to "stovepipe"

[Orin Hargraves]

>Fox News Live  just now, with intonation italics :
>
>"A culture of 'stovepiping' information leading to important intelligence
being lost."
>
>It seems to mean something like "to disseminate through classified and
exclusive channels."
>
It's covered in the new NOAD (just out): the general notion is to disseminate
effectively through vertical levels, without horizontal spread. The NOAD
example (it might have come from OED incomings) is "neocons who stovepipded
lies straight up to the White House."

Orin Hargraves