Different Strings is talking about an interesting series of U.S. Government documents that seem to have been changed or purged once found to be embarrassing to the Bush Administration.

"While I'd hate to have to see our congressional leaders waste their time dealing with an issue like this, I'm beginning to think that maybe there needs to be some kind of legislation put in place that would disallow the changing of any web pages on any official government site without some kind of notation being left behind to explain what the change was and why it was made. It's the least we should expect from a government that has a responsibility to keep us informed."

Add this to the list of frightening revisionist tendencies brewing in this, our "birthplace of democracy."

Microsoft asserting that closed is open. Bush changing the public record on his "mission accomplished" carrier landing. Maybe this is because I'm reading 1984 right now, maybe it is because the the internet has made the world that much more transparent, but things seem really, really wrong here in the U.S.