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When Karl Rove was being questioned by the FBI over the leak of a covert CIA agent's identity in the press, Ashcroft was allegedly briefed about the investigation.
Meanwhile, the investigation into the British Embassy leak was still ongoing, and the stress of it was exacerbated by the arrival in Washington, in October 1950, of Guy Burgess – Philby's unstable, dangerously alcoholic, and flamboyantly homosexual Cambridge colleague and fellow Soviet spy.
When power was turned on again, the program would restart and all the memory would be available again, but the slow process of memory leak would restart together with the program, eventually prejudicing the correct running of the system.
The Monju reactor in Japan suffered a sodium leak in 1995 and was restarted in May 2010.
The first Cray-1 was delayed six months due to problems in the cooling system ; lubricant that is normally mixed with the Freon to keep the compressor running would leak through the seals and eventually coat the boards with oil until they shorted out.
A telecommunications worker inspecting a cable running through the tunnel discovered the leak while it was still passing mud and forwarded a videotape to the city, which did not see anything serious and began a bid process to repair the tunnel.
Langford was the first to figure out the source of the leak.
In an attempt to slow the leak, the level of the Chicago River was lowered by closing the locks at Lake Michigan and opening them downstream of Chicago, and the freight tunnels were drained into the Chicago Deep Tunnel system.
Insurance battles lasted for years, the central point being the definition of the accident, i. e., whether it was a " flood " or a " leak.
Eventually it was classified as a leak, which is why many residents still call it the " Great Chicago Leak.
When Parker Pen entered the Mexican market, its advertisements which claimed that Parker Pens " won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you " was mistranslated to " No te embarazará chorreándose en tu bolsillo " which means " Won't leak in your pocket and impregnate you ".< sup > 1 </ sup >
That source apparently was Konstantin Umansky, the Soviet ambassador to the US, who had deduced the leak based upon communications from Sumner Welles.
In 2010, the Keystone-Cushing Pipeline ( Phase II ) was constructed north to south through Clay County, with much controversy over tax exemption and environmental concerns ( if a leak ever occurs ).
Its official release was on October 17, 2007, but many stores began selling it five days in advance due to an internet leak of the album.
Another theory is that it was given this name by the maintenance staff, because the tunnels, passing under the River Thames, leak considerably allowing much water to enter.
This promotional poster for Brian Lynch's IDW Spike series was drawn by artist Franco Urru in response to the Twilight ( Buffy comic )# Spoiler leak | spoiler leak controversy for the Dark Horse Comics series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight.
But he annoyed a number of ministers and was heavily censured by the privileges committee for a leak about the biological weapons research establishment Porton Down to the newspapers ( though he claimed that he thought the minutes were in the public domain ).
In later accounts, the Danaides were punished in Tartarus by being forced to carry water in a jug to fill a bath without bottom ( or with a leak ) and thereby wash off their sins, but the bath was never filled because the water was always leaking out.
( The successful flight profile of Surveyor 5 was given a somewhat shortened vernier flight sequence as a result of a helium leak ).

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However, valves may eventually wear out from use and develop a leak, either between the inside and outside of the valve or, when the valve is shut to stop flow, between the disc and the seat.
The cotton canvas covers of the wagons were doubled and treated with linseed oil to help keep out the rain, dust and wind, though the covers tended to leak rain and dust eventually.
Since capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically.
The cement that Halliburton used was an unstable mixture, and eventually caused hydrocarbons to leak into the well, eventually causing the explosion that started the crisis.
As resistance to the siting of the PCB landfill in Warren County continued and studies revealed that EPA dry-tomb landfills were failing, EPA stated in its Federal Register that all landfills would eventually leak and should only be used as a stopgap measure.
In actual use the charge on the dielectric will eventually ( within a few days at most ) leak off through the surface of the cake or the atmosphere to recombine with opposite charges around to restore neutrality.
This blood-filled cavity will eventually either thrombose ( clot ) enough to seal the leak or rupture out of the tougher tissue enclosing it and flow freely between layers of other tissues or into looser tissues.
A leak was detected between the liquid oxygen dome and injector for the # 4 H-1 rocket engine ; while attempts were made to fix the problem, it was eventually decided to launch without replacing the engine.
The house they eventually find is owned by a man who does not want dogs there, however Rex is able to alert him to a gas leak and in gratitude he allows Moser and Rex to stay.
This will cause the unit to leak and eventually stop functioning due to lack of fluid.
Sandbags are not always an effective measure in the event of flooding because water will eventually seep through the bags and finer materials, like clay, may leak out through the seam.
All batteries gradually self-discharge ( whether installed in a device or not ) and dead batteries will eventually leak.
The sodium influx eventually overtakes the potassium efflux ( via the potassium leak channels ), initiating a positive feedback loop ( rising phase ).
This leak and subsequent controversy eventually led to the Iran Contra Affair which unraveled a year later.
Toby eventually confesses to C. J. that he had been the leak.
Then racing with a broken exhaust header he charged hard, eventually passing Gerhard Berger for 3rd and for a time being the fastest driver on the track before retiring on lap 48 with a fuel leak.
When dealing with milled logs, chinking is a personal preference and not required to seal a house ; however, a log house will eventually leak if it is not properly sealed.
A source code leak allowed unofficial 3rd party development to continue, including many upgrades, improved graphics, bug fixes, and eventually an entirely new campaign in the Balkans.
In particular, the roofs, which required constant attention, began to leak, causing the beams to rot and eventually many roofs caved in.
The acid-etch adhesion prevents micro leakage ; however, all white fillings will eventually leak slightly.
When workers at the plant were found to carry radioactive particles, the origin of the leak was investigated and it eventually became clear that the contamination came from the atmosphere rather than from the Forsmark plant itself.

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It is believed from evidence in wrecks that the limber holes could be stopped either to allow the carriage of liquid cargoes or to isolate a compartment that had sprung a leak.
During the voyage the ship began to leak and stopped in Gibraltar for repairs.
The leak stopped before the source could be identified, and the reactor was restarted on December 11, 2008 with the approval of the CNSC, after a strategy for dealing with the leak ( should it return ) was put in place.
While series points leader Jack Brabham stopped with an oil leak in his Brabham BT19 on lap seven, he secured his third world championship, and the unique achievement of becoming world champion in a car of his own make, when his only remaining points rival John Surtees stopped with a fuel leak in his Cooper T81 24 laps later.
In a fight with his son ( as the leak is stopped ), the two struggle and Captain Merritt fires his father's gun, killing the General.
After their group was mentioned in an MTV News article about the early leak of the Eminem album Encore, RNS stopped including their initials in filenames and ID3 tags.
Agajanian, Jones ' car owner, argued with chief steward Harlan Fengler not to issue a black flag, insisting the oil level had dropped below the level of the crack, and that the leak had stopped.

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