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...Nixon memo to White House Counsellor Ehrlichman suggesting legislation that would require financial disclosure by judges as a "subtle and effective way to get at some of the real crooks on the highest court...
...sometimes his personal demeanor, seemed designed to keep secrets. He mumbled and seemed to bumble, and wherever he worked in his dozen years as a top federal official, his desk and even his clothes suggested a mindless disarray. When the Tower commission tried to find out why a memo Casey had written about the Iran-contra affair never reached the White House, his aide's explanation seemed almost plausible: Casey had put it in the wrong...
...more than 600 soldiers and civilian U.S. officials have been interrogated in a worldwide investigation of embassy security. Marine Commandant P.X. Kelley has endorsed an internal Corps memorandum suggesting that the Justice Department assist the Navy in its probe. The memo's rationale is that American civilians will soon by implicated and that military investigators are overburdened by the scope of the scandal. Three Marine guards have been charged with espionage and one with fraternizing with Soviet women. Another Leatherneck suspected of spying has been recalled from his station in Brazil, where he was living with a Russian woman...
North's miscalculation holds a lesson for the millions of office workers who have traded in their memo pads for keyboards, including some 125,000 people worldwide who use the same IBM PROFS (Professional Office System) software installed at the NSC. "This has worried me for years," says Susan Nycum, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney specializing in technology. "There are two very different assumptions at work here: the guy using the system assumes he has total privacy; the guy running the system assumes he has total access...
...lines to transmit and receive electronic messages. In addition, notes Geoffrey Stokes, press columnist for New York City's Village Voice, "We are all professional snoops." Stokes' columns frequently contain items leaked to him from the computers of the large New York dailies. Last year he gleefully printed a memo purloined from the New York Times revealing that Arthur Gelb, one of that paper's top editors, asked a Paris reporter to investigate the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident on Russian caviar...