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Though the case reports do appear to have been completed before the Sept. 11 attacks, as Bush administration officials first acknowledged on Monday, some of the computer files appear to have been updated or accessed more recently. One was a file modified in January and including a photograph of a building, a senior White House official said. The official also said there was reason to believe that people associated with Al Qaeda who are still at large would have had access to the reports.
The officials would not identify the building that appears in the recently modified file, except to say that it was not one of the five that have been named. Those five are the New York Stock Exchange and the Citigroup Center in Manhattan, the Prudential building in Newark and the headquarters of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington. The officials also acknowledged that they had not been able to assess the significance of the fact that the computer file had been modified. Such a modification could have meant that the file was updated with newly taken surveillance photographs but might simply have meant that the file had recently been opened and closed. |
So the claim of "new" information in January is based on the "last modified" time/date stamp on the file? Anyone with even a minimal amount of computer knowledge knows that this stamp is updated when the file is opened. So... it's possible that someone opened it on purpose. Or it's equally possible that they opened it by mistake. Either way, I don't see how this tells us anything new.
Is it just me, or is this an INCREDBILY STUPID thing to be relying on as a supposed new source of information? Shouldn't we focus more on whats in the picture? Speaking of which, why is that bit of information being withheld?
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