White House site prevents Iraq material being archived

[Bragi]

<<The White House website effectively prevents search engines indexing and archiving material on the site related to Iraq...

Earlier this year, the White House changed pages on its website which claimed that "combat" was over in Iraq; these pages were changed to say "major combat.">>

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/28/1067233141495.html

(Isn't there a federal law against fraudulently altering federal government documents? Hmmm...)

[truthisfreedom]

1. heh heh heh. that doesn't look very suspicious, now does it?

i love it when these guys get caught revising history.

[Pale_Rider]

2. Another archival source for webpages is ...

... the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org though it appears that the last archived Whitehouse website was on May 14th.

Anyway for example ... (and check out the smiling and happy Iraqis on the masthead of the page!)

President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended
http://web.archive.org/web/20030506022455/www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/iraq/20030501-15.html

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much. Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. (Applause.) And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.

[Pale_Rider]

4. Looks like the Whitehouse is also using the no robot ...

... metatag. Not found in the archived page, but found in the current replacement page.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

[Bragi]

3. More info on site alterations...

Someone has tracked the "combat" to "major combat" alterations to the White House web site here:

http://www.differentstrings.info/archives/002813.html

- b