\n The US Government has been desperately trying to enforce a ban on dissemination Russ Kick, operator of The Memory The US Government, specifically the White House and the Defense Department, Exactly what steps they took to limit the damage and the distribution However, in a dramatic illustration of the futility of damming information Today, the government is involved in some frenetic damage control. We The first of the photos-depicting a long Then hundreds of photographs were posted on the Web site The As for The Memory Hole<\/a>, its Internet site was inaccessible from Axis related article from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What happened to the Memory Hole? At this point it is unclear whether the Defense Department actually tried to prohibit access to Memory Hole, as has been reported by numerous reputable media sources. Some facts, however, are clear. The US … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/caskketz.jpg\")
What happened
\n to the Memory Hole<\/a>? At this point it is unclear whether the Defense Department
\n actually tried to prohibit access to Memory Hole, as has been reported
\n by numerous reputable media sources. Some facts, however, are clear.<\/p>\n
\n of photos of bodies or caskets of US servicement killed in the war on
\n terrorism. The ban has been in place for over ten years, since
\n the first Gulf war.<\/p>\n
\n Hole<\/a>, a site dedicated to exposing
\n stuff the government wants to keep hidden, last year filed a Freedom
\n of Information Act request for the photos in question. It was refused.
\n He appealed, and last week, to his considerable surprise, he recieved
\n 361 photos from the government, which he posted.<\/p>\n
\n freaked out. They issued a statement that the release of the photos was
\n "a mistake". <\/p>\n
\n of the phots remains one of the incognitos of the story. However, The
\n Memory Hole was inascessible Friday, and attempts today could reach only
\n a tiny fraction of the pictures.<\/p>\n
\n on the Internet, it was already too late. The story, and the pictures,
\n had been picked up by dozens of papers and major news sites. <\/p>\n
\n can expect to hear much more about this story in thenext few days – it
\n seems to have some serious legs. Here is an excerpt from one of the stories
\n recently posted.<\/p>\n\n
\n row of coffins, three abreast, on
\n a military
\n transport plane-came from a civilian contract worker
\n assigned to the Kuwait airport. After its appearance
\n in the Seattle Times, she was summarily fired from her job.<\/p>\n
\n Memory Hole<\/a> www.thememoryhole.org, which had obtained
\n them through a Freedom
\n of Information
\n Act request. The Pentagon claimed that the release of the
\n photos by an Air Force command was a "mistake" and refused to
\n provide them
\n to any
\n other media outlets. Nonetheless, many newspapers took
\n the photos off the Internet
\n and published them Friday.<\/p>\n
\n Friday. It was not possible to ascertain whether it was because
\n of a
\n vast increase in
\n traffic, deliberate sabotage or censorship.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n of Logic<\/a><\/p>\n