The homepage of the US Commission on Civil Rights website now contains this disclaimer in tiny type:
On January 7th, 2005, the Commission adopted a new policy on the public release and posting of reports and Commission documents. To comply with that new policy, the website has been updated and several draft reports that failed to receive a majority of Commissioners' votes have been removed. Those reports are available upon request.
So exactly which reports are gone? The site lists them here, and they all deal with topics probably not appreciated by the Republican Commissioners, who form a majority (including the Chairman).
The last report truly rakes Bush over the coals; when it was first posted in October, the Republican members of the Commission tried to have it taken down. [read more] It took them four months, but they've finally succeeded.
Unfortunately for them, The Memory Hole has a copy of this report, and they are working on getting the other 19 of them.
Redefining Rights in America: The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration [PDF format]
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Tree Falls in the Forest
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Wow. True electronic ephemera.
I downloaded this document in October, before the election, as I think a link to it had been posted on a site I had visited. I read excerpts of it to Renard and then deleted it.
I was surprised that the a government agency went ahead and published something so unflattering to the Bush administration, particularly just before the election. It's sad that, despite knowing that's these agencies are supposed to report without censoring the content, we've come to expect otherwise. I took it for granted that it would always be available if I wanted to read it again.
There a good lesson here; we'd all better heed this lesson and think twice before hitting the delete key.
(I'll bet Michael Moore was glad he kept that copy of W's service record that was later altered to remove a certain name...)
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