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...Responsibility, on the department's investigation of Brother Billy's dealings with Libya, leaked out. Three times last month, the report says, Carter canceled scheduled interviews with department lawyers. The White House also has been reluctant to hand over requested documents. The report criticizes Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti for "dissembling" at a press conference at which he denied discussing the investigation with the White House...
Doubts permeate the Justice Department. Can Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti survive having dissembled in the Billy Carter affair? Politicizing the Pentagon has diminished the standing of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. In the State Department Edmund Muskie seems worn out after only a few months on the job. Carter's White House crew, led by Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, who did so much to disparage his own Cabinet officers, seems to be ineffective in everything but politics. If Carter were to win and not rebuild his machinery to inject new spirit into his Administration, his second term could...
...Civiletti told the Senators that he could not recall telling Lisker to delay the investigation of Billy but, if he did so, it was only to give the President's brother more time to register. Civiletti contended that he raised the matter with the President only as a way of warning the President that "this was an investigation that I could not discuss with...
...explanation left many Senators unsatisfied, as did Civiletti's defense of his decision not to pass on to Justice Department investigators a report in mid-April from CIA Director Stansfield Turner that Billy was negotiating with Libya on behalf of Charter Oil Co. and that the Libyans might be making a payment to Billy...
...Civiletti maintained that giving the information to Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann, who was in charge of investigating Billy, might have jeopardized the CIA's source. But he said that he did tell Heymann that he had been "informed of highly sensitive intelligence information regarding the Billy Carter matter, and that he should not close the investigation until he had received that information and evaluated it." Asked South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond: "Weren't you forcing them to look for a needle in a haystack, and you wouldn't even tell them which haystack?" In any event...