WSJ: “Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to announce that the government will become a partner with the private sector to purchase banks’ troubled assets, according to people familiar with the matter. The plan for a so-called aggregator bank, a variation on a theme that Obama administration officials have wrestled with for weeks, is among four main components of Mr. Geithner’s bailout revamp, which he is expected to announce Tuesday.”
Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery Since 2002
Daily Archives: February 8, 2009
New on LLRX.com: President Obama's FOIA Memorandum and When Change Will Actually Occur
FOIA Facts: President Obamas FOIA Memorandum and When Change Will Actually Occur – Scott A. Hodes notes the Obama administration’s immediate focus on FOIA, but reminds us that changing the ship of government requires numerous steps and constant vigilance to ensure change remains consistent and constant. Continue Reading
Civil Liberties and National Security After 9/11: A CFR Working Paper
War About Terror – Civil Liberties and National Security After 9/11: A Council on Foreign Relations Working Paper, by Daniel B. Prieto, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security, February 2009 “President Barack Obama, in one of his first moves in office, reversed some of the most controversial detention and interrogation policies of the… Continue Reading
Wikileaks Posts Database of 6,780 Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
“Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation…Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, while the oldest… Continue Reading
TARP IG Commits to Protecting Whistleblowers
“In response to a letter from GAP and 9 other public interest organizations, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) sent a letter to GAP demonstrating his commitment to protect whistleblowers who disclose evidence of waste, fraud and abuse of bailout funds. In the letter, Special IG Neil Barofsky states: “One… Continue Reading
Speech by SEC Commissioner: "Increasing Accountability and Transparency to Investors"
News release: “The SEC’s entire budget allocation is a disproportionately small amount in comparison to the agency’s mission. With often less than $900 million in hand and approximately 3,500 staff, the SEC is tasked with regulating tens of thousands of entities including public companies, investment advisers, broker-dealers, transfer agents, exchanges, credit rating agencies, and several… Continue Reading
CFTC Launches New Monthly Online Report
News release: “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it has launched, on a six-month trial basis, a new monthly report: This Month in Futures Markets. The report, produced by the Commissions Office of the Chief Economist, will add transparency to the information the Commission provides the public concerning regulated futures markets by providing… Continue Reading
Journal of Legal Analysis: New Open-Access Law Journal Launched
“…the Journal of Legal Analysis (JLA) is a new open-access law journal co-published by Harvard University Press (HUP) and the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School. For the record, this is the first new journal we’ve published in thirty years…articles will be posted, for free, as soon as… Continue Reading
Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program Back Issues
Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program – Back Issues available from 1996-2008, HTML Version (and PDF from 2001). Note – the Federal Depository Library Program website is now located as follows: “The FDLP Desktop serves as a centralized resource for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), which disseminates U.S. Government information to the American… Continue Reading
