Oil Spill Docs Past & Present Posted to LostDocs Blog

A number of documents reported to GPO in May/Jun/July and posted by us to the Lost Documents Blog in July 2010 were related to oil spills. Mostly to the current spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but some reported documents went as far back as 2002. For a full list of what we know about, visit http://lostdocs.freegovinfo.info/tag/oil-spills/. This is being posted without judgment as to why these documents have not been cataloged yet. We are not asserting ill will or a coverup on part of any part of the government just because these documents have not made it into the Catalog of Government Publications. Having said that, we at Free Government Information urge GPO to catalog these documents as soon as possible so they'll be easier to find in literature searches about oil spills and government response. For those looking for it, the full July 2010 Lost Documents Report and Appeal will be published later today. Continue reading

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FDsys enhanced functionality and collections update

FYI the Government Printing Office (GPO) has announced a scheduled maintenance and update of their Federal Digital System (FDsys). New collections and functionalities will be added. Please be aware that there may be some intermittent downtime over the next day or two.

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) will be performing scheduled maintenance on FDsys . During this time, new collections will be added and enhanced functionality will be introduced. * Start Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 05:00 p.m. EDT * End Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010 12:00 Noon EDT During the scheduled maintenance, FDsys may experience brief intermittent downtime. The new collections are being added are: * Independent Counsel Investigations * House Journal * Privacy Act Issuances * Unified Agenda * Education Reports from ERIC As part of ongoing efforts to enhance FDsys, the ability to only display the most recent edition of a publication as well as one-click access to view all editions from simple search results is being introduced for selected applications. The affected applications are: * United States Government Manual * Congressional Directory * Privacy Act Issuances * United States Code (U.S. Code) * House Rules and Manual * Senate Manual * Economic Indicators * Economic Report of the President * Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) The new functionality being introduced requires reprocessing of selected U.S. Code and CFR data, which is expected to be completed within 2 days of launch. Select U.S. Code and CFR data may be inaccessible during the reprocessing period. Thank you for your cooperation during this time.
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End of Senate Secret Holds Moves Closer

Reid moves closer to ending secret holds in Senate, By Michael O'Brien, The Hill (07/28/10)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) added a bill to eliminate the practice of secret holds on nominees to the Senate calendar on Wednesday.... Adding the legislation to the calendar has the effect of moving the legislation closer to the point where Reid could bring it up for a vote. If Reid does bring it up, it appears that he may have the votes to do away with the practice after Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) lobbied Senate colleagues to end it. Sixty-seven votes are needed to change Senate rules, and McCaskill, as of late June, had said she'd gathered 68.
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Wikileaks Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010

Anyone who hasn't heard of the new wikileaks release of the Afghan Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 -- over 91,000 reports written by soldiers and intelligence officers covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010 -- must be living under a rock. It's been all over the international news and is being compared to the [w:Pentagon Papers] released in 1971 by [w:Daniel Ellsberg]. In particular, the NY Times, Guardian UK, and Der Spiegel newspapers have all published detailed analyses of the document dump. In addition, BoingBoing has a Q&A with wikileaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum and NYU's Jay Rosen has written some interesting and thought-provoking thoughts over at PressThink. This is BIG folks!

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