Historical clue formulations

• Source of a scandalous comment — 2023-08-23
• Cause of a public embarrassment, maybe — 2020-08-29
• Capturer of an unguarded remark — 2019-08-09
• It might pick up a passing comment — 2018-02-11
• Capturer of some embarrassing gaffes — 2017-08-27
• It might capture an embarrassing comment — 2017-04-24
• Source of some political gaffes — 2015-09-18
• Press conference danger for an unguarded comment — 2015-04-06