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Change.gov: Citizen's Briefing Book
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Change.gov - The Official Web Site of the The U.S. Presidential Transition "Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today." - President-elect Barack Obama LOGIN ...
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Briefing Book: How to Get Out of Iraq
— foreignpolicy.com — Troops return to bases (June 30). The first major deadline in the SOFA/WA will pose a significant... challenge. The requirement that U.S. troops return to their bases contradicts core elements of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine, and would represent a ... (more) Briefing Book: How to Get Out of Iraq

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Citizen's Briefing Book: Nancy Sutley Reacts (video)
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Citizen's Briefing Book: Nancy Sutley Reacts (video)
— youtube.com — Chair-designee for the White House Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley discusses some of the top ideas... submitted on energy and environmental issues... (more) Citizen's Briefing Book: Nancy Sutley Reacts (video)

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citizensbriefingbook.change.gov - 1/12/2009
Citizen's Briefing Book
— citizensbriefingbook.change.gov — Change.gov - The Official Web Site of the The U.S. Presidential Transition "Today we begin in earnest... the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today." - President-elect Barack ... (more) Citizen's Briefing Book

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Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog:  Your ideas and submissions in the Citizen’s Briefing Book

Ben Smith's Blog:  Remainders: Comcast

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:  Obama's Citizen's Briefing Book Changes the Flow Of Information

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Your ideas and submissions in the Citizen’s Briefing Book
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog — ... Your ideas and your words will be compiled into a Citizen’s Briefing Book and delivered to President Obama after he takes office. ...

Citizen’s Briefing Book: Nancy Sutley reacts
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog — ... Right now, the community on this site is writing and producing a Citizen's Briefing Book that will land on President Obama's desk in the White House soon after he takes office. ...

Remainders: Comcast
Ben Smith's Blog — The Obama channel. Jeremy McCarter notes that Obama contains multitudes, and argues for a piece of the arts. Summers emerges as Obama's key economic advisor, with Geithner on defense Spencer Ackerman extends his counterinsurgency metaphor to Obama's meeting with conservative journalists. Cheney, not having gotten the transition memo, defends "top rate" Guantanamo against closure. Change.gov launches a "Citizen's Briefing Book" for Obama. Burns Strider describes the ...

Citizen’s Briefing Book: Heather Higginbottom reacts
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog — ... By monitoring the Citizen's Briefing Book, she's been able to follow some of your dicussions and track your ideas about the same issues she handles daily. She recently sat down with us to talk more about what she's found. Watch Heather's video below and go to ...

Obama's Citizen's Briefing Book Changes the Flow Of Information
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Earlier this week, the Obama transition team launched a "Citizen's Briefing Book" on their Change.gov website. The venture aimed to create a virtual white paper, authored by engaged citizens, to pitch ideas to the incoming administration. Topics that were voted the most popular would make there way to Obama's desk. ...

Obama's Citizen's Briefing Book Changes the Flow Of Information
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Earlier this week, the Obama transition team launched a "Citizen's Briefing Book" on their Change.gov website. The venture aimed to create a virtual white paper, authored by engaged citizens, to pitch ideas to the incoming administration. Topics that were voted the most popular would make there way to Obama's desk. ...

Citizen’s Briefing Book: Arne Duncan reacts
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog — ... That’s just part of the reaction we got from talking with Secretary-designate of Education Arne Duncan about the Citizen’s Briefing Book project now underway on the site. ...

Citizen’s Briefing Book: Dr. Steven Chu reacts
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog — ... Dr. Chu has been following the comments and ideas in the Citizen’s Briefing Book from Americans who understand the scope of these problems, and who are offering bold solutions of their own. ...

BuzzFlash Mailbag for January 15, 2009
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... are determined that none of the money go towards anything with even a remote connection to keeping or creating American jobs. The only consistency from Barack Obama has been the never ending pleas for more donations in the email. It's impossible to voice an opinion on anything there. Every access point is blocked with a big red banner asking for a donation. Beyond that banner another with the exact same message "Please donate now". [The Obama web site that solicits opinions/input is here .] It could take years to close gitmo. The war in Afghanistan could go on for years. We ...

Citizen’s Briefing Book: Tom Daschle reacts
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog — ... The Citizen’s Briefing Book, as Sen. Daschle points out, covers the whole range of concerns that many Americans are facing during these unsteady times. ...

Wrapping up the Citizen’s Briefing Book
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog — ... The Citizen’s Briefing Book—a project that has enabled everyday Americans to share their expertise and insight with President Obama—has been a tremendous success so far. ...

Barack Obama: President v2.0
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... , which will help keep the new president honest. Collaboration This is where the real revolution starts, and the Obama transition team has built some glitzy new resources to collect citizen feedback. Citizen's Briefing Book is a page on Change.gov that allows anyone to post and vote on suggestions. The highest rated suggestions will go into a briefing book for the president. Questions from the site have already made it into Obama's interviews and press conferences, but we are still waiting to see if any action will be taken on such citizen requests. To use it yourself, just go ...

Whither the Citizen's Briefing Book?
techPresident — ... This is a very brief public service announcement. Remember the "Citizen's Briefing Book" that the Obama team launched during the campaign, the one that would pull together the most highly rated ideas on Change.gov and deliver them to President Obama post-inauguration? (At least, that's how I and Google remember it. The archives on Change.gov have fallen into a black hole of transition history.) The project was one of a string of citizen-participation experiments launched during the transition, alongside ...

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