Follow up to January 7, 2009 posting, Bush Administration Releases Highlights of Accomplishments and Results, the next report in what appears to be a series, The Accomplishments of the U.S. Department of Justice, 2001-2009 “Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Department made combating terrorism its top priority. This shift required a significant revision… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
New on LLRX.com: Burney's Legal Tech Review – 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro
Burney’s Legal Tech Reviews: A Review of the 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro – Brett Burney returns with a review of the well designed, low cost, high capacity SanDisk Cruzer Micro, which includes U3 technology that turns the flash drive into a portable computing environment. Continue Reading
Treasury Announces New Policy To Increase Transparency in Financial Stability Program
News release: “Building on President Barack Obama and Secretary Tim Geithner’s commitment to increase transparency and accountability in the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), the U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced a new policy of posting investment contracts for future completed transactions to the Department’s website within five to 10 business days. For contracts… Continue Reading
Museums, Zoos, After-School Programs Boost Science Learning
News release: “Each year, tens of millions of Americans, young and old, choose to learn about science in informal ways — by visiting museums and aquariums, attending after-school programs, pursuing personal hobbies, and watching TV documentaries, for example. There is abundant evidence that these programs and settings, and even everyday experiences such as a walk… Continue Reading
The Troubled Asset Relief Program: Report on Transactions Through December 31, 2008
Congressional Budget Office (CBO): The Troubled Asset Relief Program: Report on Transactions Through December 31, 2008 “This is the first of CBOs statutory reports on the TARPs transactions. Through December 31, 2008, those transactions totaled $247 billion. Valuing those assets using procedures similar to those specified in the Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA), but adjusting… Continue Reading
UNICEF The State of the World's Children 2009
The State of the World’s Children 2009: Maternal and Newborn Health “The divide between industrialized countries and developing regions particularly the least developed countries is perhaps greater on maternal mortality than on almost any other issue. This claim is borne out by the numbers: Based on 2005 data, the average lifetime risk of… Continue Reading
DOD OIG Report: Examination of Allegations Involving DoD Office of Public Affairs Outreach Program
Inspector General, Department of Defense: Examination of Allegations Involving DoD Office of Public Affairs Outreach Program, Jauary 14, 2009. “We initiated this review to further examine issues that were raised in an April 2008 New York Times article entitled, Behind TV Analysts, Pentagons Hidden Hand. The article documented a DoD public affairs outreach program that… Continue Reading
Report: Nuclear Bomb Materials Can Be Eliminated From Production Of Medical Supplies
News release: “Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the incoming Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committees Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, and the founder of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, today praised a new report by the National Academies of Sciences entitled Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium. The report concludes… Continue Reading
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Characteristics of Suspected Human Trafficking Incidents, 2007-08
News release: “In the first 21 months of operation, the Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS) recorded information on more than 1,200 alleged incidents of human trafficking, the U.S. Department of Justices Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced. The HTRS contains data collected by 38 federally funded human trafficking task forces on alleged incidents of human… Continue Reading
National Archives Opens 9/11 Commission Textual Materials
News release: The National Archives…open[ed] more than 150 cubic feet of records of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, an independent, bipartisan commission created by Congress. The Commissions mandate was to provide a full and complete accounting of the attacks of September 11, 2001, and recommend… Continue Reading
IRS Hotline for ID Theft Victims
“The IRS does not initiate communication with taxpayers through e-mail. Before identity theft happens, safeguard your information…IRS Identity Protection Specialized Unit, toll-free at 1-800-908-4490.” Continue Reading
Spending on Cell Phone Services Has Exceeded Spending on Residential Phone Services
News release: “Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) show that cellular phone expenditures increased rapidly from 2001 through 2007. Cellular phone expenditures surpassed spending on residential landline phone services beginning in 2007…annual expenditures for cellular phone services per consumer unit increased from $210 in 2001 to $608 in 2007, an… Continue Reading
