New or updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Key Issues, December 2, 2013
Mountaintop Mining: Background on Current Controversies, December 2, 2013
Burma’s Political Prisoners and U.S. Sanctions, December 2, 2013
Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections, December 3, 2013
The 2013 Cybersecurity Executive Order: Overview and Considerations for Congress, November 8, 2013
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The potential implication of these evidence gaps becomes more consequential when you look at how institutions actually make decisions day to day.
Every new institution inherits something – existing incentives, existing staff, decades of prior investment that shaped what’s possible.
This is not the first time Google has agreed to censor imagery at the behest of governments, but be warned: obfuscation at this broad level poses a direct threat to the public’s ability to monitor and scrutinize government operations.