[govinfo] GovInfo News -- 3-27-2007
- From: "Patrice McDermott" <pmcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:54:37 -0400
- Democrats See a ‘Document Gap’ in Dismissals
- CRS Clamps Down on Public Distribution
Patrice McDermott, Director
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- DEMOCRATS SEE A ‘DOCUMENT GAP’ IN DISMISSALS
By Eric Lipton and David Johnston
March 22, 2007
WASHINGTON, March 21 — The dismissal of eight United States attorneys has
elicited a long and ever-growing list of theories by Democrats on Capitol Hill
about ulterior motives and suspicious coincidences. Now there is a new one: the
document gap. Democrats on Capitol Hill were privately urging reporters on
Wednesday to press the Bush administration to explain why in the thousands of
pages of e-mail messages and documents turned over to investigators, there is
almost nothing from Nov. 16 to Dec. 7, the day seven of the firings occurred.
In contrast, there are hundreds of pages from the weeks after the dismissals.
more [NYT]
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- CRS Clamps Down on Public Distribution
Secrecy News
March 22, 2007
In what is being characterized by subordinates as an act of "managerial
dementia," the Director of the Congressional Research Service this week
prohibited all public distribution of CRS products without prior approval from
senior agency officials.
"I have concluded that prior approval should now be required at the division or
office level before products are distributed to members of the public," wrote
CRS Director Daniel P. Mullohan in a memo to all CRS staff. "This policy is
effective immediately."
While CRS has long refused (with Congressional concurrence) to make its
electronic database of reports available to the public online, it has still
been possible for members of the press, other researchers, and other government
officials to request specific reports from the congressional support agency.
But now, "to avoid inconsistencies and to increase accountability, CRS policy
requires prior approval at the division level before products can be
disseminated to non-congressionals," Director Mullohan wrote. more and
“INFORMATION SHARING;You'd Know if You Were Congressional” [WPost]
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