Fitzgerald Joins the Cyber Age

The special prosecutor has staked his claim to the Internet and put up a Web site. Dan Froomkin asks the questions we're all thinking about:

Could it be that he's getting ready to release some new legal documents? Like, maybe, some indictments? It's certainly not the action of an office about to fold up its tents and go home.

Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn minimized the significance of the Web launch in an interview this morning.

"I would strongly caution, Dan, against reading anything into it substantive, one way or the other," he said. "It's really a long overdue effort to get something on the Internet to answer a lot of questions that we get . . . and to put up some of the documents that we have had ongoing and continued interest in having the public be able to access."

OK, OK. But will the Web site be used for future documents as well?

"The possibility exists," Samborn said.

As of this writing, there not too much there, only links to PDFs of six documents. But over at the Whiskey Bar, Billmon explains why, in fact, those six documents are plenty.