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Assignment 2 presentation
1. Government Documents News Review Shanna Caines 541 Government Information Resources Assignment 2 February 8, 2011
2. GAO vs. NARA Government Accountability Office (GAO) is charging the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) with mismanagement of a planned electronic database of government documents According to GAO the project is well off schedule and will cost about $1.4 billion Sen. Thomas Carper and Sen. Susan Collins are going to reintroduce the Information Technology Investment Oversight Enhancement and Waste Prevention Act partly because of NARA’s alleged mismanagement NARA says their management is fine, the project will be finished by September 2011 and will be under cost
4. Issa vs. Homeland Security cont’d new Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Darrell Issacharges that Homeland Security sidetracked hundreds of requests for federal records these requests were given to political advisors who requested information on the people who requested the materials Homeland Security denies any wrongdoing or interference
6. Labour vs. WikiLeaks cont’d WikiLeaks has leaked documents implicating the British government, specifically the Labour Party, in lying to the public documents released by WikiLeaks shows that Bill Rammell, former Minister of State for the Armed Forces, aided a Libyan foreign minister in getting the Lockerbie bomber released on compassionate grounds Critics say this was done to facilitate an oil deal between Libya and BP BP, the British Government, and the Scottish Government have denied any such “conspiracy”
7. Nobel Peace Prize? Norwegian legislator, SnorreValen has nominated WikiLeaks for a Nobel Peace Prize “WikiLeaks wants to make governments accountable for their actions and that contributes to peace.”