Airbrushing History, American Style

Legacies are in the air as President Bush prepares to leave the White House. How future historians will judge the president remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: future historians won't have all the facts needed to make that judgment. One legacy at risk of being forgotten is the way the Bush White House has quietly deleted or modified key documents in the public record that are maintained under its direct control.

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by Beth Wellington - Jan. 8, 2009

This documents how historians will not be able to rely on the documents on the Bush White House website, at least in the case of the "coalition of the willing" for which documents have been changed sometimes years later although presented as originals. The report alludes to how more research could be of value: "key facts from the historical record of the Iraq invasion were reshaped, an effort that continued for years after the invasion had ended. If the same sort of reshaping was also done to other parts of the public record maintained on the White House web site, then the scope of the problem could be much larger."

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by Patricia L'Herrou - Jan. 8, 2009

here is evidence , along with the provided link, of how the administration has been 'white-washing the legacy all along. the implications made here are that since the time of these particular documents, there are probably many many more. we can only speculate abouat how or if history will record this information about changing the original information. i'd like to see more media interest and fact-finding of this process.

i thank the reviewer who posted this

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