Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imaginary reporter takes a negative view toward such agreements. After all, this quite clearly amounts to the suppression of information. If the matter is one which the reader should be informed about, then the whole affair is tainted with the bete noire of journalism--secrecy...
...disclosures on the extent and gravity of CIA covert operations in recent years has underscored the need for effective Congressional surveillance of the nation's intelligence community. To the nation's regret, the final decision on the Helms affair confirms that today's power-wielders in Washington continue to pay little more than lipservice to this legislated principle...
...JUSTICE DEPARTMENT had come to regard the Richard Helms affair with all the warmth that a ship's captain reserves for a school of barnacles firmly attached to a vessel's hull: a nuisance--if a major one--that would pop into public view every so often, only to submerge once again below the Koreagate and Bert Lance headlines...
...surrounded the disclosure of the resolution of the troublesome case. For one thing, Justice Department officials, in a departure from normal procedure, failed to notify reporters of Helms's day in court until after the former CIA director had entered the courtroom. Bell's post-mortems on the Helms affair informed reporters that he had first discussed the matter of a Helms plea bargain back on July 25 in an Oval Office meeting with Carter and assorted high-level administration officials. This statement is directly at odds with Carter's late September assertion that his knowledge of the case...
...steady unearthing of such details has aroused some unfocused doubts as to the credibility of the reasons the Carter administration officials advanced for their peculiar handling of the Helms affair. These understandable misgivings are only reinforced by closely examining the arguments mustered in defense of the final resolution. That Richard Helms lied through his teeth before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee four years ago cannot now be challenged; subsequent investigations by Congressional panels and the press established the CIA's complicity in funnelling more than $8 million to Allende's opponents in the early years of this decade...