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Perhaps the most troubling issue for Washington reporters is the growing use of leaks by Government sources. The term leak implies a breach of security and calls to mind the image of a disgruntled lower-level employee seeking to embarrass his boss. In fact, in almost every modern Administration, the majority of "leaks" have come from top-rank presidential aides, Cabinet members and other senior officials who want to get information or a point of view across to the public. Last week, for example, Reagan's top aides indicated their displeasure with Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council...
Reagan seeks to trace a leak...
...leak, which occurred last September, touched off an intensive FBI investigation involving the President's top aides that is still under way. The day after the information became public, William Clark, the National Security Adviser who has since been replaced by McFarlane, handed Reagan the draft of a letter authorizing the FBI to use lie-detector tests to find the source. The President willingly signed it. About an hour later, however, several top White House staffers got wind of the letter and asked to see Reagan. Among the angriest were White House Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy...
...there is no evidence that polygraph tests have yet been used. Secretary of State George Shultz was among those who let the White House know that he would resign before allowing himself to be strapped to such a machine. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese last week stressed that the leak could have jeopardized McFarlane's life in the volatile Middle East. But some aides suggested that the probe was part of the protracted power struggle between Baker and Clark, who is now the Interior Secretary. Said one Administration official: "It was total bull, and a pretty good indication...
...poorly fastened lid on a lead container allowed the excess radiation to leak into a second container according to the NRC report...