The Week in Review
ending January 19
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President Bush, Coretta Scott King.
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Trust reform report sets new course
After delaying the report for more than a month,
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton finally submitted
her department's latest trust reform status update.
The report made public a number of decisions
that, like the proposal to create an Indian trust agency,
change the entire nature of the several-year, and costly,
effort to fix more than a century of financial
mismanagement.
Norton has dropped the three and one-half year-old blueprint
to reform and has halted development on the $40 million
Trust Asset and Accounting Management System (TAAMS),
concurring with growing sentiment that both Clinton-initiated
projects have gone nowhere.
Get the Story:
Trust reform
status report due this week (1/16)
Norton signs
trust reform update (1/17)
Interior
delaying update to EDS report (1/17)
Norton scraps
trust reform blueprint (1/18)
Under watch
of Swimmer, TAAMS halted (1/18)
Official:
Norton report still 'inadequate' (1/18)
Official:
Norton report still 'inadequate' (1/18)
Contempt trial goes on brief hiatus
After eighteen days of testimony and six witnesses, five
charges against Secretary Gale Norton
and Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb still stand for
their handling of the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust.
But one is all U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth needs
to find the pair in contempt and potentially appoint
a receiver to take over some, or all, aspects of
the IIM trust.
The one destined to do that is the failure to correct
known information technology vulnerabilities despite
top officials, including Norton, having received
warning at the same time Lamberth's court was
hacking into the Interior.
Get the Story:
Dom Nessi
expected as Norton witness (1/14)
Interior
official denies trust fund 'conspiracy' (1/15)
Witness
testifies against software corruption (1/15)
Norton effort
'too little, too late' (1/16)
Norton's
contempt in the columns (1/18)
more stories
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of the top stories.
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