Related link: http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm
Was UK Prime Minister Tony Blair part of a great deception to convince Parliament (and the world) that a war on Iraq was warranted? The plot thickened recently when privacy and security sleuth Richard M. Smith peered into the file headers of a key Microsoft Word document Blair based part of his case upon. The same document was used by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in his historic reading of the facts before the UN, and was used yet again as a corner post in President George W. Bush’s January 2003 State of the Union address where he pushed for war. A quick perusal of Word 2000 in a Nutshell, or several other books about MSWord, would have informed the editors of the document of this “feature.” For the sake of history, though, I’m glad they didn’t know to look.
