Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saudi dissident nabbed in Canada and suspected of driving a lookout car for the truck bombers who killed 19 U.S. servicemen in Dhahran last June; reports that alleged CIA killer Mir Aimal Kansi gave a confession to FBI agents who snared him in Pakistan; and the still unsolved leak of Richard Jewell's name...
Attorney General JANET RENO is especially steamed over the stories last month that FBI Director LOUIS FREEH had advised her to seek a special prosecutor to probe possible campaign-finance-law violations by Democratic fund raisers. Reno allies grumble that the leak seemed aimed at shoring up Freeh's flagging support among congressional Republicans. Freeh allies counter that the leak hurt him more than it did her and must have come from Justice. While the probes are undermining morale and chilling official press contacts, insiders give slim odds that the Justice plumbers will actually catch any leakers. Reason? Nobody...
YOKOHAMA, Japan: Embarrassed Japanese government officials conceded today that they had drastically over-estimated the oil spilled in Tokyo Bay by a factor of 10. Instead of the 100,000 barrel-leak they reported Wednesday when the 147,012-ton tanker ran aground, they now believe only 9,800 barrels poured into the harbor. The 100,000 barrel estimate would have made the accident the worst oil spill in Japan's history. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said today most of the oil which spilled from the third of the ship's tanks "seems to have flowed into the second empty...
...prosecutor's office engaged in a public relations attack inconsistent with its legal responsibilities. "The comments of you and persons in your office directly and indirectly quoted in the magazine article flout all these obligations," he said. "Grand jury secrecy rules are aimed at preventing precisely this kind of leak-and-smear damage." The Times article quoted several anonymous prosecutors as saying that former Whitewater partner James McDougal's cooperation led to new documents relating to Mrs. Clinton's legal work for McDougal's failed savings and loan and the "truthfulness of her statements" to federal investigators. The article also...
...worst, either. Lately, the 11-year-old ship has been falling apart at an alarming rate, and the cash-poor Russians have been unable to do much about it. In March, its oxygen system failed; soon after, its gyroscopes quit; and three weeks ago, an ongoing coolant leak caused temperatures to rise to an oven-like 88[degrees...