News leak

A news leak is the unsanctioned release of confidential information to news media.

Quotes

• These leaks are slowly and systematically destroying us.… It could destroy our ability to conduct foreign policy.
  • Henry Kissinger to Nixon, quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.

• Kissinger, with his professorial background, presented himself as someone who could handle criticism. But he hated leaks, once telling a Chinese delegation that “our bureaucracy doesn’t always speak with one voice, and … those who don’t speak with one voice usually speak to the New York Times.”
  • Henry Kissinger quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.