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October 01, 2007
Headlines - New GAO Reports
- Hearing on Private Security Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Court Rules Delay in Release of Presidential Papers is Illegal
- DOJ OIG Audits Released on October 1, 2007
- Declassifying the "Fact of" Satellite Reconnaissance
- Recently Released CRS Reports
- Federal Circuit Changes Its Web Page Address and Domain Name Effective October 1, 2007
- Repair and Replacement of Affordable Housing Lags in Mississippi's Post-Katrina Recovery
- FMS Financial Data Registry
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Visit http://beyondfacevalue.com for an online tour.  New GAO Reports Court Rules Delay in Release of Presidential Papers is Illegal National Security Archive press release: "A District Court in the District of Columbia has ruled that an Executive Order [ 13,233] issued by President George W. Bush in 2001, which severely slowed or prevented the release of historic presidential papers is, in part, invalid. In a carefully constructed decision, the court held that the Archivist of the United States acts arbitrarily, capriciously, and contrary to law by relying on the Executive Order to delay release of the records of former presidents. The court did not reach the issue of whether it was permissible for President Bush to extend the authority over disclosure of presidential papers to a former president's heirs or to former vice presidents." DOJ OIG Audits Released on October 1, 2007 A Review of the FBI's Progress in Responding to the Recommendations in the Office of the Inspector General Report on Robert Hanssen, September 2007 - PDF (Executive Summary Only) Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Homeland Security Overtime Program Grant to the City of Philadelphia Police Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Audit Report GR-70-07-004, September 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Grant To The San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, Tuba City, Arizona, Grant Number 97-UM-WX-1382, Audit Report GR-60-07-008, September 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Office for Victims of Crime, Victims of Exploitation and Trafficking Assistance Grant to Boat People S.O.S., Inc., Falls Church, Virginia, Audit Report GR-30-07-004, July 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Compliance with Standards Governing Combined DNA Index System Activities at the Denver Police Department, Crime Laboratory Bureau, Denver, Colorado, Audit Report GR-60-07-011, September 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Compliance with Standards Governing Combined DNA Index System Activities at the Metropolitan Forensic Science Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Audit Report GR-60-07-006, June 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime, Services for Trafficking Victims, Discretionary Grant Program, Cooperative Agreement Awarded to Refugee Women's Network, Inc., Decatur, Georgia, Award Number 2004-VT-BX-K010, Audit Report GR-40-07-005, July 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Mississippi Automated System Project Grants Awarded to the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Audit Report GR-40-07-006, July 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention, Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation Community Baseball/Softball Program, Baltimore, Maryland, Audit Report GR-30-07-003, June 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Office of Justice Programs, Regional Information Sharing Systems Grant Awarded to the California Department of Justice, Sacramento, California, Audit Report GR-90-07-001, June 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Use of Equitable Sharing Revenues by the Colorado State Patrol, Lakewood, Colorado, Audit Report GR-60-07-007, June 2007 (Executive Summary Only) Declassifying the "Fact of" Satellite Reconnaissance Press release: "Today the National Security Archive publishes a collection [links to 41 documents accompany this release] of documents concerning U.S. policy with regard to acknowledging the "fact of" U.S. satellite reconnaissance operations – particularly satellite photoreconnaissance. It was 29 years ago today that President Jimmy Carter, in a speech at the Kennedy Space Center, acknowledged that the U.S. was operating photoreconnaissance satellites...The documents published include memos stating the positions of various individuals and institutions on the issue in both the Nixon and Carter administrations, assessments of the risks and benefits of declassification, an assessment of the reactions to President Carter's disclosure, and presidential directives from the Carter, Reagan and Clinton administrations specifying the classification associated with the "fact of" different types of satellite reconnaissance." See also this press release today: "After several requests from the Homeland Security Committee calling for a moratorium on the controversial use of spy satellite imagery for domestic purposes, the Department has heeded the call and delayed its planned October 1st launch of its new National Applications Office (NAO). The Department has cited the need to address unanswered privacy and civil liberties questions from Congress – as addressed in the Committee's September 6th hearing on the matter and also in letters from August 22nd and September 6th from Committee Members." Recently Released CRS Reports Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations, September 29, 2007 Ethanol and Other Biofuels: Potential for U.S.-Brazil Energy Cooperation, September 27, 2007 Public Transit Program Funding Issues in Surface Transportation Reauthorization, September 27, 2007 Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1999-2006, September 26, 2007 Consumer Spending by Older Americans, 1985 to 2005, September 24, 2007 Topics in Aging: Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2005, September 24, 2007 Pandemic Influenza: An Analysis of State Preparedness and Response Plans, September 24, 2007 Financial Crisis? The Liquidity Crunch of August 2007, September 21, 2007 Brazil's WTO Case Against U.S. Agricultural Support: A Brief Overview, September 21, 2007 International Monetary Fund (IMF): Financial Reform and the Possible Sale of IMF Gold, September 21, 2007 Federal Circuit Changes Its Web Page Address and Domain Name Effective October 1, 2007 Press release: "The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is relocating its Internet Web page to its own in-house servers. As part of this process, the court's Web page address and domain name will be changed to www.cafc.uscourts.gov on October 1, 2007. The former Web page address and domain name, www.fedcir.gov, will continue to be kept active through December 31, 2007, in order to redirect users to the new address. The new domain name brings the Federal Circuit into conformance with the Web site naming convention used by the other United States Courts of Appeals. Web site authors and others who have created links to pages inside the www.fedcir.gov Web page should change the URL of those links to the new URL on October 1, 2007." Repair and Replacement of Affordable Housing Lags in Mississippi's Post-Katrina Recovery September 27, 2007 press release: "Affordable housing recovery in three coastal counties in Mississippi heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina lags behind the pace of the rest of the housing market in the region, according to a RAND Corporation study released today. While construction permits had been issued as of July for approximately 60 percent of the housing damaged by the hurricane, repair and replacement of multi-unit housing significantly lags behind repair and replacement of single-family homes, according to this study from the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute." Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement in support of the report. "RAND hit the nail on head with this report. For the first time since Katrina, we have a report that truly documents the challenges that the working men and women of Mississippi face everyday as they try to rebuild their homes." FMS Financial Data Registry "The FMS Financial Data Registry is an authoritative reference for information about government-wide financial data elements; specifically those data elements commonly used across multiple agencies. The...registry is being developed to promote the common identification, use and appropriate sharing of financial data/information across the federal government. The registry contains information about the definition, authoritative source, data type, format and uses of common financial data."
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