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Washington, D.C. (AHN) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is calling for an investigation into the inadvertent posting of sensitive but unclassified information about civilian nuclear sites across the nation on a government website. A 267-document describing the nuclear sites with maps and other details was posted on the Government Printing Office website. The report is a draft declaration to the International Atomic Energy Agency in compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty President Barack Obam had sent the draft to Congress last month for review. The posting was first reported this week by Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American...

WASHINGTON - The government's inadvertent and red-faced Internet posting of a 266-page list of U.S. nuclear sites provided a one-step guide for anyone wanting details about such sensitive information. Obama administration officials said Wednesday the document contained no classified material about nuclear weapons. They contended the locations and other details already were available from public sources. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said "a snafu" led to the online posting. "A little embarrassing," he acknowledged. The document, stamped "highly confidential safeguards sensitive," made it onto the Government Printing Office's Web site - and why that happened was not immediately clear. A newsletter...

The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons. The publication of the document was revealed Monday in an on-line newsletter devoted to issues of federal secrecy. That publicity set off a debate among nuclear experts about what dangers, if any, the disclosures posed. It also prompted a flurry of investigations in Washington into why the document was made public. On Tuesday evening, after inquiries from The New...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 26, 2008 MEDIA CONTACT: GARY SOMERSET 202.512.1957, 202.355.3997 cell gsomerset@gpo.gov GPO RESPONDS TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES STORY. GPO PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING FACTS OF THE U.S. PASSPORT October 2007 Testimony before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform House of Representative on Technology for Secure Identity Products. http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/testimony/benbrink-housetestimony_oct07.pdf ***********************EXCERPT**********************Manufacturing Passports/SecurityGPO has been producing passports for the State Department since the 1920s. The manufacturing of passports is conducted in Washington, D.C. at GPO facilities. More than 120 GPO employees work around the clock to produce the document. In addition, GPO’s Congressional Oversight Committee, the Joint Committee on Printing...

EXECUTIVE SESSIONS OF THE SENATE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS VOLUMES 1 THROUGH 5 EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST AND SECOND SESSION 1953-1954 MADE PUBLIC JANUARY 2003

Our (Israel) Newspapers Fail Us - (UPDATED) September 28, 2003 Editorial - Israel News Agency "Over at the Jerusalem Post, Israel's venerable English language daily newspaper, rumblings of publisher/staff dissatisfaction are being heard loud and clear. Long-time managing editor, Avi Hoffman was fired last week after he recommended pulling an ad that included language he felt would expose Israel to charges of war crimes. New Post editor Bret Stephens apparently agreed. Publisher Tom Rose was furious and ordered Hoffman fired. The full page ad appeared last Friday. According to Aviv Lavie writing in the rival Haaretz English edition, senior staff...

Editorial: Happy birthday, Shimon Shimon Peres "Opposition," said William Blake, "is true friendship." We think of that line in the afterglow of Shimon Peres's 80th birthday party, which brought together, among other celebrity mismatches, Moshe Katsav, Bill Clinton, Terje Roed-Larson, and Ariel Sharon for what turned out to be a moving event. If little else, these men share an admiration for Peres in which we join. Outside the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, where the day's formal festivities were held, protesters called for bringing the "Oslo criminals" to justice. No Israeli newspaper has been more steadfast in its opposition to...

Celebrating 80 Years with Shimon Peres "The Marking of Peres' 80th Birthday is an opportunity to look forward with the man who has his feet firmly planted on the ground as his vision sails to the future." THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF PERES 80 -------------------------------------------------------- THE OFFICE OF SHIMON PERES AND THE PERES CENTER FOR PEACE Contact: YORAM DORI - Beeper: 972-3-610-6666 code: 45544 YAEL LOTAN - LOTAN COMMUNICATIONS E-mail: lotan@lotan.org.il ALIZA GOREN E-mail: aliza@gorenco.co.il JOEL LEYDEN - LEYDEN COMMUNICATIONS (Israel) E-mail: media@leyden.net LINDA RIVKIND - Government Press Office E-mail:lrivkind@netvision.net.il WHY A BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR SHIMON PERES? Tel Aviv----September 20……The Israeli...

Our Newspapers Fail Us Editorial - Israel News Agency There is no public relations or public affairs without a carrier. The most established carrier is called a newspaper. And in Israel the only newspapers which enjoy abundant readership and wealth are the Hebrew dailies – Yediot, Maariv and Haaertz. As for the English newspapers here in Israel – one is a mere translation of the Hebrew edition and the other is fifty percent wire service copy. Yes – there are some brilliant writers on these papers but their voices become deluded when you have a lack of proper leadership integrated...

Nation's Public Printer, From Nevada, Instituting Changes At GPO (July 4) -- Before taking over as the nation's public printer, Bruce James promised the White House and Congress he would retool and modernize the historic Government Printing Office. After six months, he noted he has recruited six of 12 top GPO managers from the private sector, and kept just two of the other six in the same jobs as when he took over in December. "We now have square pegs in square holes," James said. James, 60, a Nevada resident who in 1998 abandoned a short-lived candidacy for U.S....