Wikileaks Hits The Jackpot With Congressional Research Service
Found on Techdirt on Sunday, 08 February 2009
Wikileaks now has 6,780 reports from the Congressional Research Service free to download. As the post on Wikileaks notes, CRS reports are technically public domain, but have remained in a quasi-secret state, because CRS only releases them to members of Congress.
However, the really interesting thing will be what the response is from both Congress and the CRS -- both of whom have mostly fought against any attempts to publicly release the documents.
What's out of the box, stays out. The reports have been leaked and that can't be reversed. The officials need to deal with it and prepare some good explanations, because quite a few people will read them.