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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject	12/19/2003 11:56:23 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 769670

BUSH ADMINISTRATION SCRUBS THE WEB The Bush Administration has repeatedly altered government web sites to eliminate items that it considers politically or ideologically distasteful. In a gem of a news story, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post reported that the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) had deleted the transcript of an ABC Nightline interview with AID administrator Andrew S. Natsios last April in which he said the reconstruction of Iraq would cost taxpayers no more than $1.7 billion, a gross underestimate. See "White House Web Scrubbing," Washington Post, December 18: washingtonpost.com AID officials told the Post that the page was removed because ABC News was going to charge for it. But the exemplary Milbank contacted ABC News, which said that wasn't true. A copy of the web page containing the Natsios interview that was deleted from the US AID web site is here: fas.org Other instances of "political" modifications to official web sites were cited recently in the House Government Reform Minority report on "Politics and Science in the Bush Administration" available here: politicsandscience.org

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