Why is Whitehouse.gov telling search engines to go away?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

What an odd robots.txt file at Whitehouse.gov.  Why is the Whitehouse
Webmaster telling searching engines like Google to not search and cache the
Whitehouse Web site?  The robots.txt files is 92K bytes of disallows.

Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com

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# robots.txt for http://www.whitehouse.gov/

User-agent:     *
Disallow:       /cgi-bin
Disallow:       /search
Disallow:       /query.html
Disallow:       /help
Disallow:       /360pics/iraq
Disallow:       /360pics/text
Disallow:       /911/911day/iraq
Disallow:       /911/911day/text
Disallow:       /911/heroes/iraq
Disallow:       /911/heroes/text
Disallow:       /911/iraq
Disallow:       /911/messages/text
Disallow:       /911/patriotism/iraq
Disallow:       /911/patriotism/text
Disallow:       /911/patriotism2/iraq
Disallow:       /911/patriotism2/text
Disallow:       /911/progress/iraq
Disallow:       /911/progress/text
Disallow:       /911/remembrance/iraq
Disallow:       /911/remembrance/text
Disallow:       /911/response/iraq
Disallow:       /911/response/text
Disallow:       /911/sept112002/iraq
Disallow:       /911/sept112002/text
Disallow:       /911/text
Disallow:       /QA-test/text
Disallow:       /afac/index.htm/text

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