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...investigation, that he perjured himself during the 1978 Senate hearings preceding his confirmation as Federal Reserve Board chairman, a post he held until he moved to Treasury in July 1979. Last week Miller's prospects for survival as a member of the Administration brightened considerably. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti announced that he saw no grounds for appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the Treasury chief...
...Civiletti's decision not to appoint a special prosecutor was based in part on a technicality: the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which requires the Attorney General to appoint an outsider to probe damaging accusations against Administration officials, was passed after the Justice Department had already begun looking into the charges against Textron. Civiletti added, however, that he had "very serious doubts that specific information sufficient to trigger the act has been developed indicating that Secretary Miller has violated any criminal law." Civiletti said he was directing the Justice Department "to proceed with all possible speed" to bring before...
With the Senate and SEC investigations concluded but inconclusive, Miller's opponents now demand that the Justice Department dig further. Last week five Senators sent Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti two separate requests for a special prosecutor to investigate possible perjury. Said Senator William Proxmire: "It appears clear that Mr. Miller's testimony before this [Banking] Committee in 1978 was false and misleading." Civiletti has been slow in pushing the inquiry of his fellow Cabinet member and has not questioned several top Textron executives. Referring to the Abscam scandal, Senator Robert Dole quips: "Maybe the Justice Department...
...leaked prosecution memo later turned out to be unfair in making no distinctions of any type among the potential bribery cases. Civiletti told the Senate Ethics Committee that some of the cases were sure...
...memo." That is a prosecutor's chronological summary of a mass of FBI evidence, and copies are sent to relevant FBI officials. The published details of the Justice Department's information brought howls of protest from Congress and also from the American Civil Liberties Union. Attorney General Civiletti was outraged too; he promised a thorough internal investigation to find the leakers. The flood of pretrial publicity could jeopardize any prosecution the Justice Department tries to bring. But one veteran of such internal Government probes called them "fools' errands...