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posted by martyb on Friday December 16 2016, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the redundancy++ dept.

Heard on CBC radio from Toronto/Ottawa and also just posted to BBC --
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045

A special archiving event is being held in collaboration with Archive's End of Term project. Since 2008 this has saved US government websites at risk during government transitions.

Canadian "guerrilla" archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data.

Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research.

They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office.

The CBC report interviewed a Canadian scientist who described some of the scientific data that was lost during the Harper government.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday December 16 2016, @08:04PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday December 16 2016, @08:04PM (#442188)

    In a nutshell, to destroy and annoying agency, you appoint someone who wants it gone, and therefore won't fight when it loses huge chunks of its budget next year.
    You make it pretty clear down the ranks that the boss isn't interested in some causes. Then the hammer comes down because of the budget cuts, with projects eliminated based on the boss's priorities.
    It sucks all motivation out of the workers, and they either quit or produce nothing you didn't want to hear.

    When both Congress and the Executive want to zombify an agency, there are no checks and balances. How many votes do you lose crippling the DOE and the FCC?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @09:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @09:38PM (#442220)

    0 votes until at least 2018 or 2020. Until then, it's open season.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @11:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @11:48PM (#442280)

    Another outcome is that the rank-and-file employees of the agency rebel and throw a shitstorm until they replace the head. Remember James Watt, the head of Interior who wanted to sell off all the public lands?

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday December 17 2016, @12:01AM

      by bob_super (1357) on Saturday December 17 2016, @12:01AM (#442286)

      It's not 1980 anymore, and I'm pretty sure Trump would love to get some Reagan-cred by firing as many terrible, bad members of a useless department as possible.