The Washington Post is reporting that the Bush administration has attempted to rewrite history by removing a transcript of an interview with the head of the US Agency for International Development from earlier this year during which he said that the reconstruction would cost U.S. taxpayers only $1.7 billion. The estimate by Andrew Natsios turns out to be off by several tens of billions of dollars. Now his comments have been purged from government websites. After the scrubbing of the transcript was noticed, USAID claimed that the page was taken down not because of political reasons but because there was a cost for keeping up a transcript from ABC’s Nightline. However ABC said that was not true.