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On this note, has anyone done any real social network analysis of all the people our congressmen and women meet regularly with? I know investigative journalists
by malandrew 13y ago
On this note, has anyone done any real social network analysis of all the people our congressmen and women meet regularly with? I know investigative journalists look a lot at campaign contributions, but besides those are there other sources of data from which it possible to draw association between Congressman Chambliss and people of importance in the Surveillance-Industrial complex and/or high ranking NSA officials?
I would imagine that the schedule of who members of congress meet during the course of the day are part of the public record and should be subject to a FOIA request.
- jkestner 13y agoThat would be a great volley back on how revealing metadata is, a la the Paul Revere piece. I know the White House has to keep these records - if congresspeople (AND their staff) don't, there oughta be a law.
- malandrew 13y agoWhich watchdog group (e.g. EFF, change.org) would be the best one to propose a congressional metadata law? If our elected officials can see value in knowing the metadata of his or her citizens, then the citizens that elected those officials should be able to see the metadata of everyone his or her congressman calls, meets with or emails. The same should apply to all the senior staff of any elected official. One of the easiest way to handle making sure official meetings outside the office are logged is to only allow expense reports to be honored, when the other party in the meeting is logged.