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Open-Government Technique Used on Iraqi Documents

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you're-not-busy-this-week dept.

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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  1. Dupe by JonathanR · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We've been duped! Yet again!

  2. When are they going to release all the US docs by hrvatska · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's great to have all these Iraqi documents, I'm just wondering when they'll post all the documents related to Iraq that were created by US and British officials. This includes all the notes from meetings where decisions were made about the need to go to war. Such as the recently revealed memo by David Manning, Mr. Blair's chief foreign policy adviser at the time the decision to go to war was made. I know a young man who recently died in Iraq. He extended his enlistment because he was foolish enough to believe Bush's lies about the need to go to war against Sadaam. Bush lied, thousands died. It's a great bumper sticker, and it's true.