Pretty shiny things
There are plenty of pretty shiny things to be found in Wikileaks' latest treasure trove -- a Congressional Research Service archive of nearly 7,000 nifty reports.
The reports aren't classified, but the CRS will only release the reports -- on everything from military machinery to agricultural subsidies -- to members of Congress. Those members sometimes make the reports available for public consumption, but until this month most collections of CRS reports were piecemeal, including only a few hundred reports.
Utah doesn't appear to get much attention from the CRS, however. Only one of the reports names the Beehive State in its title: "Utah Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized" -- and that study is as boring as its label suggests. It's basically just a handy-to-have list of statutes detailing who does what if Putin rears his ugly head and invades Salt Lake City.
Of perhaps greater interest to the open-government sickos who read this blog (OK, that would be the open government sickos who write this blog) is a report from last year on the status of FOIA and the efforts by the 109th and 110th Congresses to make it better (or worse, depending on how you look at the world.)
The full archive can be found here.
mdl
The reports aren't classified, but the CRS will only release the reports -- on everything from military machinery to agricultural subsidies -- to members of Congress. Those members sometimes make the reports available for public consumption, but until this month most collections of CRS reports were piecemeal, including only a few hundred reports.
Utah doesn't appear to get much attention from the CRS, however. Only one of the reports names the Beehive State in its title: "Utah Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized" -- and that study is as boring as its label suggests. It's basically just a handy-to-have list of statutes detailing who does what if Putin rears his ugly head and invades Salt Lake City.
Of perhaps greater interest to the open-government sickos who read this blog (OK, that would be the open government sickos who write this blog) is a report from last year on the status of FOIA and the efforts by the 109th and 110th Congresses to make it better (or worse, depending on how you look at the world.)
The full archive can be found here.
mdl
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