House Ethics Committee Report leaked

This one came out in the evening. Someone left a file where it should not have been and it made its way to The Washington Post, and they thought it should be breaking news.

News Alert
08:47 PM EDT Thursday, October 29, 2009

Confidential House report reveals details of investigations into lawmakers, aides

House ethics investigators have scrutinized the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/JDFA9Q/H7Z34/HEVB8N/U6VWJY/4ZIX9/28/t

This Post article on November 2, 2009 gives detail about the story.

TweetVolume had the following messages found for the various phrases I tried.

I took "house ethics report" because it seemed to 'cheanest.' There were only 17 messages when I started the search with five on dates before the 29th.

I stopped searching November 1, 2009. At that point 159 messages had been found.

The .txt file that can be read by Excel to acquire the data is: house ethics report.txt