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Back in the mid-1990s, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, aggressively delving into alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration, logged 140 hours of sworn testimony into whether former president Bill Clinton had used the White House Christmas card list to identify potential Democratic donors.


In the past two years, a House committee has managed to take only 12 hours of sworn testimony about the abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
-- Boston Globe, 2005-11-20 [boston.com]

edgarde (22267)

Journal by edgarde on Tuesday April 01, @01:34AM
Timely emails from the future. Just the thing for us procrastinators. (archive)
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  Hardware: White House Must Answer For Missing Emails 2008-02-14 22:03

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 14, @10:03PM
from the show-me-the-deleted-emails dept.
Lucas123 writes "A District Court judge this week ruled in favor of a Washington-based watchdog group, allowing them to question White House officials about missing emails involving controversial issues. The subjects include the release of the identity of a former CIA operative, the reasons for launching the war in Iraq and actions by the US Department of Justice. The group had filed suit [PDF] last May against the White House Office of Administration, seeking access to White House email under the federal Freedom of Information Act. The discovery ruling is bringing to light issues of email retention in businesses and other private organizations. We've previously discussed the White House's difficulties with email."
Submitted by on Friday June 01 2007, @02:15PM
An anonymous reader writes "In order to reduce the number of cell phone chargers tossed out each year, China is planning to enforce a compulsory USB-based universal cell phone charger standard."
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199800238
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  NASA Chief: Who says global warming is bad? 2007-06-01 13:58 guanxi

Submitted by guanxi on Friday June 01 2007, @01:58PM
guanxi writes "In an NPR interview NASA chief Michael Griffin, a rocket scientist, put the reputation of his famous research organization (not to mention the United States) behind this statement: "I have no doubt that ... a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with." I was going to add commentary, but there's little you can add to statements like this one: "To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change. First of all, I don't think it's within the power of human beings to assure that the climate does not change, as millions of years of history have shown. And second of all, I guess I would ask which human beings — where and when — are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings." To most people, of course, the words of the head of NASA are authoritative."
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  Your Rights Online: RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Lowered 2006-12-09 23:01

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 09 2006, @11:01PM
from the why-should-they-get-paid-it-is-not-their-music dept.
laughingcoyote writes "The RIAA has asked the panel of federal government Copyright Royalty Judges to lower royalties paid to publishers and songwriters. They're specifically after digital recordings, and uses like cell phone ringtones. They say that the rates (which were placed in 1981) don't apply the same way to new technologies." From the article: "According to The Hollywood Reporter, the RIAA maintains that in the modern period when piracy began devastating the record industry profits to publishers from sales of ringtones and other 'innovative services' grew dramatically. Record industry executives believe this to be cause to advocate reducing the royalties paid to the artists who wrote the original music."
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