--- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:19:43 -0700 (MST) From: Tramm Hudson <hudsonat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: Government lying to citizens Declan, I would have expected this issue of the ability of the US government to lie to its citizens to receive more press: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59291-2002Mar20.html # Never, says the secretary of defense. Infinitely, says the # solicitor general. And the question is: When do government officials # lie to the American people? [...] # # Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pledged a few weeks ago never to # lie to the American public [...] # # It is "easy to imagine an infinite number of situations . . . where # government officials might quite legitimately have reasons to give # false information out," the Justice Department's senior trial lawyer # said to the [Supreme Court] justices. The court case deals with the widow of a Guatemalan revolutionary tortured by CIA-funded soldiers. The Clinton administration refused to tell her about the status of her husband despite full knowledge of his plight. They also take a stab at the current President's manipulation of the media: # The White House wants to feed into the media's maw every scrap of # information that gives George W. Bush political advantage and/or glory. # But this White House also clutches the cloak of secrecy more tightly # than have other presidencies. [...] -- -----|----- hudsonat_private H 240-476-1373 *>=====[]L\ Trammell.Hudsonat_private W 240-453-3317 ' -'-`- http://www.swcp.com/~hudson/ KC5RNF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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