Word: concealing
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WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE. If the White House was not seeking silence and was not trying to conceal the involvement of high officials, it would have been under no obligation to help defendants who had created such a politically embarrassing mess. The surreptitious delivery was strong evidence that all those involved knew it was wrong. The contrary claims seem to be belated efforts to avoid criminal prosecution...
...then having to live with North Vietnamese troops inside his country, and that the U.S. had not wanted to force him into having to protest the bombing. But the secrecy outraged a number of Congressmen. Iowa Senator Harold Hughes called it "a deliberate attempt by the Administration to conceal the bombing because they were afraid of public reaction," and Senator Stuart Symington charged the Administration with spending $145 million-which he calculated as the cost of the secret bombing-"under false pretenses." The Pentagon, surprisingly, replied that the real cost of the secret bombing in Cambodia and Laos during that...
Fortunately for those few of us who are interested in knowing the truth, it takes a number of men to deceive and conceal--but only one has to slip for the secret to be revealed. And those who have "slipped" in one way or another have provided the nation with an exciting spectacle over the past few weeks...
Solid Ground. A crucial issue is whether the tapes might conceal the commission of a crime-obstruction of justice, for example. If they do, then, University of Utah Law Professor John Flynn observes, "there is no privilege of any kind." But unless the President will yield the tapes, there is no sure way of knowing whether they contain such evidence. The dilemma argues for some compromise solution in which the tapes would be heard in private, either by judges or, to preserve the separation of powers, by a panel of citizens, as Senator Howard Baker suggested...
...Senators learned little that was new about how the wiretapping and burglary of the Democratic national headquarters had been plotted and how laws had been willfully broken in order to conceal all evidence pointing toward Nixon's associates, they learned more than they seemed to want to about Ehrlichman's personal and political ethics...