Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline of violating safety procedures. As King tells it, he notified the FAA of problems with Eastern's maintenance procedures, including the fact that some repairs were not recorded in the mechanics' logbooks. In one instance last May, says King, his supervisor did not want to record a fuel leak on an Airbus A-300 jet because the plane might have to be taken out of service. King secretly made a tape of the supervisor's words: "I have no chance to move this aircraft with this stinking item in the logbook . . . We don't want any showstoppers. We want...
...Even so, leaking is indeed a classic tool in the hardscrabble world of Washington politics. Congressmen, who are generally given only the outlines of a covert operation, occasionally hint their opposition to a secret activity without actually exposing it. Intelligence officials, on the other hand, leak for a wider variety of motives: to support or reshape an operation (such as assistance to the Afghan guerrillas), sometimes to score points or advance their political position...
...major leak cited by North occurred, by his account, on April 14, 1986, when two Senators went directly from a White House briefing to waiting microphones and told the nation that the President would discuss an impending U.S. attack on Libya that night. That, claimed North, gave Libya time to get its antiaircraft defenses set and led to the death of two American airmen shot down in their bomber...
Ironically, the Wall Street Journal benefited last week from an entirely different kind of leak. A top national security official told the paper that "Ollie was the biggest leaker in this Administration...
...sensitive technology that enables submarines to move more quietly underwater and thus escape detection. Under the terms of the Senate ban, which was passed as an amendment to a pending omnibus trade bill, the Federal Government is required to seek financial compensation from Toshiba and Kongsberg for the technology leak. Some Congressmen estimate that it could cost the U.S. up to $30 billion to bolster its defenses in the wake of the caper...