Word: bice
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There are additional difficulties resulting from the President's stance as chief law enforcer. One important example: Did mounting his own investigation when he heard about the cover-up meet Nixon's responsibility? Scott Bice, associate dean of the University of Southern California law school, argues that "there is at least a responsibility to start the machinery of prosecution." EXperts generally agree that dispatching a couple of White House aides was not an adequate reaction. "He should have immediately informed the Department of Justice and professionalized the investigation," says former Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. A top lawyer...
There is a distinction between the claims of the Ervin committee and of Cox's office. "The President has a stronger, more legitimate interest in refusing to hand the tapes over to the Senate committee," according to Scott Bice, associate dean of the University of Southern California Law Center. "The committee is not concerned with specific crimes but with finding legislative means to prevent those practices in the future. Bad campaign practices can be known without knowing if A or B is guilty." Cox is a member of the Executive Branch and technically subordinate to the President. But since...