Waxman subpoenas Rice and the RNC
Today, Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA.), Chairman of the Oversight and Govt Reform Committee, approved of a subpoena for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regarding the claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger and the Republican National Committee (RNC) to provide answers to basic questions about the use of RNC e-mail accounts by White House officials. Things are really getting interesting now!
"The Administration’s claim that Iraq could pose a nuclear threat was at the center of its case for war. Indeed this assertion was key to the decisions of many Members of Congress, including myself, to support the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq. It therefore raised enormously serious questions when Congress and the public learned that there were flaws, not just minor ones but serious flaws, with the intelligence underpinning the Administration’s nuclear case.â€and... Continue reading
EPA library closings “Orwellian”
Why would a federal agency trash its libraries?, by Jeff Ruch, High Country News, April 9, 2007.
Then, after it had already begun closing libraries, EPA discovered that copyright limitations prevented it from digitizing materials not written by EPA staff. As a result, hundreds of reports from the agency's contractors, as well as academic and corporate researchers, will remain in hard copy, but housed in one of three "repositories." At times, EPA's actions have taken on an Orwellian cast, as thousands of documents and whole collections were hastily dispersed to anyone willing to accept them. The three repositories of documents have grown into giant information dumps whose contents will remain un-cataloged for years to come, and in Chicago, the largest regional library, furnishings -- shelves, desks and cabinets worth some $40,000 -- were sold for $327.Continue reading
Roughly 2/3 of DLC LOCKSS Session Available
We've updated our Spring 2007 DLC conference page with audio and a rough transcript from the LOCKSS panel. We regret that our reporter missed the first 20 minutes. The session began at 1330 and our audio and transcript start at 1351. We figure LOCKSS is so important that missing some of it was better than not posting. If you were at the panel, please fill us in about the first 20 minutes. Continue reading