Word: leakers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field adroit enough to pull off a p.r. play of this complexity--and the ones with the most to gain. The new details helped further numb the public to talk of sex in the Oval Office, kept Starr on the defensive with hints that he was the leaker and laid out the script for other witnesses to follow. This week, when Jones' lawyers argue why their case should go forward, they are sure to trot out the names of all the women who can point to a pattern of misconduct by the President. But now, thanks to the front page...
White House aides may portray Starr as a leaker and a bully, but he doesn't really have to answer to anyone; he just has to build a case. And it may have been a calculated gamble he was making. "He's trying to lock in all the other witnesses and figure out all the other stuff they know," says a former prosecutor familiar with the case. "That way, he can question Monica. If you're a little bit dubious about the trustworthiness of your star witness, it's not a bad strategy to lock down everything she might...
...dean wrote that he did not want to "wreak retribution" on "the leaker," but said he is "genuinely concerned only to restore confidence where it has been lost...
...dean wrote that he does not want to "wreak retribution" on "the leaker," but said he is "genuinely concerned only to restore confidence where it has been lost...
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...