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." ********************************************************* To post a message to AEN NEWS, address it to news@aen.org. ---------------End of Original Message----------------- === E-mail: amp@pobox.com Date: 11/21/97 Time: 01:11:39 Visit me at http://www.pobox.com/~amp -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) Have you seen http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum ===