Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:34:11 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be
 attended by a bodyguard of lies
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[Note from Matthew Gaylor:  Now that we've engaged in the endless war...]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/national/07PRES.html>

October 7, 2001

FLOW OF INFORMATION

New Slogan in Washington: Watch What You Say

By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The Associated Press
President Bush with the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, at a 
meeting with business leaders at Federal Hall in New York last week.


ASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - A few Sundays ago, shortly after returning from a 
weekend of national security briefings at Camp David, President Bush 
walked into the White House with a small group of advisers and 
delivered a stern warning. "Anybody who discloses classified 
information could literally endanger somebody's life," he told the 
group, according to Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, who was 
there.

[...]


It is a sign of the times that Secretary of Defense Donald H. 
Rumsfeld stood at a Pentagon podium last month and cited Winston 
Churchill's famous words that "in wartime, truth is so precious that 
she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Mr. Rumsfeld, 
who has repeatedly said from the same podium that disclosing 
classified information is not only dangerous but against federal law, 
added that he did not "intend to" lie to the press about present and 
future military operations.

It is a more bizarre sign of the times that Mr. Rumsfeld told 
reporters three times as he uttered Churchill's words that he did not 
want to be quoted - as he was appearing live on CNN.

[...]


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