Open Source Congressional Investigation .. Thanks to the Intertubes

It seems that there are enough people in several blog communities concerned enough about what is beginning to be called Purgegate that the daunting task of wading through thousands of pages of email correspondence about the firing of US Attorneys is well in hand.

From the Overnight DoJ Document Dump
By: TRex

While most of you were sleeping, a band of fearless, overly caffeinated patriots were pawing through the latest 3000 pages of internal documents from the Department of Justice. Clever Josh Marshall and Paul Kiel enlisted the aid of their readers in going over the copious amounts of material in this latest document dump:

Thousands of Pages
By Paul Kiel – March 20, 2007, 12:51 AM

Josh and I were just discussing how in the world we are ever going to make our way through 3,000 pages when it hit us: we don’t have to. Our readers can help.

So here’s what we’re going to do. This comment thread will be our HQ for sorting through tonight’s document dump.

And oh, honey, it is a gold mine over there. There’s already a motherlode of stuff piling up in the comments in Muckraker Land. Muck, meet rakes. Lots of rakes. Lots and lots and lots of rakes.

Just for the heck of it …

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