PorterGale, Virgin’s vicepresident of marketing, said there were safeguards against abuse and that a passengercould simplyturnoff the messaging function.
Circle of 6 was a winner of the 2011 Apps Against Abuse challenge held by the Obama Administration and announced by Vice President Joe Biden, and has received awards from the Institute of Medicine and the Avon Foundation for Women.
More broadly, aides say, the president wants to speak more about his decisions to release the so-called torture memos but not make public the prison abuse photos, as well as whether those harsh interrogation techniques really worked as former Vice President Dick Cheney keeps claiming.