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Markle In the News

Markle In the News

Markle In the News includes articles, op-eds, blog commentary, and news items related to Markle's collaborative work.  The items are listed in reverse chronological order (newest first).

Investigations with Impact

March 1, 2010
Two months after its launch, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund published the story of Benjamin French, a 12-year-old from Michigan who was ...
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Health IT Standards Committee: Clinical Operations group seeks specificity in standards

February 24, 2010
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on ...
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Security expert: Obama order resembles controversial Bush-era data-mining tool

February 24, 2010
The Obama administration has called for the development of a computer network that one security expert said on Tuesday resembles a controversial ...
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Why information sharing is not always enough

February 17, 2010
Sounds of anger and signs of action are following the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day. We are lucky it is an averted ...
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Connecting the Dots and the Christmas Plot

January 25, 2010
“We slipped up.”  That’s what Patrick F. Kennedy, the Undersecretary of State for Management, said at a Senate hearing ...
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The Christmas Day Intelligence Failure – Part I: Enterprise Amnesia vs. Enterprise Intelligence

January 12, 2010
I have been watching the public statements from our leadership, media reports, the blogosphere, and emails galore related to the failed December ...
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Christmas Day Attack a Wake-Up Call for Obama

January 4, 2010
George W. Bush's presidency was shocked early in its term by the unimagined terrorist act on September 11, 2001. Mr. Bush, who tended to ...
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Another failure to communicate

January 3, 2010
Never again. That's what Congress and the Bush administration promised seven years ago after revelations that the CIA didn't warn the ...
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What to make of the failed terrorist attack

December 29, 2009
The president has ordered two reviews since the attack attempted against Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. While such reviews are ...
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New Study Rates Privacy Protections of Electronic Health Record Systems

December 16, 2009
I want to alert everybody to a study recently published by Patient Privacy Rights (PPR) that rates the various Personal Health Record ...
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