contested along the way, i didn't think there would be any chance that this case would settle before trial. >> by late summer of '94, there was serious discussions that were going on with the u.s. attorney's office for a possible resolution. >> i go out on my step one morning and bring the journal innage have a cup of coffee, and right on the front page is a plea agreement announced. somebody spilled their guts in front of hugh o'gara. >> the article itself speculated capitulation on the part of the government. >> anybody who would publish that should know better. so i called hugh o'gara, and i just said, what were you thinking? how could you do that? and he was near tears on the phone, he would not answer me. >> hugh would never, obviously would not tell me who that source was. i wouldn't even ask him.