CPI Releases Power Trips DB
June 28th, 2006 | Published in DIY, Online, Paper Trail
The good news is that the Center for Public Integrity (my former employer) has released its database of privately-sponsored congressional travel for web searchers. It’s a great complement to the bundle of strong stories that CPI has done from this dataset. But unlike some other databases from the Center, this one is deliberately designed to prevent someone from aggregating the data. I can see the reasoning behind doing this, but a search engine is less of a public service than a search engine plus enabling ordinary folks to do their own investigations.