Cheney speeches scrubbed from White House website (DailyKos)

[marmar]

(Updated) The White House website is getting scrubbed
by smintheus
Sun Feb 25, 2007 at 12:39:00 PM PST
Update <2007-2-27 0:49:12 by smintheus>: For new readers directed here, I'll outline what is proven, and what is speculation about the WH website (WHW):

Facts:

Recently all radio interviews from 2004, though nominally linked on the Radio page, became inaccessible. Only interviews from 2005 and 2006 remain accessible on that page.

smintheus's diary :: ::
The WHW stopped adding any new radio interview links to the Radio page after August 2006. I wrote about that in January at Unbossed. The very next day a single new interview was added. And the day after this post, the WHW added a "December" tab to follow the "August 2006" tab (as if to conceal that radio interviews were no longer being linked). A short time later, after I'd commented on this sleight-of-hand, the "December" tab was scrubbed. The following day, the Radio page had lost all its monthly tabs.

Various publicity pages of the WHW show signs of links having been edited long after they were added. For example, the link for Rumsfeld's April 30, 2004 interview with Laura Ingraham no longer works. Entries for Jan. 2002 on Cheney's "Speeches and News" page were edited in recent months. The old address for the transcript of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech was altered, rendering old links to it non-functional.

Until yesterday, the President's "News" page had a pull-down search bar. But recently it has been non-functioning (so you could no longer use it to search for news about "Iraq", say). To put it another way, the page "http://whitehouse.gov/news/releases/iraq" now brings up an error message.

For most of 2002 and 2003 there are no interviews of Cheney linked on the WHW, and for 2004 and 2005 only a handful. All of them are banal interviews that avoid the topic of Iraq. For 2002 and 2003, there are few interviews by any administration officials at the WHW.

Speculation:

For the period 2002-2005 there are many important interviews of Cheney that have no link on the WHW. Were they never linked, or were links scrubbed at some stage? .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/25/153120/172

[tanyev]

1. The Ministry of Truth, hard at work.

[marmar]

2. Watch out Winston, they're listening!

:scared:

[truedelphi]

3. Maybe some initial impresions were wrong - Maybe it wasn't a black flag

Operation but an intentional assassination attempt that got botched.

In an era when Ollie North <On Fox News, no less> is saying the Iraq war is a mistake, all bets are OFF!