From Bloomberg:
President George W. Bush overstepped his authority by withholding an FBI interview of Vice President Dick Cheney from a congressional panel probing the leak of a CIA agent’s identity, a draft bipartisan House report said.
The interview may shed light on who disclosed former CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity, the draft report said. The report [...]
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Bush Exceeded Power by Withholding Cheney Comments, Report Says
Palin ordered to save e-mails
From CNet:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin must save any e-mails she sent from private accounts regarding state business, an Anchorage judge ordered Friday.
The e-mails must be preserved until a lawsuit requesting that the e-mails be made public is resolved, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers said. The judge also said e-mails from private accounts belonging to [...]
FBI releases files on columnist Jack Anderson
From MSNBC:
. . . Documents turned over to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act almost three years after Anderson’s death include copies of his columns with critical notes in the margins, summaries of his movements while under surveillance, and FBI memos detailing efforts to find his sources who leaked information from deep [...]
Turkey’s gov’t alone on internet censorship in Europe
From Hürriyet:
Turkey is the only country implementing government controls in Europe and among countries including Iran and North Korea that impose internet censorship, Radikal daily reported on Thursday.
There is no country in the West that stands as an example of the censorship method which Turkey implements; only in this country the government has all the [...]
Springer Acquires Open Access Publisher BioMed Central
From Library Journal:
In a major—if not unexpected—deal, Springer, the world’s second largest publisher of commercial STM (science, technology, and medicine) journals, has acquired pioneering for-profit open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central (BMC). Financial terms were not disclosed.
On the balance sheet, adding BioMed Central would seem to be a very minor deal for Springer; BioMed Central [...]
Presidential records act passes Congress
From The News Leader:
A bill aimed at creating a public-private grant matching program for the preservation of presidential papers passed Congress [September 27th].
If signed by President Bush, the legislation would allow nonprofit institutions such as the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library access to federal grant funds for the preservation of historical documents from the country’s earliest [...]
Some public info destroyed – Rules on e-mail not consistently followed
From The Clarion-Ledger:
Without any official guidance from the state, some local governments are destroying untold numbers of public documents by hitting the “delete” key.
The Local Government Records Committee, an obscure committee of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that sets rules on government recordkeeping, held a special hearing Wednesday to discuss how local governments [...]
At the Corner of Top Secret and Déjà vu
From the Washington Post:
If you took all the paper that the federal government produces every year and laid it on the ground end to end, you would get in a lot of trouble. Those are official papers, bub. What are you doing laying them on the ground end to end? You’re just going to get [...]
THOMAS Publishes Permanent Links
From the Sunlight Foundation:
Fulfilling one of the recommendations of the Open House Project report, The Library of Congress has published on their THOMAS web page directions for creating permanent links.
District Court Rules against National Archives in Lawsuit to Obtain Health Care Records from Clinton Presidential Library
From Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled against the National Archives on September 30th, refusing to dismiss Judicial Watch’s lawsuit to obtain Hillary Clinton’s health care task force records from the Clinton Presidential Library and denying the Archives’ separate [...]