From the Boston Globe:
A close look at key moments in Cheney’s career — from his political apprenticeship in the Nixon and Ford administrations to his decade in Congress and his tenure as secretary of defense under the first President Bush — suggests that the newly empowered Democrats in Congress should not expect the White House [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2006
Dick Cheney’s mission to expand — or ‘restore’ –the powers of the presidency
Citing Security, Army Tightens Reins On Science Board Research
From Inside the Army:
The Army has greatly restricted public access to Army Science Board reports out of concern that past releases contained sensitive information with “greater significance than what [was] initially thought,” an Army spokesman told Inside the Army.
George W. Bush seeking record amounts for presidential library
How much does it cost to write a favorable history?
From the New York Daily News:
The half-billion target is double what Bush raised for his 2004 reelection and dwarfs the funding of other presidential libraries. But Bush partisans are determined to have a massive pile of endowment cash to spread the gospel of a presidency that [...]
Nuclear plant info available to public
From MSNBC:
What if an airplane were to crash into a nuclear plant? How long would it take terrorists to penetrate security barriers outside nuclear facilities? What are the most vulnerable parts of a nuclear plant to attack in order to inflict maximum damage?
The answers to all those questions, and many more, are available to the [...]
The Digital Ice Age
From the December 2006 issue of Popular Mechanics:
The documents of our time are being recorded as bits and bytes with no guarantee of future readability. As technologies change, we may find our files frozen in forgotten formats. Will an entire era of human history be lost?
Newly disclosed documents show U.S. Defense Department tracked anti-Iraq war activities
From the International Herald Tribune:
An anti-terrorist database used by the Defense Department in an effort to prevent attacks on military installations included intelligence tips about antiwar planning meetings held at churches, libraries, college campuses and other locations, newly disclosed documents show.
EFF Fights to Shield Email from Secret Government Searches
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The government must have a search warrant before it can search and seize emails stored by email service providers, according to a friend-of-the-court brief filed last week by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of civil liberty groups. EFF filed the brief in support of a landmark district court [...]
EPA is Hastily Disposing of its Library Collections
From the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility:
Orders to Trash Library Holdings Stirs Protests
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is frantically dispersing its library collections to preempt Congressional intervention, according to internal emails released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Contrary to promises by EPA Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock that all of the former library [...]
LegiStorm releases latest salary data
LegiStorm has now released the latest staff salary data from the U.S. House of Representatives. The second quarter of 2006 is available.
We have many more improvements planned for LegiStorm in the coming months. We are broadening our database of salary data to include more data from years past. We are also adding new ways to [...]
Web Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor
From the New York Times:
Deep in a basement lab at the University of Toronto a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or “hactivists,” have created the latest, and some say most advanced tool yet in allowing Internet users to circumvent government censorship of the Web.