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This release contains White House Exchange Mail records dated January 1998 to October 1999. Most of it is a transcript of a January 29, 1998 press briefing by Press Secretary Mike McCurry covering Iraq, Iran, the budget and the Lewinsky inquiry, plus a 1998 presidential speech. An October 19, 1999 email among Transnational Threats staff forwards a Florida Today article on how scientists expect alien contact would spark a media frenzy rather than a cover-up, describing the 1989 SETI detection protocol.
Page 21 of 28 vr Q Well, he was energetic. imagine how things will unfold in coming days and weeks. Q — have a press conference? http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/janl998/34edab55.html 1/5/2010 Q Yes, that's my question. Are you still going to have a full-fledged pre: conference with Tony Blair? MR. MCCURRY: I am. But I think that you can all easily imagine that i President is not going to entertain questions on this subject and not goin be able to provide you with many answers if you want to persist in asking. MR. MCCURRY: Ann, that's a question that I'll ask Mr. Lockhart — I'll that question and ask Mr. Lockhart to pursue that. There has clearly bee litigation in front of the courts on exactly that kind of question. I know Chuck Ruff to be a superb attorney and I know that he has worked hard under difficult circumstances on this issue, and I'm sure that whatever work he's done i consistent with his obligations under law and consistent with the desire • 34EDAB55.FIN I* MR. MCCURRY: The way this thing is eight days into this story, and il had asked me nine days ago would we be sitting here talking about this toda would have been impossible to imagine. So I think it is equally impossil Q Wendell spoke of the numbers of people believing the President goin; Also the numbers of people who think that the media has done a poor job or i covering Q On occasion, the counsel here, Mr. Ruff, has been in touch with some the President's personal attorneys. Are those conversations privileged in a client-attorney relationship, or are Mr. Ruffs conversations not subject 1 any kind of privilege? President's other attorneys to protect the privilege rights and the Preside has as a client and as an individual. But how exactly that is done and what tl legal interpretation is is a question I don't want to haphazard a guess at. Q Mike, you say that people want to hear from the President. Given this ongoing criminal investigation, can you envision the President being able to talk the American people until that's over?
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