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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. Re:Privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ahem. This is the US goverment we're talking about. They place no value on Iraqi lives, you seriously think they're gonna care about Iraqi privacy?

  2. Ah... by kaiwai · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can't shake off that feeling that I've seen the same sort of excuse being used in the first episode of the first series of "Yes Minister" in regards to open Government:

    Bernard Woolley: "Minister, allow me to present Sir Humphrey Appleby, Permanent Under Secretary of State and head of the DAA." Jim Hacker: "Hello, Sir Humphrey." Sir Humphrey: "Hello and welcome." Bernard Woolley: "I believe you know each other." Sir Humphrey: "Yes, we did cross swords when the Minister gave me a grilling over the estimates in the Public Accounts Committee." Jim Hacker: "I wouldn't say that." Sir Humphrey: "You came up with all of the questions I hoped nobody would ask." Jim Hacker: "Well, opposition is about asking awkward questions." Sir Humphrey: "And government is about not answering them." Jim Hacker: "Well, you answered all mine anyway." Sir Humphrey: "I'm glad you thought so, Minister."
  3. Document subset == propaganda by Big+Jojo · · Score: 0, Troll

    A true open government technique would be putting all the documents on line, not just those selected by the Bushist thugs that invaded the country in hope that they might tell some favorable-to-US-war-criminals stories.

    Do not be decieved.

  4. It would take all teh intarweb's consipiricists... by Lord+of+Caustic+Soda · · Score: 0, Troll

    To find some proof of the WMD's what were yet to be found in all those bureaucratic papers.

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    Kill'em! Kill'em all!