Monday, March 13, 2006
Unleash the Davids
2 Comments:
By 
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Tue Mar 14, 01:59:00 PM:
To be merely but not substantively trivial, precisely what is the chain of custody of each document?
There was an Iraqi disinformation campaign going on; who can say if a statement is true or fake only from reading it.
And the DOD is still conducting the struggle via planted "information".
To decide what one document actually means when it is not a comprehensive document in a matrix of communications could take many researchers many months to decipher each batch and then redecipher based on some subsequent batch. And that's for english language documents. Think about how imprecise language affects email and discussion postings.
In 1992 I worked at a day job with an afterhours Japanese history grad student who was doing initial translation of WW2 documents microfilmed by the U.S. Navy of Imperial Navy files.
I believe this super-secretive Administration is just trying to muddy the waters, and provide more "proof" to spin for their acolytes.
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Tue Mar 14, 08:15:00 PM:
The administration is publishing thousands of pages of documents that by all rights should be classified for the next 8 years or so, but they are super-secretive? Astounding. I also admire your use of quotations to subtly imply falsehood or doubt. It speaks of your "wit" and "insight."
