Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - White House Website and History

Put simply the White House is blocking search engines from archiving certain parts of their website, including any page that mentions Iraq. This would be a fairly simple way to make it more difficult for people to find previous White House statements that contained inaccuracies (or lies) and compare them to current statements.

A techie doesn't come up with this kind of policy. Bush probably didn't either, but he's the boss. And from the top down do these policies trickle. Just another stonewall in the face of open government.