The Department of Justice has released 3000 paper documents in response to the House judiciary committee request investigating the dismissal of federal US attorneys.
The committee staff have started posting the documents in 50 page blocks of scanned PDF files!, but the interesting thing is...
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo is organizing a swarm of volunteers to rapidly read the documents and highlight which are of interest and which are padding
They are amazingly fast.
Glancing across the pages, it looks like about 1/3 of the documents are up, with staffers presumably putting the rest up tomorrow, and that in accordance with Sturgeon's Law, 98% of them is of course crap.
While skimming across the underbelly of the web, we find also the following nuggets (via kos):
Chiquita pleaded guilty to making payments to a terrorist organization
and, the Patrick Henry Building had a fire and had to be evacuated of normal staff for a day
Justice Department Employee Information
PATRICK HENRY BUILDING UPDATE
The Patrick Henry Building (PHB) experienced an electrical fire on Monday, March 19. The following applies to the DOJ employees assigned to PHB:Monday, March 19, 2007
Building Closed - Building occupants enacted COOP procedures.Tuesday, March 20, 2007
PHB is expected to be open and operational. Employees should listen to local news media for updates.
I hope they didn't keep anything important there that might have been lost in the fire...
like Major Information Systems for the Criminal Division - Freedom of Information Act Office