Is The White House Scrubbing its Website?
There is a report on the Daily Kos that attempts to document removal of embarrassing materials from the White House website.
- (Updated) The White House website is getting scrubbed by smintheus, Daily Kos, (Sun Feb 25, 2007 at 12:39:00 PM PST)
Some of the post has "proven" facts and other bits are labeled "Speculation." I would be very interested if anyone in the library community can verify or disprove any of the facts or speculations in the article. Also, are there official print resources that document the information that smintheus finds missing at the White House web site? Please let us at FGI know what you find.
If we can't verify or disprove any of this, perhaps we should ask ourselves why we can't. What are we as depository libraries doing if we can't answer what should be a simple straightforward question about who said what, when?
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White House redesigns website
Thanks to Sabrina I. Pacifici for pointing out that the White House has launched a redesigned website. Is the redesign responsible (intentionally or unintentionally?) for the loss of information? Our questions about verifying or disproving the Daily Kos findings still remain...
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More on White House Website Issue
Michael Suskind has an interesting response to the original Daily Kos post cited above. He has some good links and examples and information:
What I Did NOT Find at Whitehouse.gov by suskind Sun Mar 04, 2007 at 09:48:52 AM PST.
One of the most interesting is about how they inserted 'Major' into 'Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended':
White House Alters Webpages About Iraq Combat, Memory Hole
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