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Senate issues subpoenas on NSA warrantless wiretapping

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and the Justice Department after what the panel’s chairman called “stonewalling of the worst kind” of efforts to investigate the National Security Agency’s policy of wiretapping without warrants.Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of...

Tags: Congress, Intelligence, Privacy

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Senate subpoenas Gonzales' emails with Rove

Senators subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales emails today, demanding all email correspondence between him and Karl Rove related to the firings of eight federal prosecutors, The Washington Post reports. "It is troubling that significant documents highly relevant to the committees inquiry have not been produced," Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick...

Tags: Justice, Government technology, Congress

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Pretexting bill to be fast-tracked through Senate

There are a lot of things Senate wont get to before the end of the 109th Congress, but if Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has his way, the Senate will get to pass a bill making pretexting definitively illegal, News.com reports. Pretexting of course was the scheme used by...

Tags: pretexting, U.S. Senate, Congress, Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt, Government technology

Blog posts 2006-12-07

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Paying for what does not work remains popular

We are already there, DanaYou said "But at some point your neighbors, who are paying for your excess, whether in the form of insurance or in the form of taxes, are going to start asking these hard questions"We are already there. I agree with you that many of us...

Tags: Insurance, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, prostate cancer, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?

Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...

Tags: Professional development, career, career diplomat, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

60 Minutes: We're not ready for a cyber war

Just like 9/11 thousands will have to die Before we give a damn. It's really a shame.and everything workshow's that possible?Unfortuantely, it will take a disasterIn the US, until disater strikes no one will do anything. Once it does happen then there will be screaming for heads to role....

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Regulations, FERC, Obama, hacker, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman

the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Could Congress head off action by EPA on emissions?

The likely scenario is.....Obama will use Copenhagen (December '09) as a springboard to give the EPA direction in regulating CO2. It is unlikely the EPA will act on its own before then.Even if no treaty is generated, Obama will direct the EPA to start enforcing the [i]proposed[/i] U.S. position...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, treaty, Obama, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Could Congress head off action by EPA on emissions?

There's a move sponsored by Republicans to keep the EPA from taking administrative action to curtail industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The opponents of EPA action say the Clean Air Act was never intended to stop greenhouse gas emissions. Regardless of Congressional action, it is highly unlikely President...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, U.S. Congress, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

"It ain't me you're lookin' for [to blame], babe." --Bob Dylan We Americans can be a self-righteous bunch. You and I didn't get those hefty Wall Street bonuses for peddling weightless paper to investors. I didn't even pressure my foreclosed former neighbor into taking...

Tags: Global Warming, Pew Survey, Independents, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-25

The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress

Here's another sign that whatever happens on energy in Congress, if anything, will be a sideshow: the EPA plans to reject a permit for a new coal mine in West Virginia. The planned mine would be yet another mountaintop removal. That is a direct slap at Big Coal...

Tags: Permit, West Virginia, Coal, Wind Farm, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Battle, WEST VIRGINIA COAL Here, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Should Obama Have Won the Nobel?

What are you going to do about it?Please,reveal how many more extremists there are for the secrete service to watch.I'm as big an Obama fan as anyoneBut the fact is that he hasn't accomplished anything worthy of such a prize. He says the right things, certainly, but until plans are...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Nobel, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Are we acting like silly fuels?

There is a steady flow of news these days about the drawbacks of our energy "system." The bad news seems to flow like...greenhouse gas, or even coal ash during a downpour. America's natural gas reserves are increasing as more and more deposits are found. The catch: fracking...

Tags: Coal Ash, Telecom & Utilities, Wiki, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Lawsuit alert: carbon wars are set to begin

I actually heard one political analyst today say that "nobody" wants the EPA to single-handedly deal with greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. By that I presume this MSM reporter means nobody with lots of power or money in Washington. All sides want to see Congress weigh-in....

Tags: Lawsuit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Medical reform battle may presage energy legislation

There is one single reason those interested in greentech should pay attention to the current political donnybrook over America's medical industry and its customers: Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana). His key committee in the U.S. Senate will likely shape whatever medical legislation is voted on by the upper house...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Life or death struggle in the Senate

This week the 100 members of the U.S. Senate, their staffs and legions of lobbyists swing into action on the Waxman-Markey bill. Not since the stimulus bill promised a cash payment to millions of Americans has there been a proposed law with such far-reaching ramifications. Energy supply. ...

Tags: U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-06

NSA will monitor private-sector networks

NSA will monitor private-sector networksSigh, These things always depress me.Someday, I am going to end up living in a cave with out any type of electrical device, just to enjoy some privacy. This will probably be illegal as not wanting some one to invade your privacy will be a crime.Is...

Tags: Vertical industries, private-sector network, NSA, government, Bush, imager, monitor, Socialism, network

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity

Congress continued to take the wireless carriers to the mat over the wrong issue, specifically the cost of a text message. Now, it looks like there may be an effort to pin them down on a matter  that will likely resonate with a greater a number of people: carrier exclusivity...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Senator, Wireless Carrier, AT&T Corp., Pricing Strategy, Wireless, Pricing, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing Research, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Google to Congress: We can help news publishers - if they embrace opportunities

When did the news industry become like the music industry - a group of finger-pointing businesses trying to find someone else to blame for their woes? In both the music and news industries, the adoption of new technology completely disrupted a long-standing business model. But whose fault...

Tags: Google Inc., U.S. Congress, News Industry, Strategy, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-06