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Wikileaks Publishes $1B of Public Domain Research Reports

Posted by timothy on from the well-there's-a-nice-circularity-to-that dept.

laird writes "Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to abortion legislation. Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, while the oldest report goes back to 1990. The release represents the total output of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) electronically available to Congressional offices. The CRS is Congress's analytical agency and has a budget in excess of $100M per year. Although all CRS reports are legally in the public domain, they are quasi-secret because the CRS, as a matter of policy, makes the reports available only to members of Congress, Congressional committees and select sister agencies such as the GAO. Members of Congress are free to selectively release CRS reports to the public but are only motivated to do so when they feel the results would assist them politically. Universally embarrassing reports are kept quiet."

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  1. U.S. government: Corruption everywhere. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    One kind of corruption is killing people and destroying their property for profit.

    More than 1,000,000 people have been killed in Iraq at a final cost of at least $3,000,000,000,000.

    That means the U.S. taxpayer is paying $3 million to kill each Iraqi. Iraqis are mostly poor and defenseless. Obviously, the money is going into the pockets of weapons and oil investors.

    The U.S. government has done far more damage to Iraq and killed far more people than Saddam Hussein. What is worse is that the U.S. government did it for money; Saddam Hussein wanted political control.

  2. CRS? by binarylarry · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can't Remember Shit?

    Sounds like Congress!

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  3. Re:Saddening by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 0, Troll

    You have drank the koolaid.

    ACORN can not commit voter fraud.

    Bogus voter registrations is not voter fraud.

    You should wake up to reality.

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