"WikiLeaks was suddenly a household name," he said, and he thought "in the midst of all this bad behavior, there is a certain genius of Los."
Began last week in an attempt to tap into this genius junction to Wikicountability.org, a collaborative website a database of freedom of information requests to create, the the actions of the Obama administration to investigate.
Many companies and organizations, including the United States Army, have on the seized the information Wikipedia model to promote its members build together. This seems to be an early attempt to use the idea behind WikiLeaks, a repository for documents secret or difficult-to get, for a political purpose.
In large parts that have tried the same manner and to news agencies use social networking tools to improve their reports and to popularize it, then, the crossroads of GPS is experimenting with a system of distributed accountability (or distributed opposition research,) If you prefer.
"One of the advantages of the wiki platform that want to us develop led to the site,", said Mr Law, is, that you "Crowd source the information and analysis of information."
A group is crossroads GPS or strategies involve popular sports, was part of Mr. Rove leaving the Bush White House in 2007. Because of its designation, the control to it should above all questions rather called law candidates to focus, and Mr, as Wikicountability was concentrated on topics such as health care and high speed rail. The Organization was the vehicle for millions of dollars of display during the Congress 2010 campaign.
The fact that a conservative organization that has adopted wiki brand speaks for the widespread recognition makes a collective networked travel travel bans whether to build an encyclopedia audience, or a Cabinet Secretary.
Mr Law said that it work not to the people of Wikicountability had been hard. "Of course, WikiLeaks has a very bad brand under the Conservatives," he said, "but Wikipedia is mainstream like Facebook or Twitter."
The site is clearly a work in progress: while it published new articles every day, they come just a few beigesteuert. It started with some documents that set the tone: a list of trade union leaders, 2009 by the labour, Hilda Solis, and the production costs for an advertisement for Medicare with Andy Griffith ($ statutory) are met.
If it is running as planned, Mr Law said Wikicountability have a community "of several dozen groups or participants", that either publish material they have received their own requests or analyze, what others have to above set.
In contrast to Wikipedia, users must apply to the editing permissions. "We would do some vetting" of the applicant to be editors, he said "a balance between full openness and some management to ensure that the larger purposes by the frustrated not, get that the project not good."
"We have a point of view," Mr Law said.
"Wikicountability takes to differ from WikiLeaks, explains that his policy is not to solicit or knowingly accept documents for publication, the information open, which legally privileged is classified, set, or with the established statutory exceptions under FOIA."
For now, Mr Law said the site is focused on educating the potential contributors of requirements under the Federal freedom of information act.
"The first hurdle we overcome time spend a lack of understanding of FOIA process is," he said. "People assume automatically that requirements can store only journalists FOIA."
Mr Law said he hoped that the website attention was what he described as the poor record of compliance by the Obama administration; many of the articles on Wikicountability concerns still unanswered requests information from the Government.
Thomas S. Blanton, Director who was national security archive, an independent non-governmental Research Institute at the George Washington University, he said this questions, had committed like cross GPS, runs a website that would bring transparency to measures of the Government. He said he thought winning the true motive to donors.
Still, he said, improved transparency required, one "constant push the Government to account, a perfect storm outsider, reporter, interest groups (partisan or not), make common cause with within reformers."
He said that while he administration wanted the Obama really on disclosure issues believed more network policy, the bureaucracy was difficult to move. "Still a wide gap between the really strong message on high and the actual performance of the agencies, which is mixed," he said.
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