FC: White House may restrict government info on germ warfare

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 07:32:37 PST

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    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.
    
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