Fannie, Freddie to Be Kept Off Federal Budget

Saturday, September 13, 2008; D02

The White House budget office said yesterday that it has decided not to incorporate mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the federal budget, citing the temporary nature of the Treasury Department's takeover and "the level of federal ownership" of the ( Read more... )

September 7, 2008

by G Lloyd Rowsey

Introduction. Information is power. In a society organized according to principles of rationality and justice, information will be universally available and widely diffused, permeating the social order with power. In a society organized according to capitalist principles, information will be concentrated in ( Read more... )

By Jerry Markon and Julie Tate

Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 1, 2008; A13

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 31 -- The military trial of Osama bin Laden's former driver convened in a rare secret session Thursday to hear testimony from two defense witnesses that the government deemed highly classified.

Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, the military ( Read more... )

CRS Report

Posted in Uncategorized by schotline on July 24th, 2008

855 bills have passed the Senate with no debate, no amendments, no votes

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) released a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) finding that 94 percent of bills the ( Read more... )

Foreign Relations Series Still Fails to Meet Legal Deadline

The “Foreign Relations of the United States” (FRUS) series, which is the official documentary history of U.S. foreign policy, remains unlikely to meet the legal requirement that it be published no later than 30 years after the events ( Read more... )

Court tosses White House appeal on visitor logs

By PETE YOST - 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday set back the White House's efforts to keep the names of its visitors secret.

The Washington court threw out the government's appeal in the case in which a watchdog group is trying to find out how often prominent religious ( Read more... )

Category: Environmental health • Epidemiology • Food safety • Product safety • Regulation • Regulations

Posted on: July 8, 2008 7:30 AM, by revere

The FDA and CDC still don't know the origin of the massive Salmonella outbreak, now extending to 40 states. They have lots of reasons, and under current conditions it's not an easy problem since the ( Read more... )

July 2nd, 2008 Breaking News: Court Holds That FISA Preempts State Secret Privilege
Posted by Kurt Opsahl

New NSA Spying Decision Undermines Arguments for Telecom Immunity

Today, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California, issued an opinion in Al Haramain v. Bush, one of the ( Read more... )

By Kevin Bogardus and Rebecca Brown

Posted: 06/19/08 07:51 PM [ET]

Vice President Dick Cheney has won his battle to withhold records from the public despite efforts by Congress and other critics who say they should be open to scrutiny.

The Democrats are conceding defeat. The party’s top investigator in the House of Representatives acknowledges that ( Read more... )

Judge rules for White House in e-mail controversy

By PETE YOST - 31 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge ruled Monday that a White House office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails does not have to make them public.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly says the Office of Administration is not subject to the ( Read more... )