"Thomas F. Unke" wrote in message
news:I3FEot.74J@news.online.de...
> "Peter Webb" writes:
>
> >>
> >> http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Lets first note that this body is not anything to do with the National
> > Security Agency, which is of course a substantial and credible body.
They
> > have picked a very similar name to confuse people into believeing they
are
> > somebody they are not. Its a web site hosted on a server at a Uni - its
just
> > some web site run by somebody who can't afford to register their own
domain.
>
> What a nonsense.
>
> First, the NSA of the USA is a secret service, a rather unpleasant
> organisation to be polite.
>
> The National Security Archive is, which you could easily find out if
> you had read the website:
>
> >> The National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions
> >> in one non governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is
> >> simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a
> >> library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through
> >> the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm
> >> defending and expanding public access to government information
> >> through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in
> >> books, microfiche, and electronic formats. The Archive's
> >> approximately $2.3 million yearly budget comes from publication
> >> revenues and from private philanthropists such as the Carnegie
> >> Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the
> >> John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation. As
> >> a matter of policy, the Archive receives no government funding.
>
> You may do some further research about the Freedom of information Act
> in the US. Then you may read more carefully and you will find the
> original documents which clearly prove the close alliance of the US
> government and Saddam Hussein.
>
Ohh, got it. If I did some careful research, I could find some information
which proves you right.
Gee, what a clever argument. I give in.
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