Word: leakings
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...something bad was about to break. The blow came when printouts of a story from the next day's New York Times began to circulate suggesting that Clinton had coached his secretary, Betty Currie, to make sure her version of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky matched his. The latest leak in a fully liquid story sent reporters and politicos scrambling to find out just how much further the President's credibility might be diluted by the testimony of one of his most loyal aides...
...Monica's computer hard drive and found that her brother and mother had used it, so they made it all sound sinister, like we gave them the wrong computer. They took her clothes because of a report by Matt Drudge about a semen-stained dress. Next was the absurd leak that Betty Currie, the President's trusted secretary, implicated him in obstruction of justice or witness tampering. This leak was a transparent attempt to create an unfair environment for President Clinton and my client...
...after day, it has been leak after leak. I didn't say a word about discussions with the Office of the Independent Counsel. No comment. No comment. I kept asking Nate, How do the reporters know this stuff? The Office of the Independent Counsel is leaking it, said Nate. Meanwhile, Starr's people kept talking to us, but instead of "queen for a day" privileges, they wanted "queen for a month." And they wanted a polygraph test. What do we get in exchange besides your goodwill? I asked. They said they'd decide that later...
...years of the great Watergate crisis, leaks began as drips and ended as torrents. Nearly everyone involved leaked. The FBI, angry at the way the White House was trying to control its investigations, leaked results of its probes. Senate and House investigators leaked. White House counsel John Dean, eager to save his skin in the cover-up, leaked his coming testimony, often after elaborate bargaining about the kind of treatment and display he could expect from the news organizations to which he intended to leak. The White House leaked damaging information about people like Dean, hoping to destroy the credibility...
Harvard will collect no insurance from the leak, said Susan A. Lee, associate librarian of Harvard College for administrative services...