Event 14-15 December 2009, Library of Congress, Eleventh International Conference on Grey Literature
The Grey Mosaic Piecing It All Together
Betty Boop: US Congressional Districts Are Drawn on Basis of ALL Residents INCLUDING ILLEGAL ALIENS AND FOREIGNERS
An investigative report from an Alert Reader. “noncitizens and illegal aliens are counted when apportioning congressional districts and when allocating state electors under the Electoral College. This means noncitizens play a role in determining how many congressional representatives a state has and exert an indirect influence on See:http://www.fairus.org/issue/noncitizens-voting-violations-and-u-s-elections Phi Beta Iota: It is said that …
Winslow Wheeler: Pentagon Hiding $125B in Waste — and the Report It Asked For… + Waste Reference Library
Bottom line up front: one quarter, 25%, of the Pentagon’s annual budget, is spent on overhead, not on troops or weapons or mobility systems. As a businessman, President-Elect Trump should understand that more money for a system this sick is a step in the wrong direction and that a take-no-prisoners manager (with a proven record …
Steven Aftergood: Librarian of Congress Opportunity
A New Direction for the Library of Congress? With the impending retirement of the longtime Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, there is an opportunity for a fundamental reconsideration of the function and operation of the Library of Congress. In particular, the time may be ripe for a massive expansion of the Library’s digitized holdings, …
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1997 Reference: CIA’s Intelligence Sharing With Congress + RECAP
EXTRACT: From my point of view, the academic community in some ways is even more remiss [than the media]. During my brief fledgling career as a novice academic, I have come to the conclusion that most university-level courses on the American foreign policy process are absolutely mute on this subject [intelligence sharing with Congress, and …
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Stephen E. Arnold: Library Intelligence – Another Reason for the Open Source Agency (OSA)
Libraries: A Good Thing When you cannot locate information on Google, what does one do? Some people just guess? Others use spreadsheets and make up data? Quite a few people go to the library. Well, “quite a few” may be one of those unsupported factoids about modern life. Navigate to Pew Research and check out …
Steven Aftergood: Congressional Research Service
BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE A long-running personnel dispute at the Congressional Research Service offers up conflicting visions of the proper role of the congressional support agency, which provides policy and legal analysis to Congress. In 2009, then-CRS Director Daniel Mulhollan fired then-CRS Division Chief Col. Morris Davis, a former Guantanamo prosecutor, …
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