This information came from a FOIA request, nothing sinister. So, how many other people have made the same request--and for what purposes?

I suspect that the journalists whose addresses they are publishing already knew that this information was public. Thinking they are doing something to strike back only shows their level of ignorance.

Doesn't anyone involved with the Tea Party ever think anything through?

Well, we know that whatever they do for Christmas can't depict a virgin birth.