By Les Kinsolving
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
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MR. PRESIDENT!
At Tuesday afternoon's daily White House news briefing, WND asked
Presidential Press Secretary Ari Fleischer:
WND: A Princeton University admissions officer has been caught
intruding on a confidential Internet message of the president's alma
mater, Yale, in search, among others, of the record of the president's
niece, Lauren. And this intruder has been merely suspended with pay. What
was the president's reaction to this? And a Bush policy is that anybody
from the Bush administration caught intruding on a confidential Princeton
Internet message would be fired. Isn't that true, Ari?
FLEISCHER: Actually, Lester, this is not something I've talked to the
president about, so I don't know what his reflections are.
This Ivy League hacking and intrusion into confidential material relating
to the president's own niece at the president's alma mater has been widely
reported in the major media.
WND also asked Fleischer:
WND: Both the L.A. Weekly as well as
WorldNetDaily report that our government is ignoring or hiding an
Oklahoma City connection between Zacarias Moussaoui and 9-11 skyjacker
Mohamed Atta because it might raise questions about the rush to close the
books on the Murrah Building bombing, which was charged exclusively to
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. And my question: Will the president ask
the FBI to investigate reports that McVeigh and several Iraqis were guests
at a motel just outside Oklahoma City just before the Murrah Building
bombing in 1995?
FLEISCHER: Lester, I'm not aware of any of these reports, and these
matters are handled by the investigators.
WND: I'd be glad to send you statements on that, if you would take that
question and get back to me, Ari.
FLEISCHER: I'm sure you will.
Fleischer did announce, to applause, Hearst reporter Helen Thomas' 60th
anniversary of covering the White House. After the briefing concluded, there
was a cake and champagne in honor of Helen, whom I asked:
WND: Who in your 60 years was the best of all the presidential press
secretaries you have covered?
HELEN: Ter Horst. He lasted just one month! (Jerry Ter Horst was
President Gerald Ford's first press secretary, who resigned when Ford
pardoned Richard Nixon.)
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