Word: affidavit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beginning in the column to the left is an affidavit written by A. Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT and noted antiwar activist and author. In the column to the right is an affidavit written by journalist Fred Branfman to accompany Chomsky...
However, Chomsky also filed a second motion, in which he argued that he has reason to believe that some of his telephone conversations have been tapped and therefore that his subpoena may have sprung from illicitly obtained evidence. In the final section of his affidavit, which is not printed here, he presented the bases for his suspicions. One was that the phones of the organization RESIST, which he co-founded and often calls from elsewhere are very likely tapped, since the government has apparently even searched its trash; another was that he has spoken to a number of the Harrisburg...
...What if the actual intent of the damaging testimony given by Captain William Proctor, a state ballistics expert, had been determined by competent cross-examination instead of in an affidavit filled after the trial by the Defense...
...legendary. One of his biographers, Theo Lippman Jr., reports that "he gave us ten interviews for the book [Muskie], and in the last one, we brought up the subject of his temper. He lost his temper." The Republican National Committee, as part of its research on Muskie, has an affidavit from a Maine telephone operator swearing that during a Muskie vacation a few years ago, a telephone repairman had to go up to the Senator's cottage three times to fix a phone that had been ripped off the wall...
...Only Lives. Though the Government has complained that the New York Times distorted the Pentagon report by publishing only portions of it, the White House has been known to make selective leaks of its own when it had a point to get across. In another affidavit, Washington Post Reporter Murrey Marder included a story he wrote in 1965 after the American intervention in the Dominican Republic. The Johnson Administration had given him cables purporting to show that the U.S. intervened only to protect American lives. By digging deeper on his own, Marder discovered other cables that told a much different...