shifting climate

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Fri May 17 09:40:19 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>


> Damage control specialists say politicians fare better when they
> release bad or embarrassing information themselves rather than
> waiting for it to leak -- a technique often used by the Clinton White
> House. But the question permeating the news briefings was whether
> last summer's intelligence warning was specific enough to have been
> made public -- even after the tragedy.

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As if after even a casual perusal of James Bramford's works or John Le Carre's novels the US citizenry can't figure out that 99.99999% of the secrets the gov. witholds from them isn't worth the paper its printed on.

Ian



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