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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (186049)	9/24/2001 1:26:22 PM
From: Ga Bard	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

You're off topic... Back to George Bush ... Journalists Worry About Limits on Information, Access By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 24, 2001; Page A05 In 1988, Pentagon officials circulated word that a U.S. aircraft carrier would be delayed in heading to the Persian Gulf, where Iran and Iraq were at war, and the story was promptly leaked to a network correspondent. The information was wrong -- the carrier was quickly dispatched to the region -- and the military brass were pleased. "We actually put out a false message to mislead people," said Jay Coupe, then the spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "The idea was not to give information about the movement of our carrier. We were trying to confuse people." As the administration gears up for what President Bush has described as a new kind of war, many journalists are growing concerned that they will have less information and less access to U.S. troops than ever before. Even the use of deliberate disinformation cannot be ruled out. "This is the most information-intensive war you can imagine. . . . We're going to lie about things," said a military officer involved in the planning. "If it is an information war, certainly the bad guys will lie." Whether or not that comes to pass, senior administration officials have made clear in recent days that much of the operation will be shrouded in secrecy. "Let me condition the press this way: Any sources and methods of intelligence will remain guarded in secret," Bush said. "My administration will not talk about how we gather intelligence, if we gather intelligence and what the intelligence says. That's for the protection of the American people." At a briefing on Friday, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer was pressed about what proof exists that alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks in New York and Washington. "You have the right to ask those questions," he said. "I have the responsibility not to answer them." In time of war, Fleischer said in an interview, "some things the public wants and demands to know, other things they're satisfied they need not know. The press is caught in the middle and it's frustrating for the press. This administration will be committed to full disclosure of information, which keeps the country strong, while making certain that no information is disclosed that could lose lives or undermine missions." ... Source: washingtonpost.com P2bAAAT