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...Record Straight INTERVIEW DETAILS Our story on the 9/11 commission's interviews with government officials, "Did Clinton Do Enough?" [April 26], said President Bill Clinton's testimony during his session was not recorded. The Clinton interview was taped. Also, we said Clinton appeared before the commission in a secret, bugproof room called "a SKIF-a secure-conference intelligence facility." It's SCIF, not SKIF, and it stands for sensitive compartmented information facility...
...official Richard Clarke--did so before a phalanx of reporters and opponents hoping to see them eviscerated on live TV. But like George W. Bush, who will meet with the commission (together with Dick Cheney) at an undisclosed time, Clinton was allowed to appear in private--in a secret, bugproof room called, in a typical Washington solecism, a SKIF--a secure-conference intelligence facility...
...having done more sooner, and risks sowing panic. Stung by Republican complaints that he hasn't addressed the Y2K problem, Clinton said he'll ask Congress to approve a "Good Samaritan" law to encourage corporations to share Y2K information and, if Y2K-compliant, to declare that their products are bugproof. "If ordinary citizens believe they are being told the full story, they'll be far less likely to act in ways that could themselves hurt our economy," Clinton said during a speech at the National Academy of Sciences...
...deal with it. Last week Schlesinger confirmed that the situation was bad -- but maybe not as disastrous as it initially seemed. His recommendation: that the U.S. salvage the first five of the eight floors for routine use, rebuild the top three floors to make them bugproof, and construct a new six-story annex to house the embassy's most sensitive activities...
...precaution was the "bubble," a supposedly bugproof, heavily shielded room-within-a-room in the embassy. But now it is assumed that Marine guards let Soviet agents into the bubble to plant bugs there too (two new bubbles have since been built). The greatest damage would have been wrought if a bug in the encoding equipment did indeed allow the Soviets to crack the U.S. code and read all messages going into and out of the embassy. Presumably these would have included U.S. negotiating positions. Says John Barron, author of a book about the KGB: "Give me access to your...