Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, Kissinger argued that Atherton had gone further than the Secretary had wanted him to. At week's end, Atherton was given a letter of severe reprimand. In any case, Kissinger was reminded by his critics-with some relish-of his double standard on leaks. New York Times Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter whose phone had been tapped in the 1969 leak investigation, charged that to Kissinger, "the criterion of classification has become intensely personal"-anything embarrassing to him is "top secret" but anything helpful to him "can be leaked with impunity." As Kissinger had discovered...
...article also brought out the question of how Edward R.F. Sheehan, research fellow for the Center for International Affairs, obtained classified memoranda of the negotiations, and aired the issue of Kissinger's possibly self-serving pretense of investigations of a State Department leak...
...Leak Insurance. The reporter's case was just one element in a debate that continued to swirl around a perennial issue: the relationship of reporters, leaks and security. The Schorr matter reached the ethics committee almost simultaneously with the arrival on Capitol Hill of the new intelligence reform proposals announced by President Ford (TIME, March 1). The measures would allow prosecution of any federal employee who without permission told any unauthorized person anything about U.S. intelligence "sources and methods...
Press critics of the bill point out that the amendment does not spell out what "sources and methods" might include, does not require that the leaked information actually be harmful to the nation's security, and does not even say that a leak must be deliberate to bring prosecution. "It's designed to kill our sources, frighten them away," complains Nicholas Horrock, who covers national intelligence agencies for the New York Times. Horrock reports that one intelligence source has already called him to say that "he was getting uncomfortable" because of the Ford proposals. Adds Washington Star Reporter...
Troubling Question. Dan Schorr has never been known as thin-skinned, but he seems genuinely wounded by the ruckus over the leak. Some journalists are troubled by the question of whether Schorr acted properly in making available the Pike report to Voice Editor in Chief Clay Felker in exchange for a donation to the Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (which says it has yet to receive any funds). Some journalists side with New York Daily News Editor Michael O'Neill, who argues that Schorr's act was simply "a freelance deal." But others strongly...