Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials strapping on polygraphs would be a demeaning spectacle, both to voters at home and friends abroad. Any aides that balk, however, would appear to be hiding something. And should the Justice Department now turn down the FBI request and refuse to order the tests, it would smell of coverup...
None of these events was made public at the time. But last October, Peter Murtagh, a reporter for the Irish Times, talked to Tully, who had successfully appealed his transfer, and published details of the attempted coverup. That produced an anonymous tip that the police, on the orders of Haughey's Fianna Fail government, were tapping the telephones of journalists. Murtagh followed up the story and found that Doherty, in an effort to stem embarrassing reports about internal party squabbles, had placed bugs on the phones of two of Dublin's top political reporters. It was also discovered...
...incident raised a storm of controversy in the British press and sent shock waves through Parliament. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary William Whitelaw called the shooting "a most serious, grave and disturbing incident." "I can guarantee," Whitelaw promised, "that there will be no coverup, no whitewash, under any circumstances." Said an editorial in the Financial Times: "The event provokes the fear that Britain has taken an unwelcome step toward the gun-toting law-and-order methods which are associated with steadily worsening violent crime in many American cities...
...President's Men, his identity has been one of Washington's most popular guessing games. Now in a new book, Lost Honor (Harper & Row), to be published in mid-November, John Dean, the former White House counsel who provided the first public details of the Watergate coverup, claims to have solved the puzzle. Deep Throat, says Dean, was none other than Alexander Haig-who was No. 2 to Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council, then White House chief of staff during Watergate, and later Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State...
...taste for morbidity. This kind of thing really brings it out." Some legislators are already worrying about a potential catch-22 effect: if the committee, especially after a hurry-up investigation, decides that the charges are either baseless or wildly exaggerated, will the public believe it or suspect a coverup...