USEFUL PHRASES IN SUBMITTING PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS FOR EMAILS

[tangent4ronpaul]

FWD from a Investigative reporter/lawyer/FOIA activist I know...

Certain emotive or loaded phrases can signal the presence of interesting and
useful content in electronic mail. These phrases are helpful in searching
through email datasets or repositories. Moreover, they are helpful in
formulating public records requests for emails.

For example, you can submit a request for emails produced by an electronic
search and retrieval from the email repository or email system, limited to
emails of specific persons, or else people in a specified office, that
contains any of the particular phrases of interest.

Here are some examples of phrases that you can select from:

EXCLAMATIONS

For crying out loud
Holy shit
Holy cow
Holy crap
Holy smoke
Jesus Christ
Lord Help us
Oh dear
Oh my God
Oh my Goodness
Oh no
OMG
OMFG
Oops
!!! [three exclamation points in a row]

AWARENESS OF PROBLEMS

Big trouble
Blatantly
Breach
Complete disaster
Complete and utter disaster
Deep doo doo
Failed Investment
Fix it later
Gray area
Hell breaks loose
Hell broke loose
Here goes nothing
Hit the fan
Illegal
Jail
Just between us
Morally
Morally speaking
Nobody will find out
Not comfortable
Unethical
Not hurting anyone
Off the books
Perception issue
Prison
Real objective
Screw up
Screwed up
Screwing around
Slippery Slope
Stupid
That¹s a felony
Too late
True disaster
Under the bus
Unethical
Utterly useless
Very slippery slope
Very uncomfortable
We need to call legal
We need to call legal about this
We need to get legal involved
We¹re in big trouble
We¹re in for it now
Whose fault was that

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