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Daily Archives: May 3, 2012

New GAO Reports – Defense Inventory, Defense Logistics, Federal Land Management

  • Defense Inventory – Actions Underway to Implement Improvement Plan, but Steps Needed to Enhance Efforts, GAO-12-493, May 3, 2012
  • Defense Logistics, Improvements Needed to Enhance DOD’s Management Approach and Implementation of Item Unique Identification Technology, GAO-12-482, May 3, 2012
  • Federal Land Management – Availability and Potential Reliability of Selected Data Elements at Five Agencies, GAO-12-691T, May 3, 2012

FAS: Counterintelligence Surveillance Under FISA Grew in 2011

Secrecy News, Steven Aftergood: “In 2011, the US Government submitted 1,745 applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for authorization to conduct electronic surveillance or physical searches under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), according to a new annual report to Congress. Of these, 1,676 included requests for authority for perform electronic surveillance, the report… Continue Reading

Documents Captured During Bin Laden Raid Released by U.S. Military

Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined? May 03, 2012. Authors: Don Rassler, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Liam Collins, Muhammad al-Obaidi, Nelly Lahoud “This report is a study of 17 de-classified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid and released to the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)/West Point. They consist of electronic letters or draft letters, totaling 175 pages in… Continue Reading

Human Rights Watch Report on Syria – War Crimes in Northern Idlib during Peace Plan Negotiations

War Crimes in Northern Idlib during Peace Plan Negotiations, April 2012 “This report documents dozens of extrajudicial executions, killings of civilians, and destruction of civilian property that qualify as war crimes, as well as arbitrary detention and torture. The report is based on a field investigation conducted by Human Rights Watch in the towns of… Continue Reading