| 9-11 Commission |
| The Final Report of the 9-11 Commission (officially the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States) was released in on July 22, 2004. The Commission maintained a website with its reports and archives of audio, video, and transcripts from public events of the Commission. On May 18-19,2004 the Commission released staff reports on NYC's Emergency Preparedness and Response and Crisis Management. In August, 2004 it released two staff monographs on Terrorist Financing and Terrorist Travel. |
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| C-SPAN.org |
| C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company with a public service mission to provide public access to the political process. Find discussions of the nitty gritty political happenings on the Hill along with a congressional directory, live audio of Senate hearings, and an extensive video library of political happenings, including all the recent presidential debates. |
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| CQ Press in Context |
| Congressional Quarterly, a respected publisher of material about American politics provides a "free, nonpartisan, authoritative source on pivotal issues shaping today's world of politics." As of May, 2005 issues covered included terrorism and the future of the Supreme Court. |
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| Family Research Council |
| Family Research Council is a nationwide pro-family group opposed to same sex marriage. The web site gives details of the media outreach program of the FRC on the issue of same sex marriage. |
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| Global Economic Crisis |
| Global Economic Crisis resource guide includes national and international economic information and government documents, and a number of related resources of interest to residents of New York State. From a New York State public librarian. [note - the library catalog link goes to a library in the Catskills - not to CUNY's catalog.] |
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| Government Views of Iraq |
| A web page, maintained by the City College Library, of online government resources to provide background information on the Iraq crisis. Includes maps, transcripts of speeches, Congressional hearings and UN documents. |
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| Internet Casebook on Sexual Orientation and the Law |
| John Jay Prof. Daniel Pinello has organized a collection of 150 Edited American Appellate Cases Adjudicating Lesbian and Gay Rights Claims. The cases are arranged by name, court, subject matter, and year, and cover such subjects as sodomy, adoption, military service, and immigration. |
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| Iraq Coalition Casualties list |
| Details about the casualty statistics for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Data comes from official sources. The statistics are available by various categories such as: country, state, city, ethnicity, branch of service and date. |
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| Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund |
| Lambda Legal pursues litigation in all parts of the country, in every area of the law that affects lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered, and people with HIV or AIDS. Select Marriage Project from the list of issues to find current news about their legal and media activites concerning same sex marriage.
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| National Conference of State Legislatures |
| A special report on Same Sex Marriage and the legal situtation in the 50 states is detailed at the site of the National Conference of State Legislatures. |
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| Public Agenda Online |
| A well-organized site offering articles and data on several controversial issues including abortion, crime, education, health care, illegal drugs, immigration, race and welfare. Extensive information on each issue includes an overview, facts and trends, different perspectives, links to news stories, and results of public opinion polls. The site is keyword searchable. There is also a section called "About polling," which helps readers toward a critical understanding of polls and surveys |
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| Schlesinger report on the Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse |
| Officially the Final report of the Independent Panel to review DoD detention operations, this is the report of the panel chaired by former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger on the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse released on Aug. 24, 2004. Released on Aug. 25 was Army General Fay's Investigation of the Abu Ghraib Prison. |
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| September 11 Digital Archive |
| Uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11th events and the public responses to them. |
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| September 11, 2001 -- Sources of Information |
| The John Jay College librarians have created a page of Sources of Information Relating to the Disaster of September 11, 2001. |
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| TRAC Immigration |
| Attempts to discover very detailed information from the U.S. government, check it for accuracy and completeness and then make it available in an understandable way; includes special reports from TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse) at Syracuse University, one-click access to the very latest monthly data on the criminal enforcement of the immigration laws, an extensive library of reports on immigration matters by the GAO, CRS and inspectors general; and a plain English glossary of frequently used words and acronyms common to the immigration world. |
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| WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications |
| This report by the respected Carnegie Endowment for International Peace studies what the intelligence community understood about Iraq's WMD programs before the war and outlines policy reforms designed to improve threat assessments, deter transfer of WMD to terrorists, and avoid politicization of the intelligence process. |
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