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| The Best and Worst of 2007: Government Secrecy |
| Patrick Radden Keefe, The Century Foundation, 1/2/2008 |
| America has a Cheap Auto Insurance classification problem, and has for quite some time. The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once observed that if all the newspapers in the United States printed all the classified documents produced by the government on any given day, there wouldn’t be room in the papers for anything else. |
| The Snapshot: Are We Defeating Terrorism? |
| Ruy Teixeira, The Century Foundation, 9/10/2007 |
| It’s been just about six years since the terrible events of Sept. 11, 2001 that killed 3,000 people in New York and Washington, D.C. and launched the Bush administration’s war on terrorism. |
| Breaking the Nuclear Impasse: New Prospects for Security against Weapons Threats |
| Jeffrey Laurenti, Carl Robichaud, Century Foundation Press, 9/5/2007 |
| Curbing nuclear weapons has never been a more urgent priority for nations both great and small, but the global system of nuclear controls seems paralyzed. Have the instruments that once worked so well lost their efficacy? What can be done to clear the obstructions and break this impasse? |
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View chapter 4, "Nuclear Pessimism Is Not the Answer" by Michael Krepon. View chapter 6, "Remembering Nonproliferation Principles" by William C. Potter |
| Wiretap at Will |
| Patrick Radden Keefe, Slate, 8/13/2007 |
| In an editorial last year, the New York Times likened the Bush administration's efforts to retroactively make its warrantless wiretapping program legal, to a person caught speeding who persuades the legislature to raise the speed limit. |
| A New Start? |
| Richard C. Leone, Newark Star-Ledger, 7/23/2007 |
| The news from Washington suggests that, at last, the debate about America's role in the world is shifting from fantasy to reality. The ascendancy in "mainstream" discourse of the most triumphalist and militarily aggressive segment of the foreign policy community is waning; this result is in no small measure because of the unfortunate consequences of the choices they have favored over the past five years. |
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FEMA Official Fails to Cut Red Tape
The Associated Press (Dec. 18, 2007) A week after Hurricane Katrina, a FEMA official in charge of streamlining the flow of disaster aid issued a directive that would have cut through the red tape and expedited a staggering 1,029 rebuilding projects and $5.3 billion. Feds to Revise No - Match Rule New York Times (Nov. 28, 2007) Following a legal challenge led by business and labor groups, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to revise a controversial rule to punish employers who fail to verify worker social security information. Report Shows Border Security Gap Baltimore Sun (Nov. 5, 2007) A new report from the Government Accountability Office reveals a critical U.S. border security gap: the security checkpoints themselves. Immigration Chief Apologizes for 'Offensive' Costumes at Her Party CNN (Nov. 5, 2007) The Department of Homeland Security will investigate a Halloween costume party hosted by a top immigration official and attended by a man dressed in a striped prison outfit, dreadlocks and darkened skin make-up, a costume some say is offensive, the department's secretary said. Security Chief Says Terrorists Have Been Arrested on Texas Border The Associated Press (Sept. 12, 2007) Texas' top homeland security official said Wednesday that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida have been arrested crossing the Texas border with Mexico in recent years. Homeland Security Launches a Blog Beltway Blogroll (Sept. 13, 2007) The Department of Homeland Security this week became the latest Cabinet-level entity in the Bush administration to start a blog. It is called Leadership Journal. The "New" Homeland Security Math Time (Sept. 24, 2007) Over the summer, Congress passed and the President signed a new homeland-security law called "Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act. Lawyers Label Chertoff Authority Unconstitutional Associated Press (Nov. 1, 2007) Environmental lawyers say the power used by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to ignore environmental laws and finish a fence on the U.S.-Mexican border is unconstitutional. Free Speech Groups Sue Over Visa Denial New York Times (Sept. 26, 2007) The government is increasingly using secret evidence allowed under new antiterrorism laws to prevent certain critics from entering the United States, according to a group of civil rights and academic organizations. "Congress Seeks Surveillance Documents" The Associated Press (August 8, 2007) "Though Congress is on vacation, majority Democrats are keeping alive various fights with the White House with one common thread: Congress' access to administration documents and testimony to which President Bush has claimed executive privilege." |
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| The Century Foundation Project on Homeland Security is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. |
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