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<text id=92TT0342>
<title>
Feb. 17, 1992: American Notes:Investigations
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Feb. 17, 1992 Vanishing Ozone
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 37
American Notes
INVESTIGATIONS
Getting to The Source
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<p> To most observers, the real issues in last year's face-off
between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas were matters like sexual
harassment, her truthfulness and his fitness for the Supreme
Court. But some Senators seemed no less obsessed with finding
out who leaked the secret FBI report of Hill's charges against
Thomas to Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio and Timothy
Phelps of New York Newsday. The journalists' accounts compelled
the Senate Judiciary Committee to schedule the Thomas-Hill
hearings.
</p>
<p> As part of an ongoing investigation of the leaks, the
Senate last week subpoenaed Phelps and Totenberg. Both say they
will refuse to disclose who tipped them to the story. That
could set the stage for a nasty battle over journalists' First
Amendment right to protect their confidential sources. The
investigation may also lead to some snarling on the floor of the
Senate as suspicion focuses upon aides to Democratic Senators
Edward Kennedy and Howard Metzenbaum.
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