DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - 2000
United States Government and Its Officials
Documents in the News identifies issues about
government making news headlines and web sources with
additional information. The stories included and opinions expressed by
a web link do not necessarily represent the viewpoints of this webmaster
or The University of Michigan.
Last updated on December 30,
2000
Marketing Violent
Entertainment to Children
- Federal Trade Commission report
- Charges movie, music, and games industries target marketing of
violent content materials to children despite the self-imposed ratings
- Calls for more self-regulation
- Report and appendices in pdf; some sections also in HTML format
Federal
Budget FY2001
- President Clinton's recommended budget, presented February 7, 2000
- Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Historical Tables,
Analytical Perspectives, Systems and Concepts
- All sections searchable together or individually
- Sample search: day ADJ care
- Search results yield sections of the budget in text or pdf format
- The budget may also be downloaded
from another page in pdf format with some tables in spreadsheet
format
American Petroleum Institute
- Articles and news on petroleum supply and prices
- State gasoline tax rates appear under Research Papers
- Statistics section requires a subscription
Automobile Association of
America
- Web site requires user to enter zip code and be referred to state
association
- Some state web sites, such as Michigan, provide gas prices
Fuel
Economy Guide (DOE/EPA)
- Search or compare individual car, van and light truck models for the
current year on fuel economy
- Indicates typical miles per gallon, annual gas cost, and
emissions
Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries
- FAQs explain how and why oil exports are regulated
- Special section describes oil taxes imposed by different countries
Reformulated Gasoline
(EPA)
- New EPA air pollution standards blamed for high gasoline prices in
midwest in June 2000
- EPA site provides fact sheets on reformulated gasoline required as of
June 1
- Lists metropolitan areas for which it is required or optional
- Note: Michigan not included
U.S.
Petroleum at a Glance (Energy Info Administration)
- Weekly prices for gasoline, motor oil, crude oil, heating oil
- Forecasts for future months
- Petroleum supply
- Explanation of gasoline prices
Weekly
Gasoline Retail Prices
- National average price for various grades of gasoline
- Historical date to March 1998
Federal
Tax Forms (IRS)
- Tax forms, instructions, and publications in PDF (Adobe Acrobat),
PCL, PostScript, and SGML format
- See "eyeglasses" at the bottom of the screen for keyword searching
- Although the tax forms print well, the tax booklets may be too long to
effectively print
- Many reproducible tax forms also available at the Documents
Center
Michigan 1999 Tax Forms
State Tax Forms
(LSU)
- Clear listing of links to tax forms from various states
Tax
Planning Guide
- From Deloitte and Touche
- Tax changes for 1999 and tax planning tools for 2000
Background
- Two computer hard drives at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
with U.S. plans for countering nuclear terrorism were found
missing in May 2000
- It took three weeks to report incident to the FBI
- They were finally found behind a xerox machine in an area already
searched
- FBI is investigating and Senate Intelligence Committee is holding
hearings
- Information from government sources is classified and not on the
internet
News Coverage
- CNN
- June 13th article describing key players and Congressional reaction
- Public
Broadcasting Service
- June 13th interview with Edward Curran, chief of DOE
counter-intelligence,
about the missing files
- Yahoo
- June 14th coverage includes lie detector tests and Congressional
blame directed at Energy Secretary Bill Richardson
Presidential
Press Release
- Appoints former Senator Howard Baker and Congressman Lee Hamilton to
investigate the nuclear breach
President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board
- Report on DOE security problems
- Science at Its Best: Security at its Worst
discussed security leaks at Dept. of Energy laboratories
- Issued June 1999, before this incident
Senate
Intelligence/Energy Hearing
- Hearing held on missing disks on June 14, 2000
- Witnesses: T.J. Glauthier, Deputy Secretary of Energy; John Browne,
Los Alamos Lab Director, and Edward Curran, DOE Director of
Counterintelligence
- Secretary of Energy Richardson was a no-show
- Full text of unclassified testimony
Wen Ho
Lee
- Wen Ho Lee and Los Alamos (Washington Post)
- Archive of news stories beginning with August 31, 1999
- Includes Lee's indictment, release, and judge's ruling
- Indictment (Court TV)
- Fifty-nine charges of transferring government secrets to his desktop
and portable tapes
- Issued December 10, 1999
- United States v.
Lee
- Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Lee be held without bail
- Dated February 29, 2000
- FBI
Statement of Plea Bargain
- Announcement of plea bargain by FBI Director Louis Freeh
- Dated September 13, 2000
- President's Remarks on Wen Ho Lee's Release
- President Clinton expressed concern over the solitary confinement
followed by a plea bargain
- Remarks made in a question and answer session after a statement on
the Patients Bill of Rights, September 14, 2000
See Documents
in the News 1999 for earlier reports on the alleged
theft of nuclear secrets at Los Alamos
Background
- The National Commission on Terrorism was created by Congress in 1998
after two embassy bombings
- Commission led by L. Paul Bremer
- A 64-page report was released on June 5 recommending a stronger role
for the Dept. of Defense in domestic terrorism response and monitoring of
foreign students
National
Commission on Terrorism Report (Bremer Commission)
Newspaper Articles
Terrorism
Research Center
- Articles and excerpts from documents on terrorist activities around
the world
- Annotated links to research web sites on terrorism
See also Documents in the
News coverage of Embassy Bombings
- Information on the bombings which triggered the Bremer Report
- Links to the Inman and Crowe reports
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