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RAIN 08/17: CIA Secrets
Washington Post 8/16/00
Archivist culls records, tapes to protect privacy and assist researchers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33689-2000Aug15.html
by George Lardner Jr
When the next 420 hours of Nixon tapes are made public this fall, Karl
Weissenbach expects his phone will be ringing off the hook.
Some of the callers will be cussing him out and asking, "Why are you
continuing to crucify Richard Nixon?" Others will complain that he didn't go
far enough.
As director of the Nixon Presidential Materials Project at the National
Archives in College Park, Weissenbach, 46, is used to the harangues. A steady
professional who can duck any punch, he has a standard response for Nixon
haters and admirers alike:
Government Computer News 8/7/00
Court tells White House how to restore e-mail
http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no22/news/2582-1.html
by Shruti Date‘
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth last week laid out steps that the
White House must follow to reconstruct e-mail messages not backed up on the
Executive Office of the President’s Automated Records Management System.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the search for
the e-mail in a ruling in the case of Cara Leslie Alexander et al. vs. FBI et
al.
Judicial Watch, a conservative public-interest law firm, is representing the
plaintiffs in a class-action suit filed by White House employees of the Bush
and Reagan administrations who allege their FBI files were wrongfully
accessed by the Clinton administration.
Lawrence Eagle-Tribune 8/16/00
Funeral director’s records scrutinized
http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20000816/FP_005.htm
by Cathleen F. Crowley
NORTH ANDOVER -- A long-time funeral director suffering from health and
financial problems is under investigation by the state for refusing to show
inspectors his records of customers who paid for funerals in advance.
John D. Caron, 30 Main St., who filed for bankruptcy last year, told an
investigator from the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Embalmers and
Funeral Directors that he didn't know where the records were, an investigator
told the board during a hearing last week.
"The reluctance of Mr. Caron to show the investigator the accounts is very,
very suspicious," said Bryon Blanchard, a member of the Memorial Society, a
funeral home watchdog group. Mr. Blanchard is urging the board to take action
against Mr. Caron.
Nashua Telegraph 8/16/00
Court urged to ensure public access to records
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?UID=35948032&SectionID=25&SubSectionID
=354&ArticleID=16127
Associated Press
CONCORD (AP) – Thirteen news organizations asked the Supreme Court on Monday
to ensure public access to public information in the computer age.
The organizations made their arguments in a friend-of-the-court brief in a
case involving access to Medicaid information in the state Department of
Health and Human Services’ computer system.
Cassandra Hawkins, represented by the New Hampshire Legal Assistance office
in Portsmouth, thought Medicaid should have covered her daughter’s dental
expenses, and wanted to know how other similarly aged Medicaid patients had
been treated.
The department denied her request for the information, saying it was not a
distinct “record” and could not be produced without costly reprogramming.
Roanoke Times 8/16/00
FDA reluctant to release GHB files
Drug companies want to keep recipe for ‘date-rape’ drug secret
Variants of the illicit drug may be found to have medicinal value and legal
profit potential
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story98087.html
by Jen McCaffery
What do you get when you mix an industrial solvent used for stripping the
wood on bowling alley floors with the active ingredient in Drano?
For federal authorities, the result is a dangerous drug in league with
heroin.
But for drug manufacturers, the concoction boasts at least three attractive
features: It's supposed to be a sleep-promoter, a muscle-builder and a
fat-burner.
The substance is GHB, gamma hydroxybutyrate, commonly known as the "date-rape
drug." On Feb. 16, four Roanoke men were charged with illegally making GHB,
some of which was eventually slipped into the drinks of two sisters at a
nightclub. The two later broke into convulsions and required emergency
medical care.
Toledo Blade 8/15/00
Sergeant faces more charges tied to records
http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0h15char.htm
Two additional administrative charges were filed yesterday against the Toledo
police sergeant relieved from duty Friday after a Lucas County grand jury
indicted him and his wife on criminal records-tampering charges, stemming
from an investigation into a Detroit Avenue nightclub.
The internal affairs unit charged Sgt. Glenn Hall with willful violation of
state laws and conduct subversive and prejudicial to the good order and
discipline of the department.
The administrative charges stem from the criminal investigation, internal
affairs Capt. Donald Kenney said.
CIO Magazine 8/1/00
The Langley Files
At the CIA, the secret to knowledge management was hiding in plain sight
http://www.cio.com/archive/080100_langley.html
by Elana Varon
THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY doesn't like to talk about its mistakes. It's
not just embarrassing, but officials believe exposing details about how an
operation went wrong reveals too much about how it captures enemy secrets.
But published statements and news reports suggest one recent error—the U.S.
bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war last year,
which killed three and injured 20—happened in part because CIA officers
targeted what they thought was a Yugoslav Army warehouse based on outdated
maps, and others failed to catch the mistake before the proposal was passed
to the military.
Toronto Sun 8/16/00
Big Brother comes clean
http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-08-16-0014.html
by Gary Dunford
BIG SISTER: So what came in my fat, confidential envelope from Jane Stewart's
Human Resources department yesterday? Why, my own tax returns for the last 15
years! Ask for a copy of what was in the recently abandoned Longitudinal
Labour Force file kept on 30 million Canadians and you may get a swell
surprise.
An Access to Information request for the contents of my file, brings 29
single-spaced pages Jane's department got from the tax man -- now the
Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency. It's a computer print-out of every T1
tax return I filed since 1985. Over 20,000 Canadians have asked to see their
own file. I suspect they will be furious. What's wrong with the other 29.99
million of you? Too busy calling Pamela Wallin and giving her half your
social insurance number -- for a quiz show, you dingbats?
Fox Market Wire 8/16/00
German cabinet approves proposed electronic signature bill
http://www.foxmarketwire.com/wires/0816/f_ap_0816_12.sml
BERLIN — Germany's Cabinet approved a bill Wednesday giving electronic
signatures the same status as pen and paper in an effort to make it easier to
conduct electronic commerce.
Denver Post 8/16/00
Black research library planned
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0816n.htm
by George Lane
Denver is planning to build a new African-American Research Library to house
a growing collection of documents.
The collection is housed in the Central Library, 14th Avenue and Broadway.
But Terry Nelson of the Denver Public Library said plans call for a facility
in another building.
Public input in the planning process is encouraged.
Peter Kurilecz
pakurilecz@aol.com
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