Can you say "damage control"?
Too bad it's too little, too late.
From Reuters via Common Dreams:
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White House officials will be required to attend briefings next week on ethics and the handling of classified information after the indictment last week of a senior official in the CIA leak probe, according to a memo released on Saturday.
The White House counsel's office will conduct a series of presentations on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for those aides with security clearances.
"Your attendance at one of these sessions is mandatory," said a memo to White House staff from White House counsel Harriet Miers.
The memo was released in Mar del Plata, where President George W. Bush was attending a 34-nation Summit of the Americas.
The briefings will provide a refresher course on general ethics rules, including "the rules governing the protection of classified information," the memo said.
The ethics course comes after Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, 55, was indicted last week on five counts of obstructing justice, perjury and lying in the two-year investigation into the leak of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity.
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