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--is probably pretty small.
Again, there are Iraqi expats here in the US who are definitely for what we did in Iraq. There are also the Kurds and other groups, not to mention official translators who work for us. Not to mention non-Arab Arabic speakers.
but if the administration had enough people kicking around to sort through it, they wouldn'be be putting this stuff online, would they? (unless, of course, the intent of this program is to play catchup all the time, which is insane.)
That's exactly what they are trying to do--play catch-up. They did a cursory overview with the translators to try to screen out anything obviously hot and classified and then re-tasked all the translators to current working intel rather than this stuff, which is OBE (overcome by events for the non-military readers here).
say, muqtada al-sadr's newspaper, this is a win-win situation. if they find something that says we're bad, they can run it--if they find something which says we're not bad, they can say it's bullshit and pull up another three documents which say we're bad.
I think that is brilliant! There's another danger I don't think they've forseen when they did this. You are absolutely right here, but they won't say they found something in a document that's already there, because then everyone will slew to that target and check it out and decide Sadr is full of crap (the ones who can read, that is, only 70% of Iraqi males are literate in Arabic). The real danger is that Sadr or someone (Iranian intel?) will claim they found a hot document that indicts us in a really bad way, but when everyone goes to check it out, it's not there. We can't refute it, because it doesn't exist, but they claim we pulled it to hide it after it was exposed. They produce a forged copy saying "we printed it off before you pulled it off your server"! The conspiracy theories would fly.
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