Word: withheld
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...Indonesian billionaire James Riady [NOTEBOOK, Dec. 16], Margaret Carlson misstated a New York Times news article and confused it with an editorial. The facts of our article are indisputable: before the election, the White House ignored the advice of two of its lawyers, Jane Sherburne and Mark Fabiani, and withheld from the public information about President Clinton's meetings with Riady. On advice of Bruce Lindsey, the President's aide and good friend, the meetings, which included discussions of foreign policy, were simply called "social calls." Clinton's spokesman, Michael McCurry, has since acknowledged that "social calls" was inaccurate...
...that U.S. troops may have been exposed came only under pressure: the June 21 Kamisiyah announcement, for example, was made four days before a soldier presented Congress with a videotape showing U.S. troops blowing up a chemical-weapons bunker. There is little evidence to support claims the Pentagon actively withheld information about chemical weapons during the war. But in April 1992, the Pentagon declared in its official history that Iraqi forces had never used such weapons against U.S. troops. Having asserted that, the Defense Department has seemed uninterested--until recently--in pursuing contrary claims...
What got the New York Times into a lather over these visits was Bruce Lindsey's characterization of them as social calls. According to a Times story by Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton, Lindsey withheld information about the Riady meetings despite the recommendations of White House lawyers Jane Sherburne and Mark Fabiani. A Times editorial then called on Lindsey to resign. But while Sherburne was quoted in Gerth and Labaton's story, Fabiani has never confirmed the account. Sources close to Sherburne say that she never felt she had been overruled or lied to by Lindsey and that the Times...
...male student's name is being withheld for security reasons...
...missing for more than a year. The tragedy transfixed Belgium, and national TV broadcast their funerals live. Shock then turned to outrage when it was disclosed that Dutroux was a convicted kidnapper-rapist, released early from prison against prosecutors' advice. Worse, vital information about the original abductions was withheld by competing investigators, and Dutroux allegedly had high-level protection...