Briefingate

English Etymology From en briefing -gate. en Q254983 1983 (see quotation below). Proper noun en US politics historical en Debategate. w:William Safire Briefingate https://web.archive.org/web/20150524142932/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/30/opinion/essay-briefingate.html 30 June 1983 As the President now knows, it is not midsummer media madness, or "much ado about nothing." Briefingate - the penetration of the Carter campaign by the Reagan campaign, in order to give the Republican candidate an edge in 1980's televised debate - raises a legitimate issue of right and wrong. en Dennis King Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism New York, N.Y. Doubleday 1989 126 https://archive.org/details/lyndonlarouchene0000king_i1b5/page/126/mode/1up 0385238800 The LaRouchians were anxious to stop the Briefingate probe, and put out a pamphlet calling it a Communist-liberal plot to undermine Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.