Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including a look at the U.S. government's Terrorist Screening Database and Terrorist Information Datamart Environment, the continuing consequences of the E.U.'s "right to be forgotten" ruling on the Wikimedia Foundation, and a new Republican committee that seeks to make use of SCOTUS' McCutcheon ruling at the state level.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 8/5/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including an Executive Branch delay on a much-anticipated report on "enhanced interrogation techniques," alleged Israeli surveillance on John Kerry's communications, and the Kochs planting money among Oregon forests.
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Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including another PAC to end all PACs, targeting of journalists and dissidents in Bahrain and the UAE, and a redistricting ruling for Florida's highly gerrymandered Fifth and Tenth Congressional Districts.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 8/1/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including the CIA surveilling not dangerous targets, but the Senate; Edward Snowden's expiring asylum in Russia; and Wisconsin's dangerous precedent for state-level campaign finance disclosure.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 7/31/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including expedited firing processes at the VA, press censorship in India, and the latest developments in the federal investigation into the operation of New York's Moreland Commission.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 7/30/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including Sen. Wyden and Sen. Udall amending for a more robust senate version of the USA Freedom Act, China's corruption investigation against the most prominent government figure yet, and the indictment of a Kentucky state representative for campaign finance corruption.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 7/29/14
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including an announcement of Mayday PAC's targeted races, judicial appointment reform in India, and (potential) new municipal broadband policy at the FCC.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 7/28/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including the Office of Congressional Ethics calling out illegal lobbying for the first time, Guyana's controversy over presidents-as-lobbyists, and a former Virginia Governor's upcoming corruption trial.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 7/25/14
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including recently released guidelines for placing individuals on the No-Fly List, difficulties in building Ireland's open data portal, and ethics commission interference from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 7/24/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including upcoming privacy guidelines for commercial drone use, controversies surrounding Japan's Secrecy Act and its possible loopholes for stifling journalists, and the Massachusetts state House and Senate taking a firm stand on more super PAC disclosure.
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