Federal Manager's Daily Report Thursday, September 16, 2004 Published by FEDweek, the federal government's largest information resource with now over one million weekly readers to its electronic newsletters.
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These include authorizing the use of a federal building or office for campaign activities, such as town hall meetings, rallies, parades, speeches, fundraisers, press conferences, "photo ops" or meet and greets; attending or planning such campaign events while on duty or in a federal building or office; or distributing campaign literature or wearing campaign-related items while on duty or in a federal building or office. The opinion further states that OSC views candidates' requests to visit federal facilities that are coordinated by candidates' campaigns as presumptively for a campaign purpose and not official business. The advisory is at http://fedweek.sparklist.com/t/294945523/821889/310/0/ In addition, some agencies have internal guidance on candidate visits and similar activities. 2. OPM Increases E-Training for Intelligence, Defense, Homeland Security The Office of Personnel Management has announced that it has retained the National Technical Information Service and FasTrac as additional e-Learning service providers, something it says will benefit government agencies related to the intelligence community. It said the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security would benefit "by linking to government-wide e-learning content, reference materials, tools, government community of practice sites, and collaboration group tools." OPM said the training initiative gives agencies tools to develop human capital strategically, and generally reflects a unified approach across government to support continuous learning. "Having agreements with NTIS and FasTrac enables OPM to reach out to more agencies with a larger selection of products and additional contracting vehicles that complement the current government-wide e-Learning portal, www.GoLearn.gov ," said OPM. It said golearn.gov has 200,000 registered users who have completed as many courses, and estimates that the 40 agencies participating in e-training represent millions of dollars in cost savings. 3. Effect of Terrorism-Focus on Other FBI Priorities Inconclusive, Says GAO Shifting priorities within the Federal Bureau of Investigation toward counter-terrorism have not had a conclusive effect on its traditional crime enforcement performance, the Government Accounting Office has said. It said that the FBI shifted agent resources to counterterrorism, counterintelligence and cyber-crime away from drug crimes - its drug program alone saw 550 employee transfers -- white-collar, and violent crime enforcement programs, but that the data it examined do not indicate whether performance in those roles has suffered. However, it cautioned that its assessment was based on short-term indicators. Similarly, some law enforcement officers said the effect was negligible while others said, drug, white-collar and violent-crime investigations had suffered, said GAO. It said following the priority shift after 9/11, "the combined FBI and DEA non-supervisory field agent resources decreased by about 10 percent," but DEA is expecting increases in positions over the next two years. The number of new FBI and DEA drug matter cases also declined by 10 percent since 2001, from 22,736 in fiscal 2001, to 20,387 in fiscal 2003, said GAO, noting that the decline could be attributed to an increase in targeting major organizations rather than more widespread smaller networks. White-collar and violent crime data do not demonstrate conclusive effects either. "The number of white-collar crime referrals from federal agencies to U.S. Attorneys declined by about 6 percent, from 12,792 in fiscal year 2001 to 12,057 in fiscal year 2003, violent crime referrals from all federal sources have increased by about 29 percent, from 14,546 in fiscal year 2001 to 18,723 in fiscal year 2003," said GAO. 4. Save $40 on Your Next Getaway JUST NEED TO GET AWAY? 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