Investigative blogging

Posted by Martin Stabe on 24 February 2006 at 17:12
Tags: Blogs, Freedom of Information, Journalism, United States

In a development that highlights the potential of bloggers to support reporting done by journalists, a blogger has used the US Freedom of Information Act to obtain documents relating to the orders Donald Rumsfeld gave on 11 September 2001, the Guardian reports.

Thad Anderson, a law student who blogs at Outragedmoderates.org, obtained orders written by Rumsfeld aide Stephen Cambone in the hours following the terrorist attacks. The released items confirm earlier reports by journalists that Rumsfeld had that afternoon ordered the miltary to establish whether a link could be found the attacks could be linked to Saddam Hussein as well as Osama Bin Laden.
In addition to posting about the the documents on the blog, Anderson uploaded the documents to the photo-sharing site Flickr.

Tags: Blogs, Freedom of Information, Journalism, United States