Word: leaked
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Drip, drip, drip. JANET RENO's plumbers are back on the job, mounting yet another investigation of leaks to reporters. It's a subject that seems to have a particular fascination for her, though such probes rarely yield anything conclusive. The impetus this time is a Feb. 27 Wall Street Journal item saying Department of Justice prosecutors had recommended indicting former Republican National Committee chairman HALEY BARBOUR in connection with his solicitation of funds from an overseas businessman. The spate of probes to track down loose lips in the halls of Justice--including one to find the source...
...other worldwide tomfoolery: British newspapers went overboard, as usual, with tall stories of the sublime and the ridiculous. The buttoned-up Independent carried an "exclusive" leak on plans for Tony Blair's modernized House of Lords, in which their lordships will be chosen from the public by lottery. The tabloid Daily Mail went for something a bit fishier: "Red Herring Returns After 500 years...
Conveniently, the leak also provided another pretext for invoking executive privilege. You can hear the arguments already. Why let Clinton consigliere Bruce Lindsey testify if Starr is going to leak it? And here lies perhaps a most important motivation: slowing Starr's progress on Monica. The White House is fighting a two-front war. The first battle is the Jones trial: if Clinton prevails there, and his lawyers are confident that he will, he has a stronger case for defending himself against Starr. A victory over Jones would boost Clinton's image as the beleaguered victim and trivialize Starr...
Working from a leak from the Supreme Court, the magazine published an account of the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion-rights decision just as the court announced it. Warren Burger, who was then Chief Justice, was infuriated and demanded a meeting with TIME's editors. A group of them, including editor-in-chief Hedley Donovan, came down from New York to the Washington bureau, where I was then news editor, and we arranged a dinner in the bureau's offices on 16th Street...
...course, in the back-stabbing worlds of politics and entertainment, some-one is always looking to leak a story to get back at a rival or boss. As a result, Drudge doesn't lack for content. In the two years since opening the Drudge Report, this vigilante journalist has broken many hot stories, including the selection of Jack Kemp as Bob Dole's running mate and the Monica Lewinsky scandal...