The Daily Mislead reports that the Washington Post is reporting that the Administration is removing from its sites statements that have later turned out to be untrue.

Specifically, on April 23, 2003, the president sent his top international aid official on national television to reassure the public that the cost of war and reconstruction in Iraq would be modest… But instead of admitting that he misled the nation about the cost of war, the president has allowed the State Department “to purge the comments by Natsios from the State Department’s Web site. The transcript, and links to it, have vanished.”

A Bush spokesman said the administration was forced to remove the statements because, “there was going to be a cost” charged by ABC for keeping the transcript on the government’s site. But as the Post notes, “other government Web sites, including the State and Defense departments, routinely post interview transcripts, even from ‘Nightline,'” and according to ABC News, “there is no cost.”

All in good fun, I’m sure.

Dan Gillmor‘s got some excellent reportage that dives deep into this story.

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