These 1,941 historic Ted Cruz emails show how Washington works

Few public records reveal as much about the work of government officials as their emails.Consider the 1,941 emails Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) wrote and received over six months in 2001 while he was associate deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice. These were recently released to The Washington Post in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.Cruz’s emails offer a real-time, unvarnished view into his professional life as his political star rose. The correspondence portrays Cruz as a jovial and well-liked colleague, helps explain how Justice Department policy…