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...their role in cat-mouse terms: it's the Government's job to keep secrets, the reporter's job to ferret them out. Editorially defending its story, the Post sanctimoniously praised President Carter for insisting "that a much better effort must be made by the Government to keep its secrets???especially the CIA's." This really isn't satisfactory: even if the CIA were effectively keeping its secret, others who might be interested in leaking the story include Palestinian rebels, the Israelis, a disaffected official in the American or Jordanian governments, or the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, whose objection...
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...
...earned celebration of dining, dancing and entertainment at the White House. It was an occasion of deep national appreciation that was used by Nixon for a self-serving purpose. As he emphasized in his press statement, there is no proper connection between his efforts to plug leaks of state secrets???including the Pentagon papers?and the political espionage at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee last June. One purpose of his press release, he said, was to "draw...
There are few surprises in politics because politicians talk so much that they have few secrets???real secrets, that is. Such surprises as there are not infrequently come about as the result of politicians unexpectedly suiting their actions to their words. This was the type of surprise which came, last week, from the caucus of Republican Senators. There had been talk, newspaper talk, of ousting insurgents from the Republican ranks. Quidnuncs shrugged their shoulders: "Talk. Nothing but talk. It won't be done." But something was done...
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