Having handled XML CMS ingestion in the past,

“When updating the site to reflect our constitutional scholars’ analysis of the impact of the latest cases on Article I, Sections 8-10, the team inadvertently removed an XML tag,” LoC communications director Bill Ryan told us in an email. “This prevented publication of everything in Article I after the middle of Section 8. The problem has been corrected, and our updated constitutional analysis is now available. We are taking steps to prevent a recurrence in the future.”

this sounds far more plausible than a nefarious scheme.

Just because there are a lot of those out there doesn’t mean everything is. (and if you’ve ever had to find the errors in and manually edit XML files …)