FC: White House may restrict government info on germ warfare

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020113/ts/us_germ_weapons_1.html

   Sunday January 13 2:00 PM ET
   Bush May Limit Germ Weapons Info
   By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer 
   
   WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is considering whether to
   restrict distribution of government documents that describe how to
   make germ weapons, White House officials said Sunday.
   
   U.S. stockpiles of offensive germ warfare agents were destroyed nearly
   three decades ago as part of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
   But the government kept the blueprints for manufacturing such weapons,
   and continues to sell them.
   
   ``The administration is generally conscious of this issue,'' John H.
   Marburger III, director of the White House Office of Science and
   Technology Policy, said in a telephone interview Sunday. ``There are
   obviously people thinking about what to do about it.''
   
   The administration is likely to take action on the matter, Marburger
   said, adding that he did not know what action would be taken nor when.
   
   Homeland Security director Tom Ridge hinted that the administration is
   strongly considering placing new restrictions on the information.

   [...]



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