Article: Writing Wrongs

Back when I was briefly an investigative reporter, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew subpoenaed my notes. Agnew was then under investigation for assorted chicanery (bribery, tax evasion) and he struck back by alleging that the Justice Department was trying to drive him from office by leaking false information to the press. Like the other reporters subpoenaed, I packed my notes in a cardboard box and handed them over to my lawyer. Unlike the other reporters, though, I was confident no one would ever read my notes. That's because not even I could read my notes.

In fact, I was amused by the thought of FBI technicians' painstakingly going through my notebooks as if they were in a spy's code. They ...

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