National Security Archive: “Today Secretary of Defense Robert Gates lifted a blanket ban on news media coverage of the honor guard ceremonies that mark the return of military casualties from abroad. The new policy will permit media coverage of the ceremonies, during which caskets draped with American flags are brought home from war, after consultation with the families of the fallen. The Obama administrations move restores press access to the honor ceremonies, which had been the practice from World War II through the Panama invasion of 1989. During the lead-up to the Gulf War in 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney instituted the ban. The news media lost a first amendment challenge to the ban, but Professor Ralph Begleiter and the National Security Archive forced the release of hundreds of images taken by military photographers under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 2005.”
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Daily Archives: February 26, 2009
Hearing on How Convicts and Con Artists Receive New Federal Contracts
How Convicts and Con Artists Receive New Federal Contracts: “The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee examines the Excluded Parties List System, a federal database intended to prevent persons and businesses ineligible to receive federal contracts due to past misconduct from receiving new awards. A GAO report…released at the hearing finds numerous examples of ineligible… Continue Reading
New Era of Transparency as OMB Launches Redesigned Website and Blog
Peter Orszag – Discipline, Efficiency, Prosperity – Peter Orszag, Director: “Welcome to my first blog post at the Office of Management and Budget. In this blog, I want to open up OMB even more to the public and share with you what were doing to address the many challenges that we face as a nation.… Continue Reading
Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Overview Document
Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Overview Document – A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing Americas Promise, Office of Management and Budget, February 26, 2009 [146 pages, PDF], “provides a description of the Obama Administrations fiscal policies and major budgetary initiatives. This document is an overview of the full Fiscal Year 2010 Budget expected to be released… Continue Reading
Pew Research Center: Newspapers Face a Challenging Calculus
Newspapers Face a Challenging Calculus – Online Growth, but Print Losses are Bigger, February 26, 2009: “The trend is unmistakable: Fewer Americans are reading print newspapers as more turn to the internet for their news. And while the percentage of people who read newspapers online is growing rapidly, especially among younger generations, that growth has… Continue Reading
LA TImes: CIA Delivering Daily Briefing on Economic Crisis
LA Times: “President Obama and senior administration officials have begun receiving a daily CIA report on the global economic crisis in addition to briefings on terrorist threats and other national security issues, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said Wednesday. The CIA’s role in producing the report underscores the level of anxiety within the administration over… Continue Reading
CBO Reports: Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, VA Pharmaceutical Prime Vendor Program, Expanding Health Insurance Coverag
H.R. 1106, Helping Families Save Their Homes Act February 25, 2009 – Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on February 23, 2008. “CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 1106 would increase direct spending by $7.6 billion over the 2009-2014 period, and would reduce direct spending by $14.9 billion over the 2009-2019 period. Enacting H.R 1106… Continue Reading
