Open-Government Technique Used on Iraqi Documents

stalebread writes "MSNBC has an article looking at an internet-based 'many hands make light work' approach to data sifting. From the article: 'The federal government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web's power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded. Web surfers have begun posting translations and comments, digging through the documents with gusto.'"

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Re:Something is Fishy about this Whole Story

[Brandybuck]

This story simply does not add up.

Don't release the documents and Bush gets blamed for hiding the truth. Release the documents and Bush gets blamed for manipulating the truth.

Further, Washington knows that on, say, page 15 (of the documents), there is a tidbit or blatant statement asserting that Saddam Hussein had planned to create weapons of mass destruction all along.

Well DUH! We KNOW he used them in Gulf War I, and we KNOW he used them on the Kurds. We had a UN resolution demanding Saddam prove he got rid of them, but he never did. Only an idiot would think he didn't have them. Saddam is like the nutbag that gets shot by the police because he pretended he had a gun and refused to drop it.