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Re:Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catc... by MisterWebz on Saturday June 15, 2013 @01:26PM (#5885640)
Create a list of representatives and mine all their data that is available on the internet and put it on your website. I think that would allow us to easily form a picture of who that person is and what he stands for, whether he's being influenced by certain corporations etc...

EDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1geg2t/senators_skip_c...

Re:Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catc... by kefka on Saturday June 15, 2013 @04:30PM (#5886211)
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Re:Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catc... by cinquemb on Saturday June 15, 2013 @01:55PM (#5885758)
Saw this there: http://www.govtrack.us/about, but it just seems like gov data. Maybe instead of just mining, one could crowdsource photos/videos from people as they see them in places and get the timestamps and geotags.
Re:Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catc... by MisterWebz on Saturday June 15, 2013 @01:56PM (#5885761)
Agreed. And when they complain, we could tell them if they have nothing to hide, then they have nothing to fear.