White House scrubbing its website of embarrassing statements

[ck4829]

On March 16, 2003 Dick Cheney went on Meet the Press. His absurd claims in that interview have since become politically embarrassing to the White House. For example, he declared...

"I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

You won't any longer find a link to this transcript on the White House website—nor, indeed, are there links to most of Cheney's interviews from before 2006. Don't believe me? Just do a search for that infamous sentence at www.whitehouse.gov

http://zdrake.blogspot.com/2007/02/white-house-scrubbing-its-website-of.html

[IWantAChange]

1. If the WH wants to scrub clean I'd think the website would have to be perfectly blank

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Minitrue is at it again n/t

[EST]

3. Which brings to another needed rule for websites of

publicly owned institutions, such as government. Laid is played. THere should be no editing. An explanatory posting can be added to soften or reinforce previous entries, but precisely zero actual changes to script or pictures.

Honesty in government...what am I thinking!!?

[raccoon]

4. Who's the person who's been photoshopped out of the first photo? nt

[ck4829]

5. Nikolai Yezhov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. Although they cleaned up the transcript, Whitehouse.gov, they still have the Peance Freeance

Video up!

check out October 27, 2003 with Paul Bremer!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/#

[laughingloudly]

7. I just checked out the allegation of "scrubbing"...

Thought this might be of interest to you:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060910.html

Not sure what you used to search with. I tried "greeted as liberator". Just trying to be helpful!

[ck4829]

8. Interesting...

I put the same phrase into a search engine this morning and didn't get a good match, maybe they're backing off of doing this.

[helderheid]

9. welcome to DU!

:hi: