Interesting thing going on over at Talking Points Memo's TPMmuckracker site. They are asking for help in poring through the latest "document dump" from the Justice Department. Readers are asked to go through the documents now online at the DOJ site as .pdfs and then post comments on the TPM site. They have issued a naming convention to keep the whole thing manageable.
I love this. A friend of mine was working on a project, that never came to pass for the ACLU that was going to do something similar.
I would have loved the opportunity to do something similar when Ron Suskind and I built the site for his book the The Price of Loyalty. We put up a selection of documents from Sec. O'Neill's hard drive and contemplated doing a "dump" that would have made policy wonks very happy but were prevented by several factors from doing so. Perhaps one day we will revisit it or at the very least turn on comments.
