When considering the good news, consider *this*

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From Drudge:

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Word that the Y2K bug had left the Pentagon temporarily blinded, reached the White House at the height of New Year's Eve celebrations, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Shortly after 9 pm ET on Friday, the White House was informed of the satellite data jam, according to one well-placed source.

However, White House officials publicly maintained throughout out the night that there had been no "serious" Y2K events or disruptions.

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-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), January 01, 2000

Answers

True or not, they couldn't very well confirm it under any circumstances. I think there is a lot of scrambling going on behind the scenes.

-- S. David Bays (SDBAYS@prodigy.net), January 01, 2000.

Gosh Ron,

I really didn't have sex with THAT woymn!

FSI!,

BR

-- brother rat (rldabney@usa.net), January 01, 2000.


I believe that the government's top priority here was to keep the public calm (understandably) and without panic, at all costs. I want to believe the rosy picture that they are painting, but I just can't. Not yet.

-- cin (cinlooo@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

HELLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOO..........24 hours later they are still saying "no serious problems". Won't change until the public is seriously at risk.

-- tt (cuddluppy@nowhere.com), January 01, 2000.

Of course the info could not be released until they were certain it was resolved. Issue of national security.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 02, 2000.


Haven't they essentially defined *all* serious y2k-ish failures as being of national security magnitude?

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), January 02, 2000.

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