Have you ever wanted to read information from your Congress that didn’t exist solely for the purpose of spin? Perhaps you wanted some detailed information that you didn’t care to research your self, but wouldn’t mind reading a compilation of research effort on the subject in question. Well now you can!
The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t work on Congressional Research Services information, because apparently they are allowed to keep secrets from us. Who knew? But you can enjoy interesting reading that is generally well researched and generally non-partisan. Wikileaks also sent this information to OpenCRS and of the documents they obtained, 6,284 were actually new to OpenCRS. That’s awesome.
I wonder to what degree this will help with transparency. I flipped through a few of the documents and found a lot of what I’ve ever held to be true in my mind or suspected to be accurate, to be validated by the reports. I suggest everyone go on over and do a quick search on your subject of choice involving the government and see what you find out.
