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Boolean Searching Alive and Well at the U.S. Department of Justice

By David Badertscher, PLL

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Source: LISNews Daily

"That dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy ... has been in the news again recently, complete with the purported LexisNexis search terms that were used to screen candidates:

[first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm! "

For more see article in Washington Monthly, July 29, 2008 at http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_07/014186.php

Submitted by Theodore Pollack, Senior Law Librarian, New York County Public Access Law Library

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on August 01, 2008 (boomark / email).