Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leak Problem...
There can be hazards on both sides. The leaker may be fired if discovered; the reporter puts his professional standards on the line. There are some situations in which leaks should not be printed. If the material contains real national security secrets?there are some?restraint is clearly called for. If a leak clearly violates accepted legal procedure?in a grand jury hearing or a trial, for instance?publication is justified only if it serves some obvious and overriding public interest. Such cases are rare, and the leaks that are all too common in criminal proceedings, though ostensibly published...
...Watergate scandal, while the Administration was in its see-no-evil stage, newsmen who suspected that monstrous wrongdoing had occurred were justified in getting information as best they could. It was sometimes argued that a leak from a committee or an investigation merely got out news a little earlier than it would have been published anyway; but it is also possible that without publicity, the outcome of the proceedings would have been different and the facts would never have been disclosed. That justification, however, diminished as the official inquiry became more vigorous. Joseph Kraft and others have argued that after...
...great leak fuss had been reinforced by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's emotional protest in Salzburg over reports taking issue with his version of the 1969 initiation of wiretaps against Government officials and newsmen. That furor was surprisingly quieted last week as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee delayed any new hearings on the topic, as sought by Kissinger, until after he returns with Nixon from Moscow...
...with the whole issue if it heard the Doar briefings, then the debate over the same evidence in committee, again on the House floor, and finally once more in a Senate trial. Yet open hearings, belatedly backed by the White House, would at the least have largely eliminated the leak problem...