"Those WH Links To Nothing" -WP

[Rose Siding]

The Coalition of the Willing has disappeared.

The list of names of countries supporting the U.S.-led military action in Iraq has been removed from the White House Web site. Blogger Brad Friedman, who noticed the disappearance, believes this is part of a widespread "scrubbing" of documents on the government site. Gone are links to the audio and video of President Bush's statement that "I'm not that concerned" about Osama bin Laden, a Q&A when Bush said "misunderestimate" and Bush's acknowledgment that his decision making on stem cell policy was "unusually deliberative for my administration."

Jimmy Orr, who handles the content for the White House site, said nothing nefarious was intended. "We have some 80,000 pages and 3,000 video and audio links," he said. "When we republish pages and move files, some links are bound to go down, and there are bound to be dead pages." So staffers are "clicking on every single audio and video link on our site" to make sure they work.

As for the Coalition of the Willing? "This coalition list was dated and inaccurate," Orr said. He said another will be posted "as soon as we get a new one" -- without countries such as Costa Rica, which last month asked to be removed from the list.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59555-2004Oct24.html

[whistle]

1. Part of the administrations "global delete" function on their computers...

...they are purging everything they can to make sure no evidence of their misdeeds in office remain

[tompea]

2. State Dept Website scrubbed also

a page, dating from 11/01 listing countries in which al qaeda operates listed the USA but not Iraq..wowo..
mysteriously gone as of 10/18/04..

i have been trying to get this noticed by some larger media, in fact brad blog responded to me, but noting yet mentioned.

i feel that this merely shows the breadth of what these guys will do..
if anyone cares ..here is alink to my 10/18/04 posting ..just 5 paragraphs
http://itsjustcommonsense.blogspot.com/2004/10/state-department-covers-its-tracks.html

tom pea

[zbdent]

3. Hope some IT guy

decided to cover his ass and make an extra copy of the "backups" . . .

[JNelson6563]

4. Ah yes, the "memory hole"

just another phase of this Orwellian journey Team Bush is taking us on.

Julie

[JHB]

5. I guess they forgot Poland...

...and everyone else.

Or maybe it's just that no one's willing anymore.