Comments on: Susan Collins (R-ME) Removes Incriminating Article from Website

By: bobinkk

bobinkk — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:39:06 +0000

Search for “pandemic” (no quotes) and the article comes up.

By: Steph

Steph — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:26:12 +0000

It’s also possible that they left the article intact and instead restricted what search terms returned results – filtering out “swine flu” or whatever you might have typed in to search. That can be done on the back end to obscure searches in hopes that less intrepid folks who don’t want to take the time to browse don’t discover them.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:48:53 +0000

Nick is correct, the article is still there.

By: RichardV

RichardV — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:31:35 +0000

I was curious about this myself, so I wandered over to the Senator’s site. Without using the search engine, I looked for a logical place to see what article(s) might be there and on the left, there’s a menu item labeled “Press Room”, which then has a menu item labeled “Articles”, which gives you a list of articles, amongst which exists an article dated February 5, 2009 just like in the first screen capture. It even has the same title.

Being a web app developer at times, and still willing to give the write of the article on _this_ site the benefit of the doubt, I thought it might be a caching issue, and wouldn’t it be amusing to see the Senator’s site not having covered up its tracks during redaction?

Clicking on the link produced the same article. It is not gone.

In fact, it’s here: http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Articles&ContentRecord_id=46d6e846-802a-23ad-4ccd-8f37bc42d004&Region_id=

By: NickDanger

NickDanger — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:46:54 +0000

I, being one of those folks who likes to check things out, went to Sen. Collins’s website and did a simpler search. “GOP Wields”. The article in question popped right up. Entered in the whole article title and put it in quotes and it doesn’t find it. Tried whole article name without quotes and it found it.
SO, either they put it back OR you got so specific you tricked the search engine OR you took the opportunity to distort the presence/non-presence of the article in order to sling some mud. The latter being a ‘Roveian’ tool. Please do not pick up those tools…they are nasty, dirty and slippery.

By: Austin

Austin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:36:07 +0000

“File under, Republicans are cowards.”

Wow. You’re a real scholar! Lovely mentality.

By: Geoff Wittig

Geoff Wittig — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:20:14 +0000

File under, Republicans are cowards.

This is a huge and rapidly expanding file.

By: Tirebiter in Sector R

Tirebiter in Sector R — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:18:27 +0000

Jindal makes fun of volcano monitoring. Mt. Redoubt blows up.
Collins opposes pandemic preparedness. Swine flu hits.
Let us pray that no Republican comes out against watching for giant kill-off-the-dinos meteors.