I have reason to believe the disk, containing a full set of the telephone records for the 13 year operational history of Pamela Martin and Associates, has already been pirated.  Despite our very best intentions to maintain control of the information, our efforts seemingly have been for naught. I am concerned about manipulation of the database with false and misleading information.  Even though such falsifications can be refuted in time by comparing an altered copy with the original, my attorney, Mr. Sibley, and I fear that in the intervening time period, considerable damage can and will be done to the reputations of individual and entities with no connection to the business.  Additionally, the overall validity of the records’ contents will be diminished when one false accusation after another begins to manifest. Therefore, to thwart any possible distorted version and to ensure the integrity of the information, the records, in their entirety, are available for downloading. -Jeane Palfrey

Deciphering this voluminous amount of data, some of which is well over a decade old, was not an easy task.  A group of volunteers, four Boston based Brandeis University graduates calling themselves the the DC Phone Listers, spent nearly 100 hours laboriously scanning the records and running them through optical character recognition software.  Per the piece on The Hill;