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Watching Them Watch Over Us

Matt Welch | 12.1.2004 1:35 PM

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Did you know Google has a government-only search engine? This and a couple dozen other useful tools for watchdogging Uncle Sam in your pajamas are listed in this Wired News article.

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  1. alkali   22 years ago

    Actually, it seems to sweep in some state government web sites too (try "rules of practice" as a search term).

  2. Matt Welch   22 years ago

    Removed the "U.S." modifier; thanks alkali.

  3. Isaac Bartram   22 years ago

    "Watching Them Watch Over Us"

    Oh Yeah, sure, whadya bet this site gets it's biggest workout from folks trying to find what kind of handouts they can get?

  4. Ironchef   22 years ago

    My local favorite (State of SC public salaries over 50k):
    http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/5121963.htm

    Being a SC state employee myself, I gladly point out the hypocrisy in wasting that much money on my fellow fat, lazy employees.

  5. Madog   22 years ago

    Watch them watch you by searching for "Reason Magazine" (in quotes)

  6. Gary Gunnels   22 years ago

    Neoconservatives as a rule do not trust the citizenry (of course, that's not peculiar to that particular ideology).

  7. SixSigma   22 years ago

    Gary -

    And yet you make it a point to single one idealogoy out like it does fit only them only...

    let me try -

    People with the name Gary are usually stupid (of course it's not peculiar to that name)

  8. Ken Layne   22 years ago

    Fun searches made easier by Google's USA Patriot Site:

    http://www.google.com/unclesam?1&q=ufo

    http://www.google.com/unclesam?1&q=lee+harvey+oswald

    http://www.google.com/unclesam?1&q=vampirism

    Hooray 4 Google ... and, of course, hooray for the U S of A!

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