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...Those who want simple answers about the giving away of Government secrets have had a hard time of it in recent weeks. First, Daniel Schorr of CBS irritated even a lot of fellow journalists by the way he slipped a congressional report on the CIA to New York City's flashy Village Voice. Henry Kissinger complained that "highly classified information" had been leaked. Then Kissinger himself was embarrassed by leaks of his own confidential Middle East negotiations and, having denounced the deed, had to reprimand one of his closest aides, who had leaked with Kissinger's approval...
...wash. Too much has been stamped confidential in order to conceal hanky-panky and ineptitude, not secrets. Even the celebrated 47 volumes of the Pentagon papers contained, as a Pentagon official admitted, "only 27 pages that gave us real trouble"-and these came to not much. In Daniel Schorr's case, Village Voice readers must have nodded over the congressional committee's tendentious maunderings and its few carefully bowdlerized CIA documents...
...Schorr Assault...
...heck does Daniel Schorr [March 1] think he is? Why do I bother to vote in every election, when our elected officials are "overruled" by this self-anointed leaker of our country's secrets...
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...