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[VandS Politics] The federal government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web’s power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded.

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http://sugiero.blogspot.com [sugiero] U.S Government Makes Public Seized Documents... : Republican leaders in Congress pushed for the release, which was first proposed by conservative commentators and bloggers hoping to find evidence about the fate of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, or possible links to terror groups.

http://www.mobuzz.com [MobuzzTV: A vlog for the mobile generation] Pass Go to collect fake smile and fake stats: News still bad for birds but better for humans, FCC says OK to charging content providers for bandwidth, For aspiring cartoonists-or people who just can't draw - the Strip Generator. Being silent isn't being strong.

http://alterslash.org [AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest] Open-Government Technique Used on Iraqi... : From the article: ‘The federal government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web’s power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded. Web surfers have begun posting translations and comments, digging through the documents with gusto.’”

[Boots & Sabers - The blogging will continue until morale improves...] Government Turns Iraq Documents Over To... : Hoekstra said it took months of arguing with intelligence officials before he and John Negroponte, the new Director of National Intelligence, agreed to make the documents public. None contain current information about the Iraqi insurgency, and U.S. intelligence officials say they are focusing their limited resources on learning about what’s happening on the ground now.

http://cbftw.blogspot.com [Cbftw.blogspot.com] MY WAR: Some of the sharpest writing comes from the author's blog, which earned him celebrity beyond Iraq (and the chance to write this book) and got him in plenty of trouble with the brass. Without blog and book, his options would have been narrow: Toting a machine gun for a year didn't prepare him for much in the postwar world, and as for "having a boss yell at me for showing up to work five minutes late or tell me that I'm not smiling enough at the customers"””well, impossible.

Kevinsites.nethttp://www.kevinsites.net [Kevinsites.net] Kevin Sites Blog: Special thanks to John Parres for his early support of kevinsites.net, to David Ulevitch, who has generously provided the server space where it’s lived since it’s inception, to boingboing.net for directing so many readers to us, and most importantly, to the site’s co-creator and producer, Xeni Jardin, to whom kevinsites.net will always be dedicated.

News.com.comhttp://news.com.com [News.com.com] US turns to Web for help translating Iraqi files | News.blog ...: In an interesting twist on open source, a story today in The Boston Globe describes how the U.S. government has started publishing captured Iraqi government documents on the Internet, hoping that Arabic speakers will help speed up their translation into English.

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