Bloggers sift through late-night, 3,000-page DOJ newsdump

[madrchsod]

"despite the late hour, readers of a liberal Web site, tpmmuckraker.com, tackled the task with gusto. They quickly began grabbing 50-page chunks of the scanned documents from a House of Representatives Internet server, analyzing them and excerpting them. The first post about the Department of Justice records hit the left-leaning news and commentary site at 1:04 a.m. Within half an hour, there were 50 summaries posted by readers gleaning the documents. By 4:30 a.m., more than 220 postings were up detailing various aspects of the files."


http://www.nysun.com/article/50895
New Technique Lets Bloggers Tackle Late-Night News Dumps - March 21, 2007 - The New York Sun

[ixion]

1. I love the internet

for reasons just like this. :woohoo:

[snowbear]

2. Can you imagine how many e-mails were not provided?

Someone on MSNBC said that the reason there's so many is that they included all of the cc's, but that by asking to have the weekend before they provided them, that there's no telling how many were scrubbed.

Hopefully it will become evident that vital links in the communication are missing.

[robinlynne]

3. I was one of those muckrakers. 900 pages were sent. each page had around 5 copies.

They were mixed in over and over with different batches. There were neer anywhere near 3000 pages. They are all up at house.judiciary.gov for all to see.

[blueguynredcity]

4. Abramoff is getting a sentence reduction!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6500283,00.html

No one is reporting this here but Firedoglake.

This is why this DOJ scandal is so important.

[snowbear]

5. Welcome aboard Blueguynredcity!

Pretty sick if they reduce his sentence. If it doesn't happen though, I'll bet anything that he's pardoned on Bush's last day, along with Cunningham, Nay, and the rest of the dirtbags.