And the deceptive stories, then parroted by a now overtly partisan press (many revealed to be working closely with the Clinton campaign - but more generally, and nearly universally, no longer even holding out the pretense of traditional ethical journalism, actively seeking to discredit and undermine (influence the election) the campaign of her rival, Donald Trump), that Wikileaks had been "proven" to have provided forged documents in the leaks. The story was concocted, then accepted whole cloth by his fellow "journalists," by Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald. [LINK] This "story," which is more akin the sense my Grandmother used to use when she would say someone was "telling stories," is more properly understood as a synonym for a "fib" (another polite form used by my Grandmother - to describe acts of lying or at minimum deceit).
THE PICTURE OF THE WHOLE
From my analysis of the data I believe the following are accurate estimations (they are necessarily estimates as the totality of the data has yet to be released - but they are based on the evidence as released thus far - and as more records are released, and I update this guide, you will see that the estimates continually narrow over time until they will ultimately be hard facts upon the full disclosure of the whole. I will continue to update these numbers with each release. I have written the base guide upon the total emails that were released as of the #PodestaEmails7 release. As I was preparing this for publication the 8th and 9th drops were made public and I will update to include those any further releases today as soon as possible. But the estimations are sufficient to begin to provide the reader with a big picture of the totality of the leaked documents as well as how to navigate within them to find what you may be looking for and to be able to place them then within the context of the whole.
The data consists of emails to and from John Podesta from his Gmail account consisting in .eml files. [http://fileinfo.com/extension/eml] This is a format developed by Microsoft and can generally be viewed via current and recent versions of Outlook but it does not necessarily recreate the directory of emails which can be viewed using Windows Live Mail. As stated the email contains not just the body, which is what is normally viewed, but all the header and metadata information.
Wikileaks provides a viewer, and a search engine, to allow viewing of the records online in your browser. But they also provide a link to the raw data although this is viewable online only in smaller files. To see this information in the larger files you will have to download the actual .eml file. In this data you can find the IP address chain of how the emails got to the Gmail servers in California (IP addresses and date and time information). [See Example below]
There appear to be 59,195 emails in total. Although I cannot state this with certainty until all of the emails are released it appears that this will be the final number from my reconstruction of the folder structure.
There are two important numbers associated with each email file - one visible on Wikileaks and the other hidden in the actual file (not hidden as a means of deception by Wikileaks but as deemed unnecessary for their being viewed online. However this data proved invaluable in reconstructing the database of emails). The former visible number is the unique EMAIL-ID that you will see referred to on the Wikileaks site. Each email is assigned a unique ID, which is used in the URL (the location used in your web browser to open the web page), and also as a search term to locate an email from your browser. As of this time I have not been able to determine any pattern or logic in how/why Wikileaks has assigned this particular number to a particular email. It may turn out that this number was either randomly generated or simply an arbitrary by-product of how Wikileaks originally organized the data for internal usage.
The second number is the number assigned by the filename to the email file. Thus 00000001.eml is the first email in the total (it was not released until the 7th Podesta Email drop). The highest number I have been able to verify is 0059195.eml and is the basis of the claim I make to the total number of records in the database. This corresponds to the original statement by Wikileaks as to the approximate number of emails contained in this leak.
This number is significant in determining the structure of the database - and thus how many emails exist from each sender even before all of them have been released. The file number corresponds to an alphabetical sort by sender - from A - Z (with other characters at the beginning and end of the sequence - such a numbers in the lower range and Chinese characters in the upper range).
Unfortunately unless I can find a pattern in the ID I cannot necessarily match this up with the file number - without a manual record by record determination (which I have done to some extent - but given the large number I have not yet completed the entire set " although I am working on another possibility by which I may be able to automate this. This is important in my being able to provide a link to the email in this guide or to refer, going from the files themselves, to the online version on the Wikileaks site).
As I stated I have been able to not only determine what I believe to be the total number of emails that will eventually be released but I have also been able to predict, with an estimate that will narrow down over time as more emails are released, how many total emails from each user exist - and thus enable use to have an insight into not only what has been released but what we can expect to be released. [For example as of the 7th release two emails from Hillary Clinton using [hr17@clintonemails.com - one from her private server] were released but I can reasonably estimate a maximum and minimum range of how many further emails from this address will be released over time.]
The alphabetical ordering of the files is helpful but one must be careful - the determination of the indexed letter depends on how Podesta's email program recognized the sender. Thus under B you will find both Burns Strider and Paul Begala. Although generally the majority fall under the first letter of the first name.
Another phenomenon that will be encountered, and one must keep in mind to avoid confusion, is that some email addresses are the same but identified by different users at different times. Thus the address info@..... Is at times an email identified with XX and at others with YY.
To begin I will present a general alphabetical index by range of email file numbers. Again due to the limitations based on the partial releases the numbers will include an estimated maximum range around the known number - as I can identify the first and last email from a user released to date and a range of unidentified/unreleased emails around that grouping that might contain all, some, or no emails from that same user. I indicate this range by using square brackets around the estimated range "[ - ]" - and will update these numbers to reflect new releases over time. Thus with each release this number should become more and more certain. But it provides a useful guide in the absence of the totality of the email database.
GENERAL INDEX
As of the release #PodestaEmails7 the following is the index as I have reconstructed it:
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