The campaign on the November initiative has prompted each side to accuse the other of falsifying information.
Both, it seems, also have a talent for stirring public curiosity about their inner lives and an inclination to accuse the media of pursuing information for which the public has no real appetite.
Some Republicans accuse the White House of hiding information about the attack, while Democrats say the issue has become politicised.
He goes on to accuse the BBC Trust of withholding key information from the National Audit Office's investigation into payoffs at the corporation.
They accuse the administration of passing bad information in the days after the attack and of seeking to cover up what really happened to protect the president on the eve of the election.
In court, a federal judge ordered a mediator to get the league and the more than 4,000 retirees who accuse the N.F.L. of deliberately hiding information about the effects of concussions, to try to settle their differences.
Mayor Richard M. Daley, who opposes releasing the information, accused the elected officials of grandstanding and disloyalty to the police force.
The information from Cablevision came to light in interviews as Mr. Friedman's lawyer, in New Haven, angrily accused the Government of disseminating information about a new Federal investigation into the awarding of the Bronx cable franchise.
Republicans responded by accusing the White House of leaking the information itself to discredit the prosecutors.
