Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week Wall Street was wondering whether it was the fellow behind the tree. Bush Administration officials floated the idea that they might consider raising the tiny tax on stock and bond transactions -- one-third of 1% -- to help erase the deficit. The leak looked serious because security-transfer taxes are easy to collect, politically painless and potentially lucrative...
...taken enough abuse. You know, in January I was so overwhelmed. It just exploded into a public nightmare for me. So I reacted, frankly, by not taking as much care of myself. I worried about it. I read all the newspaper stories. I worried about what the next leak was going to be. I worried about the impact on Dad and my role in this thing. I gained a little weight. I didn't eat well. But you have two choices in life when you're faced with a challenge: you can either rise to it and take care...
...Thornburgh then ordered an investigation into a damaging leak about an FBI probe of the office of Philadelphia Democratic Congressman William Gray III, which proved to be ham-handed. Deputy Attorney General Ayer resigned when Thornburgh refused to turn the investigation over to the office charged with examining internal wrongdoing. Press secretary David Runkel and Robert Ross Jr., Thornburgh's right-hand man for internal affairs, fumbled on lie-detector tests and were reassigned. Even leak-buster Thornburgh strapped himself to a polygraph to prove he was cleaner than Caesar's wife...
...serious flaw in one of its mirrors hobbles the orbiting Hubble telescope until 1993, at least, while the shuttle fleet is grounded by the second hydrogen leak in a month...
Never a fan of unattributed quotes in damaging stories, the White House staff chief has lately begun leak-hunting expeditions to identify unnamed sources in articles that make Bush look good. The vigilance is not working well: aides privately report that Sununu often fingers the wrong person...