The crew over at the Sunlight Foundation have done the country a great service by taking the Elena Kagan email document dump and organizing it into a searchable, gmail-inspired database that lets us actually put the public disclosure to some kind of use. This is great. People like me don’t necessarily spend as much time thinking about technical reforms that can help improve the political process, but obviously such things can actually play a crucial role in determining whether disclosure is meaningful or not.
For example, Frank Gaffney thinks Kagan is likely to use a Supreme Court seat to impose shariah law on the United States of America. We can try to test this hypothesis by searching for “Islam” (no results) or “sharia” (no results) or “shariah” (no results). It’s actually a pretty suspicious pattern. Almost as if she was trying to hide something. There’s no “caliphate” either. Basically, this is either a woman whose radical Islamist political agenda is so deep-seated that she’s managed to cover it up throughout her long march through the institutions, or else Gaffney is just a laughable fool. And since we all know that Gaffney is a respected voice in right-of-center DC defense policy circles, it follows that Kagan is a dangerous closet radical. Beware!
Previous in TP Yglesias
By clicking and submitting a comment I acknowledge the ThinkProgress Privacy Policy and agree to the ThinkProgress Terms of Use. I understand that my comments are also being governed by Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policies as applicable, which can be found here.