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Refusal to release declassified testimony
October 20, 2004Senate Chairman Refuses to Release Richard Clarke’s Testimony OMB Watch Published: 10/18/2004. For almost four months Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has refused to release declassified testimony related to the 9/11 investigation from former White House Counterterrorism Chief Richard Clarke. Given the critical nature of Clarke’s public statements and the [...]
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5 ways the election could end up in court again
October 19, 2004Florida 2000: The Sequel – Five ways the election could end up in court, again. By Richard L. Hasen With all the uproar about voting irregularities (paper thickness issues in Ohio, companies paid to register voters actually throwing out democratic registrations in OR, FL once again trying to dump voters off the rolls and intimidating [...]
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Ghost of Nixon in Bush whitehouse
October 17, 2004Arts > Frank Rich: Will We Need a New ‘All the President’s Men’?” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/arts/17rich.html?ex=1255492800&en=8c2a594add800736&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>Frank Rich: Will We Need a New ‘All the President’s Men’? (NYT: 10/17/04 Arts section) “The fundamental right of Americans, through our free press, to penetrate and criticize the workings of our government is under attack as never before,” wrote William Safire [...]
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World says no to Bush
October 15, 2004Poll reveals world anger at Bush According to the Guardian poll, Eight out of 10 countries favour Kerry for president.
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Hacking Congress (with XML)
October 15, 2004XML.com: Stuck in the Senate. by Paul Ford, XML.com, October 13, 2004. In this second article in a series, Ford looks at how to use RDF (Resource Description Framework) to describe people (in this case, Senators), their roles, and their offices using XML. Why, you ask? …[T]here is, I think, an important distinction between the [...]
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E-vote early and often!
October 14, 2004Bad Protocol. Edward W. Felten. Freedom to Tinker, October 13, 2004. Felton reports from a talk by Dan Wallach from Rice University. One of Wallach’s example concerns the Diebold AccuVote-TS system, which uses “smartcards” that validate a electronic vote and only let a voter vote once. Unfortunately, it is “an illustration of how badly Diebold [...]
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digital rights groups weigh in vs INDUCE Act
October 13, 2004Letter from American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge to The Senate Judiciary Committee regarding negotiations on S.2560. Public Knowledge is a new public-interest advocacy organization dedicated to fortifying and defending a vibrant information commons. This Washington, D.C. based [...]
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Bush foreign policy gets failing grade
October 12, 2004Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy Over 650 foreign affairs specialists in the United States and allied countries have signed an open letter opposing the Bush administration’s foreign policy and calling urgently for a change of course. The letter was released today by “Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy,” a nonpartisan group of [...]
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limited data on internet voting
October 12, 2004E-Voting Research Delayed, Experts Say Yahoo! News / AP By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN and RACHEL KONRAD. Sun Oct 10, 2004 After nearly 50,000 Michigan Democrats cast ballots over the Internet in February, academics eagerly sought election data that would help them determine what types of people voted online. But scholars around the country complain that [...]
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“Piracy Deterrence in Education” bill
October 11, 2004The Importance of… > Copyright Shenanigans Not Over in Congress – Piracy Education Act Dangerous” href=”http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/026477.php”>Copyright Shenanigans Not Over in Congress – Piracy Education Act Dangerous Ernest Miller, Corante, The Importance of… October 08, 2004. Miller Reports on a bill possibly worse than the INDUCE act. Among other things it wants to write into law [...]