The conventional wisdom among some Washington reporters is that to have reported the hard-money story a journalist would have needed Gore's call sheets, which indicated whom he phoned for money and when he did so.
Holder was getting lambasted by press freedom advocates for his leaks prosecutions, during which he subpoenaed phone records from the Associated Press and named James Rosen, a Fox News reporter, as a "co-conspirator" under the 1917 Espionage Act, as a way to access his personal emails and phone records.
Last week, he told me his memory was 'faulty' and he remembered meetings with John Yates in which he alluded to phone hacking but he did not see the need to push any further.
After his calls were electronically traced, the man, Philip N. Wald of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse for a scheme in which he used prepaid phone cards to call numbers in Westchester.
I'm pretty sure, for instance, that my husband still doesn't know my phone number, which he stored on his phone on the day we met, whereas I remember his because he wrote it down for me on a tiny scrap of paper that I pinned to my bulletin board, where it gradually accrued meaning.
The next night, Fred stared at the second phone which he had dubbed the "funny phone," 'cause anytime it rang, as he said, "some nutcase was on the other end".
Mr. Downey, working mostly alone at home on his initial drafts, which he dictates by phone to his assistant, continued to ponder how to create the main debate sketch.
Mr. Tronchetti Provera proposed merging Telecom Italia with Olivetti to shorten the chain of six companies through which he controls the phone company.
For the next four years, he carried a 3-by-5 index card on which he had written phone numbers and other critical information he would need in case he had to disappear.
But he downplayed an interview he had given to Press Gazette in 2007 in which he said that phone hacking was an "investigative practice that everyone knows was going on at almost every paper in Fleet Street for years".
