Documents <http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/05/18/132235.shtml> Reveal US Incompetence with Word, Iraq
Posted by Zonk <http://slashdot.org/~Zonk/> on Friday May 18, @09:27AM from the see-there's-this-thing-called-covering-your-tracks dept. <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=185> Software notNeilCasey <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes "The U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority, which formerly governed Iraq, accidentally published Microsoft Word documents containing <http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/05/18/cpa_documents/> information never meant for the public, according to an article in Salon. By viewing <http://media.salon.com/doc/Administrators_WEEKLY_ECONOMIC_REPORT_March28-20 04a.doc> the documents using the Track Changes feature in Word (.doc), the author has been able to reconstruct internal discussions from 2004 which reflect the optimism, isolation and incompetence of the American occupation. Download the author's source document or look for more <http://www.cpa-iraq.org/> yourself. 'Presumably, staffers at the CPA's Information Management Unit, which produced the weekly reports, were cutting and pasting large sections of text into the reports and then eliminating all but the few short passages they needed. Much of the material they were cribbing seems to have come from the kind of sensitive, security-related documents that were never meant to be available to the public. In fact, about half of the 20 improperly redacted documents I downloaded, including the March 28 report, contain deleted portions that all seem to come from one single, 1,000-word security memo. The editors kept pulling text from a document titled "Why Are the Attacks Down in Al-Anbar Province -- Several Theories." (The security memo and the last page of the March 28 report can be seen here, along with several other CPA documents that can be downloaded.)'"
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