The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court here, accuses the three government agencies of violating the Privacy Act and selectively leaking "misleading information designed to convince the public that Dr. Lee had engaged in espionage activities for the People's Republic of China."

This perception management company "employs various strategies at a grassroots YouTube level, as well as selectively leaking information to the corporate media, that seek to blame Russia for a host of terrible atrocities."

In his statement, Senator Boren charged that the Government officials disclosing the existence of the letter from him and Senator Cohen were selectively leaking information in an effort to deflect criticism for failure of the recent coup in Panama.

Q. Senator, the White House is leaking selectively portions of that F.B.I. report, showing that the charges are false, that they are phony charges, that the witnesses can't even remember being in the place where other people say they saw John Tower drunk.

The second troublesome dimension is that the issue deals with the unacknowledged but frequent practice of government officials selectively leaking classified information to journalists.

On another floor at the Federal courthouse, lawyers for Mr. Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky appeared before the Federal District Court judge supervising the case to argue that the independent counsel, Kenneth W. Starr, had violated grand jury secrecy rules by selectively leaking testimony to reporters.

Federal securities laws prohibit companies from selectively leaking material information to anyone, including analysts.

BJP President Rajnath Singh accused the government of "selectively leaking" the Liberhan Commission report on Babri Masjid demolition to the media with the aim of "polarising" voters ahead of the assembly elections in Jharkhand.

Considering that in some circles he was as renowned for selectively leaking information as for providing Ronald Reagan with the immortal words, "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?