There's a time-honoured tradition in Washington that if you want to release unpleasant, unpopular or unflattering news to the press, do it late on a Friday. Federal agencies are quite adept at this trick. It has several advantages. By the time reporters get the news, most of the key sources will have left their offices, so putting a story together is a challenge. What's more, if reporters do manage to cobble the story together in time to appear in the Saturday paper, it's the least read paper of the week.
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