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...that it obtains using this broad new authority. In fact, the Administration and its allies are fighting against far more modest proposals to protect innocent Americans who are swept up in this new, essentially warrantless surveillance. For nearly 30 years, the secret FISA court has provided judicial supervision and oversight when the government carries out surveillance of Americans. President Bush ignored and bypassed that court and the law in approving a warrantless-wiretapping program after Sept. 11. Only after the program was revealed to the public in December 2005 was the Administration forced to comply with...
...course, technically, the College has no oversight of UC spending at all. But that didn’t stop Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam six weeks ago. And whatever political capital the UC had it has well and truly burnt. The bottom line is that, in this matter, the College holds all the cards. Any dispute over alcohol that went far enough to necessitate the intervention of the FAS (the only body that does have explicit power over the UC) would almost certainly end up in the administration’s favor. It’s nonsensical that...
...central premise of the book, the idea that if we look back to the diplomatic arrangements initiated at Versailles in 1919, we will find the roots of the conflicts which torment the international community nearly a century later. Most importantly, Andelman contends that the Treaty’s oversight of a number of issues in the Middle East—namely their failure to understand the entrenched antagonisms between Shi’ites and Sunni and between Bedouin Arabs and Palestinians—has contributed to the modern-day plagues of terrorism and conflicts ranging from the Iranian Revolution...
...worrier.” He recognizes the need to have something more than a loose code of conduct governing research in synthetic biology, the field in which he focuses. In 2004 he published “A Synthetic Biohazard Non-proliferation Proposal” advocating specific strategies to strengthen oversight of synbio laboratories. Unfortunately, many concerns raised in this paper still remain unaddressed today. In 2006 Church sought outside support and helped form the International Consortium for Polynucleotide Synthesis (ICPS), which has submitted further proposals for security adoption in conjunction with members of the CIA and FBI. Church fully understands...
...staff. Unfortunately these kind of safeguards would come too late to address the critical nomination process. Nominees need to be better vetted, perhaps by a panel process or by the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO), Light suggests, before they ever appear before the Senate. They also probably need better oversight while they are in office. Even in extraordinary situations - such as when an Integrity Committee headed by a senior FBI official recommended the dismissal of NASA's IG Robert Cobb because he had alerted the NASA administrator to audits and FBI search warrants, and allowed him to try to direct...