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Kissinger, said Nixon, disparaged then Secretary of State William Rogers as a "leaker," and soon outmaneuvered the Secretary and took control of foreign policy. In Nixon's view, Kissinger found John Connally a "potential rival" for power in the Administration. To avoid a replay of the Rogers-Kissinger feud, Nixon dropped Connally as his choice to succeed Rogers as Secretary of State and gave Kissinger the job instead...
...heck does Daniel Schorr [March 1] think he is? Why do I bother to vote in every election, when our elected officials are "overruled" by this self-anointed leaker of our country's secrets...
There can be hazards on both sides. The leaker may be fired if discovered; the reporter puts his professional standards on the line. There are some situations in which leaks should not be printed. If the material contains real national security secrets?there are some?restraint is clearly called for. If a leak clearly violates accepted legal procedure?in a grand jury hearing or a trial, for instance?publication is justified only if it serves some obvious and overriding public interest. Such cases are rare, and the leaks that are all too common in criminal proceedings, though ostensibly published...
...course, the practice of leaking is open to abuse. False information can be spread to damage someone's reputation or prejudice his rights to a fair trial. In such cases, however, the offender is the leaker and not the newsman who reports the information in good faith. Says John Flynn, a law professor at the University of Utah: "To get at that person over the dead body of the First Amendment is not a price I want...
Moynihan questions press use of material leaked by lower-level bureaucrats who are often motivated by personal or parochial departmental interests and actually antagonistic to the policies of the President they serve. "What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked," Moynihan contends. Frankel insists that "deliberate disclosure of information for the purpose of injuring the President is relatively rare" and asks: "Even if the deliberate 'leaking' were as harmful as you suggest, is it your contention that the press should ignore such information and pretend it was never...