Preventive Journalism Alert — Avian Flu
Topic: Yesterday's News?, Preventive Journalism13. October 2005 Comments
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball writing for Newsweek captured the concern about a possible avian flu epidemic
from Newsweek 12 October 2005
Bio-Katrina
U.S. intelligence agencies are being drawn into the debate over government preparations for a deadly flu pandemic. But are top secret briefings good public policy?
Oct. 12, 2005 - As if they didn’t have their hands full with Iraq and terrorism, U.S. intelligence agencies are being drawn into the debate over whether the United States is imminently threatened by a deadly outbreak of bird influenza and whether the Bush administration has adequately prepared for such an epidemic.
Over the last two weeks, the administration has held bird flu briefings classified “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information” for members of both houses of Congress, according to intelligence and congressional officials. (more…)
NSPS and Pay for Performance
Topic: NSPS, Pay for Performance/NSPS, Pay for Performance13. October 2005 Comments
The NSPS regulations are likely to be very similar to the DHS. Mary Lacy, the PEO of NSPS, had previously stated that decisions concerning the DHS would not affect the NSPS schedule.
When the NSPS regulations are finally published I will not be very surprised to read them and discover that they still contain the provisions that Judge Collyer found to be illegal.
If I am correct I can only assume that the NSPS would be hoping that a different judge may view the reduction in employee appeal rights, and the policy of using implementing issuances to abrogate previous contractual agreements not to be an illegal act in the NSPS as Judge Collyer decided they were in the DHS.
Stay tuned.
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