Delivering

In the interest of greater transparency, the Clinton Foundation has posted a list of paid speeches its principals (Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton) have made that have “helped support” its work. The details are tantalizingly limited: for example, of three speeches listed by President Clinton that earned between half a million and a million dollars (per speech!), one is attributed to something called “Hanwha.” (That’s one of South Korea’s largest business conglomerates.)

“Under Clinton’s leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation,” report David Sirota and Andrew Perez for the International Business Times, analyzing State Department and Clinton Foundation data. They add: “In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records. The Clinton Foundation publishes only a rough range of individual contributors’ donations, making a more precise accounting impossible.”

The State Department is proposing to release batches of Clinton’s private emails every two months, starting in June, Josh Gerstein reports for Politico.

Remember how the Obama campaign experimented with all kinds of email formats? Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has now launched “The Feed” (subtitled: “Read It, Watch It, Share It”) which gets delivered to your inbox like any other campaign email, but looks and feels like a graphically punched-up e-newsletter stocked with the campaign’s latest social sharing ploys. You can only get it by “joining” the campaign.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a campaign rally in his home city of Burlington, where locals long loyal to his independent and socialist politics mingled with former Occupy Wall Street organizers like Charles Lenchner and Winnie Wong, who are assisting his campaign, reports Jonathan Topaz for Politico.

Going to one source of the dark-money maelstrom hitting American politics, the Center for Public Integrity’s Carrie Levine zeroes in on David Langdon, a suburban Cincinnati lawyer whose firm is one “point of convergence” for nearly a dozen conservative groups spending money to influence elections. He refused an interview, and when Levine knocked on the door of his home, he said “You’re not welcome here,” calling approaching him at his home “unbelievably unprofessional.” More of this, please.

The Internal Revenue Service admitted yesterday that attackers obtained the tax information of 100,000 filers, using previously stolen information to crack the “get transcript” feature on the IRS website, Andy Greenberg reports for Wired.

Why did the first FCC chairman under President Obama, Julius Genachowski, waver in his declared support for the open internet despite being a tech entrepreneur with a personal relationship with the president, while the second chairman, Tom Wheeler, a former telco industry lobbyist, delivered as a forceful champion of net neutrality? In Medium’s BackChannel, Susan Crawford offers her theory of the case.

Bart Myers, the CEO of Countable, writes a smart op-ed in The Hill about the future of political and civic tech: “There will be limited growth for those who believe that tech’s future in policy and advocacy is just creating mini echo chambers, where people with an issue in common join ranks among themselves for politicians to target them.…On the other hand, the political apps and websites that will find success are the ones that will place less emphasis on divisions. They will drive constant reengagement by introducing people to a wider array of issues and causes that audiences might not have been aware of, but care about.”

Technical.ly Delaware’s Tony Abraham reports on the spread of civic hacking to The First State.

GovTech’s Jason Shueh pulls insights from Junar, Socrata and Accela about how governments can learn to be more strategic about their open data plans.

Haje Jan Kamps, the CEO of Triggertrap, tells you everything you might want to know about the 130,000-plus people who have a “verified” account on Twitter.

Ned Resnikoff reports for Al Jazeera America on “the Bay Area’s small yet burgeoning tech cooperative community,” featuring companies like Design Action, Radical Designs and TechCollective that are collectively owned by their workers.

BuzzFeed is starting an “Open Lab for Journalism, Technology and the Arts” (tipping its hat to founder Jonah Peretti’s days at Eyebeam) and looking for fellows.

MoveOn.org is looking to hire a chief technology officer.

The OpenGov Foundation is looking to hire a communications and strategic partnerships director.