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WASHINGTON--Grand juries could hand down the first indictments from two investigations of fraud within the General Services Administration (GSA) in about eight weeks, Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said yesterday...
Finally, the Justice Department was prodded into action last week by two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and James Abourezk of South Dakota. They wrote a letter to Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, reminding him that the committee was drafting new rules of conduct for FBI agents and was "intensely interested" in the controversy about Rowe...
...Civiletti ordered two separate investigations: one by the internal watchdog unit that oversees FBI activities and a second by the Justice Department's criminal division. It immediately dispatched investigators to Birmingham to begin learning the truth about the mysterious Gary Thomas Rowe...
...sometimes milder than expected. The Supreme Court ruled in 1972, for instance, that journalists who observe a crime have no absolute right to protect confidential sources, but judges have generally been reluctant to send uncooperative reporters to jail. In fact, after last week's decision, Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said that the Justice Department would draw up procedures limiting federal searches of newsrooms and would seek subpoenas before search warrants. He could not guarantee, however, that local judges and police would show similar restraint...
President Carter yesterday named Phillip B. Heymann, professor of Law, to replace Benjamin Civiletti as head of the Justice Department's criminal division...