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EXAMPLES As one facet of the Dismissal Of U.S. Attorneys Controversy in 2007, relevant committees of both houses of the United States Congress , controlled by the Democratic Party , requested, and then subpoenaed, Backstory information from the United States Department Of Justice on how the process that resulted in these dismissals had taken place. The Justice Department was reluctant to respond in a friendly manner to these requests, which they regarded as hostile; the Department responded with significant quantities of unsorted and extraneous information. Many U.S. Liberal s saw this response as a series of document dumps1 and communicated amongst themselves accordingly: A big new bundle of documents just got dumped by the Department of Justice. Here's a link to the documents in PDF form at the House Judiciary Committee website. As per our routine in recent document dumps, if you'd like to help us cull through the mails and reports, use this thread to share your findings with us and other TPMm Readers. Identify the items you find by document dump set number and page number. ( Josh Marshall , April 27, 2007). Josh Marshall, "DOJ Document Dump Muckracking Thread", TPMmuckraker, accessed June 16, 2007. {Link without Title} The practice has seen use by both sides of the political spectrum. Conservatives accused members of the Clinton Administration of document dumps during the investigation of the 1996 United States Campaign Finance Controversy . One such dump included, among other things, 1,000 sheets of blank paper, 35 copies of the Résumé of Charlie Trie , and a copy of the Menu from his Restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas .2 An underlying principle of Information Theory is that information must be comprehensible in order to be useful. One universal characteristic of a document dump is that its shippers intend to retard or slow down the process through which their adversaries can make this information comprehensible. In an effort to minimize negative coverage by the News Media , document dumps will often take place at times when Reporter s are not on duty, such as late on a Friday when media members have left for the weekend. The phrase document dump is rarely used in public by the shipper or its workers. Public use of the phrase tends to be confined to the recipients of the information. REFERENCES |
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