Digging through the nearly 700 pages filed by the Elections Commissioner to support his request for a search warrant is well worth the effort. There's lots there that's already part of the public record or part of the record in the lawsuit against Elections Canada but there's a whole lot more that, it seems to me, is brand new.

Here's one paragraph from a second story I wrote tonight:

One of those initially worried [about the in-and-out scheme] was Andrew Kumpf, a senior executive with a company called Retail Media. Retail Media was the official advertising agent for the national party. That meant that, among other things, Retail Media placed the national ads on radio, television, in print and elsewhere.

On Dec. 6, 2005, just days after the election began, Kumpf sent an e-mail to Conservative Party officials, wondering if the scheme to have Retail Media place ads on behalf of local candidates would violate the Canada Elections Act: "While our thinking is that this option would be legal we are not certain beyond all reasonable doubt."