He also notes that the archive website was linked "to an entirely unrelated database of al-Qaida materials", the Harmony database, creating confusion over documents suggestive of a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. Umbach writes, "Whether intentional or not, the conflation and confusion of materials has been more than sufficient to convince bloggers on the political right that there were, as Bush officials insisted, operational links between Saddam's Iraq and al-Qaida."
He also notes that the archive website was connected "to an entirely separate database of al-Qaida materials", the Harmony database, leading to confusion over papers suggesting a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda. Umbach writes, "Whether intentional or not, the merging of these materials has caused sufficient confusion among right-wing bloggers to convince them that there were operational links between Saddam's Iraq and al-Qaida."