract Support but Has Not Met All Legislative Requirements, GAO-09-114R, November 20, 2008 Health Information Technology: More Detailed Plans Needed for the… Continue Reading
CRS – Midnight Rulemaking: Considerations for Congress and a New Administration
CRS Report: Midnight Rulemaking: Considerations for Congress and a New Administration, November 18, 2008 “Summary: At the end of every recent presidential administration involving a change in the party controlling the White House, the level of rulemaking activity by federal agencies tends to increase. On May 9, 2008, White House Chief of Staff Joshua B.… Continue Reading
Data Shows an Increase in Mercury Emissions at Power Plants
News release: In the wake of a February 2008 appeals court decision striking down weak regulations proposed by the Bush Administrations Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project finds that the top 50 most polluting power plants In the U.S. emitted 20 tons of the dangerous neurotoxin mercury into… Continue Reading
Remarks by Treasury Secretary on Financial Crisis – Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
News release: “We are working through a severe financial crisis caused by many factors, including government inaction and mistaken actions, outdated U.S. and global financial regulatory systems, and by the excessive risk-taking of financial institutions. This combination of factors led to a critical stage this fall when the entire U.S. financial system was at risk…The… Continue Reading
