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...SOMEWHAT SURPRISING that taping scandals did not ring a bell in President Reagan's mind, when he went to bat for Charles Wick last week. As usual, though, the President showed surprisingly little grasp of the serious implications of a member of his staff...
...Charles Wick, director of the United States Information Agency, is guilty of several rather damning actions, few of them illegal but most of them certainly unethical. First and perhaps most depressing from the man who runs the Voice of America. Wick lied to New York Times reporter Jane Perlez and columnist William Safire when they questioned him about his taping activities. Although Wick had been taping conversations for some time and may well have carried about a tape device for use when away from the office, he denied to Safire and Perlez that he had ever taped without the consent...
Last week Wick was back in the headlines, this time for covertly making tapes of his phone conversations. He at first denied that he secretly taped calls, but when the New York Times confronted him with the leaked transcripts of conversations with half a dozen notables, including Senator Mark Hatfield, Actor Kirk Douglas and former Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Annenberg, Wick admitted that he had "in haste" failed to inform a "small percentage" of his callers that they were being tape-recorded. He apologized, saying, "I can understand how some might feel that it was intrusive." Wick...
...matter what you call it." Many major press organizations, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and CBS, bar reporters from secretly taping calls. New York Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal reminded his staff of their paper's own strict rules the day the Times printed the Wick story. The practice is illegal in at least a dozen states, and the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility considers it unethical for lawyers to tape conversations surreptitiously. "It's not done at the White House," said Spokesman Larry Speakes. "Not since 1974." Before...
...Wick used the same justification. Few suggested that he had malicious motives...