Froomkin; Waxman helps WH ethics classes w/helpful questions..

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

SNIP:

Just trying to be helpful, I'm sure, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) yesterday sent White House Counsel Harriet Miers a series of questions and answers about the rules governing security clearances and the protection of classified information for possible inclusion in the ethics refreshers White House staff are taking this week. Among Waxman's proposed questions:

* "Is it appropriate for President Bush to wait until a criminal investigation is complete before taking action on security breaches?"

* "Is it appropriate for President Bush to allow White House officials to retain security clearances pending a leak investigation?"

* "Is it appropriate for President Bush to apply different security rules to White House officials than are applied to other federal officials?"

Meanwhile, even more helpfully, satirist Christopher Buckley writes an ethics-refresher skit for the New York Times op-ed pages.

Instructor: "I thought we'd start this morning with a situational exercise. Karl, suppose a reporter called you and said, 'I will write a very favorable article for my paper and make you look really good if you will tell me a super-duper classified national secret.' What would the correct thing to do be?' "

Rove: "Tell him, 'Let me get back to you on that?'"

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The whole WH Briefing is packed with goodies! enjoy.