[Ann Archy]

All great news except how can anyone go thru 1.2 MILLION Documents??

[marktwain]

All great news except how can anyone go thru 1.2 MILLION Documents??

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Put together a plan on how to sort and evaluate the documents.

Put together a team of 100 people to do it.

That makes about 10,000 documents per person. Do it in 100 days, using the best automated software, perhaps.

[marktwain]

All great news except how can anyone go thru 1.2 MILLION Documents??

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Another approach would be to make them public and crowd source them for investigation to freerepublic.

[rolling_stone]

All great news except how can anyone go thru 1.2 MILLION Documents??

fblie “special agent strozak went through wieners in a few hours..so...

[L,TOWM]

Sorting and sieving...

Same way we looked at mountains of records when I was regulating. You have say 8 people and you have boxes of documents. Depending on what you are going after, you can go through a triage sorting of 4-5 boxes a day (20,000 pages a person). You are done with that initial sort in a week and a half.

A lot of those documents are going to be of no interest at all (General Personnel Records for example). Some of them will be of crucial interest (e-mails between two subjects). Those are the easiest to identify. The ones in the middle, that you are not certain of, you hang onto and if the really interesting documents refer to any of those, you add them to the “of interest pile”. Half of your team goes through a finer sort on the undetermined pile and you can usually do a box (5,000 pages) a day with a more detailed review. The other half starts in on the crucial interest pile, panning for gold. The gold will be there. Again, 5,000 pages per day, per person. You would be surprised at how fast it can go.

Within a month, you have most of a case built or you have diddly. The bench mark was 100,000 pages per investigator for any 20 working days (a month). The real work is getting all the stuff collated and arranged for the on the record questioning...

[Thibodeaux]

There were said to be 450 agents drafted by the IG for the investigation.

Those same agents can be used back at the FBI/DOJ to use the info to build perhaps hundreds of cases.

[American in Israel]

The IRS doesn’t seem to have a problem going through a hundred million documents every year.