House bill would authorize new FEMA grants and protect S&R teams

The Disaster Response, Recovery and Mitigation Enhancement Act of 2008 (HR 6658) would fund a number of grant activities, including modernization of emergency warning systems to make them multi-modal, establishment of a national network of standard search and rescue resources to augment urban response capabilities, extension of health benefits for temporary FEMA employees, and payment [...]

Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate claims of questionable eavesdropping

From the New York Times:
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, said Thursday that the committee would investigate claims by two military eavesdroppers that they routinely listened in on private calls home from American military officers, aid workers and journalists stationed in Iraq.
The two former intelligence officers, Adrienne Kinne, an [...]