Yet here’s a spot
Posted on | February 26, 2007
They have a sense of shame, after all. Blogger Smintheus alerts us to the scrubbing of certain of Dick Cheney’s remarks from the White House web site.
“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.” —3/16/03
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.
The WH website evidently has been busy scrubbing links to interviews and perhaps other public appearances by top officials. The operation has proceeded somewhat unevenly, though aggressively. Pretty clearly the WH wants to make it much harder to research the administration’s past pronouncements, especially unscripted ones, and especially those pertaining to Iraq.
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February 26th, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
The first thing that I thought of was “shades of the Nixon administration.” This reminds me of Rosemary Woods and the 18+ minute gap on a tape.
February 26th, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Nixon was an amateur. When the Bush Administration revises history, they leave no crude gaps. They wipe the fingerprints. They are the digital, Dobyized HDTV to Nixon’s AM radio.
And they can count on our tame media to look the other way.
February 26th, 2007 @ 10:31 pm
You’re right, John. This country needs another Daniel Ellsberg.