White House says blocking Iraq Web documents was 'mistake'
 

*Source: News Blog (News.com) (http://www.driverheaven.net/White%20...27mistake%27)*
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The Bush administration says that blocking search engines from indexing key Iraq-related documents on its White House Web site was a simple mistake.


Until Thursday, the White House was using a robots.txt file that instructed search engines not to visit publicly accessible Iraq files on Whitehouse.gov, including a January strategy report (http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/iraq/2...tegy011007.pdf) (PDF) and a July benchmark report (http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/iraq/2...markReport.pdf) (PDF).

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