This is something I forgot about, but coming across it this weekend made me put my antenna up. It's about the incident regarding missing Pentagon papers from the Gulf War. Not just one copy of the log files, but ALL THREE COPIES. Remember that?
I had forgotten about this incident until reading Bill Bryson's enjoyable collection of columns
I'm a Stranger Here Myself this past weekend. Here's what I forgot, quoting from Bryson:
...the Pentagon has got enough on its hands, thank you, with trying to find its missing logs from the Gulf War. I don't know if you have read about this, but the Pentagon has mislaid -- irretrievably lost, actually -- all but thirty six of the two hundred pages of official seconds of its brief but exciting desert adventure. Half of the missing files, it appears, were wiped out when an officer at Gulf War headquarters -- I wish I was making this up, but I'm not -- incorrectly downloaded some games into a military computer.
The other missing files are, well, missing. All that is known is that two sets were dispatched to Central Command in Florida, but now nobody can find them... and a third set was somehow "lost from a safe" at a base in Maryland, which sounds emminently plausible in the circumstances.
Emphasis mine.
Now that we are dealing with these folks on a daily basis, this little episode of missing Desert Storm log files takes on new meaning. What were they trying to hide? Is this somehow related to today's war in Iraq?
It may be nothing. I don't know -- this administration is MAKING ME CRAZY!