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...adamantly, Justice Department officials insisted that grand juries must examine the evidence first, decide whom to indict for what, and send any criminal charges to trial. Simultaneous probes would only get in each other's way and make both branches of Government look inept, said Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, and in the end might let all of the suspects escape punishment. The new scandal was hardly another Watergate, yet the inter-branch conflict was hauntingly familiar...
William Proxmire (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has proposed the Attorney General appoint a special prosecutor. We urge Benjamin Civiletti to reconsider his earlier rejection of this move. Only a special prosecutor can probe the past conduct and present candor of a Cabinet member without suspicion of political influence. President Carter's campaign literature trumpets his insistence "that everyone in government be held to the highest standards of ethics and accountability, with no exceptions." The Secretary of the Treasury should not be an exception...
...Harvard Jewish Law Students Association (HJLSA) sent a telegram last Thursday to President Carter, Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti, and House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.), protesting the reassignment of Justice Department Nazi war-crimes investigator Martin Mendelsohn...
After all the oversized headlines and gossip-column innuendoes, it looked as if Hamilton Jordan, 35, President Carter's top aide, had managed to ride out the storm. But last week, seven weeks after the FBI submitted its preliminary findings U.S. Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti recommended that a special prosecutor be appointed to look further into allegations that Jordan had snorted cocaine. Soon afterward, the Department of Justice announced that New York City Attorney Arthur H. Christy, 56, a Republican, had been appointed to the position by a special federal court...
...Civiletti said that he had found no rea son to prosecute Jordan on the basis of evidence turned up so far, but nonetheless felt that he had no choice but to call for a special prosecutor. The reasonlies in the provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, a Watergate-inspired measure designed to keep an Administration from sheltering its own people. When serious accusations are made against an official, the Attorney General must investigate and call for a special prosecutor, unless he finds the charges "so unsubstan- tiated that no further investigation or prosecution is warranted." Oddly enough...