Akkam’s Razor

Iraq, as we know, is a dangerous place, and by all indications due to get even more so.  Deployed soldiers (and there families) have found the typical schedule of 12-months deployed and 12-months at home squeezed, with troops now faced with 15-months in "the Suck" and a scant 9-months at home.  (For further proof of a worsening Iraq, note that the DOD is restricting communication by email, blogs, and any two-way social media sites, and further restricting the access of the press).

A long time ago, probably as the domestic spying-slash-internet-tapping scandal was breaking, I posted the following search - thinking about what I'd like to see - the Government submitting to the same oversight as us jus' folks.  Imagine if we could see what the Executive Branch was Googling?

I've long maintained that watching your server logs (incoming, that is) is a great idea.  I've often gotten insight into stories and found out things that I might have not found out through other means.  For example, why was the CIA looking for "No Fly List Spreadsheet xls" (story here), or what is OSIS?  And who is looking for Matt O'Donnell nude (he's a local ABC affiliate news anchor)?  Why were people from the Republican National Committee, such as "Shawn Reinschmiedt",  Googling staff members regarding the "caging list"?  Why was someone from the Pentagon looking for a WaPo story on corrupted-company MZM, connected to the most corrupt Congressman in US history?  Hell, I even had someone ON THE FLOOR OF THE US Senate looking for "Joe Lieberman" (hint, he's standing over there, with the Republicans).

While there has long been a long historical precedent of wrangling over internal emails, from Reagan and Iran-Contra through Clinton to the current day, the webserver logs are far more interesting.  What delicious treasure-troves await us in the White House webserver logs? 

• National Security Archive - White House E-Mail
  To be clear, this is not the first time that use of external email (GWB43.COM) by White House political staffers has become a contentious issue.
  (tags: archives government Internet politics gwb43 gwb43.com)
• White House Communications Agency (WHCA)
  Suprisingly, White House communications are handled outside of the Executive Branch under the Department of Defense.
  (tags: whitehouse FOIA electroninccommunications email gwb43 gwb43.com)
• Politics + Journalism = Incest
  Which members of the fourth estate are in bed with politicians (some literally)?
  (tags: conflictofinterest politics journalism)