Great DU article on WH secrecy & scrubbing operations.

[Kurovski]

White House Website Scrubbing: Far-Reaching, Systematic, in Violation of 'The Rule of Law'

October 26, 2004

By Brad Friedman


"The Clinton Administration was the first to have a White House website, and indeed the original architects of that site apparently took great pains to create a precise "versioning" system to capture various changes to the content over time. As the National Archives website on this notes; "These versions are historical materials." One can still view all of the various versions of the Clinton White House's website via that link.

Over the past several weeks, I have been chronicling the stark difference in the Bush Administration's management of their White House website. I caught them red-handed as they hastily removed the website's list of Iraq "coalition" members just after the V.P. Debate when Dick Cheney accused John Edwards of being "dead wrong" for not counting Iraqi casualties as a percentage of "coalition casualties." I caught them again after the third Presidential Debate when the White House removed damning video footage of Bush admitting at a press conference that he was "not truly that concerned" about bin Laden - precisely as John Kerry had charged during the debate. "

A good job of keeping a close watch on White House operations. Read the rest:<http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/10/26_scrubbing.html>

(DU must be swamped, it's running slower than the synapses in Bush's brain.)