One of the reasons some alert readers noticed the change and were able to prove it – was that Google had archived the pages before the change occurred. Now that all of the White House pages about Iraq are no longer archived by Google, such historical revisionism will be harder to catch.

Integrity-preserving services like archive.org become more important all the time. Ideally distributed, anonymous and secure, to make it impossible to purge anything from the record.

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