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- <title>
- Apr. 06, 1992: American Notes:Investigations
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 06, 1992 The Real Power of Vitamins
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- INVESTIGATIONS
- Leak On, Washington
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The Senate's ill-advised attempt to discover who leaked last
- year's FBI confidential report on Anita Hill's
- sexual-harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas has come
- to a dead end. Last week Senate Rules and Administration
- Committee chairman Wendell Ford rejected special counsel Peter
- Fleming's request to subpoena the telephone records and
- notebooks of New York Newsday's Timothy Phelps and National
- Public Radio's Nina Totenberg, the two journalists who broke the
- story. While urging Fleming to press ahead with his effort to
- find the leakers (most likely Senate staff members), Ford
- deprived the counsel of his most potent investigative weapon.
- The Kentucky Democrat, who voted against Thomas' elevation to
- the U.S. Supreme Court, explained that enforcement of the
- subpoenas "could have a chilling effect on the media."
- </p>
- <p> Implying that some leaks are laudable, Ford added that
- sexual-harassment victims "have few places to turn when their
- rights are violated" and that the subpoenas "could close a door
- where more doors need opening." For now, the time-honored
- tradition of Washington leaks will continue to drip and drip.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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