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One of the great challenges with these document dumps (and I forsee many, many more to come) is that the documents are not searchable. Think how much more fun we could have if a searchable database of all 3000 pages. By carefully dividing up the work, a few hundred bloggers could retype all the entries in a matter of hours and upload them to a wiki.

What this would require is an online form where we can get either sign up or be given an assignment to type up several pages of released documents. Hell, I’m not a particularly fast typist, but I could enter a a couple of pages in an hour. We could have all of these documents available in a usable format in a very short period of time — then the fun could really begin…

Someone who is more web-savvy than I (about 99% of the population) could probably create a template for volunteers to use to enter the documents. We don’t need to worry about copying the formatting — just type in the documents verbatim — as long as the text refers back to the pdf, a researcher can readily access the original to verify the entry is accurate.

We probably should also come up with a standard system for tracking hand-written notes — those provided some of the more interesting tidbits in yesterday’s release.

So what do people think of this idea? I’m going to cross-post this to TPM to see if we can generate some discussion.

LS @
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Check out what is semi-redacted on page AOG…850 of this PDF:

http://judiciary.house.gov/med…..070319.pdf

THis looks like an article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about voter fraud allegations, but the bottom line makes it seem as if the pdf of the article was in a file tree where “ROVE” was one of the layers?

There were a bunch of these arising from the 2004 elections regarding Democrats bribing people with cigarettes to vote or something like that. I live in Wisconsin but don’t remember if any of them were pursued. John Nichols had an op-ed over the weekend about how the Wisconsin US Attorney, who is pursuing the Democratic governor, now will be seen as pursuing partisan investigations no matter what his motivation is.

Exactly. Why did DOJ include it. Where did DOJ get it (Rove?) and in what context were they using this? Why did they make that redaction?

Check out what is semi-redacted on page AOG…850 of this PDF:

http://judiciary.house.gov/med…..070319.pdf

THis looks like an article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about voter fraud allegations, but the bottom line makes it seem as if the pdf of the article was in a file tree where “ROVE” was one of the layers?

There were a bunch of these arising from the 2004 elections regarding Democrats bribing people with cigarettes to vote or something like that. I live in Wisconsin but don’t remember if any of them were pursued. John Nichols had an op-ed over the weekend about how the Wisconsin US Attorney, who is pursuing the Democratic governor, now will be seen as pursuing partisan investigations no matter what his motivation is.

http://judiciary.house.gov/med…..070319.pdf

katymine @
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One interesting little geographic point….look on a map where most of these USA’s are from….
CA, AZ, NV, WA, NM

Anyone see a pattern there?

Actually, there are several overlapping patterns:

– All are in Circuit Court of Appeals District 9 (labeled at one point in Wikipedia as the “most liberal” district);

– All have Native American tribal lands and constituents;

– All have Enron exposures;

– All have some link back to Abramoff;

– All are believed to have an area designated tenatively as “Energy Corridor” by FERC.

Deep chill ran down my spine when I read this.

We have such an appetite for scandal that our eyes can so quickly be taken off the real ball.  We choose the oddest hills to die on.
But here we are nevertheless.
We cannot compare this to the actions taken by President Clinton.  Apples and oranges…