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Kastenmeier meanwhile was getting varied opinions from journalists. Investigative reporters would be the prime beneficiaries of a shield law, but Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register, who has won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative work, testified that journalists should fight subpoenas on an individual basis, relying on the Constitution for their defense. A law giving absolute protection, he said, could impede law-enforcement agencies and would give newsmen privileges "beyond anything enjoyed today by anyone except absolute monarchs." Anyone could get protection, Mollenhoff added, by claiming to be gathering information for a publication. (Actually, many of the bills...
...Mollenhoff is in a tiny minority within the trade. Stanford Smith, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, and A.M. Rosenthai, managing editor of the New York Times, were among those arguing for absolute protection of confidential sources and unpublished material. "I say flatly," Rosenthal contended, "that without the guarantee of confidentiality, investigative reporting will disappear. The erosion of confidentiality will mean the end of the exposure of corruption as far as the press is concerned...
Indeed it is, and State Department men who remember the demoralizing days of John Foster Dulles and Joe McCarthy count another kind of progress. Two months ago, Nixon Counsellor Clark Mollenhoff, who has since returned to a journalist's job with the Des Moines Register, made a request to State Department Deputy Undersecretary William B. Macomber Jr. for the names of the 250 department employees who had presented Rogers with a petition critical of the U.S. position in Cambodia. Rogers had been unhappy about the petition, but he had promised that no signer would be penalized. Rogers called Mollenhoff...
Specifically, CBS was upset by a story in the Des Moines Register and a Jack Anderson column syndicated in 620 papers. The Register is the old paper of Presidential Aide Clark Mollenhoff, but it seems that he did not prompt the Register on this matter. In fact, it may have been the other way round. After the Register quoted Pentagon sources to cast doubt on the Bau Me item, Mollenhoff wrote a memo lumping it with other alleged CBS News indiscretions. The memo was circulated around the White House and leaked to Anderson...
...federal officials have access to individual income tax returns, and the precedent goes back to 1910. It can be argued, of course, that many officials have good reason to seek such specific information for tax and criminal prosecutions. What angered O'Brien and Caplin was the notion that Mollenhoff, Nixon's political snooper, should enjoy the privilege in pursuit of partisan ends. Nixon and the IRS had the last word, however. Last week, the IRS produced a 1961 memo extending similar privileges to Carmine Bellino, the man who served J.F.K. in the same capacity as Mollenhoff serves Nixon...