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Did ANYONE get this number?
Though it will probably be changed soon, this could be a useful number to
have...
amp
Oops! President's fax line made public
Copyright (C) 1997 Nando.net
Copyright (C) 1997 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (November 20, 1997 5:06 p.m. EST) -- The House
committee investigating campaign fund raising briefly posted
President Clinton's personal fax number on the Internet this
week, despite a request that it keep the number private.
White House press secretary Mike McCurry called the incident
"a procedural lapse" on the part of the House Government
Reform and Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Dan Burton,
R-Ind.
A committee spokesman said the public posting of the number
of the president's fax machine was a quickly corrected and
"inadvertent" mistake with no malicious intent.
McCurry said the White House is concerned because the fax
machine, located just outside the Oval Office, serves as
the president's sounding board, a personal link to hundreds
of friends and acquaintances around the country.
"It would be a source of concern to the White House because
that's a very valuable way in which the president maintains
contact with an incredibly diverse group of Americans,"
McCurry said.
"It's not the first time that they've had some procedural
lapses," McCurry said of the Burton committee.
The incident was reported Thursday by Roll Call, a newspaper
that covers Congress.
The committee obtained the fax number when it was mentioned
by former Clinton political consultant Dick Morris during
a deposition last August.
The committee failed to black it out when it posted the
Morris deposition on the Internet Tuesday.
Will Dwyer, a spokesman for the committee said the number
was available to the public for no more than an hour.
He contended committee lawyers had never definitively
promised Morris to keep it private although Morris did
ask that it and his private phone numbers not be disclosed.
"I don't think we have breached any agreement," Dwyer said.
Dwyer took issue with McCurry's assertion that the incident
was one of a series of lapses on the committee's part. "He's
making a mountain out of a molehill," he said. "As soon as
we discovered it we corrected it. There was no intent for
anything malicious to occur here."
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Date: 11/21/97
Time: 01:11:39
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