"¥ UltraMan ¥" <ultra@man.jp> wrote in
news:5iqiuuF3o4bc0U1@mid.individual.net:

Computer program reveals FBI, CIA edited Wikipedia entries
10:07 | 17/ 08/ 2007




WASHINGTON, August 17 (RIA Novosti) - A new scanning program has
revealed that the FBI and CIA have been editing Wikipedia entries on
topics ranging from the Iraq war to Guantanamo.

WikiScanner, developed by CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith,
has traced editorial changes made to the online encyclopedia to FBI
and CIA computers, including the removal of satellite imagery of the
Guantanamo prison camp on the island of Cuba, where the United States
has detained suspected terrorists since 2002, and redactions of
articles on the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The program revealed that the CIA edited entries about its former
director, William Colby, altering details of his career, and that a
graphic on casualties in Iraq was manipulated to downplay the
figures.

A number of commercial companies were also found to have edited
entries related to them, in clear violation of Wikipedia's editorial
guidelines that disqualify people or organizations from editing
articles that concern them directly.

However, a spokeswoman for Wikipedia's parent company, Wikimedia,
said the online encyclopedia was in any event self-correcting, and
that any misleading entries are usually quickly rectified.

The FBI did not have any comment, and the CIA insisted that all of
its computers are used responsibly.

Every Wahinigton insider knows that more than 70% of the FBI, CIA and
NSA operatives are liberal Washington insiders. Don't believe me?
Just look at Valerie Wilson, the desk jockey CIA agent who pulled
classified strings in secrecy to send her reporter husband to Africa
in a political attempt to assassinate Bush's credibility by proving
him a liar

Every Wahinigton insider knows that more than 70% of the FBI, CIA and NSA
operatives are liberal Washington insiders. Don't believe me? Just look
at Valerie Wilson, the desk jockey CIA agent who pulled classified
strings in secrecy to send her reporter husband to Africa in a political
attempt to assassinate Bush's credibility by proving him a liar about the
yellow cake plutonium Sadam was purchasing from in Africa (which by the
way Wilson lied about, and the story was proven to be true, yet by the
time the press was finished with it, the damage was done!). These covert
opertions happen EVERY DAY in an attempt to undermine our National
Government. Top Agents who were schooled in Ivy Leage Universities where
they lerned the glorious truth about the inevitability of the ultimate
Marxist Revolution are True Believers and continue to do their part in
destroying the American government from within!

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:05:16 -0600, "¥ UltraMan ¥" <ultra@man.jp>
wrote:

Computer program reveals FBI, CIA edited Wikipedia entries
10:07 | 17/ 08/ 2007




WASHINGTON, August 17 (RIA Novosti) - A new scanning program has revealed that
the FBI and CIA have been editing Wikipedia entries on topics ranging from the
Iraq war to Guantanamo.

WikiScanner, developed by CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith, has traced
editorial changes made to the online encyclopedia to FBI and CIA computers,
including the removal of satellite imagery of the Guantanamo prison camp on the
island of Cuba, where the United States has detained suspected terrorists since
2002, and redactions of articles on the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The program revealed that the CIA edited entries about its former director,
William Colby, altering details of his career, and that a graphic on casualties
in Iraq was manipulated to downplay the figures.

A number of commercial companies were also found to have edited entries related
to them, in clear violation of Wikipedia's editorial guidelines that disqualify
people or organizations from editing articles that concern them directly.

However, a spokeswoman for Wikipedia's parent company, Wikimedia, said the
online encyclopedia was in any event self-correcting, and that any misleading
entries are usually quickly rectified.

The FBI did not have any comment, and the CIA insisted that all of its computers
are used responsibly.

Any references or cites for this claim?
The CIA claim that ALL of its computers are used responsibly?
For if you can not, then you are just as suspect of fabrication than
they.

Come on. Where are they?

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:05:16 -0600, "¥ UltraMan ¥" <ultra@man.jp>
wrote:

WikiScanner, developed by CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith,
has traced editorial changes made to the online encyclopedia to FBI
and CIA computers, including the removal of satellite imagery of the
Guantanamo prison camp on the island of Cuba, where the United
States has detained suspected terrorists since 2002, and redactions
of articles on the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Isn't that a bit futile?

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Ultraman,

I think just about anyone can write, edit, correct, et c. articles
on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a very reputable source of information
for these reasons.

Dave M.