“This Administration intends to be candid about its errors,” he proclaimed, “for as a wise man once said: ‘An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.’” Besides, he added, “we expect you to point them out when we miss them.” But the president also doubled down on the warning he had expressed at his very first news conference back in January, when he had predicted that, from time to time, the government might withhold news in the national interest. The “need for a far greater public information,” he now elaborated, might indeed be outweighed by “the need for far greater
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