Comments on: Pay No Attention to Those Earmarks http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4153 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: David Bruggeman http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4153&cpage=1#comment-8622 David Bruggeman Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:57:41 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=4153#comment-8622 It's the extension of a very odd trend of CRS top brass to restrict distribution of CRS reports at all. The only reason I got my hands on a copy of their climate change report is that the Federation of American Scientists posted it as part of their occasional releases from CRS. Their reports are damn hard to find otherwise. The Service is now requiring prior approval for their own employees to hand out reports to the public. http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/03/crs_clamps_down_on_public_dist.html If I didn't work in Washington, it might boggle my mind. It’s the extension of a very odd trend of CRS top brass to restrict distribution of CRS reports at all. The only reason I got my hands on a copy of their climate change report is that the Federation of American Scientists posted it as part of their occasional releases from CRS. Their reports are damn hard to find otherwise. The Service is now requiring prior approval for their own employees to hand out reports to the public.

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/03/crs_clamps_down_on_public_dist.html

If I didn’t work in Washington, it might boggle my mind.

]]> By: Harry Haymuss http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=4153&cpage=1#comment-8621 Harry Haymuss Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:26:55 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=4153#comment-8621 Just another symptom of the fact there is really only one political party in the U.S. - with two faces. Who was it that said to beware of the "two party" system? My link seems to have vanished. Just another symptom of the fact there is really only one political party in the U.S. – with two faces. Who was it that said to beware of the “two party” system? My link seems to have vanished.

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