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Cave Dwellers and a Change in Internet Policy

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It all makes perfectly good sense, if your thinking is counter-intelligence. Beginning in late 2001, the General Accountability Office became a little less so by no longer posting on the Internet documents that had previously been public. The reason: U.S. forces in Afghanistan found a copy of a GAO Internet report in a cave believed to have housed Al Queda terrorists. GAO reports are still public and available by mail or fax or if you show up in person at a GAO office. Cave dwellers need not apply.

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