"It's not quite Soviet-style airbrushing, but the Bush administration has been using cyberspace to make some of its own cosmetic touch-ups to history," writes Dana Milbank. "White House officials were steamed when Andrew S. Natsios, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development [3], said earlier this year that U.S. taxpayers would not have to pay more than $1.7 billion [4] to reconstruct Iraq -- which turned out to be a gross understatement of the tens of billions of dollars the government now expects to spend. Recently, however, the government has purged the offending comments [5] by Natsios from the agency's Web site." Moreover, Milbank adds, "This is not the first time [6] the administration has done some creative editing of government Web sites."