White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling

oscarcar writes "Dan Gillmor is reporting on the White House website's use of its robots.txt file to disable search engines from crawling certain material. Many excluded items in the robots.txt file involve mentions of Iraq, possibly to prevent people from finding changes to past statements and information when archived elsewhere."

Comments

Are you surprised?

[wrinkledshirt]

If you're surprised by this, THAT's the news, not what the White House is doing with this information control. Click here for a list of the White House's policies with restricting FOI and other related requests since Sept 11th.

This isn't partisan politics, either. The Republican party has been trying to keep Bush from violating the Presidential Records Act.

Yes, yes, the country's at war. Makes you wonder why Bush doesn't want anybody to know about communications between Reagan and his advisors.

1984

[spektr]

The technology they introduced in 1968 allows them to rewrite the books and the newspapers. The next step is to make sure that the old copies get burned reliably. America was always in war with Iraq, you know...