Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernstein spoke out strongly against administration charges that the Post has used hearsay evidence and guilt by association in order to "convict" accused wrong-doers before they have gone to trial...
Bernstein said that because "we have had four years of hearsay" in news coming out of the White House, the media often has no choice but to report news items which might be considered hearsay if weighed in a courtroom...
...federal agents requested that Giarrusso put the suspected six "in the freeze" until the President's visit was over. Giarrusso, explaining that his informant had not even witnessed the meeting and that his evidence was hearsay at best, refused. "If you want them arrested," Giarrusso told the Secret Service, "then you arrest them. We have no grounds." Instead he agreed to keep close watch on all six suspects, and the Secret Service obtained arrest authorizations for the six from a U.S. magistrate, making pickups possible at the slightest hint of trouble. But the six suspects made no moves...
...claim that such stories were "fundamentally inaccurate," added that "at no time has anyone in the White House or this Administration condoned such activities as spying on individuals ... or sabotaging campaigns in an illegal way." He also said that the President was concerned about stories "based on hearsay, innuendo, guilt by association." Chapin finally resigned to take a job with an airline-after Ziegler had denied that he was under pressure to leave. That denial, according to Dean, was also inaccurate...
Impressive as they were, Ieronymos' aggressive reforms still had a dictatorial side. He got the government to authorize kangaroo courts in which clergy men could be dismissed simply for having a bad reputation, and on the basis of hearsay evidence alone. The fate of an accused churchman, Ieronymos himself admitted, depended not on whether the charges were true or false but on "the effect that these charges have on a reputation." Ieronymos got rid of two bishops by trial and forced seven more to resign under threat of prosecution. He went after not only bishops reputed to be immoral...