Word: leakings
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...wake of the recent investigation by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald into the leak of an undercover CIA operative’s name to the press, Woodward and Bernstein both said they were worried about the effect of similar cases on journalists’ ability to do their...
...grand jury indicted vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis Libby in late October for perjury and obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame case, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said no one should assume the leak inquiry was now completed. He was not kidding. Washington is still abuzz over who told Bob Woodward that Plame, the wife of Administration critic Joseph Wilson, worked for the CIA. As Woodward revealed for the first time two weeks ago, a source passed along that information in a "casual" way in mid-June 2003, at least several days before Libby told New York Times...
...Jilin and neighboring Heilongjiang province, which lies downstream. But in the same statement, SEPA said that Jilin officials didn't notify their counterparts in Heilongjiang until five days after the blast, on Nov. 18. The central question?When were all the relevant authorities informed of the massive chemical leak??is still unanswered. And residents of both provinces were deliberately kept in the dark. "There are many ways to spread information," explained SEPA's vice director, Zhang Lijun, at a press conference last week. "Notifying the people is one way, and notifying local governments and affected enterprises is another...
...first-floor conference room at Harbin's Peace Village Hotel, according to someone who was present, Heilongjiang Governor Zhang Zuoji explained to 400 local and provincial officials why Harbin had first deceived its population: his bosses at the State Council in Beijing hadn't approved an announcement on the leak. Unable to report the real reason, he said, the city of Harbin had "created an explanation." Only after the people of Harbin panicked did the State Council approve the second, truthful statement...
...authorities seemed to have learned a lesson. When a smaller petrochemical factory in Chongqing blew up last week, resulting in another benzene leak (and forcing the evacuation of 6,000 residents), the government announced the news almost immediately. On Saturday, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao made a surprise visit to Harbin to thank paramilitary troops distributing water-filtration kits in the city. "We must not allow the masses to be short of water," he said...