[LINK] lies, damn lies, and 31,000 pages

[Craig Sanders]

for the last week or so, Ruddock has been going on about "31,000 pages
of documentation to be reviewed" in relation to (and justification for)
the Indian doctor being held in Queensland.

i read in The Age this morning, the story has changed slightly:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/indian-doctor-going-nowhere/2007/07/11/1183833599463.html

   "But Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said more than 120 gigabytes
    of information had to be reviewed - equal to 31,000 pages of
    documents."

so, what that probably means is that they've got a laptop or desktop
computer with a 120GB hard disk...and it's convenient for the
government's scare campaign to misrepresent that as "31,000 pages" of
secret terrorist documents that need to be reviewed.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>