The Atlantic's David Graham points out that dumping the document without validation is an abdication of what BuzzFeed, as a media outlet, is supposed to do.
And by dumping the documents on the internet without any ability to verify the claims, BuzzFeed has ensured that this story will continue to attract attention.
The president's not alone here, apparently: Some of Congress's loudest boosters for dumping the documents haven't actually read them either, according to CNN.
The conventions of news publishing and embargo deadlines require such an exercise, of course, and as was the case with the earlier Afghan document dump the Times is doing an intelligent job.
That means you're less likely to dump an important document into the recycling bin (hell, my initial, physical Outbox invite ended up in my laundry hamper, and they had to email me another copy), and your desk/kitchen table/whatever doesn't get cluttered with piles of junk mail.
The document dump sheds new light on Pruitt's frequent strategizing with Devon Energy Corporation, the Oklahoma City-based oil and gas giant.
There are, of course, many other ways to hide or to launder money, and this week's spectacular public dumping of documents from the Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, the so-called Panama Papers, shows some of the ways the global offshore banking system, of which Panama is an integral part, allows wealthy people of all kinds — not exclusively narco-traffickers — to do so.
The document dump only reaffirms the need for a more robust Congressional response to this mess.
Well, you enlist an army of readers to help us assess the document dump of the year.
The document dump comes at a tense moment in the negotiations over a series of trade deals.
