Word: leaker
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Just as he loved secrecy, Nixon hated leaks to the press (though he himself was a dedicated leaker to favored reporters). And so when he first ordered an unannounced air raid against communist bases in Cambodia in April 1969, he was furious to read about it in a Washington dispatch in the New York Times. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover told the President that the only way to find the leaker was to start tapping phones. When Nixon entered the White House and dismantled the elaborate taping system that Johnson had installed, Hoover told him that the FBI, on Johnson...
When a series of secret Vietnam documents known as the Pentagon Papers began appearing in the New York Times in June 1971, Kissinger persuaded Nixon that the leaker, Daniel Ellsberg, "must be stopped at all costs." The FBI turned balky at extralegal activities, so Nixon told Ehrlichman, "Then by God, we'll do it ourselves. I want you to set up a little group right here in White House...
...there anything unusual about her spirit-of-the-age defense, wherein she insists that her deeds should be seen in the context of a time when many others -- she cites, for example, Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon papers -- were breaking the law. There is a certain moral gap between unauthorized leaking and armed robbery that this defense does not bridge...
...assistant to chief of staff James Baker in the Reagan White House, Gergen emerged as a skilled wordsmith and political strategist, helping design the 100-day plan for winning Reagan's revolutionary tax cuts. Gergen aggressively courted reporters and earned a reputation as a world-class leaker, but nonetheless lost a contest with deputy press secretary Larry Speakes to be Reagan's top spokesman. Distrusted by the harder-line Reaganauts, Gergen left the White House...
...believe that hard work, a positive attitude and performance ought to be the basis of professional rewards at the Globe and elsewhere," Howe said in a letter of apology written November 27 after newspaper officials went on what he called "a witch hunt" to find the leaker...