http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020113/ts/us_germ_weapons_1.html Sunday January 13 2:00 PM ET Bush May Limit Germ Weapons Info By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is considering whether to restrict distribution of government documents that describe how to make germ weapons, White House officials said Sunday. U.S. stockpiles of offensive germ warfare agents were destroyed nearly three decades ago as part of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. But the government kept the blueprints for manufacturing such weapons, and continues to sell them. ``The administration is generally conscious of this issue,'' John H. Marburger III, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a telephone interview Sunday. ``There are obviously people thinking about what to do about it.'' The administration is likely to take action on the matter, Marburger said, adding that he did not know what action would be taken nor when. Homeland Security director Tom Ridge hinted that the administration is strongly considering placing new restrictions on the information. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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