Ms. Matalin said the administration was withholding the list "on principle" to protect the participants' privacy.
Under current rules students are able to apply to have their names withheld from the public listing, but this application must be back by their tutor and will only be considered in "exceptional circumstances" and when accompanied by a medical note from a GP or counsellor.
In fact, the team handling the undercover stings on a series of Liberal Democrat politicians was much smaller than that deployed on MPs' expenses, and the information gleaned was deliberately withheld from the news lists circulated among the paper's executives.
Alerted by a reporter to the group's decision to withhold its donors list from public scrutiny, Mr. McCain said he knew nothing of the decision, disagreed with it, and would try to have it reversed.
Lest I neglect events still to come in December — David Lang's "love fail" and Michael Gordon's "Timber" at BAM, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra's performances at Carnegie, and the JACK Quartet's "Modern Medieval" program at the Met Museum, among others — I'll withhold the "live" list until the end of the month.
Until recently, however, the names on the N.S.A.'s target list had been withheld.
Mary Matalin, a counselor to Mr. Cheney, said today that the administration felt the list should be withheld to protect the participants' privacy.
Similarly, I propose that individuals and partnerships paying "other than withheld income and employment taxes" list the types of taxes they are paying at the time they pay them.
CONTACT James Cleland, Knight Frank, 4420 7629 8171; [email protected] The listing is being withheld from the Web until September.
The Army withheld names of the soldiers listed as missing and some details of the incident near the town of Nasiriya in southeastern Iraq, an important crossing point over the Euphrates northwest of Basra.
