How is the government able to re-direct websites?  they have
re-directed whitehouse.org to the anti-internet crime government web
page.

The Whitehouse website is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ .

Googlenut

Oh, now I see your point.  I guess they also own, whitehouse.org.

Hi there,

Whitehouse.org is a parody site. Their listing in Open Directory says:

The White House - http://www.whitehouse.org/ 
Satirical website devoted to mocking the Bush presidency.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_States/Presidents/Bush,_George_Walker/Opposing_Views/?il=1

If you do a Google search for "whitehouse.org" there is a link to the
cached version from when Google last indexed it yesterday. It was
running then, and not re-directing.
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22whitehouse%2Eorg%22

My guess is that the re-direction is an April Fool's Day prank. Check
to see if it is back to normal tomorrow.

robertskelton-ga
Google Answers Researcher

Today there is a message at http://www.whitehouse.org/ explaining that
yesterday's re-direction was, as robertskelton-ga suggested, an April
Fool's Day prank.

eiffel-ga