Because there is new information posted all the time. When you first read about this, were you aware that Suhail Khan, who worked in the White House, is the son of a man who helped raise funds for Al Qaeda?
Or that Norquist's co-founder of the Islamic Institute, Khaled Saffuri, sponsors children of homicide bombers in Israel?
This isn't the first story that's required more than one thread in order to gather and archive all the information.
I'm gonna repost something from another thread today, but I think it's pertinent...
Let me tell you a story that may give you reason to reconsider your objections to certain articles getting posted on more than one thread, and multiple threads on similar articles.
Recently, I was doing some amateur research on the anthrax attacks attacks in the Fall of 2001. I was surprised, while running search engines, at how many articles no longer had valid links. Some news orgs appear to be particularly sloppy about their archives.
Fortunately, I was able to find many of these articles posted on other websites, especially on Free Republic. Without FR, quite a bit of information might have disappeared down the memory hole. Also, while scrolling through the associated threads, I came across other links and articles I might not otherwise have seen. There is a definite value in this type of crossreferencing.
As I read on, there were details deep in some articles that weren't as apparently important at the original time of posting, but in hindsight take on greater significance. Such is the case in the article I posted at #49 on this thread, which you (cyncooper) referenced. In addition, not all versions of the same article have identical information.
It's important to keep in mind that not everyone has kept up on this story, and may not have seen certain articles when they were posted earlier. In order to reference a certain point when made to a poster new to the story, a previously posted article may get reposted. There is another value in this, in that someone may notice something about that reposted article, and comment on it, shedding new light on the story.
In light of all that, I don't see any real reason to object to multiple repostings of articles in the context of numerous threads about an ongoing story.
Isn't the point of this forum to post news articles and engage in constructive commentary about those articles?
