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February 26, 2004

Ask, and You Shall Receive (Nothing)

I discovered the "Ask the White House" page (linked on the STR home page today) on February 11. That day I asked two questions of Jim Wilkinson, Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications, on the subject of the missing WMDs, the president's continued insistence on their existence, and the president's constitutional authority to start a war. The next day I asked Margaret Spellings, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, about the federal government's constitutional authority to intervene in the education system and about the fact that new federal regulations are contrary to the president's professed conservatism. Needless to say, they didn't deign to answer any of my questions.

Since the Waltrip session on February 13, there haven't been any more "Ask the White House" sessions. I don't mean to brag, but it is certainly a coincidence that two days after I started hitting them with real questions (not the softballs they chose to take) they stopped doing these "chats." Makes you wonder, anyway.

I'm keeping my eyes open for more opportunities to "Ask the White House." I'll try to let y'all know when (if?) more are coming. (Right now the site just says "we look forward to hosting more Ask the White House online discussions soon.") Perhaps if a bunch of us start asking them tough questions they'll feel obliged to respond to a few of them. Or perhaps the FBI will come knocking on our doors (if they even bother to knock).

Posted by Mike Tennant at February 26, 2004 09:24 AM

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February 26, 2004

Ask, and You Shall Receive (Nothing)

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