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...didn't he? Boiled down to its essentials, that was the question as U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti strode purposefully into the ornate Senate Caucus Room last week. He was there to answer a subcommittee's questions about whether he, the nation's chief law enforcement officer, and his aides had properly handled their investigation of Billy Carter's dealings with Libya. In six hours of skilled testimony, Civiletti made a stout defense. Said he: "I am both comfortable with and proud of the conduct of the department in this matter...
...Civiletti readily admitted one error: telling reporters initially that he had "never talked about Billy's Libyan connection with the President." He said that he had thought the question referred to a "substantive discussion," not a "brief conversation." Said Civiletti: "I replied, 'No.' I was wrong in attempting to draw such a close, lawyer-like distinction...
Otherwise, Civiletti acknowledged no wrong. A day earlier, Joel Lisker, who heads the Justice Department's foreign agents registration unit, had raised several questions in the Senators' minds. He recalled that on June 11, when he told Civiletti that Billy Carter had admitted receiving $220,000 from the Libyans, the Attorney General had ordered him to "wait ten days and see what happens." Six days later, as Civiletti has said, he warned the President that his brother was "foolish" for not registering as a foreign agent (Billy finally did so on July...
...each session (compared with an average of an hour in private industry). Tests given to Jeb Magruder and Gordon Strachan led to evidence of the Watergate coverup. Right now, Justice Department investigators are using polygraphs extensively in their search for the source of Abscam leaks. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti has ruled that an "adverse inference" may be drawn if an employee of the FBI or any other part of the Justice Department balks at submitting to the machines...
...dealings with Billy and his Libyan friends and flatly denying that anyone in the White House had ever discussed Billy's failure to register as a foreign agent with anyone in the Justice Department. But that only made things worse-much worse. Three days later Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti had to recall publicly that he had, after all, discussed the subject briefly with the President himself on June 17. That statement touched off fresh Republican cries of a "coverup" and gave heart to the restless Democrats aiming at dumping Carter as their presidential candidate when the party convenees...